Environmental Humanities Festival

We invite you to our Environmental Humanities Festival where we celebrate the exciting work happening in the field here at UiO, in Norway, and beyond. The day will start with a keynote lecture by Jamie Lorimer, University of Oxford, followed by presentations by the OSEH Collaboratories, a pop-up exhibition, film screenings, a "green" choir performance, and more. 

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Program - Georg Sverdrups hus, Auditorium 1

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome & Opening, by Ursula Münster, Director of the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities and Frode Helland, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities

09:15 – 10:15 Keynote Lecture, ‘The Probiotic Turn and the Green Rebranding of Cattle in the Anthropocene‘, by Jaime Lorimer, University of Oxford

10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00 Lab Talks by OSEH Collaboratories, moderated by Kjetil Fallan, UiO

  • Anthropogenic Soils
  • Bionic Natures
  • Critical Petroaestethics
  • Curating Climate
  • Fluid Dynamics

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30 Lab Talks by OSEH Collaboratories, moderated by Hugo Reinert, UiO

  • Media Seas of the High North Atlantic
  • Monsters of the Anthropocene
  • Playing with Deep Time
  • Restorations
  • Worlds of Meaning in Conversation

14:30 – 14:45 Coffee Break

14:45 – 16:00 Panel & Presentation by Students of the Environmental Humanities and Sciences Honours Certificate (EHS)

16:15 – 16:45 Green Entertainment by The Women’s Choral Society of the University of Oslo (Kvindelige Studenters Sangforening (KSS))

10:00 – 17:00  Pop-up Exhibition by UiO Researchers and EHS Students (Foyer and Seminar Rooms)

Environmental Humanities Week

This event is part of our Environmental Humanities Week. From 7 to 10 June, the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities cordially invites you to a series of events to celebrate the exciting work happening in the field here at UiO, Norway, and beyond. Exciting keynote lectures, panel discussions, presentations by the OSEH Collaboratories, a pop-up exhibition, music, and more. The event is also part of the PhD course organised as part of the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH). The event is free and open to all! We look forward to seeing you!

Tags: Environmental Humanities, OSEH
Published May 3, 2022 8:32 AM - Last modified Aug. 7, 2023 4:31 PM