Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities
@uio-oceh.bsky.social
OCEH 🌿
A space for thinking with the Earth - through art, stories and the humanities. Based at the University of Oslo.
hf.uio.no/oceh
A space for thinking with the Earth - through art, stories and the humanities. Based at the University of Oslo.
hf.uio.no/oceh
🌿 OCEH has a new blog! 🌿
We’re opening a space for sharing ideas, reflections, and stories from our environmental humanities community.
shorturl.at/50jHU
We’re opening a space for sharing ideas, reflections, and stories from our environmental humanities community.
shorturl.at/50jHU
OCEH Blog
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🌿 OCEH has a new blog! 🌿
We’re opening a space for sharing ideas, reflections, and stories from our environmental humanities community.
shorturl.at/50jHU
We’re opening a space for sharing ideas, reflections, and stories from our environmental humanities community.
shorturl.at/50jHU
🍂 November at OCEH!
This month, we’re diving into how environments, art, food, and coastlines shape our lives - and how we, in turn, shape them.
Events below 👇
More info: shorturl.at/vnBSN
This month, we’re diving into how environments, art, food, and coastlines shape our lives - and how we, in turn, shape them.
Events below 👇
More info: shorturl.at/vnBSN
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🍂 November at OCEH!
This month, we’re diving into how environments, art, food, and coastlines shape our lives - and how we, in turn, shape them.
Events below 👇
More info: shorturl.at/vnBSN
This month, we’re diving into how environments, art, food, and coastlines shape our lives - and how we, in turn, shape them.
Events below 👇
More info: shorturl.at/vnBSN
Our second OCEH newsletter just came out 🍂
It’s full of things we’ve been thinking about and doing this autumn - bonfire by the lake, lab talks, PhD fieldwork and new research groups taking shape.
Not a report so much as a snapshot of how #envhum feels in motion.
✨ Read: shorturl.at/PeJVa
It’s full of things we’ve been thinking about and doing this autumn - bonfire by the lake, lab talks, PhD fieldwork and new research groups taking shape.
Not a report so much as a snapshot of how #envhum feels in motion.
✨ Read: shorturl.at/PeJVa
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Our second OCEH newsletter just came out 🍂
It’s full of things we’ve been thinking about and doing this autumn - bonfire by the lake, lab talks, PhD fieldwork and new research groups taking shape.
Not a report so much as a snapshot of how #envhum feels in motion.
✨ Read: shorturl.at/PeJVa
It’s full of things we’ve been thinking about and doing this autumn - bonfire by the lake, lab talks, PhD fieldwork and new research groups taking shape.
Not a report so much as a snapshot of how #envhum feels in motion.
✨ Read: shorturl.at/PeJVa
Two fascinating OCEH Lab Talks this week 🌿
🗓️ Wed, Oct 22
Stuart Earle Strange – What is Anthropomorphism?
How do human–macaque relations in Singapore reveal both the limits and possibilities of cooperation beyond the human?
👉 www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
🗓️ Wed, Oct 22
Stuart Earle Strange – What is Anthropomorphism?
How do human–macaque relations in Singapore reveal both the limits and possibilities of cooperation beyond the human?
👉 www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
Stuart Earle Strange: What is Anthropomorphism? Human-Macaque Relations and the Problem of Cooperation
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Using examples from human-macaque interactions in Singapore, Stuart Strange explores how anthropomorphism depends on cooperative intuitions that both conceal and reveal wider possibilities for relatin...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Two fascinating OCEH Lab Talks this week 🌿
🗓️ Wed, Oct 22
Stuart Earle Strange – What is Anthropomorphism?
How do human–macaque relations in Singapore reveal both the limits and possibilities of cooperation beyond the human?
👉 www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
🗓️ Wed, Oct 22
Stuart Earle Strange – What is Anthropomorphism?
How do human–macaque relations in Singapore reveal both the limits and possibilities of cooperation beyond the human?
👉 www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
👣🌾 Landscapes aren’t just made by humans.
They’re shaped through relationships - with animals, plants, microbes, and even the soil beneath our feet.
