Events

With Tiago Moreira (Durham University, UK).

EVENT CANCELLED! 

Unfortunately, we had to cancel the event. We hope to bring Gregg back another time.

Welcome to a screening of Overburden, a film by environmental historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman exploring mining, conservation, and environmental change in the Nimba Mountains on the Liberia–Guinea border. The screening will be introduced by the organisers and followed by a Q&A with Gregg Mitman.

With Jomy Joseph (University of Oslo)

Please join us for the exhibition of The Plow Forgets But the Land Remembers by Jomy Joseph, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Anthropogenic Soils project.

The exhibition is the outcome of his research work of the past years, with an interlinked speculative fiction publication, The Plow Forgets but the Land Remembers, published in the journal Metode.

Welcome to the first event of the Anthropogenic Soils Festival. 

What kinds of pasts and futures shape how we restore nature? In this talk, Jamie Lorimer explores rewilding in Europe as a conservation approach that rethinks ecological time, species management, and the politics of multispecies flourishing.

With Henrik H. Svensen (University of Oslo)

With Jeanne Féaux de la Croix (University of Bern), with Yu Sang and Zora Ritz

With Daniel Mohseni Kabir Bäckström (University of Oslo)

With Sille Skovgaard (Aalborg University), Emma Harris (Foreningen Andelsgaarde) & Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen (Aalborg University)

With (p)Art of the Biomass, Janna Holmstedt & Malin Lobell.

Anthropogenic Soils is proud co-curator and co-sponsor of the Perma/Soils part of the 2025 Piksel Festival in Bergen, Nov 20–23!

With Marianne Elisabeth Lien (University of Oslo)

Join us for a conversation with Jeanne Féaux de la Croix from the University of Bern who is currently a visiting fellow at TIK in the Anthropogenic Soils project. We will discuss what transferable lessons on cultivating livability can we take from our own empirical evidence and theorizing, e.g. on soil remediation and air pollution activism? This talk connects the Anthropogenic Soils fund of knowledge to insights from my ethnographic, arts-based and transdisciplinary research in Central Asia. It explores the use of understanding soils in forming more-than-academic life and labour, less vulnerable to despair.

We are happy to announce that this month, we will be joined by a PhD Fellow and lecturer Սերինա Թարխանիան (Serina Tarkhanian) to discuss Healing Earths - an ongoing artistic research project on the medicinal uses of the Armenian bole. 

Join us for a seminar with Anastasiya Halauniova, Bruno-Latour-Fellow at Sciences Po, Paris. This event is part of the Anthropogenic Soils project.

This month we will be joined by a professor in soil biology at Lund University in Sweden Håkan Wallander to discuss the intricate world of mycorrhizal fungi.

This interdisciplinary PhD course introduces participants to the environmental humanities of soils. Soil demands a transdisciplinary approach and, as a matter of nature-culture in the Anthropocene, has become a key interest to the humanities. As a group of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds – archaeology, art history, arts, biology, design, environmental humanities, philosophy, social anthropology, STS – we will organize this place-based PhD course to find different ways of approaching human-soil relations in the Arctic.

This month we are happy to collaborate with the SOILFOOD research group! Karen Lykke will present the research they are doing at SOILFOOD and their project RIPARAGRO. 

This month we'll be joined by the research associate professor at the University of Grenoble Alps Céline Granjou to discuss her research on the politics and science of soil.

The SOILS team is excited to welcome Tommaso Trevisani, Associate Professor of Societies and Cultures of Central Asia at the L’Orientale University of Naples, as the presenter for the reading group.

The SOILS team is excited to welcome Associate Professor of Anthropology Kristina Lyons as the presenter for the reading group.

The SOILS team is excited to welcome Researcher Lisa Sigl and Associate Professor Max Fochler as the presenters for the reading group.