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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 1d

Fri, Oct 10 — Lunch Seminar: Eli Skogerbø — Green Growth and Sámi Stakeholders
When “green growth” meets Indigenous rights: a look at how environmental politics and Sámi agency intersect in the North.
🔗 www.hf.uio.no/.../lunch-se...

All events at OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus, UiO ☕ See you there! 🌍

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 1d

Thu, Oct 9 — Lunch Seminar: Erling Agøy — Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather
How did people live with climate change during the Little Ice Age?
Agøy takes us to 17th-century China to explore local understandings of weather, calamity, and resilience.
🔗 www.hf.uio.no/.../lunch-se...

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 1d

Wed, Oct 8 — “Pollution-Generated Poetry?”
Can air pollution data become poetry?
Visiting scholar Stefano Rozzoni presents an AI prototype that turns air quality data into poems — and invites participants to test it out.
💻 Bring your device and join the experiment.
🔗 www.hf.uio.no/.../pollutio...

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 1d

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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hugo (squeaky tank appreciator) @hugo.town · 7d

looks like our collaborative project about kelp forests, deep sea minerals and "charting the seabed multiple" got funded.

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Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal (Thematic Call)

The purpose of this call is to promote innovation and development in research that can contribute to advancing the international research front wit...

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 8d

🍂 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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hugo (squeaky tank appreciator) @hugo.town · 9d

we made a "get involved" page for @uio-oceh.bsky.social, for anyone who wants to collaborate or just come and hang out.

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Get involved - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

As an open, interdisciplinary platform we are always thinking up new ways to collaborate and bring people into the work we do.

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 16d

Through Indigenous philosophies, disability justice & abolitionist thought, Mitchell invites us to imagine plural worlds — nurturing irreplaceable lives + relations 💚

If you’re at UiO tomorrow, don’t miss this! Come reflect on what it means to live beyond conditions 🌿

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 16d

As extinctions rise, “solutions” often deepen violence —colonialism, extractivism, ableism. In Revenant Ecologies, Mitchell calls for new ways of being with earth 🌍

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 16d

🌱✨ Tomorrow at UiO: Audra Mitchell asks — how can we form unconditional relationships with earth?

📍 OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus
🕛 12:15–14:00
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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 · 21d

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

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 · 29d

🌱 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
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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 · Sep 1

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

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · Aug 26

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 🔥

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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 · Aug 20

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
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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 · Aug 18

‼️ 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!

Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · Aug 12

📍 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

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 · Aug 12

Event info:
📅 Mon, Aug 18, 2025
🕰 12:15–13:00
📍 OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, University of Oslo
☕ Coffee served — BYO lunch

If you’re in Oslo and curious about how history can reframe our view of climate change today - this is for you.

Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · Aug 12

Erling Agøy’s research shows that looking beyond disaster records reveals something deeper: people adapted, found meaning, and sometimes even pride in their local climate - turning weather lore into heritage.

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · Aug 12

Local officials, scholars, and unexpected heroes used climate knowledge woven from agriculture, geography, divination, policy & metaphysics. This was science, survival strategy, and cultural identity rolled into one.

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · Aug 12

Imagine living in Taicang - “The Great Granary” near today’s Shanghai - when drought, famine, epidemics & war struck. No forecasts, no satellites… yet people developed rich traditions to predict, interpret, and even “own” their weather.

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · Aug 12

📍 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

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 · Aug 11

The lecture will be followed by comments from Annelie Ott & Anna-Katharina Laboissiere.

Organized by COSER & OCEH at the University of Oslo.

🌱 Come in person or online - and bring your curiosity.

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Timo Maran: Ecosemiotics — Describing, conceptualizing and supporting meaning relations in nature-cultures - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Ecosemiotics can help us understand how significance in life is created, maintained and lost: important knowledge for moving towards a sustainable culture.

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · Aug 11

Ecosemiotics looks at how life creates, maintains, and loses meaning - in both ecosystems and cultures.

Timo will share concepts like umwelt, semiotic ground, semiocide, and examples from creative projects in Tartu that bring science & culture together.

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