Oslo School of Environmental Humanities
Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) was a research and education initiative at the Faculty of Humanities for the period 2019-2023.
Completed
OSEH was an initiative to strengthen research, teaching and collaboration in the field of the environmental humanities, and to contribute to public and scholarly debates about the current climatic and environmental crisis.
Departments
The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities was a collaboration between the following departments at the Faculty of Humanities:
- The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS, host)
- Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas (IFIKK)
- Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH)
Director of OSEH
Research
The current environmental crisis calls for deep cultural and social transformations. We need to better understand the values, ideas, ethics, and ways of life that have led to the present condition in order to reach a radical change.
Research and teaching at OSEH covered a wide span of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Collaboratories
OSEH funded ten Collaboratories, where scholars explored new research questions dealing with the complex social and ecological dilemmas of the Anthropocene.
- Anthropogenic Soils
- Bionic Natures
- Critical Petroaesthetics
- Curating Climate
- Fluid Dynamics: Marine Communities, Territory Work, and Ecosystem Change in Anthropic Oceans
- Media Seas of the High North Atlantic
- Monsters of the Anthropocene
- Playing With Deep Time
- Restorations: Mending Heritage Landscapes and Biodiversity
- Worlds of Meaning in Conservation
Associated Research Projects
- Airborne: Pollution, Climate Change, and Visions of Sustainability in China
- Anthropogenic Soils
- Dynamic Territory (DynamiTE)
- Generative idleness and gestures of reparation
- GreenMENA: Climate Change and Energy Transition in the Middle East
- Lifetimes
- Living with Vultures in the Sixth Extinction
- Maritime Modernities: Formats of Oceanic Knowledge
- Melting Glaciers, Sacred Landscapes and Mobile Technologies in a Changing Climate
- Nordic Climate History (NORCLI)
- Pathways to Possible Presents (CoFutures)
- Political Philosophy Looks to Antarctica
- Relics of Nature: An Archaeology of Natural Heritage in the High North
- Socionatural entanglements in Little Ice Age Norway, 1500-1800 (ClimateCultures)
- Stories of Heritage
- Transcendence and Sustainability: Asian Visions with Global Promise (Transsustain)
- Translatability of Oil (TOIL)
- Whales of Power
Affiliated Research Groups
Studies
The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) aimed to experiment with new forms of teaching in the Anthropocene. Through collaborative lectures, experimental seminars, and field excursions, students learned to better understand and address the environmental challenges of our times.
Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences
OSEHs Honours certificate offers the unique opportunity to develop interdisciplinary competence in environmental and climate change studies. It runs in parallel with the student's main Master programme, over two years.