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Research project on marine mammals, ritual traditions, and environmental change in maritime East Asia @UniOsloHF. PI: @AikeRots. Funded by @ERC_Research. 🐋🇪🇺
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Joined April 2022
This is the account of Whales of Power, an interdisciplinary @ERC_Research project @UniOsloHF. We study religious transformations, heritage-making, nature conservation, and human-cetacean relations in maritime East Asia. Here we'll post news about events, publications, and more.
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Sonja Åman has successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Governing the People of the Whale: History and Politics of Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling." Congratulations, Dr. Åman! The trial lecture and defence were excellent. Many thanks to the opponents, @RyanTuckerJones & @camilla_b.
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On Friday 15/12, @kimberleyanh will give a guest lecture in Oslo on borders and infrastructural violence in the Ganga and Mekong rivers. All welcome!. More info: .
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In this guest lecture, Kimberley Thomas (Temple University) discusses how violence is intrinsic to infrastructure. She will illustrate this through examples of water and border infrastructures in the...
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RT @Ranjana_rahul: As I wrap up my postdoc in Norway, I’m sharing a thread of recorded lectures on climate change, rivers, political ecolog….
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Today and tomorrow!.
On 12 December, WhoP team member Sonja Åman will defend her PhD dissertation "Governing the People of the Whale: History and Politics of Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling". The day before, she will give her PhD trial lecture (title t.b.a.). All welcome! See
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Are you interested in popular religion, heritage, and environmental change in East/Southeast Asia? Would you like to move to Oslo and join the Whales of Power project (or its successor)? Would you like a fully funded PhD position (salary+fieldwork support)? Please get in touch!.
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Today's fun fact:"Renowned killer whale researcher Dr Lance Barrett-Lennard has recorded that, over the course of 126 field trips, homosexual behaviour was overwhelmingly observed, with heterosexual coupling rarely seen. Queer is the norm where whales are concerned, it seems."🏳️🌈.
filthy beasts . The sex lives of animals: three hours of foreplay – and mass orgies on the move
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RT @CarsonCenter: The University of California Press is publishing a #new #journal on animal history. The inaugural issue is scheduled to b….
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On 12 December, WhoP team member Sonja Åman will defend her PhD dissertation "Governing the People of the Whale: History and Politics of Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling". The day before, she will give her PhD trial lecture (title t.b.a.). All welcome! See
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Our artist-in-residence @sakurakoretsune will soon return to Japan. On 29 September, she will present the work she has done during her year in Norway. All welcome!
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Sakura Koretsune is a visual artist who seeks to reweave the stories between humans and cetaceans through embroidered images on textiles with texts in the form of journals and poems. In October 2022,...
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@sakurakoretsune @Kulturhistorisk Please note: the date of this event has been changed. It will take place on 31 August.
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On 24 August, WhoP researchers @sakurakoretsune and Marius Palz will discuss their work on human-animal encounters in Japan and Norway at the @Kulturhistorisk museum in Oslo. Some of Koretsune's work can also be seen at the exhibition "Control". More info:
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Whales of Power in Korea! Now in Daegu for the AAS-in-Asia conference. Afterwards: a short trip to Ulsan to learn more about human-whale relations in Korean history.
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RT @sakurakoretsune: "Whales of Power" exhibition runs until August 20th🐋.HumSam-biblioteket now has Summer Opening Hours (shorter than ord….
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RT @Seatimes_UiB: Enjoying the @WhoP_UiO Whales of Power exhibition at the University of Oslo engaging with marine mammals in maritime East….
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RT @Seatimes_UiB: Very interesting PhD defence by @WhoP_UiO candidate Marius Palz who conducted multispecies ethnography in Okinawa, Japan….
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RT @Pierre_L_duP: @WhoP_UiO Marius Palz PhD delivering an excellent trial lecture on Multispecies ethnography and making good use of the….
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Today at 16.15, our PhD candidate Marius Palz will give his PhD trial lecture. Tomorrow, he will defend his dissertation on human-dugong relations and environmental activism in Okinawa. The lecture and defense are public and will be streamed online. Info:
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RT @envhum: Join us next Wednesday, May 31 at 10:15 AM, for an exciting lecture by Dalia Nassar where she raises question about how to tell….
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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...
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