Webpages tagged with «Environmental Humanities» - Page 3

Landscape image, with fields in the background and a fjord and woods in the background
Published Mar. 24, 2023 3:28 PM

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. 

Published Mar. 15, 2023 3:15 PM
Drone view of a dead and young forest.
Published Mar. 14, 2023 10:18 AM

In the fourth and last Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture, Dr. Stephanie Roe, a WWF’s Global Climate & Energy Lead Scientist, will discuss the technical, economic, political, and social approaches for mitigating climate change and other key challenges of the Anthropocene.

Drone view of a dead and young forest.
Published Mar. 14, 2023 10:09 AM

The third Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture will be given by Jason Allen-Paisant, Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing, and will address the challenge of a just ecological transition by exploring how ideas and praxes of ‘cultivation’ might foster an awareness of deep time in mainstream political consciousness.

Drone view of a dead and young forest.
Published Mar. 14, 2023 9:57 AM

In the second Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture, Matthew Chrulew, a writer and researcher from Boorloo/Perth, will talk about behavioural and cultural change among animals exposed to human activity.

Drone view of a dead and young forest.
Published Mar. 14, 2023 9:44 AM

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.

Published Mar. 3, 2023 12:47 PM
A dense cluster of tree branches against a sunny sky from a frogs-eye perspective. 
Published Mar. 3, 2023 11:13 AM

For our March 22 Reading Group, Professor Andrew Mathews will be joining us in discussing parts of his latest book. 

Image may contain: Water, Plant, Nature, Leaf, Organism.
Published Feb. 9, 2023 7:48 PM

Before we wish a new set of students welcome to the EHS Honours Certificate, we want to take a moment to congratulate the students of 2022!

The image shows a woman with a batch of wool in front of her
Published Feb. 9, 2023 6:10 PM

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl explosion, a great divergence appeared between the medical opinions of the East and West on the long-term consequences on public health. In this keynote lecture, Kate Brown, Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives us insight on what these conflicting stories can tell us about how Western and Soviet scientists understood humans and the ecologies in which they lived.

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Published Jan. 27, 2023 9:38 AM

Come and join us on 6 & 7 September for a NoRS-EH Symposium on "Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities"! 

Children holding up a sign that reads quote "under personal supervision"
Published Jan. 20, 2023 2:57 PM

In this talk, professor of cultural studies, Ben Highmore explores the role of playgrounds in equipping the young with skills to face a climate catastrophe. How should we understand the history of playgrounds? What is their relationship to their environments and the environment, and what role could they play in the current climate emergency?  

Picture of a pen against a rocky surface. The pen is black on one end, and metallic on the other.
Published Dec. 7, 2022 12:34 PM

SOILS is thrilled to welcome Associate Professor David Ribes from the University of Washington for this session.

calcified rock formations in didfferent shades of grey. Circular shapes, with some green mossy growths at the top of the picture.
Published Dec. 7, 2022 12:26 PM

Welcome to our first SOILS Reading Group Session! We are very happy that Professor Alexandra (Alex) Toland will be our first guest.

Insect on soil with baby worms. The centipede is darker brown and mesh with the dark soil, whilst its baby worms are cream white.
Published Dec. 7, 2022 11:44 AM

For this session of the SOILS Reading Group, we are delighted that Associate Professor Maria Puig de la Bellacasa will join us. 

Close-up photo from the side of a hill. Red clay-soils that consist of larger rocks and tree roots vining through the soils.
Published Dec. 7, 2022 11:42 AM

Welcome to the final SOILS Reading Group of the semester. In this session we are joined by anthropologist Germain Meulemans. 

Dry soil and blue sky
Published Nov. 21, 2022 10:22 AM

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)!

Two Macaws sitting in a tree
Published Nov. 10, 2022 11:01 AM

Welcome to an exhibition with presentations, installations and performances by students of the Environmental Humanities and Sciences Honours Certificate!

Published Oct. 18, 2022 2:27 PM
Old book with handwriting laying open.
Published Oct. 13, 2022 4:15 PM

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.

Backhoe moves trash in a landfill site, pollution
Published Oct. 10, 2022 10:45 AM

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 two pieces of wood.
Published Sep. 28, 2022 2:34 PM

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.

Mushrooms cropping up between pieces of wood.
Published Sep. 28, 2022 2:33 PM

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.

Published Sep. 19, 2022 11:36 AM