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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities

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OCEH 🌿 A space for thinking with the Earth - through art, stories and the humanities. Based at the University of Oslo. hf.uio.no/oceh

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As autumn sets in, we’re cozying up with a full calendar of events at OCEH! 🍂 From literature & seaweed tastings to wetland walks & lab talks, check out what's coming up this October: www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
Promotional graphic listing four October events for the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities, including reading groups, a seaweed workshop, a wetland walk, and a lab talk on extinction.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The first al-ARD Book Club meeting is coming up on 6 October, with Sahar Khalifeh’s “My First and Only Love” at the centre of the conversation. To set the scene, al-ARD is sharing this 1991 interview with Khalifeh on writing, feminism and land dispossession: youtu.be/vsme5Y1_uM0?...
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📬 The August OCEH Newsletter is out! A quiet summer gives way to a new semester — visiting artists in Oslo for events on art, myth, and extraction, a look ahead to autumn, and the strange tale of a paint once made from Egyptian mummies 🎨 📖 www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
OCEH Newsletter #7, August 2026 cover. A misty heather moorland at sunrise, purple heather lining a winding path toward distant trees.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A beekeeper searching for wild honey. A desert dweller protecting one of the Sahara's last wild moufflons. A young girl's body found in the Nile. Two Iraqis rebuilding their lives in exile. Meet this year's al-ARD Book Club reading list 📖
Poster for the al-ARD Book Club 2026–2027 reading programme, "The land we care for," from the University of Oslo. Green and cream design listing seven monthly Arabic novels (Oct 2026–May 2027) with authors and countries, meeting details, a description of the club, and a QR code.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🌻 Late summer at OCEH brings three days of art, storytelling, ecological thinking and creative exchange. From 25–27 August, our Junior Research Group - Creative Agency and Environmental Humanities - presents four events across Oslo and Blaker.
Four OCEH events from 25–27 August: Spirituality and Mythmaking, a Mia Yu film screening, Multispecies and Multicultural Encounters, and Living with Otherness
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The June OCEH Newsletter is out! This issue takes us from rivers and swimmers’ bodies to cobalt mines, frozen archives, sediments, sound, and the many ways landscapes hold memory. Read the full newsletter here: www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
Cover page of OCEH Newsletter #6, June 2026, featuring an orange flower and the theme “What the Earth Remembers.”
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🌍 Did you know the greenest place on Earth depends on one of the most barren? The Amazon rainforest is kept alive by dust from the Sahara Desert — blown clear across the Atlantic Ocean. A thread on one of the planet's strangest connections.
Aerial view split down the middle: lush green rainforest meeting golden desert dunes.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Our Newsletter #5 is out 🌿 Bonfires, ticks, Sámi law, energy myths in Shetland — and something you didn't know about the colour green. shorturl.at/lHh8W
Cover page of the OCEH Newsletter #5, April 2026.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
April is finally here, and at OCEH, we’re mostly just excited to get outside 🌸 The sun is out in Oslo, so we’ve planned a month that gets us moving — from walking seminars about diseases to a social where we're literally "Waking Up the Trees."
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Can a garment be "wild" and "luxurious" at the same time? 🦊💎 In the 1950s, the fashion industry certainly thought so. In a new OCEH blog post, Giulia Girardi revisits the archives of Harper’s Bazaar to see how "The Mink Look" was sold as the ultimate status symbol.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
📣 NEW FUNDING CALL: Environmental Humanities Research Groups at @uio.no . OCEH is looking for new research groups to join our community! We have a budget of 150,000 NOK per group for research activities, workshops, and public events. 🌍
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
How does the "green transition" feel on the ground? 🌬️🏡 Join us in Oslo on March 23 for a lunch seminar with Carolin Maertens. We’re exploring the politics of energy transition in rural Germany and what happens when land is reframed as "merely an energy source." A mini-thread... 👇
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
New month, new activities at OCEH! ❄️➡️🌱 As the winter frost begins to lift, our March calendar is shifting toward two of the most pressing conversations in the environmental humanities today. We’re opening our doors to unpack the "green shift" in both our museums and our laws.
