Forskningsaktuelt

Hvordan hjernen finner hvile i litteratur, meditasjon og hverdagsliv.

In 1965 Johan Galtung upset Norway´s architectural scene by envisioning a future society residing in a network of cybernetic cities governed by genetically modified elites. In those cities, the citizens would enjoy a life-long education in virtual spaces, shape their lives according to their personal wishes and move around on flying carpets.

Do you want to better understand the environmental and climatic crisis, work accross diciplines, experience Place-Based Learning and communicate environmental research to a broader audience?

How does information - data - feature in art and media on climate change? We are reading Heather Houser's Infowhelm to find out.

An introduction to the system for waste management, including a local example of resources in a closed loop; your food waste.

What can future fictions tell us about how we live and exist in the present? What can they tell us about how we may live and exist in the present?

How does attention to and stewardship of soils point to alternative frameworks for living and dying? UPenn professor Kristina Lyons explores the way life strives to flourish in the face of violence, criminalization, and poisoning produced by militarized, growth-oriented development.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History Hannah Kristine Lunde. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Simon Coleman from the University of Toronto, Canada

Sustainable food is on the agenda of the UN, nations, corporations and an increasing number of consumers. Intensive production of meat, fish, eggs and dairy has severe implications for billions of animals worldwide. Does sustainability include animal welfare? How can modern food production become more animal friendly?

AD 536 and 540 are important years in European history, and marks the advent of a series of documented environmental changes that affected societies throughout Europe in various ways. Sudden and severe climate deterioration led to vast crop failure and was followed by plague in the following decades and centuries (up to ca. AD 750?). How did this affect Scandinavian societies? Let's find out!

How come western countries consume more meat than ever despite of its negative impacts? Agronomist, ethnologist and cultural historian, Karen Lykke Syse, talks about how meat consumption in Norway is being justified by history and culture.

This talk considers the intensive research and emergent policy regimes that have cohered in the last 15 years around bioacoustics, e.g. the scientific study of animal sounds.