OCEH events
Events organized by the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities.
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.
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?
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).
Join us for a Halloween-themed OCEH social with treats, warm drinks, spooky stories, and hopefully some pumpkin carving!
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?
Join the Unstable Ecologies: Place-Based Sensory Storytelling research team from OCEH for a 1-day workshop exploring seaweed as a living material in Norway’s coastal waters/Oslofjord through sensorial learning (art making, cooking, tasting, creative writing).
This meeting opens the new 2026–2027 season of the Al-Ard Book Club, inviting participants to read and discuss My First and Only Love by the Palestinian author Sahar Khalifeh (2021).
Welcome to this artist talk by Aki Nagasaka, followed by a panel discussion of four artists invited by Creative Agency and Environmental Humanities.
Join us at the Guttormsgaard Archive for a zine writing workshop with Hong Kong artist and writer Michael Leung, Oslo-based artist and writer Ina Hagen and graphic designer and illustrator Tiril Haug Johne, followed by an introduction to the Archive by its director Ellef Prestsæter and viewing of Asian artifacts with Prof. Nachiket Chanchani (University of Michigan) and Dr. Sarah Chen Huang (ECOART, UiO).
Welcome to the screening of Mia Yu’s short films Eme Cosmos (2024–2025) and Amber (2024) in the presence of the artist. Shot in Manchuria (Northeast China) at the largest open-pit mine in Asia, these documentaries seek to imagine post-extractive futures.
This workshop features two artist-researchers, Mia Yu (Paris & Beijing) and Kristiina Koskentola (Amsterdam & Helsinki), presenting their recent projects on the ecologies and interconnections of Manchuria (Northeast China) and Karelia (Finland), across the vast Siberian territories.
Explore the historical site of Kistefos using acoustic methods.