Lunch seminars

Technological solutions to ecological crises, from efficiency measures and energy transitions to solar geoengineering.

Ethically responsible image-generation from a dual perspective: AI for sustainability, and sustainable AI.

This talk presents research from the final chapter of Miriam Sentler’s doctoral thesis project, exploring how Shetlanders use motifs from mythology and science fiction in creative performances to navigate the practical implications of the renewable energy era.

This talk presents an ongoing research project to develop a new ecocritical framework for art history by engaging theories of global extractivisms.

An exploration of how the energy transition is experienced politically on the ground in rural Eastern Germany.

Community-based writing and research in times of intersecting crises.

Sadie Menicanin — The Air of the Vienna Woods / Die Luft vom Wienerwald
Forest air and music in fin-de-siècle Vienna.

Narrative arcs and constitutive absences in whale tourism.

Capitalist modes of agricultural production - premised on the acceleration and simplification of agricultural landscapes and the creation of markets for cheaply produced yet unhealthful products - are undermining efforts to foster just and sustainable planetary futures. 

How has the Sámi political space changed over time due to shifts in environmental discourses?

“Ameliorating policies, restoring order and being sincere in affairs is the way to end calamities”: thus wrote county magistrate Zhao Xinshi in 1673, a generation after his jurisdiction Jiading was plagued by drought, epidemic, famine and warfare. 

The UiO Green Office works toward making sustainability an integral part of the University.

Quranic cosmology draws on a more-than-human reality, encapsulating a world animated by vibrant animate, inanimate, and supernatural beings that are interactional, performative, and communicative.

The issue of sewage pollution in England’s rivers.

How do we build homes that are not just shelters, but living, responsive environments? 

Writer, spearfisher, and freediver Ting J. Yiu explores the intersection of environmental and cultural “water worlds” in her work, drawing connections between epic eel migrations, whale strandings, and fish hunting to mermaid ancestors, sea goddesses, and pirate queens.

This lunch seminar introduces the project “Containment and Flow," an ongoing medical and environmental ethnography of a small town called Kindwitwi in Southern Tanzania.