Meet the Multispecies Landscapes Lab, a group at OCEH exploring landscapes as more-than-human worlds.
www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
They’re shaped through relationships - with animals, plants, microbes, and even the soil beneath our feet.
Meet the Multispecies Landscapes Lab, a group at OCEH exploring landscapes as more-than-human worlds.
www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
Multispecies Landscapes Lab
- Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History
How have humans historically cultivated practices of co-existence with other species? How have these interactions shaped the landscapes where humans have built, worked, lived, migrated, and wandered?
www.hf.uio.no
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
👣🌾 Landscapes aren’t just made by humans.
They’re shaped through relationships - with animals, plants, microbes, and even the soil beneath our feet.
Meet the Multispecies Landscapes Lab, a group at OCEH exploring landscapes as more-than-human worlds.
www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
They’re shaped through relationships - with animals, plants, microbes, and even the soil beneath our feet.
Meet the Multispecies Landscapes Lab, a group at OCEH exploring landscapes as more-than-human worlds.
www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
Do trees talk to each other?
It might sound like sci-fi, but research shows that trees and plants can “communicate” underground — thanks to fungi🍄👇
#EnvHum #Mycorrhiza #WoodWideWeb
It might sound like sci-fi, but research shows that trees and plants can “communicate” underground — thanks to fungi🍄👇
#EnvHum #Mycorrhiza #WoodWideWeb
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Do trees talk to each other?
It might sound like sci-fi, but research shows that trees and plants can “communicate” underground — thanks to fungi🍄👇
#EnvHum #Mycorrhiza #WoodWideWeb
It might sound like sci-fi, but research shows that trees and plants can “communicate” underground — thanks to fungi🍄👇
#EnvHum #Mycorrhiza #WoodWideWeb
A week of creativity, history, and critical reflection at the OCEH Lab 🌿
Here’s what’s happening over the next few days 👇
Here’s what’s happening over the next few days 👇
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A week of creativity, history, and critical reflection at the OCEH Lab 🌿
Here’s what’s happening over the next few days 👇
Here’s what’s happening over the next few days 👇
🍂 Big month ahead at OCEH! October brings poetry from pollution, Sámi law, multispecies justice, and more.
Workshops, lunch seminars, lab talks — all diving into fresh perspectives on how we relate to nature, weather, and each other 🌿✨
Curious? Come join the conversations!
Workshops, lunch seminars, lab talks — all diving into fresh perspectives on how we relate to nature, weather, and each other 🌿✨
Curious? Come join the conversations!
September 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🍂 Big month ahead at OCEH! October brings poetry from pollution, Sámi law, multispecies justice, and more.
Workshops, lunch seminars, lab talks — all diving into fresh perspectives on how we relate to nature, weather, and each other 🌿✨
Curious? Come join the conversations!
Workshops, lunch seminars, lab talks — all diving into fresh perspectives on how we relate to nature, weather, and each other 🌿✨
Curious? Come join the conversations!
🌱✨ Tomorrow at UiO: Audra Mitchell asks — how can we form unconditional relationships with earth?
📍 OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus
🕛 12:15–14:00
🔗 shorturl.at/euamb
📍 OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus
🕛 12:15–14:00
🔗 shorturl.at/euamb
Audra Mitchell: Revenant ecologies
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
How can we develop unconditional relationships with earth?
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September 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🌱✨ Tomorrow at UiO: Audra Mitchell asks — how can we form unconditional relationships with earth?
📍 OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus
🕛 12:15–14:00
🔗 shorturl.at/euamb
📍 OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus
🕛 12:15–14:00
🔗 shorturl.at/euamb
We’re thrilled to host Antonia Thomas this Friday at UiO! ✨
📍 In-person — OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus
🗓️ Sept 19, 10:15–12:00
Her talk about working across disciplines, explores how creative practice can open new paths in the #humanities.
Details 👉 shorturl.at/tybnO
📍 In-person — OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus
🗓️ Sept 19, 10:15–12:00
Her talk about working across disciplines, explores how creative practice can open new paths in the #humanities.
