An open and collaborative platform for interdisciplinary, humanities-led environmental research.
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Going forward, you’ll find our latest updates and posts there.
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🌺 April at OCEH!
We’ve got a webinar, a lunch seminar & our first-ever book launch coming up:
📅 24.04 – Holly Watkins
📅 28.04 – Oscar Hartmann Davies
📅 30.04 – Digital Ecologies launch
More info 👉 shorturl.at/WWrXq
#EnvironmentalHumanities #April
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What happens when a music scholar starts growing food and working the land?
Join Holly Watkins on Apr 24 as she talks about moving from eco-poetics to eco-practice - and what that shift really asks of us.
🕒 3–4:30 PM CET (Zoom)
shorturl.at/8lqW5
#EnvironmentalHumanities
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🌿🏡 Can buildings be alive?
At yesterday's lunch seminar, Anna-Katharina Laboissière explored mycelium walls, engineered lichen & bio-architecture - rethinking homes as living, self-repairing, adaptable spaces.
Thanks to all who joined! More OCEH events: shorturl.at/xbdoA
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🍄 Can homes be alive? 🌱
Join us for a lunch seminar on living materials - self-repairing, CO2-capturing and designed with fungi & bacteria.
📅 Mar 10, 12:15–1:00 PM
📍 OCEH Lab, UiO
Bring your lunch, we’ve got the coffee!
More info: shorturl.at/Xk0Ts #BioArchitecture
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🌊 How do we write about place as both lived & planetary?
Join Franklin Ginn, @BristolUni on March 20 at 14:00 CET for a webinar exploring two beaches & the bio, geo and spiritual forces shaping them.
📌 Free & online. More info: shorturl.at/j8PbA
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🎬 Free Screening in Oslo: Iorram / Boat Song 🌊
Step into Scotland’s Gaelic-speaking fishing communities with this stunning doc. A blend of archival voices, breathtaking landscapes & a haunting score.
📅 March 4 - stay for drinks after! 🍻
🔗 shorturl.at/kF1Te
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🐠 Honored to host author, free diver & spearfisher Ting J. Yiu for OCEH’s first 2025 lunch seminar! In Hunting in a Sea of Ghosts, she explored eels, pirate queens & her own diasporic history - from Hong Kong to Aotearoa to Norway’s fjords 🌊✨
For more👉 hainamana.com/gutting/
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Discover the story behind Miss Tampon Liberty!
Join Camilla Mørk as she dives into Jay Critchley’s iconic eco-art, the “environmenstrual” movement and the complex interplay of art, activism and plastics.
🗓️ March 13, 2025 | 3–4 PM
📍 Lucy Smiths Hus, UiO
tiny.cc/w769001
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🌊 Lunch Seminar: Hunting in a Sea of Ghosts 🌊
Writer & freediver Ting J. Yiu on migration, identity & the aquatic - where eel migrations meet mermaid ancestors.
📅 Feb. 17, 12:15–1:00 PM
📍 OCEH Lab, UiO
🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/bdyk3tus
#Migration #Freediving
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Kick off the spring semester with us! Join OCEH for a visit to the Beyond Fast Fashion exhibition at the Natural History Museum on Feb 12 at 2PM. Meet us by the museum shop entrance - free entry for all! 👗🌍
More info: tinyurl.com/2jh8z88j
#BeyondFastFashion #Sustainability
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Yesterday’s "Academic Toolkit - How to Write a PhD Proposal" event was a great success! Engaged discussions, valuable expert feedback and exciting research ideas made it a truly insightful session.
Best of luck to all future applicants - we hope the tips help! 🎓✨ #PhDProposal
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📖 Did you know nature has always inspired art and stories?
From Walden to climate fiction, eco-literature:
🎨 Reimagines what’s possible
🌱 Brings us closer to nature
📢 Sounds the alarm on crises
Creative works can inspire change🌍 What’s your favorite?
tinyurl.com/3arw54uh
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A few spots left! Master's students in Oslo: ready to ace your PhD project proposal? Don’t miss this!
📅 Jan 29, 1–4 PM | OCEH Lab, UiO
⏳ Registration deadline coming up: next Monday, Jan 20!
🔗 Sign up now: tinyurl.com/4fpv5hmx
Master’s students in Oslo! 📚 Considering a PhD? Join the Academic Toolkit Seminar (in-person): How to Write a PhD Project Proposal 🖋️
🗓️ Jan 29, 2025 | 1–4 PM | OCEH Lab, UiO
Focus: Environmental Humanities
🖋️ Register by Jan 20, spots are limited!
tinyurl.com/3pwykkam
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Master’s students in Oslo! 📚 Considering a PhD? Join the Academic Toolkit Seminar (in-person): How to Write a PhD Project Proposal 🖋️
🗓️ Jan 29, 2025 | 1–4 PM | OCEH Lab, UiO
Focus: Environmental Humanities
🖋️ Register by Jan 20, spots are limited!
tinyurl.com/3pwykkam
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🌊 Coral reefs cover <1% of the ocean but support >25% of marine life!
They:
🐟 Provide food
🌴 Boost tourism
💊 Hold medical potential
Under threat from climate change & pollution, but we can help - reduce runoff & protect reefs!
Learn more: tinyurl.com/3mbjh3m9
#CoralReefs
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🎄✨Season's Greetings from OCEH! ✨🎄
Thank you for being part of our 2024 journey - the year we officially opened our lab and hosted our first events.
Here’s to a bright 2025, full of new insights in environmental humanities! 🌍
Happy Holidays & a joyful New Year!
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Last week, we wrapped up our autumn lunch seminars with a great talk by Rebekah Ciribassi on containment practices in Rufiji, Tanzania. Thanks for the insights & discussion!
Learn about the Epidemic Traces project: tinyurl.com/hcc6hf9z
Who should we invite for spring? 👇
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🌊 Can animism or nature-based religions address climate change?
Professor Aike Rots explores this question and the ties between spirituality and sustainability.
Read the interview: tinyurl.com/mumaau3b
#ClimateChange #Sustainability
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🎄 Join us for the final OCEH SOCIAL of 2024!
Celebrate the season with gløgg, pepperkaker & good company. Open to all - bring friends, family, & holiday cheer. 🎉
Details here: tinyurl.com/tn49ca65 #OCEHSocial
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