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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!
A talk by Mareike Wulff, a socio-cultural anthropologist with a regional focus on Bhutan and the Himalayas.
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.
CIMS ønsker velkommen til fredagsseminar med førsteamanuensis Nora Sunniva Eggen fra Det teologiske fakultet.
A talk by Sebastian Eicher, associate professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
I samarbeid med MUSKUL4200 - Kritiske museumsstudier inviterer NorMus til online forelesning med Maja L. Musum fra ICOM Norge. Forelesningen har tittelen "ICOM: Rammer og problemstillinger i det etiske museumsarbeidet nasjonalt og internasjonalt". Velkommen!
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.
Master Cristian Miguel Torres Gutierrez at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend his thesis Restorying Archival Animals: Endemic and Epistemic Species in Mexico's Colonial Archives for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).
CIMS is pleased to welcome you to a book launch event with author Mehdi Mousavi, translator Fatemeh Ekhtesari and discussant Senior Lecturer in Persian Samad Alavi.
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).
We are pleased to host Senior Lecturer Erling Lorentzen Sogge who will speak about "Heavy metal in Lebanon: How a vilified subculture found ways to endure"
A talk by Heidi Østbø Haugen, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo, and Sinikka Wasland Gjems, research assistant at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
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).
We are pleased to host Assistant Professor Irena Kalhousová who will speak about “Israel at the Ballot Box: Parties, Politics, and the Future of Israel”
We are pleased to host Assoc. Prof. Jonas Dræge who will speak about "Media and the Politics of Legitimation in Post-Assad Syria"
A discussion of Hiromi Ito's literary work.
We are pleased to host Senior Researcher Thomas Pierret who will speak about “Religious policies in the New Syria”
Organisert av IKOS i samarbeid med IMK, ILN og ILOS
Ledet av Kathinka Frøystad og Cristina Archetti.
This intensive three-day PhD course examines contemporary geopolitics through strategically deployed material relations and evolving forms of deliberate reciprocity and asymmetry between China and other actors in a shifting world order.