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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.

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 

The program is now online!

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.

Come join us on 1-2 June for the workshop "Ecologies of Health and Disease in Eurasia: New Perspectives in the Medical-Environmental Humanities and History".

This lecture has unfortunately been cancelled. 

What would it mean to tell the stories of trees? How can we represent them in ways that do not rely on problematic forms of ventriloquism, which reinscribe inequalities, and which do not rely on various forms of empathy or sympathy? This talk by Dalia Nassar, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, aims to outline a theory of representation that aims to respond to these questions in relation to trees.

Research project Bodies in Translation at IKOS is delighted to invite you to a special afternoon of performance and presentations.

The Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (CIMS) at UiO is inviting researchers and students of all levels to a Master Class with Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology from the University of Illinois. 

Advanced course in Research Ethics: Course participants will learn about and discuss various kinds of fieldwork in different social and political settings. This includes attention to how we navigate the sometimes conflicting demands between open science and the ethical imperative of protecting informants and anyone else contributing to data gathering in the field.

Join us for a CIMS lecture with Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology from the University of Illinois.

The EcoLit Research Group and the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) invite you to an International Symposium to illustrate how literary and cultural studies can make important contributions and interventions in relation to environmental problems and aspirations. Join us for this exciting line-up of lectures, a roundtable discussion, and more.