Nettsider med emneord «Environmental humanities»

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, 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.  

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.

This month we are happy to collaborate with the SOILFOOD research group! Karen Lykke will present the research they are doing at SOILFOOD and their project RIPARAGRO. 

Can exhibitions be qualified as research-in-itself? If they can, then how? Which criteria should be the basis of evaluating and verify research exhibitions? The aim of the PhD course is to build a solid knowledge-base for understanding the relationship between exhibitions and research in the past and today, in order to collectively explore potentials and challenges for what can be called research-by-display.

This month we'll be joined by the research associate professor at the University of Grenoble Alps Céline Granjou to discuss her research on the politics and science of soil.

The SOILS team is excited to welcome Tommaso Trevisani, Associate Professor of Societies and Cultures of Central Asia at the L’Orientale University of Naples, as the presenter for the reading group.

The project, which emerged from the OSEH collaboratory Restorations: Mending Heritage Landscapes and Biodiversity, has been granted funding from the Norwegian Research Council. 

We invite to a conversation on the role of education in creating alternative environmental futures. Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) will hold a public lecture at Kulturhuset on "Reason and Response-ability", followed by a panel discussion with Mette Halskov Hansen (UiO), Britt Kramvig (UiT), Felix Riede (Aarhus University) and Heather Swanson (Aarhus University). Moderated by Gro Birgit Birgit Ween (Museum of Cultural History, UiO).

In this Environmental Humanities Lecture, anthropologists Nayanika Mathur, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford, and Radhika Govindrajan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle,  present their research on human-animal relationships, climate change, and religious ecology in India. What form might the environmental humanities take if considered from the place of the Indian Himalaya?

In September, Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) organised a PhD Course and a Symposium as part of the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) to celebrate innovative environmental humanities research happening in Norway and neighboring Scandinavian countries, especially by early career researchers.

The SOILS team is excited to welcome Researcher Lisa Sigl and Associate Professor Max Fochler as the presenters for the reading group. 

The SOILS team is excited to welcome Associate Professor of Anthropology Kristina Lyons as the presenter for the reading group.

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.

Land holds an “ecological memory”, the patterns in the landscape that are maintained by creative fires. This seminar will discuss the importance and challenges of using fire to shape landscapes in Australia, Italy and Norway. 

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“From Dust They Came: Human Erosion and the Problem of Sanitation in New Deal California,” Jonathan H. Ebel, Professor of Religion, University of Illinois, Oct 5, 14:15-15:30, NT hus møterom 718