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In this talk, poet and translator Kathleen Maris Paltrineri will discuss ecopoetic works published in Norway that push boundaries in form, language, and thought as they explicitly or implicitly address the ramifications of climate change. She will also draw on her translation experience to discuss how ecotranslation may invite innovative translation and creative writing practices and may be its own form of activism.
In this talk, environmental anthropologist Dr. Nikiwe Solomon explores how particular assumptions built into the design of infrastructure, as well as the bureaucratic and techno-managerial approaches used to build said infrastructure, often take for granted the social consequences of infrastructure’s day-to-day (mal)functioning.
New OSEH Associate Professor II, Michelle Bastian, will discuss her current fellowship project which will build connections with phenology, the study of lifecycle timing in plants and animals, and humanities research.
For the last fifteen years or so, interdisciplinarity – aka crossdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, postdisciplinarity, or simply convergence – has been one of the most mobilizing ideas in global scholarship
China’s main foreign policy initiatives are not directed at the West but prioritise south-south relations. In this seminar, we will learn more about China’s orientation towards developing countries and the meaning of the concept of a ‘more democratic world order’ for the Chinese Communist Party.
In this talk, anthropologist Anselmo Matusse introduces how the Mozambican state establishes extractivism in the country and its pernicious effects on people and landscapes on the ground.
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Middle East Studies Nalan Azak. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Jenny White from Stockholm University, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in China Studies Olivia Liu. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Jørgen Delman from the University of Copenhagen.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of China’s most discussed foreign policy initiatives. What is the BRI? How does it influence other countries? In this webinar, Freymann will give a presentation of his book and answer questions from the audience, in discussion with Özge Söylemez.
How can we balance wilding agricultural land to increase biodiversity, while maintaining the cultural heritage within landscapes? Is it possible to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems, while restoring culture too? What issues are at stake in the UN Decade on Restoration?
FECCS invites to a digital roundtable discussion on Chinese and European Research Perspectives on Academic Collaboration.
We want to invite you to an open mid-term evaluation with our PhD-fellow in the Whales of Power project, Marius Palz. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, Dr. Chika Watanabe
We want to invite you to an open mid-term evaluation with our PhD-fellow in the Whales of Power project, Anh Tuan Nguyen. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Oscar Salemink, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
We want to invite you to an open mid-term evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Environmental Humanities, Sonja Irene Åman. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities from The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Dr. Michelle Bastian.
To write a PhD means making a (hopefully) well-informed decision about the format: a monograph or a series of articles encompassed by a ‘kappa’. This is a decision the PhD-fellow and the supervisor should do together. After the decision is made, there is still lots to figure out.
China’s rise to superpower status is the most important geopolitical change of our time. On November 3rd we are excited to host two international experts on this topic, Elizabeth Economy and Shaun Breslin, in discussion with China correspondent for the New York Times, Amy Qin.
What do the futures of monster theory hold? And what stories can we tell about its origins? ‘Unruly Origins, Strange Futures’ explores the pasts and futures of thinking with monsters through art, politics, storytelling and scholarship.
Shanghai Forum, launched in 2005, is known as one of the most famous international forums held in Shanghai. The Forum is co-hosted by Fudan University and Chey Institute for Advanced Studies, undertaken by Fudan Development Institute (FDDI).
Welcome to this year's international student conference!
Three-day PhD-course in cooperation with the Department of Social Anthropology, UiO
‘Common prosperity’ is an important goal for the future development of the Chinese economy. This is a response to several decades of increasing inequality during the reform era. Which groups of the Chinese population have so far missed out on the advantages of rapid economic growth? What is their situation?
Welcome to Kick-off seminar 10 September 2021!
We have the pleasure of inviting you to a digital talk with Rodney Harrison, Professor of Heritage Studies at UCL, on Wednesday September 8th.
China’s economic reforms have caused rapid growth for a period of forty years. The Chinese Communist Party’s gradualist approach to reform was not inevitable. What were the alternative routes and why were they abandoned? What new obstacles for further Chinese economic development may change its future course?
What futurities of climate are enacted by the IPCC, and how are they involved with historical temporalizations of human-induced processes of more-than-human change?