Tidligere arrangementer - Side 5

Master Chiara Arnavas at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation The Mafiazation of Land: Crime, the State, and Real Estate Capital in West Bengal, India for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)

Master Nhung Lu Rots at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation Engaged Buddhism and Environmentality among Buddhist Minorities in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)

In this seminar, Marius Palz (University of Cologne) presents his new research on human remains, Indigeneity, memory, and the natural environment in Hokkaido and Okinawa (Japan).

This seminar will be based on Marc Lynch’s recent book, America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region (Hurst, 2025).

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.

Advanced course in Research Ethics: Course participants will enhance their understanding of how to protect human subjects in various kinds of field research and navigate the ethical dilemmas that may arise

Master Zsolt Györegy at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend his dissertation Close Encounters with the Tupi-Guarani: Art, Genre, and Translational Epistemology in Early Modern Ethnography for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

This symposium explores the intricate entanglements between art and ecology in art historical research and the evolving role of museums in an era of environmental transformation.

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. 

Talk by Jude Blanchette

Talk by Sara Ann Swenson,  Assistant Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College.

Yōkai (妖怪) are supernatural entities imagined in Japanese folklore. Speak by Dr. Shan Jiang.

NRK-journalist og forfatter Sidsel Wold kommer til Blindern for å prate om sin nye bok «Israel – et land i kamp med seg selv».

This seminar will untangle these puzzles to say something about how Yuqing’s local people approached the climate. Talk by Erling Agøy.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History and Museology Elise Matilde Malik, who is working on a project with the title "Curating the Ground: Enacting with soils in contemporary exhibitions". 

Exploring the emergence and impact of multispecies thinking and practice in contemporary Amsterdam museums.

Visiting scholar Karin Wagner discusses her ongoing book project Packaging design: sustainability, aesthetics and social issues.

Using examples from human-macaque interactions in Singapore, Stuart Strange explores how anthropomorphism depends on cooperative intuitions that both conceal and reveal wider possibilities for relating.

Hosted by Encounters in Translation Journal and Bodies in Translation Project

This theory course introduces some of the common applications of “discourse”, “power” and “class” in the social sciences and humanities. Convenors: Kathinka Frøystad and Roar Høstaker.

Master Vidar Benjamin Skretting at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend his dissertation The Origins of Sahelian Jihadism: Algerian Terrorism, Azawadi Emirate, and Malian Insurgency for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

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