An event flyer titled "March at OCEH" featuring a close-up photo of a single purple crocus flower budding through green leaves and soil.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The February OCEH Newsletter is out! Following a period of growth and the arrival of several new projects in 2025, we are thrilled to announce that 2026 marks the official start of our new research community. The "next phase" of the Center is no longer a plan - it is happening.
Cover image for OCEH Newsletter #4, February 2026.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Could a volcanic eruption in Indonesia be the reason we have Frankenstein? 🧟‍♂️ In the world of Environmental Humanities, we look at how the Earth’s forces shape our culture. This is the story of the "Year Without a Summer" and the birth of a monster.
Moody, foggy landscape with red text boxes explaining how a volcanic eruption and the "Year Without a Summer" inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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Aike Rots @aikerots.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Job alert! We are looking for talented PhD researchers to write a dissertation on Benzaiten worship in modern Japan or Mazu pilgrimages in Taiwan, as part of the ERC project "Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia" (MARGO).
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TWO DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN EAST ASIAN RELIGIONS (296038) | University of Oslo
Job title: TWO DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN EAST ASIAN RELIGIONS (296038), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, April 6, 2026
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Is a forest an economic resource, a place of mystery, or a site of worship? 🍃 For folklorist Dr. Colin Gioia Connors, the answer is hidden in the "social life" of ancient place-names. We’re hosting him at OCEH this year as he digs into the roots of the Scandinavian landscape.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
February at OCEH is looking busy! ❄️✨ From the politics of plants to community-led writing in times of crisis, we have a full month of events coming up at OCEH. A quick thread of what’s happening... 👇
Poster titled "February at OCEH" showing four events: Book Club (Feb 3), Reading Group (Feb 3), Drawing & Film with Zheng Bo (Feb 9), and Lunch Seminar with Zack Abrams (Feb 12). Set against a frosty blue winter background.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Happy New Year from the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities! 🌿 We’re kicking off 2026 with a busy January. From the "ecosemiotics" of sacred remains to the politics of global climate action, we have some deep dives planned. Check out the thread below for details! 👇 🧵
Event poster for the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities (OCEH). The background shows brown leaves under a layer of cracked ice.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It’s been a busy semester at OCEH! ❄️ As the year draws to a close, we’re happy to share our third newsletter, capturing a cross-section of our work - from music and anthropology to food systems and environmental art. Read the full update here: shorturl.at/q0VXh
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Final OCEH event of 2025! 🥳 Join our Lunch Seminar + cozy Julegløgg Social! 🎄 🗓️ Dec 15th, 12:15 PM Sadie Menicanin: "The Air of the Vienna Woods." Learn how forest air and music responded to Vienna's poor air quality circa 1900. Gløgg & pepperkaker served! ☕🍪 Details 👇
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🎄 Did you know Christmas was once banned in England? In 1647, Parliament shut it down - no carols, no feasting, no greenery. The Puritans saw it as wasteful, un-Christian, and suspiciously pagan. #EnvHum #EnvironmentalHumanities
Christmas tree and fireplace with text about the Puritan ban on Christmas.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
📢 New Blog Post! Meet visiting researcher Sadie Hale, who's exploring human-whale relations and how we sense the ocean in the Norwegian Arctic 🐋 Sadie's work is truly fascinating! Dive into our Q&A now: ➡️ shorturl.at/BHh2t
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Sensing the Ocean Through Whales: Meet Visiting Researcher Sadie Hale - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Earlier this semester, OCEH welcomed Sadie Hale, a PhD researcher with the SEATIMES project in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Sadie’s work moves across cold seas, coastal communities...
