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
We hope the blog becomes a space to think together.
Follow along, share, and stay in conversation with us 💚
Follow along, share, and stay in conversation with us 💚
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We hope the blog becomes a space to think together.
Follow along, share, and stay in conversation with us 💚
Follow along, share, and stay in conversation with us 💚
We’ve also published an interview with our visiting researcher, Stefano Rozzoni, whose work bridges literature, ecology, and creativity.
🎙️ Read the conversation: shorturl.at/CjZn6
🎙️ Read the conversation: shorturl.at/CjZn6
Where Literature Meets the Living World: In Conversation with Visiting Researcher Stefano Rozzoni
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
We recently had the pleasure of hosting our first visiting researcher of the semester at OCEH. The interview below offers a glimpse into his reflections on research, collaboration, and the role of the...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We’ve also published an interview with our visiting researcher, Stefano Rozzoni, whose work bridges literature, ecology, and creativity.
🎙️ Read the conversation: shorturl.at/CjZn6
🎙️ Read the conversation: shorturl.at/CjZn6
Our first post introduces the spirit behind the blog -collaboration, curiosity, and the joy of learning across disciplines.
📝 Welcome to the OCEH Blog: shorturl.at/2cSlA
📝 Welcome to the OCEH Blog: shorturl.at/2cSlA
Welcome to the OCEH Blog!
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
We’re delighted to share our very first post — and to open this space as a new hub for exchange across our growing network. Here, we’ll continue exploring the ever-evolving world of environmental huma...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Our first post introduces the spirit behind the blog -collaboration, curiosity, and the joy of learning across disciplines.
📝 Welcome to the OCEH Blog: shorturl.at/2cSlA
📝 Welcome to the OCEH Blog: shorturl.at/2cSlA
27 Nov (afternoon) - Talk
New Approaches to Coastal Histories with Wanda Marcussen
Exploring multispecies coastal worlds + new methods for writing them.
📍 P.A. Munchs hus, Room 425
🕑 14:15–15:30
New Approaches to Coastal Histories with Wanda Marcussen
Exploring multispecies coastal worlds + new methods for writing them.
📍 P.A. Munchs hus, Room 425
🕑 14:15–15:30
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
27 Nov (afternoon) - Talk
New Approaches to Coastal Histories with Wanda Marcussen
Exploring multispecies coastal worlds + new methods for writing them.
📍 P.A. Munchs hus, Room 425
🕑 14:15–15:30
New Approaches to Coastal Histories with Wanda Marcussen
Exploring multispecies coastal worlds + new methods for writing them.
📍 P.A. Munchs hus, Room 425
🕑 14:15–15:30
27 Nov (morning) - Symposium
Curating ‘the Wild’
At the National Museum with Isabelle Gapp & Dehlia Hannah. How can art history + ecology help re-imagine museum practice?
📍 National Museum (staff entrance)
🕘 09:00–13:00
Registration required.
Curating ‘the Wild’
At the National Museum with Isabelle Gapp & Dehlia Hannah. How can art history + ecology help re-imagine museum practice?
📍 National Museum (staff entrance)
🕘 09:00–13:00
Registration required.
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
27 Nov (morning) - Symposium
Curating ‘the Wild’
At the National Museum with Isabelle Gapp & Dehlia Hannah. How can art history + ecology help re-imagine museum practice?
📍 National Museum (staff entrance)
🕘 09:00–13:00
Registration required.
Curating ‘the Wild’
At the National Museum with Isabelle Gapp & Dehlia Hannah. How can art history + ecology help re-imagine museum practice?
📍 National Museum (staff entrance)
🕘 09:00–13:00
Registration required.
18 Nov - Lunch Seminar
Digitally Mediated Planetary Encounters and the Making of a Metabolic Subject with George Cusworth.
How do our daily food choices scale up to planetary change?
📍 OCEH Lab
🕛 12:15–13:00
Bring your lunch, we’ve got coffee ☕
Digitally Mediated Planetary Encounters and the Making of a Metabolic Subject with George Cusworth.
How do our daily food choices scale up to planetary change?
📍 OCEH Lab
🕛 12:15–13:00
Bring your lunch, we’ve got coffee ☕
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
18 Nov - Lunch Seminar
Digitally Mediated Planetary Encounters and the Making of a Metabolic Subject with George Cusworth.
How do our daily food choices scale up to planetary change?
📍 OCEH Lab
🕛 12:15–13:00
Bring your lunch, we’ve got coffee ☕
Digitally Mediated Planetary Encounters and the Making of a Metabolic Subject with George Cusworth.
How do our daily food choices scale up to planetary change?
