Nettsider med emneord «literature»

A discussion of representations of flight, homelessness, border crossing, belonging and identity formation in recent as well as older literature, with an emphasis on literature's connections to the world of politics and ethics.
 

How do we read novels translingually? What strategies and literary techniques characterise multilingual literary texts? How does multilingual literature (re-)shape the canon? What metaphors do bilingual authors use to conceptualise multilingualism?

At this workshop, we will discuss multilingual writing from Eastern Europe from different theoretical and historical perspectives. 

These papers explore examples of environmental storytelling, and asks what environmental storytelling can do. How does such initiatives tap into our imaginaries, or offer re-imaginations?

Plants co-shape the places in which they dwell, and the lives and desires of those dependent upon them. This panel discusses literary explorations of cultural, material, and spiritual human-plant relations in localities within Japan, Scandinavia, and Australia.

In this panel, six doctoral scholars from varied disciplines present their research and discuss how generating oceanic knowledge for action requires transdisciplinary engagement.

In this panel we ask, how to read science through fiction, and can such readings provide us a way to understand the relationship between literature and environment?

Join us for our final OSEH event where we explore issues of race, ethnicity, and gender, but also diverse ways of opening up environmental problems and possibilities in the academy and beyond. We are joined by acclaimed poet and nature writer Camille Dungy and prominent scholars in the environmental humanities, and there will be upcycled music, celebration and food.

Oslo School of Environmental Humanities is excited to welcome Chiara Lanza as a visiting scholar! She is currently working towards her PhD at the University School for Advanced Studies of Pavia, Italy. While she is here she will participate in the Anthropogenic Soils team.

The EcoLit Research Group and the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) invite you to an International Symposium to illustrate how literary and cultural studies can make important contributions and interventions in relation to environmental problems and aspirations. Join us for this exciting line-up of lectures, a roundtable discussion, and more. 

Lecturer Dr. Barbara Siller, University College Cork, will give a talk on “Kafka Tales of the Twenty-First Century – Doors, Walls, and Fences in The Gurugu Pledge (2017) by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel and Lights in the Distance. Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (2018) by Daniel Trilling”.

The Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (also known as ILN) are hosting our POP-UP CAFÉ again!

All students who are curious about the masters' programmes offered at the institute are very welcome!

Un-earthed's first reading group session of the fall semester, on the topic of terraforming. 

How was it possible to collect bird songs in the Nordic regions before the invention of audio recording?  

Camilla Chams approaches attachment as a synonym for love, liking, affiliation. Attachment has recently been launched as a keyword for the humanities and for literary studies (Felski, 2008, 2015). In psychology, however, attachment is a more complex form of human relationship involving both cognitive and emotional development, and physical survival (Bowlby, 1979).

Olivia Da Costa Fialho in her project develops the phenomenology, preconditions and underlying processes of how literary narrative fiction deepens and changes perceptions of self and others.

We say that literature can change your life. But is this statement supported by scientific evidence?

Karin Kukkonen, Ylva Østby and Bergljot Gjelvik explore the relations between memory, literature and mindfulness. This interdisciplinary research project investigates the phenomenology of personal episodic memory and how this relate to literary fiction and mindfulness meditation.