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
December is here, and OCEH still has a few bright moments lined up before the year winds down. If you need some mid-winter inspiration, we’ve got you covered 💫
OCEH December events graphic with winter gnome background.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🌿 OCEH has a new blog! 🌿 We’re opening a space for sharing ideas, reflections, and stories from our environmental humanities community. shorturl.at/50jHU
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OCEH Blog - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🍂 November at OCEH! This month, we’re diving into how environments, art, food, and coastlines shape our lives - and how we, in turn, shape them. Events below 👇 More info: shorturl.at/vnBSN
Event poster titled 'November at OCEH' with dates and titles of three upcoming seminars and talks over a background of frosty tree branches
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Our second OCEH newsletter just came out 🍂 It’s full of things we’ve been thinking about and doing this autumn - bonfire by the lake, lab talks, PhD fieldwork and new research groups taking shape. Not a report so much as a snapshot of how #envhum feels in motion. ✨ Read: shorturl.at/PeJVa
Photo of the first page of the OCEH newsletter.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Two fascinating OCEH Lab Talks this week 🌿 🗓️ Wed, Oct 22 Stuart Earle Strange – What is Anthropomorphism? How do human–macaque relations in Singapore reveal both the limits and possibilities of cooperation beyond the human? 👉 www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
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Stuart Earle Strange: What is Anthropomorphism? Human-Macaque Relations and the Problem of Cooperation - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Using examples from human-macaque interactions in Singapore, Stuart Strange explores how anthropomorphism depends on cooperative intuitions that both conceal and reveal wider possibilities for relatin...
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
👣🌾 Landscapes aren’t just made by humans. They’re shaped through relationships - with animals, plants, microbes, and even the soil beneath our feet. Meet the Multispecies Landscapes Lab, a group at OCEH exploring landscapes as more-than-human worlds. www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
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Multispecies Landscapes Lab - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History
How have humans historically cultivated practices of co-existence with other species? How have these interactions shaped the landscapes where humans have built, worked, lived, migrated, and wandered?
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Do trees talk to each other? It might sound like sci-fi, but research shows that trees and plants can “communicate” underground — thanks to fungi🍄👇 #EnvHum #Mycorrhiza #WoodWideWeb
Tree roots spreading across forest floor, with a caption explaining that trees communicate underground through fungal networks.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
A week of creativity, history, and critical reflection at the OCEH Lab 🌿 Here’s what’s happening over the next few days 👇
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🍂 Big month ahead at OCEH! October brings poetry from pollution, Sámi law, multispecies justice, and more. Workshops, lunch seminars, lab talks — all diving into fresh perspectives on how we relate to nature, weather, and each other 🌿✨ Curious? Come join the conversations!
Poster with autumn leaves background listing OCEH October events: workshops, lunch seminars, and lab talks on poetry, weather, Sámi knowledge, ecology, and justice.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🌱✨ Tomorrow at UiO: Audra Mitchell asks — how can we form unconditional relationships with earth? 📍 OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus 🕛 12:15–14:00 🔗 shorturl.at/euamb
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Audra Mitchell: Revenant ecologies - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
How can we develop unconditional relationships with earth?
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
We’re thrilled to host Antonia Thomas this Friday at UiO! ✨ 📍 In-person — OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus 🗓️ Sept 19, 10:15–12:00 Her talk about working across disciplines, explores how creative practice can open new paths in the #humanities. Details 👉 shorturl.at/tybnO
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Antonia Thomas: Working across disciplines — Creative practice and research in the humanities - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
How can the varied approaches more common in creative practice help those of us in the humanities who are struggling with disciplinary placement in an undisciplined age?
