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