Events
Environmental humanities events at the University of Oslo, organized by OCEH and others.
Upcoming
"Ecology and religion" is an established research field. But the term "ecology" can mean different things in different contexts, and its relationship to "religion" is not always straightforward. Join us for a lunch seminar with Associate Professor Stuart Strange (National University of Singapore), who will shed light on this important but complicated topic.
Artist and researcher Park Ji Yun will talk about her project (Welcome to) The Planet of Orchids, which weaves together multispecies ethnography, conservation ecology and ecocinema, investigating and engaging with orchids and their multispecies communities.
The midway evaluation of project member and Eco-Emotions doctoral research fellow Josh Burgoyne will be an open event. Burgoyne will present his project "Paradise Found?: Landscape and Assemblage in the Vínland sagas, Eiríks saga rauða and Grœnlendinga saga".
In this KLIMER session, we will discuss a draft chapter by Ada Arendt that reads sustainability discourse through feminist ethics of care
What can desert history teach us about the study of the past, humans’ relationship to other beings and place, and how to build an ecological consciousness for the future?
Dale Kedwards from Cambridge University will in this Eco-Emotions seminar give a guest lecture. More information will follow.
Coastal Lives in Flux (CLiF) is a new project funded by the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO). In this seminar, the three team members present the project and some of its central case studies.
This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss Of Loss and Lavender by the Iraqi author Sinan Antoon (2026).
This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss Honey Hunger by the Omani author Zahran Alqasmi (2017)
This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss The Drowning by the Sudanese author Hammour Ziada (2018).
This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss The Bleeding of the Stone by the Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni (1990).
This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss The Tiller of Waters by the Lebanese author Hoda Barakat (1998).
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A hands-on, interdisciplinary workshop exploring the colonial history of the Pasvik region through historical archives, more-than-human timekeepers, material culture, and landscapes.
Join us for the launch of Cultural History and the Anthropocene – Old Turns, New Encounters (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), hosted by the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities (OCEH).
This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss The Law of Inheritance by the Egyptian author Yasser Abdel Latif (2018).
With Tiago Moreira (Durham University, UK).
Join us for a Halloween-themed OCEH social with treats, warm drinks, spooky stories, and hopefully some pumpkin carving!
This seminar will be a reading group led by project member Rebecca Suter. We will read Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant.
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.
The Ecologies of Animality, Disability, and Neurodiversity symposium introduces cutting-edge research and advocacy work at the intersection of disability, neurodiversity, ecology, animality, and posthumanism.
The loss of species has become a global phenomenon. It is also a very complex phenomenon where scientific knowledge, human culture, and biological processes become intertwined in various ways. This lecture provides an overview of these interconnections, as revealed by a five-year research programme.
In collaboration with the Wetland Pavillion collective, ecosemiotician and poet Timo Maran will lead a walkinar where he will introduce ecosemiotic approaches and the use of umwelt cards, as a method for approaching places from the perspective of specific animals.
Join microbial ecologist Tiff S. Mak and Unstable Ecologies: Place-Based Sensory Storytelling for an afternoon talk and tasting exploring the many-layered histories and biologies of grain farming and bread-making in Norway and beyond.
Have you ever stopped to consider what exactly goes into publishing and printing your work? Or wondered if there is another way, beyond the slow machinery of university presses, to get your thoughts or art out there?
Celebrating the 120th anniversary of Hannah Arendts birthday, the Centre for Gender Research (UiO) is thrilled to host a Public Lecture by Professor Peg Birmingham from DePaul University, Chicago, USA.