Forskningsaktuelt

An introduction to the system for waste management, including a local example of resources in a closed loop; your food waste.

Master Susann Holmberg ved Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: Contracting Knowledge. Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Norway.

Master Øystein Hetland ved Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie vil forsvare avhandlinga si for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): In the Shadow of the SS : Three Norwegian Police Districts 1940 – 1945.

What can future fictions tell us about how we live and exist in the present? What can they tell us about how we may live and exist in the present?

How does attention to and stewardship of soils point to alternative frameworks for living and dying? UPenn professor Kristina Lyons explores the way life strives to flourish in the face of violence, criminalization, and poisoning produced by militarized, growth-oriented development.

Fredagsseminar med Hallvard Bruvoll, stipendiat i arkeologi ved IAKH.

The series of Advanced Research Courses offered by the Norwegian Research School in History will delve into a specialized topic and focus on historiography and research methods. This particular course, organized by the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, will focus on how changes in perspectives and methods in indigenous and minority history may help construct knowledge that otherwise is missing from standard narratives.

What does it mean to listen to the ending of a world that has always already ended? To hear destruction by our own hand? How can we attend to what has been there but heard elsewhere, by someone else, that may not be ours to hear? How do we learn to listen when all we know is to speak on things that are not ours to speak on? How do we listen toward a practice of repair?

Remembering Contested and Repressed Pasts

The workshop is part of the Professional skills workshops offered by the Norwegian Research School in History. This workshop, organized by the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, will address the role of historians in debating and taking part in contested memorialization processes. The course will be held over two days ( two half days).

How and when does a being become autonomous? What makes an environment? In this talk, Sara R. Yazdani discusses her work on how notions of the environmental have been explored in contemporary and late 20th century art: art in which new alliances and new types of environmental and affective formation have been mobilized against an anthropocentric world-view.

Sustainable food is on the agenda of the UN, nations, corporations and an increasing number of consumers. Intensive production of meat, fish, eggs and dairy has severe implications for billions of animals worldwide. Does sustainability include animal welfare? How can modern food production become more animal friendly?

AD 536 and 540 are important years in European history, and marks the advent of a series of documented environmental changes that affected societies throughout Europe in various ways. Sudden and severe climate deterioration led to vast crop failure and was followed by plague in the following decades and centuries (up to ca. AD 750?). How did this affect Scandinavian societies? Let's find out!

Fredagsseminar med Inger Birkeland, professor i samfunnsgeografi ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge.

How come western countries consume more meat than ever despite of its negative impacts? Agronomist, ethnologist and cultural historian, Karen Lykke Syse, talks about how meat consumption in Norway is being justified by history and culture.