Miljøhumaniora
Forskergruppen samler forskere og doktorgradsstudenter fra ulike fagfelt som deler interessen for miljøspørsmål.
Hovedinnhold
Medlemmenes spesifikke forskningsinteresser spenner fra klimaendringer og vannpolitikk til miljølitteratur og kunst.
Forsker gruppen for miljøhumaniora er et tverrfaglig samarbeid mellom forskere innen fagområdene historie, arkeologi, kulturvitenskap, lingvistikk, litteratur, medievitenskap, statsvitenskap, sosialantropologi, naturvitenskap og teknologistudier og videre. Sammensetningen gjenspeiler den tverrfaglige karakteren til feltet miljøhumaniora, som bygger bro mellom naturvitenskap og humaniora, så vel som mellom akademia og samfunnet, ved å anvende humanistiske metoder og tankemåter på miljøfag. Forskningen vår omfatter et stort spekter av menneskelig interaksjon med den fysiske verden, fra antikkens migrasjon til moderne klimaresistens.
Gruppemedlemmer samarbeider med forskere fra hele verden med støtte fra Det europeiske forskningsrådet, Norges forskningsråd og andre store finansieringsenheter, samt fra Det humanistisk fakultet ved Universitetet i Bergen. En utvalgt liste over store prosjekter utført av medlemmer av gruppen kan ses på den engelske versjonen av nettsiden, men vennligst se individuelle medlemmers profiler og biografier for ytterligere detaljer om våre forskningsinteresser, tilknytninger og ekspertiseområder.
Program 2024
28. Nov | Grant Application Workshop, Marit Ruge Bjærke: Crisis as environing technology Paper will be circulated in advance. |
| 5-6. Des | Writing retreat Torsdag 5.desember 8:08 AM: Depart Bergen via train Fredag 6.desember 08:00-08:30: Breakfast |
| 17. des 9:15-12:00 | Hedda Susanne Molland, Sluttseminar: "Catching the Present: From CO2 handling to the low emission society”. In her PhD project, Hedda Susanne Molland investigates the temporal relationships of climate change politics. Approaching this topic from the perspective of environmental humanities, in general, and cultural studies in particular, she argues that a supposed failure of the imagination in the face of climate change should not lead us to neglect the important role that imagination plays in political plans for achieving imaginaries such as a low emission society. The way such political plans are temporally signified and configurated – from experiences, to present circumstances, on to expected effective measures and onwards to hopes for successful solutions, or perhaps the other way around – is highly imaginative. In recognizing that both the low emission society and CO2 handling are temporally configured product of imagination, Molland asks in her dissertation what role imaginaries play in political plans and vice versa, and specifically what this chiefly temporal relationship looks like in political documents. The primary analytical objective in the dissertation is therefore to investigate how temporal configurations connect political plans and policies with cultural and technological imaginaries. |
Program 2025
| 23. jan 12:15 | Brown bag lunch talk by Elisabeth Fairhead, Department of Foreign Languages: "The rare Franklinia and the story that made it a symbol of the extinction crisis" |
| 5.mars 14:15-16:00 | Talk by local researcher Liubomira Romanov “Integrating Archaeological, Historical, and Biological Data to Uncover the Past of the Yakuts (Eastern Siberia, Russia)” Yakutia is the coldest region in the Northern Hemisphere, with record winter temperatures below -70°C. The Yakut people’s ability to adapt to such extreme cold has been key to their survival. They are thought to descend from an ancient population that migrated from their original homeland in the Lake Baikal region following the Mongol expansion between the 13th and 15th centuries AD. Originally, they led a semi-nomadic lifestyle centered on horse and cattle breeding, which provided transportation, clothing materials, meat, and milk. Early Russian colonization in the first half of the 17th century AD, followed by further expansion, profoundly impacted the indigenous population. Among other effects, Russian conquest led to significant socio-economic and cultural changes. For 15 years, the French Archaeological Mission in Eastern Siberia (MAFSO) has excavated and studied over 150 bodies preserved in Yakutia’s permafrost. The exceptional preservation of tombs and biological remains, along with historical and ethnographic documents from the post-colonial period, enables interdisciplinary research combining social science and biological methods to explore the transformation of Yakut society and culture.
