Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities (OCEH)
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An open and collaborative platform for interdisciplinary, humanities-led environmental research.
University of Oslo
Joined February 2018
We’re now on Bluesky! 🌤️. Going forward, you’ll find our latest updates and posts there. Follow us at
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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 👉 #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).#EnvironmentalHumanities.
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Musicologist Holly Watkins discusses her recent shift away from discursive eco-poetics toward embodied eco-practice.
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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:
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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: #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:
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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! 🍻. 🔗
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Experience a cinematic journey into the Gaelic-speaking fishing communities of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.
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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👉
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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.
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The performance piece Miss Tampon Liberty maps the history of the
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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: #Migration #Freediving.
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Writer, spearfisher, and freediver Ting J. Yiu explores the intersection of environmental and cultural “water worlds” in her work, drawing connections between epic eel migrations, whale strandings,...
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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: #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?.
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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:
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!.
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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!.
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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: #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: 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: #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: #OCEHSocial
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