2022
KLIMER Talk: Aquifer Systems: Groundwater and Resource Conflicts in Global Networks
For this session, we have the pleasure of welcoming Dr Sarah Hamilton, Associate professor in Environmental History at the University of Bergen. Sarah will give a talk on Aquifer Systems: Groundwater and Resource Conflicts in Global Networks.
Time and place: Dec. 7, 2022 4:15 PM – 7:00 PM, NT Håndbiblioteket
Sarah Hamilton is an Associate professor in Environmental History at the University of Bergen. Sarah is researching the politics of water use and the impacts of global networks on conservation and environmental change in working landscapes. She is currently working on the project "Water Underground", a "comparative study of large-scale groundwater development in diverse locations including Spain, the United States, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and southern Africa. It follows flows of water, commodities, expertise, and technology through global networks over the past 150 years and explores epistemological and practical questions surrounding the exploitation of invisible resources."
Remembering Medieval Floods
Time and place: Nov. 16, 2022 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, NT Håndbiblioteket
KLIMER seminar with Ellen Fenzel Arnold from the University of Stavanger.
Archaeology of Care: Towards New Directions in Environmental History
Time and place: Oct. 12, 2022 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, NT Håndbiblioteket
KLIMER seminar with Ada Arendt.
Reading: to be announced.
In this session we will also discuss a proposal draft for CAS by Dominik Collet.
Therapeutic Climates. Environing Medicine in the Soviet Sanatorium, 1917-1953.
Time and place: Sep. 14, 2022 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, NT Håndbiblioteket
KLIMER seminar with Johanna Conterio
Reading: Sverker Sörlin and Nina Wormbs, “Environing technologies: a theory of making environment”, History and Technology, 34:2 (2018): 101-125.
KLIMER TALK: "... siden døde alle folkene på skipet ..." Å bekjempe pandemier i 600 år"
By Ole Georg Moseng (USN)
Time and place: May 11, 2022, Cafe Snorre, NT 5. etasje
Pandemics have haunted humanity since the dawn of time. The oldest victim of the plague we know of, died 5,000 years ago in Sweden. We now have our own painful experiences. Knowledge that diseases can be contagious is more than 2,000 years old. The doctor from the 17th century protected himself with much of the same as today's intensive care nurses. It is thought-provoking that we have fought the most dangerous pandemics of all time without access to effective drugs.
Exploring socionatural entanglements in Little Ice Age Norway (1500-1800) / The Power of Ice: Norwegian Cold in 19th Century Colonial Algeria
By Matias Kallevik / Solfrid Klakegg Surland
Time: Apr. 6, 2022
Cold Knowledge: The Rise and Fall of Imagined Greenland in Early Modern Europe
By Ingar Stene.
Time: Mar. 9, 2022
The Dust Bowl, the Depression, and American Protestant Responses to Environmental Devastation
By Randall James Stephens
Time: Feb. 16, 2022
Consensus in a Landscape of Control: Citizenship, Faith, and Cultivation in Tule Lake, May to December, 1942
By Samuel Klee
Time: Jan. 12, 2022
2021
Assembling the Anthropocene
Time: Nov. 10, 2021
By Bergsveinn Þórsson. Comment by Ulrike Spring.
KLIMER TALK: The Changing Meanings of “Environmental Protection” and the Invention of the Fragile Arctic
Time: Oct. 14, 2021
By Peder Roberts
During and after the Second World War the United States Army invested considerable resources on studies of “environmental protection.” But the aim was not to protect the fragile Arctic environment from the ravages of people, but rather to protect fragile
soldiers and equipment from the ravages of the harsh Arctic. How,
when, and why this change took place lies at the heart of my ongoing
ERC project “Greening the Poles: Science, the Environment, and the
Creation of the Modern Arctic and Antarctic”.
In this talk I will sketch the main lines of the shift with particularly attention to the rapid changes at the end of the 1960s and start of the 1970s. But there were also continuities, notably in military and engineering contexts, while the polar bear provides a particularly interesting example of how the duality of the threatening and the threatened could coexist.
KLIMER BOOK TALK: Heritage Ecologies
Time: Oct. 13, 2021
By Þóra Pétursdóttir.
Nature’s Hangovers: Plastic Packaging, Beer Bottles and Littered Beaches Between European Integration and Environmental Activism
Time: Oct. 13, 2021
By Melina Antonia Buns. Comment by Dominik Collet.
An Animal or a Type of Weather? The Case of Descending Lemmings in Early Modern European Discourse
Time: Sep. 8, 2021
By Ingar Stene. Comment by Melina Antonia Buns.