📍 OCEH Lab
🕛 12:15–13:00
Bring your lunch, we’ve got coffee ☕
If you’d like to join our mailing list for future editions - or share this with someone who might - you can sign up here:
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Always happy to be thinking with new people!
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Always happy to be thinking with new people!
oceh-newsletter - Environmental humanities - subscribe
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October 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
If you’d like to join our mailing list for future editions - or share this with someone who might - you can sign up here:
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Always happy to be thinking with new people!
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Always happy to be thinking with new people!
And yes, there’s a section on underground fungal networks and how trees talk to each other.
Because sometimes the environmental humanities is also just: wonder → curiosity → connection 🌱🕸️
Because sometimes the environmental humanities is also just: wonder → curiosity → connection 🌱🕸️
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
And yes, there’s a section on underground fungal networks and how trees talk to each other.
Because sometimes the environmental humanities is also just: wonder → curiosity → connection 🌱🕸️
Because sometimes the environmental humanities is also just: wonder → curiosity → connection 🌱🕸️
Four visiting researchers joined us this autumn -
bringing whales, forests, archives, images, and stories with them.
The center feels different, in a good way.
bringing whales, forests, archives, images, and stories with them.
The center feels different, in a good way.
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Four visiting researchers joined us this autumn -
bringing whales, forests, archives, images, and stories with them.
The center feels different, in a good way.
bringing whales, forests, archives, images, and stories with them.
The center feels different, in a good way.
🗓️ Thu, Oct 23
Karin Wagner – The plastic in which we live
On packaging design, sustainability and the social meanings of the materials that surround us.
www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
🕐 12:15–14:00
📍 OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, UiO
#OCEH #Envhum #UiO #Anthropocene
Karin Wagner – The plastic in which we live
On packaging design, sustainability and the social meanings of the materials that surround us.
www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
🕐 12:15–14:00
📍 OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, UiO
#OCEH #Envhum #UiO #Anthropocene
Karin Wagner: The plastic in which we live
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Visiting scholar Karin Wagner discusses her ongoing book project Packaging design: sustainability, aesthetics and social issues.
www.hf.uio.no
October 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🗓️ Thu, Oct 23
Karin Wagner – The plastic in which we live
On packaging design, sustainability and the social meanings of the materials that surround us.
www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
🕐 12:15–14:00
📍 OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, UiO
#OCEH #Envhum #UiO #Anthropocene
Karin Wagner – The plastic in which we live
On packaging design, sustainability and the social meanings of the materials that surround us.
www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
🕐 12:15–14:00
📍 OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, UiO
#OCEH #Envhum #UiO #Anthropocene
Interested in multispecies entanglements, more-than-human theory, or landscape histories?
📩 The group welcomes interest from scholars and collaborators - especially across disciplines.
Learn more:
www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
📩 The group welcomes interest from scholars and collaborators - especially across disciplines.
Learn more:
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
Interested in multispecies entanglements, more-than-human theory, or landscape histories?
📩 The group welcomes interest from scholars and collaborators - especially across disciplines.
Learn more:
www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
📩 The group welcomes interest from scholars and collaborators - especially across disciplines.
Learn more:
www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
They ask:
📌 Who gets to shape a landscape?
📌 How are landscapes felt, cared for, or fought over?
📌 What kinds of multispecies knowledge do we overlook?
It’s an interdisciplinary effort to see landscapes not as static backdrops - but as shared, lived histories.
📌 Who gets to shape a landscape?
📌 How are landscapes felt, cared for, or fought over?
📌 What kinds of multispecies knowledge do we overlook?
It’s an interdisciplinary effort to see landscapes not as static backdrops - but as shared, lived histories.
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
They ask:
📌 Who gets to shape a landscape?
📌 How are landscapes felt, cared for, or fought over?
📌 What kinds of multispecies knowledge do we overlook?
It’s an interdisciplinary effort to see landscapes not as static backdrops - but as shared, lived histories.
📌 Who gets to shape a landscape?
📌 How are landscapes felt, cared for, or fought over?
📌 What kinds of multispecies knowledge do we overlook?
It’s an interdisciplinary effort to see landscapes not as static backdrops - but as shared, lived histories.
It’s not just about biology.
This lab brings together scholars from:
🧪 Environmental & medical history
📜 Philosophy & literature
🧭 Anthropology & archaeology
🕊️ Religious & cultural studies
All to rethink what a “landscape” really is - and who it includes.
This lab brings together scholars from:
🧪 Environmental & medical history
📜 Philosophy & literature
🧭 Anthropology & archaeology
🕊️ Religious & cultural studies
All to rethink what a “landscape” really is - and who it includes.
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It’s not just about biology.
This lab brings together scholars from:
🧪 Environmental & medical history
📜 Philosophy & literature
🧭 Anthropology & archaeology
🕊️ Religious & cultural studies
All to rethink what a “landscape” really is - and who it includes.
