Gjesteforelesninger og seminarer - Side 2

Archaeological Friday seminar with Dave Killick, professor at the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

In this talk, Stuart Earle Strange, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, will explore the contradictions between law, sovereignty, animal agency, and the sacred in Singaporean wildlife conservation.

Arkeologisk fredagsseminar med forsker Christina Fredengren ved Instituttet for arkeologi og antikkens kultur,  Stockholms Universitet. 

In this talk, professor of philosophy, Alejandra Mancilla, asks who should be the political representatives in a place with no human inhabitants, namely, Antarctica. While the Antarctic Treaty has been celebrated as a successful legal instrument for the protection of the continent, some have criticized its elitist nature and demanded a more democratic system of governance. But, should only humans be part of this arrangement? Why not penguins and maybe icebergs too?

Hva er de foreløpige resultatene fra utgravningen på Remmen i 2022? Hva slags lokaliteter er identifisert?

Hvordan har kunnskap om sesonger formet urbant liv i middelalderbyen Oslo? Hva ble dyrket? Når på året bygde man? Hvordan organiserte man seg i henhold til sesongmessig variasjon? 

The whale is held to have great symbolic meaning, as an environmental emblem, as food, as tourist attraction, and more. In Andenes, Vesterålen, two anthropologists, Britt Kramvig and Sadie Hale talk about their search for different kinds of whales and the particular ways that the whale-as-symbol is contested in this place.

How can we investigate how hominins sculpted ecologies and gain better understandings of the evolution of landscape responses to human predation and subsistence?

Hva vet vi om de kvinnelige krigerne i vikingtiden? Og hvordan påvirker vår egen tid vår forståelse av kjønnsroller i fortiden?

In this talk, professor of cultural studies, Ben Highmore explores the role of playgrounds in equipping the young with skills to face a climate catastrophe. How should we understand the history of playgrounds? What is their relationship to their environments and the environment, and what role could they play in the current climate emergency?  

Fredag 3.februar vil det være en hedring av alle 2022-masteroppgaver levert på arkeologi.

In this talk, professor of design history Dr. Kjetil Fallan, explores design interventions at, and in the wake of, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972. What can design activism tell us about the conference's influence on future political decision-making? Or about the development of environmental thinking and ecologically informed design ideology in Scandinavia?

In this talk, Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Lesley Green, will draw on current Anthropocene scholarship in the environmental humanities and social sciences to suggest four approaches to strengthening trans-disciplinarity engagement between social and natural sciences. 

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.

The environment is having a massive impact on music, changing what music is and how it comes to be, not just what it is about or how it sounds. In this lecture, Dr. Kyle Devine, professor of musicology at UiO, presents the nuances in this Great Recomposition, and the importance of overriding our defaults. 

In this lecture, the Medical Humanities and the Environmental Humanities meet. Associate Professor Eben Kirksey from the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University, Australia, will introduce us to the "virosphere".

Onsdag 8. september arrangeres et digitalt foredrag med Rodney Harrison, professor i kulturarvsstudier ved UCL Institute of Archaeology.