Details 👉 shorturl.at/tybnO
Antonia Thomas: Working across disciplines — Creative practice and research in the humanities
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
How can the varied approaches more common in creative practice help those of us in the humanities who are struggling with disciplinary placement in an undisciplined age?
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September 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
We’re thrilled to host Antonia Thomas this Friday at UiO! ✨
📍 In-person — OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus
🗓️ Sept 19, 10:15–12:00
Her talk about working across disciplines, explores how creative practice can open new paths in the #humanities.
Details 👉 shorturl.at/tybnO
📍 In-person — OCEH Lab, P.A. Munchs hus
🗓️ Sept 19, 10:15–12:00
Her talk about working across disciplines, explores how creative practice can open new paths in the #humanities.
Details 👉 shorturl.at/tybnO
🌱 What does a sustainable university look like? Join us for a lunch seminar with UiO’s Green Office to hear about their projects — from sewing courses to shaping climate policy.
📅 Sept 15, 12:15 | OCEH Lab
👉 shorturl.at/7Fxgz
📅 Sept 15, 12:15 | OCEH Lab
👉 shorturl.at/7Fxgz
Lunch Seminar: The Green Office at UiO — Small Steps Toward a Sustainable University
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
The UiO Green Office works toward making sustainability an integral part of the University.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🌱 What does a sustainable university look like? Join us for a lunch seminar with UiO’s Green Office to hear about their projects — from sewing courses to shaping climate policy.
📅 Sept 15, 12:15 | OCEH Lab
👉 shorturl.at/7Fxgz
📅 Sept 15, 12:15 | OCEH Lab
👉 shorturl.at/7Fxgz
September will be a busy month at OCEH! 🍂🔥
From lab talks on ecosemiotics, creativity in the humanities, and revenant ecologies, to our long-awaited autumn bonfire - we’ve got a full calendar of events lined up.
Check out the program and join us: shorturl.at/zLQsA
From lab talks on ecosemiotics, creativity in the humanities, and revenant ecologies, to our long-awaited autumn bonfire - we’ve got a full calendar of events lined up.
Check out the program and join us: shorturl.at/zLQsA
September 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
September will be a busy month at OCEH! 🍂🔥
From lab talks on ecosemiotics, creativity in the humanities, and revenant ecologies, to our long-awaited autumn bonfire - we’ve got a full calendar of events lined up.
Check out the program and join us: shorturl.at/zLQsA
From lab talks on ecosemiotics, creativity in the humanities, and revenant ecologies, to our long-awaited autumn bonfire - we’ve got a full calendar of events lined up.
Check out the program and join us: shorturl.at/zLQsA
Our very first OCEH newsletter is out! 🎉
We’ll be sharing updates from our center + research groups, along with insights from the world of environmental humanities 🌍
👉 Read the first issue here: shorturl.at/VaoZH
👉 Subscribe for future editions: shorturl.at/oZove
We’ll be sharing updates from our center + research groups, along with insights from the world of environmental humanities 🌍
👉 Read the first issue here: shorturl.at/VaoZH
👉 Subscribe for future editions: shorturl.at/oZove
August 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Our very first OCEH newsletter is out! 🎉
We’ll be sharing updates from our center + research groups, along with insights from the world of environmental humanities 🌍
👉 Read the first issue here: shorturl.at/VaoZH
👉 Subscribe for future editions: shorturl.at/oZove
We’ll be sharing updates from our center + research groups, along with insights from the world of environmental humanities 🌍
👉 Read the first issue here: shorturl.at/VaoZH
👉 Subscribe for future editions: shorturl.at/oZove
The bonfire won’t happen tomorrow after all — Oslo rain wins this round 🌧️ We’ll try again on September 10 instead, same plan at Sognsvann. Fingers crossed for better weather and a good fire 🔥
shorturl.at/AeYeN
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OCEH Social: Autumn Bonfire
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Gather around the fire.
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August 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The bonfire won’t happen tomorrow after all — Oslo rain wins this round 🌧️ We’ll try again on September 10 instead, same plan at Sognsvann. Fingers crossed for better weather and a good fire 🔥
shorturl.at/AeYeN
shorturl.at/AeYeN
In Oslo tomorrow? Come join us over lunch:
🐀🦜🌱 Who eats whom in Aotearoa’s forests — and why that matters for conservation.