This lab brings together scholars from:
🧪 Environmental & medical history
📜 Philosophy & literature
🧭 Anthropology & archaeology
🕊️ Religious & cultural studies
All to rethink what a “landscape” really is - and who it includes.
How have humans co-existed with other species - in forests, fields, salt lakes, or cities?
This group studies the messy, entangled histories of living together - from microbial healing muds to grazing patterns, from spiritual practices to conservation struggles.
This group studies the messy, entangled histories of living together - from microbial healing muds to grazing patterns, from spiritual practices to conservation struggles.
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
How have humans co-existed with other species - in forests, fields, salt lakes, or cities?
This group studies the messy, entangled histories of living together - from microbial healing muds to grazing patterns, from spiritual practices to conservation struggles.
This group studies the messy, entangled histories of living together - from microbial healing muds to grazing patterns, from spiritual practices to conservation struggles.
So next time you walk through a forest, remember:
It may be more alive — and more connected — than you think.
📖 Learn more:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/nco...
#ForestEcology #WoodWideWeb #EnvHum
It may be more alive — and more connected — than you think.
📖 Learn more:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/nco...
#ForestEcology #WoodWideWeb #EnvHum
Force sensitivity of multilayer graphene optomechanical devices - Nature Communications
Graphene is a promising material for the design of mechanical resonators. Here, the authors fabricate a multilayer graphene resonator coupled to a superconducting cavity, to achieve efficient readout of mechanical vibrations and quantitatively investigate its force sensing performance.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
So next time you walk through a forest, remember:
It may be more alive — and more connected — than you think.
📖 Learn more:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/nco...
#ForestEcology #WoodWideWeb #EnvHum
It may be more alive — and more connected — than you think.
📖 Learn more:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/nco...
#ForestEcology #WoodWideWeb #EnvHum
And it’s not just chemistry.
Some mycorrhizal fungi also transmit electrical impulses — kind of like a forest nervous system.
We’re only beginning to understand how rich these connections really are.
Some mycorrhizal fungi also transmit electrical impulses — kind of like a forest nervous system.
We’re only beginning to understand how rich these connections really are.
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
And it’s not just chemistry.
Some mycorrhizal fungi also transmit electrical impulses — kind of like a forest nervous system.
We’re only beginning to understand how rich these connections really are.
Some mycorrhizal fungi also transmit electrical impulses — kind of like a forest nervous system.
We’re only beginning to understand how rich these connections really are.
Some trees share nutrients — especially with their own seedlings.
Older trees (“mother trees”) have been shown to send carbon and nitrogen to younger saplings shaded beneath them.
A form of care? Or ecosystem resilience? Either way, it’s fascinating.
Older trees (“mother trees”) have been shown to send carbon and nitrogen to younger saplings shaded beneath them.
A form of care? Or ecosystem resilience? Either way, it’s fascinating.
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Some trees share nutrients — especially with their own seedlings.
Older trees (“mother trees”) have been shown to send carbon and nitrogen to younger saplings shaded beneath them.
A form of care? Or ecosystem resilience? Either way, it’s fascinating.
Older trees (“mother trees”) have been shown to send carbon and nitrogen to younger saplings shaded beneath them.
A form of care? Or ecosystem resilience? Either way, it’s fascinating.
When a tree gets attacked by pests, it can send out warning signals — through the fungal network.
Nearby trees respond by increasing their chemical defenses 🪲🌲
Yes — forests have their own early warning systems.
Nearby trees respond by increasing their chemical defenses 🪲🌲
Yes — forests have their own early warning systems.
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
When a tree gets attacked by pests, it can send out warning signals — through the fungal network.
Nearby trees respond by increasing their chemical defenses 🪲🌲
Yes — forests have their own early warning systems.
Nearby trees respond by increasing their chemical defenses 🪲🌲
Yes — forests have their own early warning systems.
Beneath forests, there’s an invisible network:
🌱 Roots
🍄 Fungal threads (mycorrhiza)
Together, they form a massive underground system sometimes called the "wood-wide web."
It connects plants and even allows them to share resources.
🌱 Roots
🍄 Fungal threads (mycorrhiza)
Together, they form a massive underground system sometimes called the "wood-wide web."
It connects plants and even allows them to share resources.
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Beneath forests, there’s an invisible network:
🌱 Roots
🍄 Fungal threads (mycorrhiza)
Together, they form a massive underground system sometimes called the "wood-wide web."
It connects plants and even allows them to share resources.
🌱 Roots
🍄 Fungal threads (mycorrhiza)
Together, they form a massive underground system sometimes called the "wood-wide web."
It connects plants and even allows them to share resources.