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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 is an artistic intervention in environmental humanities? What can art offer as a site for exploration? In this panel, performative artists, museologists and film makers discuss uses of art, objects, and the making of an issue.

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.

On May 24 the SOILS team is excited to welcome Associate Professor Daro Montag as the presenter for the reading group. 

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.

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

SOILS welcome Professor Daniel Richter from Duke University to this reading group session. 

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

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

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

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

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)!

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.

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.

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.