Affiliated events

Events organized by environmental humanities research projects at the University of Oslo.

Upcoming

Time and place: –, PAM 14

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".

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In this KLIMER session, we will discuss a draft chapter by Ada Arendt that reads sustainability discourse through feminist ethics of care

Time and place: –, PAM 14

Dale Kedwards from Cambridge University will in this Eco-Emotions seminar give a guest lecture. More information will follow.

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Time and place: –, HW 225

This seminar will be a reading group led by project member Rebecca Suter. We will read Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant. 

Time and place: –, Georg Sverdrups Hus, Auditorium 1

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.

Time and place: –, P. A. Munchs hus: Meeting room 389

With Jomy Joseph (University of Oslo)

Time and place: –, HW 225

This seminar will be led by project member and Eco-Emotions postdoc Zack Abrams and focuses on eco-emotions in creative writing and participatory pedagogy.

Time and place: –, OsloMet, Pilestredet 52, as part of the exhibition Gjenklang (Echoes)

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.

Time and place: –, HW 225

In this seminar, project member Line C. Engh will present her new minigraph Wayfinding with Monks.

Time and place: –, Losæter, 0194 Oslo, Norway

Welcome to the first event of the Anthropogenic Soils Festival. 

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The third event of the LCE and Eco-Emotions collaboration “Salon and Book – A Double Ecology”: An interdisciplinary experiment in writing together.

Time and place: –, GM452

No One’s or Everyone’s? The Battle for the Soul of the Outer Space Regime

Time and place: –, Besøkssenteret, Akerhus Festning

This research project investigates the value and impact of collective reading of literature aloud regarding the audience’s ability to pay attention to and immerse themselves in literature, and to experience a sense of belonging with one another and with the reader.

Time and place: –, HWH seminar room 225

In this seminar, Eco-Emotions is visited by Marco Caracciolo, Associate Professor of English Literature at Ghent University. 

Time and place: –, GM452

Nationality: Political, not Metaphysical

Time and place: –, Georg Sverdrups hus, Stort møterom

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.

Time and place: –, GM452

So long, province of humankind! Extending Sovereignty upwards to Low-Earth Orbit

Time and place: –, Håndbiblioteket, Nils Treschows, 5th floor

A Novel Understanding of Pandemic Disease in Preindustrial Europe (1300-1800). Combining History, Machine Learning and Natural Sciences

Time and place: –, GM452

Beyond Emissions: Rethinking subsistence and luxury in climate policy

 

Time and place: –, University of Oslo and National Museum

Join us for this workshop to discuss and look at objects and the ways they are connected to or disconnected from early modern networks of trade, cultures of craftsmanship, and environmental conditions.

Time and place: –, HWH seminar room 225

In this seminar, project member Zack Abrams will talk about the first Eco-Emotions course, “Writing, Nature, and Eco-Emotions”, which he led this spring semester.

Time and place: –, GM452

An Interest-Based Case for Wild Animals’ Territorial Rights

Time and place: –, GM452

The Political Ocean!? On notions of territory and sovereignty at sea and open questions of oceanic ordering