Gardening the Globe: Opening Conference
Welcome to the opening conference for the project Gardening the Globe: Historicizing the Anthropocene through the production of socio-nature in Scandinavia, 1750-2020, at The House of Literature in Bergen 23 May, 2022.
Hovedinnhold
GARDENING THE GLOBE is a four-year research project that aims to examine historical processes through which nature has been conquered, controlled and commodified in Scandinavia from the mid-18th century to the present. Today's environmental problems are often presented with the help of scientific concepts from Earth Systems science and geology – such as the term Anthropocene. Although such concepts are important for highlighting humanity’s impact on the planet as a whole, they also seem to make factors such as historical conditions, social structures and cultural values invisible. Gardening the Globe will explore such historical and cultural aspects of the processes that have led to the Anthropocene, by investigating: 1) processes of moving animals, plants and minerals; 2) practices of eradicating organisms; and 3) the human production of landscapes.
The opening conference will be held at The House of Literature in Bergen on 23 May 2022. During the conference we will explore the cultural aspects of changing natures and the question of how to study them, as well as present Gardening the Globe in more detail.
Attendance is free and includes a light lunch.
Program:
Monday May 23, 2022
The House of Literature in Bergen, Østre Skostredet 5
10.00–10.15 Welcome
Kyrre Kverndokk, Cultural studies, University of Bergen
10.15-11.10 What is “Gardening the Globe”?
Kyrre Kverndokk, Cultural studies, University of Bergen
Discussant: Karen Rader, History of science, Virginia Commonwealth University
11.10–11.30 Break
11.30–12.15 When is nature? Reflections on natives, aliens and shifting baselines.
Gunhild Setten, Human geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim
12.15–13.00 Light lunch
13.00–13.45 Sublime Environing: Understanding Climate Change through Sea Ice
Nina Wormbs, History of technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
13.45–14.00 Break
14.00–15.00 Bridging an Epistemological Gap: Roundtable on the importance of cooperation between the humanities and the natural sciences
Frida Hastrup, Ethnology, Copenhagen University
Henrik H. Svensen, Geology, University of Oslo
Anders Ekström, History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
Chair: Marit Ruge Bjærke, Cultural studies, University of Bergen
15.00-15.15 Closure
Kyrre Kverndokk and Marit Ruge Bjærke, Cultural studies, University of Bergen