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Tidligere arrangement
Høst 2024
| 4. sept 13:00 - 16:00 | PhD workshop: Anthropology of Sound Organisers: Sadie Hale & Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme How does paying attention to sound affect one’s orientation to their environment? What noises are being made and lost at a time of climate change, mass extinctions, and urbanisation? How can anthropologists and other scholars become more sonically sensitive in our own work? Interest in aural approaches in anthropology is growing, from well-established concepts such as Steven Feld’s (1992) ‘acoustemology’, or sonic way of knowing and being, to more recent scholarship such as ‘listening to the zoo’ (Rice et al. 2021), connecting a region through radio (Western 2023), and the ongoing use of methodologies like soundwalks. This workshop aims to stimulate discussion around such approaches, in order to help to expand our sensory apparatus and unsettle the visual mode so dominant in the ‘participant observation’ method. The workshop will be led by Andrew Whitehouse from the University of Aberdeen. Andrew is an environmental anthropologist researching nature conservation, landscape, and human-bird relations. He conducted the AHRC-funded Listening to Birds project with Tim Ingold, which considered the ways that people relate to birds through sound |
5.sept | Romain Grancher, From shores to abyss: an environmental history of the seabed Romain Grancher is an environmental historian. His research interests lie at the crossroads of environmental history, the history of knowledge and the history of law. He is currently working on a book on the environmental history of the seabed. |
| 8. Okt | Gardens: A Workshop Participants: Nils Haukeland Vedal, Birger Solheim, Knut Mikjel Rio, Vigdis Broch-Due, Olaf Haraldsøn Smedal, Scott Bremer This workshop explores the garden as a phenomenon that spans geographical regions and time. For some people the garden is the condition of life and death – thus, horticulture is framed by sophisticated ritual sacrifice securing vegetal regrowth and the reproduction of society. For others, the garden is a prism for different historisities: a colonial past through which our modern ideals have found structure and content. And for our technological imaginaries, the garden is a companion to be taken with us when we expand the site of our dwellings as we take "nature" with us to new places. |
| 21. okt 09:15 - 12:30 | Half-day workshop: Multi-Sensory Workshop This will be organized as a half-day workshop of 3-4 hours where we will explore how we (can) use and emphasize different senses - hearing, touching, seeing, walking, smelling etc - both methodologically and analytically in our research. Those who want can bring some material for discussion, either on something they have written concerning senses in their research, empirical material, or other ideas they want to explore. It is organized as a transdisciplinary workshop as part of the research groups Methodological and Empirical Questions and Environmental Humanities at AHKR. Researchers from cultural studies, history, religious studies and social anthropology will attend, and it is open to researchers from other relevant fields as well. |
| 24. okt 14:15 - 15:00 | Marjo Juola: The intersection of nature, culture, and the environment - highlighting the uncanny and ‘weird’ aspects of post-industrial and Anthropocene heritage Room: seminarrom 1, Øystensgate 3 |
| 28-31. Okt | Four-day PhD Course, More-Than-Human Humanities |
| 31. okt 14:15 - 16:00 | Karin Lillevold, Unruly Fluffy Cows and Shy Reindeer. The Spectacle of Wilderness and Multispecies Relationalities in Dovrefjell. |
1. nov | Oceanic encounters symposium Organisers/presenters: Edvard Hviding, Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme, Sadie Hale (Oceans Research Group at UiB Department of Social Anthropology) Format: 3 x 20-minute talks (incl. visual media/films) + panel discussion Tea and coffee will be served! Oceanic Encounters is a half-day symposium dedicated to exploring these questions, through ethnographic storytelling about physical encounters with large oceanic lifeforms. |
Vår 2024
23-24. mai 2024 | Two-day workshop, The Last Workshop: Latin America and the End of the World |
| 15-16. feb 2024 | Presentation of short film "The Bonding", by artist Michelle Letelier, and conversation with Letelier and Martin Lee Mueller (University of Oslo, author of Being Human Being Salmon).Presented by The Last Workshop: Latin America and the End of the World |
29-30. januar 2024 | Research Group Retreat, Norheimsund |
2023
16. Nov 2023 | Lecture by Mariano siskind (Literature, Harvard University): Towards a Cosmopolitan Loss: An Essay on Latin American Nature at the End of the World. Presented by The Last Workshop: Latin America and the End of the World |
26. Oct 2023 | Lecture by Mark Healey (History, University of Connecticut): Natural (?) Catastrophes at the end of the world.Presented by The Last Workshop: Latin America and the End of the World |
17. Oct 2023 | Louis-Emmanuel Pille-Schneider: Tempestuous temporalities. The Joola’s last voyage and its memorialization in Fatou Diome’s Les Veilleurs de Sangomar Location: Online |
13. Sept 2023 | Environmental Humanities Research Group general meeting. Lunch provided. Location: Øystensgate 3, Seminarrom 1. |
| 4. Sept 2023 | UiB Latin America and the Caribbean Conference, "Winds of Change and Streams of Solidarity."Registration required; see program for details. Sessions of special interest to the research group include the following: Kl. 10:30-11:15, Keynote by Terje Tvedt, "Streams of water history: Perspectives of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe" Kl. 12:15-1:45, Panel discussion: "Water and Resources in the Last Frontier." Kl. 15:15-16:45, Panel discussion, "Energy transition in the global economy: impacts for Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe." Location: University Aula |
30. Aug 2023 | Johanna Gunn, "Referencing in climate change discourse - a polyphonic study of academic discourse, political communication, and written press." Location: Øystensgate 3, Seminarrom 1 |
31. May 2023 | Runa Falk, "Mitigating climate change: Norwegian citizens' perceptions of individuals' role. Location: Øystensgate 3, seminarrom 1 |
11. April 2023 | Douglas Northrop: Earthquakes and Empire Along the Eurasian Frontier Location: Sydneshaugen Skole, Aud. |
FORSKERGRUPPELEDER
Leder og kontaktperson for forskergruppen er:
Sarah Hamilton, førsteamanuensis i miljøhistorie
PhD kurs "More-Than-Human Humanities"
Forskergruppen arrangerer PhD kurs 28-31 oktober 2024
Frist for påmelding: 30.juni 2024
