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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.
At the November gathering of the Oil & Society network, PhD candidate Tomine Sandal will reflect on how the notion of transcorporeality can shed new light on contemporary petrofiction and theatrical engagements with the Norwegian oil encounter.
On September 18th, the Translatability of Oil project organises an open midway evaluation of Miriam Sentler's PhD project on performative energy encounters in Shetland. External reader is Dr Antonia Thomas from UHI.
In the travelogue Petromania, Simen Sætre investigates what it means to live in a petrostate. Scholars affiliated with the Translatability of Oil project have invited the journalist, writer, and globetrotter to Blindern to discuss the advantages and pitfalls of making cross-cultural comparisons.
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The Climate House (Klimahuset) in Tøyen invites you to breakfast and an open lecture. On the first Thursday of February 2025, TOIL's very own leader will be discussing petro-nostalgia as both a problem and an opportunity.
The research network Oil & Society has selected “Oil workers” as the main topic of its first gathering. Margrete Hestenes will be representing TOIL with a contribution about oil culture and musical communities.
In this talk, Graeme Macdonald, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies (University of Warwick, UK), discusses how aesthetic signatures around the (in)visibility of oil apply to the aesthetics of contemporary energy transition and its representation in sound, screen and image. He explores these themes in two short films: Stephen Hurrel’s 2012 “Dead Reckoning” and Emily Richardson’s 2005 “Petrolia”.
In this talk, Anne Gjelsvik, Professor of Film Studies at NTNU, examines how the capsizing of the Alexander Kielland oil platform is represented in Makta and considers the emotional impact of the blurred translation of the actual incident into the TV series’ realm of playful criticism of men in power.
In this talk, Darren Dochuk, Professor of history at the University of Notre Dame (US), reflects on the relationship between petroleum, politics, and religion in the United States between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s, as well as investigating the continuing effects of this period on the energy sector today.
What can the medium of photography contribute to our understanding of industrial whaling’s first oil age, and maybe to our relationship to our present mineral age? Espen Ytreberg, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oslo, will give a talk based on his recent research on Norwegian whaling.