Courtney Addison (Victoria U. Wellington) on toxins, lures & the politics of animal appetites in pest control.
📍 OCEH Lab
🕐 Aug 21, 12:15–14:00
🔗 shorturl.at/OPOUA
🐀🦜🌱 Who eats whom in Aotearoa’s forests — and why that matters for conservation.
Courtney Addison (Victoria U. Wellington) on toxins, lures & the politics of animal appetites in pest control.
📍 OCEH Lab
🕐 Aug 21, 12:15–14:00
🔗 shorturl.at/OPOUA
Courtney Addison: Animal appetites — The metabolic relations of pest control in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
The forests of Aotearoa are busy with life, and most of it is eating something.
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August 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
In Oslo tomorrow? Come join us over lunch:
🐀🦜🌱 Who eats whom in Aotearoa’s forests — and why that matters for conservation.
Courtney Addison (Victoria U. Wellington) on toxins, lures & the politics of animal appetites in pest control.
📍 OCEH Lab
🕐 Aug 21, 12:15–14:00
🔗 shorturl.at/OPOUA
🐀🦜🌱 Who eats whom in Aotearoa’s forests — and why that matters for conservation.
Courtney Addison (Victoria U. Wellington) on toxins, lures & the politics of animal appetites in pest control.
📍 OCEH Lab
🕐 Aug 21, 12:15–14:00
🔗 shorturl.at/OPOUA
‼️ Today’s Lunch Seminar cancelled ‼️
Erling Agøy: Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather will be rescheduled later this semester.
Sorry for the inconvenience — we’ll share the new date soon!
Erling Agøy: Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather will be rescheduled later this semester.
Sorry for the inconvenience — we’ll share the new date soon!
📍 In-person, Oslo — On Aug 18, environmental historian Erling Agøy will take us to 17th-century China to explore how people lived with (and made sense of) climate change during the Little Ice Age.
Details ➡️ shorturl.at/P9eHM
Details ➡️ shorturl.at/P9eHM
Lunch Seminar: Erling Agøy — Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
“Ameliorating policies, restoring order and being sincere in affairs is the way to end calamities”: thus wrote county magistrate Zhao Xinshi in 1673, a generation after his jurisdiction Jiading was pl...
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August 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
‼️ Today’s Lunch Seminar cancelled ‼️
Erling Agøy: Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather will be rescheduled later this semester.
Sorry for the inconvenience — we’ll share the new date soon!
Erling Agøy: Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather will be rescheduled later this semester.
Sorry for the inconvenience — we’ll share the new date soon!
📍 In-person, Oslo — On Aug 18, environmental historian Erling Agøy will take us to 17th-century China to explore how people lived with (and made sense of) climate change during the Little Ice Age.
Details ➡️ shorturl.at/P9eHM
Details ➡️ shorturl.at/P9eHM
Lunch Seminar: Erling Agøy — Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
“Ameliorating policies, restoring order and being sincere in affairs is the way to end calamities”: thus wrote county magistrate Zhao Xinshi in 1673, a generation after his jurisdiction Jiading was pl...
shorturl.at
August 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
📍 In-person, Oslo — On Aug 18, environmental historian Erling Agøy will take us to 17th-century China to explore how people lived with (and made sense of) climate change during the Little Ice Age.
Details ➡️ shorturl.at/P9eHM
Details ➡️ shorturl.at/P9eHM
🌿 What do ecosystems and cultures have in common?
They both speak in meanings - and right now, we’re losing those meanings faster than ever.
On 2 Sept 2025, Estonian semiotician & poet Timo Maran is coming to @uio.no to talk about ecosemiotics.
They both speak in meanings - and right now, we’re losing those meanings faster than ever.
On 2 Sept 2025, Estonian semiotician & poet Timo Maran is coming to @uio.no to talk about ecosemiotics.
August 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
🌿 What do ecosystems and cultures have in common?
They both speak in meanings - and right now, we’re losing those meanings faster than ever.
