Previous events - Page 7
A public reading group session on environmental care ethics.
The 2008 Taiwanese film Cape No. 7 海角七號, directed by Wei Te-sheng, will be shown on Tuesday 14 Feb from 12.00 (NOT 12.15!) in seminar room 2, P. A. Munchs hus. This is one of the films Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley will discuss in her lecture on 21 March.
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?
This lecture will discuss the key issues and debates in post-Martial Law Taiwan by reviewing recent scholarship and representative works by local historians.
This lecture will introduce the major trends and development of Taiwan history using the collections and exhibitions of National Museum of Taiwan History as examples.
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Science Fiction (SF) Studies Marta Tveit. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Associate Professor Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, from Department of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University, USA
Master Laura op de Beke at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Anthropocene Temporalities in Videogames: The Anthropocene as a Structure of Feeling in Popular Gameplay for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Science Fiction (SF) Studies Patrick Brock. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Dale Knickerbocker, from East Carolina University, USA
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in China Studies Lu Chen. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Associate Professor Anders Sybrandt Hansen from Aarhus University.
Welcome to this online webinar on ageing, led by professors Xiuyan GUO of the Fudan Institute of Ageing and Ole Andreassen of the UiO Centre of Excellence NORMENT.
Welcome to an exhibition with presentations, installations and performances by students of the Environmental Humanities and Sciences Honours Certificate!
The destruction and pollution of rivers was a precondition for early urbanisation. With this seminar we invite you to explore intersections and tensions that exist between how the historical, cultural and natural sciences approach the restoration of river landscapes.
Register here! Please register by November 28th for physical or digital attendance.
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in China Studies Wei Wu. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor emeritus Rajeswary Brown from Royal Holloway College, London
PhD workshop with Professor Charles Briggs organised by the Bodies in Translation Research Project at Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris, CUNP.
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Science Fiction (SF) Studies Kanyu Wang. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Mingwei Song, Wellesley College, USA
How should we frame Geoengineering? As a technofix that demands very little in terms of societal change? As a false solution? As the only solution? As our plan B? Or, as Holly Jean Buck suggests, as a relationship: a verb.
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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?
What are the latest trends in Chinese science fiction, and why has the genre been so popular globally in recent years? Meet writer and researcher Regina Kanyu Wang, who will take you through this and more!
The notion of care is a buzzword in environmental humanities, and probably for a good reason. It is not very present, however, in historical reflection. In this talk, historian of culture Ada Arendt discusses what early modern agencies and relationships of care tell us about more than human entanglements of the early Anthropocene.
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.
Many of a forest's vital processes happen beneath the soil, out of sight. However, their are clues to the clandestine collaborations between fungi and plants and animals. In this walkshop, natural historian and environmental photographer Alison Pouliot, takes us deep into the forest to discover its diversity, explore ideas and rethink fungus-forest lives.
Welcome to HEI’s annual International Student Conference!
How do we maintain or restore the diverse functions and processes in soil that foster soil resilience and provide a buffer against climate-change induced changes? In this highly interactive and sensory workshop, natural historian and environmental photographer Dr. Alison Pouliot, provide an overview of the vital significance of fungi in soils.
Un-earthed's first reading group session of the fall semester, on the topic of terraforming.