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Preferential trade agreements enable Norway to import large quantities of meat from Africa. This may undermine climate change mitigation in the agricultural sector.  

In 2023, OSEH continued its work to strengthen interdisciplinary research, teaching and discussions on climate change and the environment. 2023 also marked the final year of OSEH's original funding period. 

Earlier this November, the students of the EHS Programme showcased their different projects at the EcoSlam exhibition and gave guided art walks.

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

How can we respond to the Anthropocene and the associated ecological challenges? In this volume, fifteen scholars from a dozen different academic disciplines offer critical insight into their research and provides tools to better grasp the multifaseted phenomenon of the Anthropocene.

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.

In April, Digital Ecologies and Bionic Natures co-hosted a workshop in Oslo. Read more below about the exciting workshop!

Oslo School of Environmental Humanities is excited to welcome Sasha Gora as a visiting scholar! Sasha is a cultural historian and a writer with a focus on the intersections between food studies, the environmental humanities, and contemporary art. During her time in Oslo, she will be following cod’s cultural and culinary, economic and environmental traces.

Oslo School of Environmental Humanities is excited to welcome Franziska von Verschuer as a visiting scholar! She is currently working towards her PhD thesis on the cosmopolitics of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany.

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.

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!

In 2022, OSEH continued its work to strengthen interdisciplinary research, teaching and discussions on climate change and the environment. Here is a recap of OSEH's fourth year.

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

The call for papers for the workshop Ecologies of Health and Disease in Eurasia: New Perspectives in the Medical-Environmental Humanities and History is now open! 

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)!

Records made from sugar and climate certificates are just some of the music industry’s efforts to improve on sustainability. “They mean well, but have limited opportunities to create change,” says music researcher at UiO.

The Earth’s key ecosystems are being threatened by climate change. According to philosopher Alejandra Mancilla, the nations of the world must now take joint responsibility for protecting rather than exploiting the natural world.  

Through the Collaboratory Playing with Deep Time, Laura Op de Beke has explored how playful and collaborative storytelling can promote thinking in deep time, reveal stakes and concerns people hold regarding the future and provide a more embodied understanding of extinction and transformation.

We are very happy to announce that environmental historian Libby Robin has joined the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities as a visiting scholar! While she is here, she will participate at the workshop on Antarctica and Rights of Nature as a commentator, and hold the inaugural lecture for the Anthropogenic SOILS project.

At the start of June, OSEH hosted the PhD Researcher School "Situated Research - Exploring Place and Time Through the Environmental Humanities". The researcher school was a part of the NoRS-EH module "Theories and Methods in Environmental Humanities". 

Oslo School of Environmental Humanities is excited to welcome Anselmo Matusse as a visiting scholar! He will visit OSEH through the INTPART project Strengthening Environmental Anthropology Research and Education Through Interdisciplinary Methods and Collaborations.

With spring in full bloom, the fourth excursion for the students in the Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences (EHS) took the students to the Botanical Garden in Oslo to learn more about the importance of the bumblebees and citizen science

The third excursion for the students in the Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences (EHS) included a forest walk, a visit to a multi-species home in a rewilded garden, and close encounters with bats.

We are very happy to announce that Oscar Hartman Davies will join the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities as a visiting scholar in the next few months! He is currently working towards his PhD at the School of Geography and the Environment, at University of Oxford, England.