On 2 Sept 2025, Estonian semiotician & poet Timo Maran is coming to @uio.no to talk about ecosemiotics.
They both speak in meanings - and right now, we’re losing those meanings faster than ever.
On 2 Sept 2025, Estonian semiotician & poet Timo Maran is coming to @uio.no to talk about ecosemiotics.
☀️ Summer break is winding down here in Norway — and we’re easing back into things at OCEH with a great August lineup.
Seminars, guest talks, and a cozy bonfire to close the month. If you're in Oslo, we’d love to see you 🌻
📍 Details: shorturl.at/m6ojr
#EnvHum #EnvironmentalHumanities
Seminars, guest talks, and a cozy bonfire to close the month. If you're in Oslo, we’d love to see you 🌻
📍 Details: shorturl.at/m6ojr
#EnvHum #EnvironmentalHumanities
August 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
☀️ Summer break is winding down here in Norway — and we’re easing back into things at OCEH with a great August lineup.
Seminars, guest talks, and a cozy bonfire to close the month. If you're in Oslo, we’d love to see you 🌻
📍 Details: shorturl.at/m6ojr
#EnvHum #EnvironmentalHumanities
Seminars, guest talks, and a cozy bonfire to close the month. If you're in Oslo, we’d love to see you 🌻
📍 Details: shorturl.at/m6ojr
#EnvHum #EnvironmentalHumanities
🎻 Did you know the legendary Stradivarius violins may owe their sound to… colder weather?
During the Little Ice Age (ca. 1300–1850), Europe experienced cooler winters. Trees grew more slowly, producing denser, more uniform wood.
Perfect for instruments.
#EnvHum #ClimateHistory
During the Little Ice Age (ca. 1300–1850), Europe experienced cooler winters. Trees grew more slowly, producing denser, more uniform wood.
Perfect for instruments.
#EnvHum #ClimateHistory
July 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🎻 Did you know the legendary Stradivarius violins may owe their sound to… colder weather?
During the Little Ice Age (ca. 1300–1850), Europe experienced cooler winters. Trees grew more slowly, producing denser, more uniform wood.
Perfect for instruments.
#EnvHum #ClimateHistory
During the Little Ice Age (ca. 1300–1850), Europe experienced cooler winters. Trees grew more slowly, producing denser, more uniform wood.
Perfect for instruments.
#EnvHum #ClimateHistory
Next up in our “meet the groups” series: EcoLit 📚🌿
This group is all about stories — and how literature and culture shape how we think (and feel) about the environment.
🔗https://shorturl.at/rnPBH
#EnvHum #EcoCriticism
This group is all about stories — and how literature and culture shape how we think (and feel) about the environment.
🔗https://shorturl.at/rnPBH
#EnvHum #EcoCriticism
Ecocritical Literary and Cultural Studies - Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages
Literary and cultural texts that explore environmental issues provide important sites for ecocritical analysis.
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July 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Next up in our “meet the groups” series: EcoLit 📚🌿
This group is all about stories — and how literature and culture shape how we think (and feel) about the environment.
🔗https://shorturl.at/rnPBH
#EnvHum #EcoCriticism
This group is all about stories — and how literature and culture shape how we think (and feel) about the environment.
🔗https://shorturl.at/rnPBH
#EnvHum #EcoCriticism
Reposted by Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities
🎉Excited to share our new grant on sustainable home-hospital services for immigrants—exploring the boundaries between home, hospital, and hospitality through the philosophies of B Cassin, J Derrida ao. #academicsky @uio.no @uio-oceh.bsky.social @oslomet.bsky.social
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HOMESICK Project Awarded Major Research Grant
- SUSTAINIT – Sustainable Health Unit
We are delighted to announce that the research project
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June 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🎉Excited to share our new grant on sustainable home-hospital services for immigrants—exploring the boundaries between home, hospital, and hospitality through the philosophies of B Cassin, J Derrida ao. #academicsky @uio.no @uio-oceh.bsky.social @oslomet.bsky.social
www.med.uio.no/sustainit/en...
www.med.uio.no/sustainit/en...