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.
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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.
Oslo School of Environmental Humanities is excited to welcome Lena Pfeifer as a visiting scholar! She is a doctoral research fellow at the Department for American Studies at the University of Würzburg.
On 2 April, the students in the Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences (EHS) walked along Akerselva and participated in a soundwalk along the river as part of the second excursion this semester.
The anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose was one of the founding and most significant figures in the emergence of the environmental humanities. In April Thom van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew publish an edited collection: Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose to keep Debbie’s work alive and moving in the world.
On 26 March, the new class of students in the Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences (EHS) went on their first field excursion to the Huken quarry in the northeastern part of Oslo.
The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities hosted its first ever Knowing Natures Eco-Slam on 3 December 2021, an open drop-in exhibition with presentations and performances by the EHS Honours students.
On the 30th of November 2021, the University of Oslo held the annual Conference of Education where OSEH Director, Ursula Münster, was the Keynote speaker.
In 2021, OSEH continued its work to strengthen interdisciplinary research, teaching and discussions on climate change and the environment. Due to Covid-19, OSEH had to adapt to a "new normal" and postponed some of its planned activity while moving other activities to the virtual space.
In June 2021, students enrolled in the Honours Certificate Programme visited Nabolagshager at Linderud Gård to learn about sustainable food production in Oslo and Viken area.
Oslo School of Environmental Humanities is excited to welcome Michelle Bastian as a Professor II! She is a leading figure in the field of environmental humanities, with a particular focus on philosophical questions around time, ecology and belonging. We are looking forward to working with Bastian on a variety of future projects.
The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities congratulates Honours certificate students Harald Bøe and Tarjei Brekke, as well as history student Andrine Brorson, with winning the first Faculty of Humanities case competition!
The Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences (EHS) offers you the unique opportunity to develop interdisciplinary competence in environmental and climate change studies.
The first students are well into their work on the Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences at the University of Oslo. The result: Thorough and interdisciplinary knowledge – and two million views on Tiktok.
Denne høsten kan masterstudenter ved Universitetet i Oslo søke seg til et mastertillegg i klima og miljø. Tarjei og Marte er allerede i gang.
On the 28th of August, Honours Certificate students from the Honours Certificate in Environmental Humanities and Sciences participated in a sound workshop with Signe Lidén. The goal of the exercise was to learn how to build microphones and explore how listening in different ways can contribute to place-based learning.
The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities sends its most sincere congratulations to Thom van Dooren for being awarded the 2021 Fleck Prize for his book The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (Columbia University Press 2019).
On the 5th of June, 2021, the students at the Honour's Certificate met up with the Oslo Fjord School. The learning focus of the excursion was on the underwater multispecies lives of the Oslo fjord and "Underwater Urbanity".
The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) is currently hosting ten Collaboratories – interdisciplinary research groups led by humanities scholars to ask new questions and develop innovative approaches for studying the Anthropocene.
The ethics of whaling are determined by whether one understands whales as a resource or as endangered species.
92 000 years ago, humans significantly altered ecology and landscapes using fire.
UiO:Energi opens for applications to receive monetary aid to develop new courses within the fields of sustainable energy and energy transition.
We are excited to announce the new lecture series: "New Environmental Archaeologies - Anthropocene Agendas for Environmental Archaeology”.