Nettsider med emneord «anthropocene»
The Anthropocene is a new geological epoch defined by the planetary impact of human activities. What are its implications for heritage?
![Drone view of a dead and young forest.](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/lecture-series/2023-anthropocene.jpg?alt=listing)
The first Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture will be led by Dr. Hanna Guttorm, senior researcher at the University of Helsinki, who focuses on Indigenous studies and is a member of Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Sciences.
![Old book with handwriting laying open.](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/lunchtime-discussions/2022/%C5%82-bib.-jag.-5343-czasop.ii-(%C5%82uszczewski-1670r-rozw-cropped2.png?alt=listing)
The notion of care is a buzzword in environmental humanities, and probably for a good reason. It is not very present, however, in historical reflection. In this talk, historian of culture Ada Arendt discusses what early modern agencies and relationships of care tell us about more than human entanglements of the early Anthropocene.
![Big museum hall with a massive ice block in the middle. A crack runs through the ice so that people can enter the ice.](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/lunchtime-discussions/2022/lotten_cropped.jpg?alt=listing)
What roles can museums and collections play, in the growing need to convey polyphonic narrations on climate change? In this presentation, Lotten Gustafsson Reinius discusses the multi-disciplinary dialogues and other co-curations as a tentacular weaving across differing knowledge regimes, scales and temporalities.
![Fungy spreading its threads](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/oseh-lecture-series/2022/oyster_mushroom_(pleurotus_ostreatus)_mycelium_in_petri_dish_on_coffee_grounds-copy.jpg?alt=listing)
How has our understandings of relations between soil, plants, and fungi have changed over time? In this lecture, professor of anthropology Dr. Michael J. Hathaway will explore the role of fungal mycelium in engaging the soil matrix.
![Backhoe moves trash in a landfill site, pollution](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/oseh-lecture-series/2022/landfill-lesley-green-oct-22.jpg?alt=listing)
In this talk, Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Lesley Green, will draw on current Anthropocene scholarship in the environmental humanities and social sciences to suggest four approaches to strengthening trans-disciplinarity engagement between social and natural sciences.
![Mushrooms cropping up between pieces of wood.](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/workshops/2022/app_2361-copy.png?alt=listing)
Many of a forest's vital processes happen beneath the soil, out of sight. However, their are clues to the clandestine collaborations between fungi and plants and animals. In this walkshop, natural historian and environmental photographer Alison Pouliot, takes us deep into the forest to discover its diversity, explore ideas and rethink fungus-forest lives.
![Mushrooms cropping up between two pieces of wood.](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/workshops/2022/mycena_myc3927-cropped.png?alt=listing)
How do we maintain or restore the diverse functions and processes in soil that foster soil resilience and provide a buffer against climate-change induced changes? In this highly interactive and sensory workshop, natural historian and environmental photographer Dr. Alison Pouliot, provide an overview of the vital significance of fungi in soils.
![Two Macaws sitting in a tree](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/workshops/2022/macaw---cropped-.png?alt=listing)
Welcome to an exhibition with presentations, installations and performances by students of the Environmental Humanities and Sciences Honours Certificate!
![Aerial photo of a mineral extraction area at the Great Salt Lake in Utah.](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/news/2021/ehs4010_cropped.jpg?alt=listing)
How has the notion of the Anthropocene changed our disciplines, research practice and theories?
![Portrait of Laura Op de Beke](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/news/2022/-img_5146--laura-op-de-beke-header-dimensions.jpg?alt=listing)
Through the Collaboratory Playing with Deep Time, Laura Op de Beke has explored how playful and collaborative storytelling can promote thinking in deep time, reveal stakes and concerns people hold regarding the future and provide a more embodied understanding of extinction and transformation.
![OSEH logo on a marine green colored background of skies and forest.](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/news/2021/cafield_logo_25.4x14.jpg?alt=listing)
On the 30th of November 2021, the University of Oslo held the annual Conference of Education where OSEH Director, Ursula Münster, was the Keynote speaker.
![Dry soil and blue sky](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/news/2022/about-h-oppl.jpg?alt=listing)
We congratulate Ursula Münster, director of OSEH and her team on being one of the two multidisciplinary research projects at the Faculty of Humanities to recieve financing from the Research Council of Norway (Fellesløftet)!
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How can we respond to the Anthropocene and the associated ecological challenges? In this volume, fifteen scholars from a dozen different academic disciplines offer critical insight into their research and provides tools to better grasp the multifaseted phenomenon of the Anthropocene.