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🌱 What does a sustainable university look like? Join us for a lunch seminar with UiO’s Green Office to hear about their projects — from sewing courses to shaping climate policy. 📅 Sept 15, 12:15 | OCEH Lab 👉 shorturl.at/7Fxgz
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Lunch Seminar: The Green Office at UiO — Small Steps Toward a Sustainable University - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
The UiO Green Office works toward making sustainability an integral part of the University.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
September will be a busy month at OCEH! 🍂🔥 From lab talks on ecosemiotics, creativity in the humanities, and revenant ecologies, to our long-awaited autumn bonfire - we’ve got a full calendar of events lined up. Check out the program and join us: shorturl.at/zLQsA
Poster with September events at OCEH.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Our very first OCEH newsletter is out! 🎉 We’ll be sharing updates from our center + research groups, along with insights from the world of environmental humanities 🌍 👉 Read the first issue here: shorturl.at/VaoZH 👉 Subscribe for future editions: shorturl.at/oZove
First issue of the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities Newsletter, August 2025. Includes welcome message, highlights of OCEH’s beginnings, and a close-up green leaf with water droplets.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The bonfire won’t happen tomorrow after all — Oslo rain wins this round 🌧️ We’ll try again on September 10 instead, same plan at Sognsvann. Fingers crossed for better weather and a good fire 🔥 shorturl.at/AeYeN
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OCEH Social: Autumn Bonfire - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Gather around the fire.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
In Oslo tomorrow? Come join us over lunch: 🐀🦜🌱 Who eats whom in Aotearoa’s forests — and why that matters for conservation. Courtney Addison (Victoria U. Wellington) on toxins, lures & the politics of animal appetites in pest control. 📍 OCEH Lab 🕐 Aug 21, 12:15–14:00 🔗 shorturl.at/OPOUA
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Courtney Addison: Animal appetites — The metabolic relations of pest control in Aotearoa New Zealand - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
The forests of Aotearoa are busy with life, and most of it is eating something.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
‼️ Today’s Lunch Seminar cancelled ‼️ Erling Agøy: Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather will be rescheduled later this semester. Sorry for the inconvenience — we’ll share the new date soon!
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
📍 In-person, Oslo — On Aug 18, environmental historian Erling Agøy will take us to 17th-century China to explore how people lived with (and made sense of) climate change during the Little Ice Age. Details ➡️ shorturl.at/P9eHM
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Lunch Seminar: Erling Agøy — Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
“Ameliorating policies, restoring order and being sincere in affairs is the way to end calamities”: thus wrote county magistrate Zhao Xinshi in 1673, a generation after his jurisdiction Jiading was pl...
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🌿 What do ecosystems and cultures have in common? They both speak in meanings - and right now, we’re losing those meanings faster than ever. On 2 Sept 2025, Estonian semiotician & poet Timo Maran is coming to @uio.no to talk about ecosemiotics.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
☀️ Summer break is winding down here in Norway — and we’re easing back into things at OCEH with a great August lineup. Seminars, guest talks, and a cozy bonfire to close the month. If you're in Oslo, we’d love to see you 🌻 📍 Details: shorturl.at/m6ojr #EnvHum #EnvironmentalHumanities
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🎻 Did you know the legendary Stradivarius violins may owe their sound to… colder weather? During the Little Ice Age (ca. 1300–1850), Europe experienced cooler winters. Trees grew more slowly, producing denser, more uniform wood. Perfect for instruments. #EnvHum #ClimateHistory
Photo of a Stradivarius violin on a plain grey background.
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Next up in our “meet the groups” series: EcoLit 📚🌿 This group is all about stories — and how literature and culture shape how we think (and feel) about the environment. 🔗https://shorturl.at/rnPBH #EnvHum #EcoCriticism
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Ecocritical Literary and Cultural Studies - Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages
Literary and cultural texts that explore environmental issues provide important sites for ecocritical analysis.
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🎉Excited to share our new grant on sustainable home-hospital services for immigrants—exploring the boundaries between home, hospital, and hospitality through the philosophies of B Cassin, J Derrida ao. #academicsky @uio.no @uio-oceh.bsky.social @oslomet.bsky.social www.med.uio.no/sustainit/en...
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HOMESICK Project Awarded Major Research Grant - SUSTAINIT – Sustainable Health Unit
We are delighted to announce that the research project
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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
What if ecosystems weren’t just natural, but narrative? 🌍📖 This September, join us in Oslo for Ecosemiotics in the Field — a PhD course exploring how meaning moves between humans, animals, and environments. Short, hands-on, humanities-led. shorturl.at/BhBVD
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IKOS / OCEH PhD research seminar: Ecosemiotics in the field - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
This short, field-based course is designed to provide students with a hands-on introduction to ecosemiotics as a research paradigm. The course is aimed particularly at PhD and early career researchers...
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