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Academics are looking for possible combinations of methodological interventions which could be helpful in devising solutions and strategies for survival and healing in the global environmental crisis. In this panel the researchers will share their paths towards combining, extending and shifting their research methods. Through the discussion, the presenters of the panel are looking for new methodological possibilities for facing the unknown known.
This panel brings together junior researchers working in different parts of the globe and on diverse maritime issues, with the aim to discuss new interactions and underappreciated entanglements between humans and non-human inhabitants of the ocean.
In this keynote by Dolly Jørgensen, she argues for the need to recognize and discuss three different types of transdisciplinary research in the humanities: the many, the one, and the collective.
This panel explores how transdisciplinary artistic practice, history and theory can contribute to the environmental humanities through aesthetic modes of visualization of planetary information. What is the visual art’s role and contribution to new perspectives for the environmental humanities?
What is an artistic intervention in environmental humanities? What can art offer as a site for exploration? In this panel, performative artists, museologists and film makers discuss uses of art, objects, and the making of an issue.
Plants co-shape the places in which they dwell, and the lives and desires of those dependent upon them. This panel discusses literary explorations of cultural, material, and spiritual human-plant relations in localities within Japan, Scandinavia, and Australia.
Come and join us on 6 & 7 September for a NoRS-EH Symposium on "Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities"!
A conference to explore the interzone between translation studies and medical humanities; to invoke the role of the arts, humanities and social sciences as essential services for medicine and health care; and to reappraise the impact of biomedicine in our linguistic, cultural, and societal ecosystems.
Workshop with guest researcher Dr Joana van de Löcht (University of Freiburg) and Dr Ada Arendt (University of Oslo) welcomes students wishing to engage with Early Modern literary sources to study past human-environment entanglements.
In this PhD Course, hosted and organised by members of the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) as part of the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH), we will explore key contemporary questions around plants that are arising in the field.
Lecture by Cheehyung Harrison Kim.
In this lecture Dr. Lu will discuss the impact and conflicts arising from the development of offshore windfarms on Taiwan's western coastline among local fishing communities.
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A talk by guest researcher Joana van de Löcht about weather perception in various literary genres at the beginning of early modern print production.
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural Studies Ingrid Kvalvik Sørensen. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Assistant Professor Anne Brædder from the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University
Master Leonoor Zuiderveen Borgesius at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend their dissertation Infrastructures and Emptiness. Knowledges, Practices, and Ideologies of Civil Engineering in Suriname and the Netherlands, 1873-1938 for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Olivia Yijian Liu at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation To Be “Entrepreneured”: Precarious privilege in Shenzhen’s high-tech start-ups for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Marius Palz at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend his dissertation Searching for Zan: Human-Dugong Relations and Environmental Activism in Okinawa for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Middle East studies Mustafa Akay. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Dr. Ethan Menchinger from the University of Manchester.
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Religion studies Amna Mahmood. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Senior Lecturer Jesper Petersen, from the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.
Join us for a CIMS seminar and panel discussion on Rebel Governance and Kinship Groups in the Middle East and Africa
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in South Asia studies Chiara Arnavas. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Associate Professor Kenneth Bo Nielsen, from Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Middle East studies Ingvild Tomren. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Randa Aboubakr, from the Department of English Language and Literature at Cairo University.
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Middle East studies Zahra Abbasi. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, from the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the aftermath of the Chernobyl explosion, a great divergence appeared between the medical opinions of the East and West on the long-term consequences on public health. In this keynote lecture, Kate Brown, Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives us insight on what these conflicting stories can tell us about how Western and Soviet scientists understood humans and the ecologies in which they lived.