Affiliated events
Events organized by environmental humanities research projects at the University of Oslo.
Upcoming
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
Dale Kedwards from Cambridge University will in this Eco-Emotions seminar give a guest lecture. More information will follow.
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With Tiago Moreira (Durham University, UK).
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.
With Jomy Joseph (University of Oslo)
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.
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.
In this seminar, project member Line C. Engh will present her new minigraph Wayfinding with Monks.
Welcome to the first event of the Anthropogenic Soils Festival.
The third event of the LCE and Eco-Emotions collaboration “Salon and Book – A Double Ecology”: An interdisciplinary experiment in writing together.
No One’s or Everyone’s? The Battle for the Soul of the Outer Space Regime
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.
In this seminar, Eco-Emotions is visited by Marco Caracciolo, Associate Professor of English Literature at Ghent University.
Nationality: Political, not Metaphysical
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)
So long, province of humankind! Extending Sovereignty upwards to Low-Earth Orbit
A Novel Understanding of Pandemic Disease in Preindustrial Europe (1300-1800). Combining History, Machine Learning and Natural Sciences
Beyond Emissions: Rethinking subsistence and luxury in climate policy
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.
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.
An Interest-Based Case for Wild Animals’ Territorial Rights
The Political Ocean!? On notions of territory and sovereignty at sea and open questions of oceanic ordering