UiT Environmental Humanities Network

The UiT environmental humanities network brings together interdisciplinary researchers, artistic researchers, and artists whose work engages with the environmental humanities. 

Since 2020, its members have been gathering approximately once a month to present and discuss environmental humanities related research in various forms — from lectures, to walks-and-talks, workshops, or concerts, resulting in the co-creation of new research, knowledge, and methods that cross disciplinary boundaries. 

Enthusiastic Master's students, PhD fellows, and Postdocs in the environmental humanities meet weekly for focused writing sessions, and get together for writing retreats, skills sharing sessions, feedback meetings, and reading circles.  

UiT Environmental humanities gatherings

Upcoming

#32 - When the-Human-that-We-Are Is Not There: Reading Fernand Deligny (05.12.2024)

Past events

#31 - Time is a ship that never casts anchor / feedback session (10.09.2024 (talk) / 13.09.2024 (concert))

#30 – A Letter to Lanka with Ilakkiya Mariya Simon: Film and Discussion (28.08.2024)

#29: Kittiwake walk with Kåre Grundvåg and Ingeborg Solvang (07.05.2024)

#28 Guided tour of the exhibition Down in the Bog: Hibernation with curator Karolin Tampere (17.04.2024)

#27 Mingling & focused writing for early career folks (09.04.2024)

#26: On Fiction, Animals, and Making Sense of Climate Science (20.03.2024)

#25: A mini thought-project on 'Writing the Implosion – teaching the world one thing at a time' (12.02.2024)

#24: Living with the Ocean – A Coastal Exhibition in Becoming (24.01.2024)

#23: Tasting session (06.12.2023)

#21: Beavers, Science, Civilization with Sigfrid Kjeldaas (25.10.2023)

#16: Reading group - Matthew Huber's Lifeblood (25.11.2022)

#15: Reading group - Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter (21.10.2022)

#14: Heritage Ecologies in Tromsø - An environmental humanities walk & talk with Anatolijs Venovcevs (08.10.2022)

#13: Reading group - Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement (28.09.2022)

#12: Reading group - Becoming Reading Group: reflections on assembling a collegiate, caring collective (05.09.2022)

#11: Crimes against ecosystems - Meeting postponed due to COVID (31.05.2022)

#10: Notes on the “fossil fuel ordinary” (29.04.2022)

#9: Worlds unknown – How foraminifera and humans have coexisted for thousands of years, and how we might get better at doing so moving forward… (31.03.2022)

#8: Sensing Places - How sensory approaches to places can influence the living and dying of humans and other than humans (22.02.2022)

#7: Measurement is the mother of all exclusion - How "excellence" can marginalize multidisciplinarity and engaged research (24.01.2022)

#6: Thinking-creating with plants — a workshop on developing analogue film in seaweed (20.11.2021)

#5: Framings of multispecies health and justice across One Health approaches (23.10.2021)

#4: What is Tromsø anyway? (27.09.2021)

#3: The Anthropocene - What lies behind, around and in front of (the notion that defines) our time? (24.08.2021)

#2: Presentation by Svein Anders Noer Lie (01.06.2021)

#1: Kick-starting environmental humanities at UiT (27.04.2021)

Members


Selectec publications by members

Benneworth, P., Maxwell, K., and Charles, D. 2022. Measuring the effects of the social rural university campus. Research Evaluation 2022. DOI

Maric, F., & Nicholls, D. A. (2022). Environmental physiotherapy and the case for multispecies justice in planetary health. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 38(13), 2295–2306. DOI

Maric, F., Nikolaisen, L. J., Ntinga, N. M., & Webb, J. (Eds.) (2022). Healthpunk Vol 2: Healthcare + Fiction + You. Open Physio Journal. DOI

Maric, F., Nikolaisen, L.J., & Bårdsen, Å. (Eds.). (2021). Physiopunk Vol 1. Open Physio Journal. DOI

Maxwell, K. 2020. Music in the Dark: Soundscapes in Christiane Ritther’s A Woman in the Polar Night. Nordlit 46, special issue Conceptualizing the North: 17–30. DOI

Maxwell, K. and Benneworth, P. 2018. The Construction of New Scientific Norms for Solving Grand Challenges: The Norwegian Idélab Programme. Palgrave Communications 4, article 52. Special collection: Scientific Advice for Governments. 2018. doi:10.1057/s41599-018-0105-9. Available here

Mittner, L., Maxwell, K., and Hammer Stien, H. 2020. Conceptualizing the North. Nordlit 46, special issue Conceptualizing the North: 1–11. DOI

Mittner, L., Meling, L. K., and Maxwell, K. Arts-based pathways towards a more gender equal world. Nordic Journal of Artist and Research 2023, special issue on arts and the sustainable development goals. Available here

Mittner, Lilli, and Gabriela Wagner. 2021. ‘Den Norden Lesen: Erinnerungen, Wahrnehmungen Und Bedeutungen Im Interdisziplinären Dialog’. Nordlit, no. 46, 52–72. DOI

Gender, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia: A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation, ed. K. Flørtoft, K. Losleben, and M. Duarte (London: Routledge, 2023)

Losleben, K., Maric, F. & Gjærum, R.G. (2023). Learning for Sustainable Transformation. In Duarte, M., Losleben, K., & Fjørtoft, K. (Eds.) Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia - A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation. Routledge. DOI

Calás, M.B., Smircich, L., Cozza, M., Gherardi, S., Katila, S., Kuismin, A., Jääskeläinen, P., Laine, P-M., Meriläinen, S., Vola, J. Wickström, A., Valtonen, A., Salmela, T. & Pullen, A. (2023) What to do about “The Human” in organization studies? Thinking/saying/doing with the Anthropocene, pandemics, and thereafters. In: Calas, M. & Smirchich, L. (eds.) A research agenda for Organization Studies, Feminisms and New Materialisms. Edward Elgar Publishing. Cheltenham/Northampton. Pp. 177-.

Valtonen, A., Salmela, T., Rantala, O. (2020) Living with mosquitoes. Annals of Tourism Research 83 (2020).

Panieri, G., Sancak Sert, Z., Maric, F., Poto, M. P., Murray, E.M. (2024) The Ocean Senses Activity Book: Enriching Ocean Literacy Through A Multisensory Approach. In Panieri G., Poto, M. P., Murray E. M. (Eds.) Emotional And Ecological Literacy For A More Sustainable Society. Palgrave Macmillan. DOI

Rantala, O., Salmela, T., Valtonen, A. & Höckert, E. (2020). Envisioning Tourism and Proximity after the Anthropocene. Sustainability, 12, 3948. Available here

Richter, R., & Maric, F. (2022). Ecological Bodies and Relational Anatomies: Toward a Transversal Foundation for Planetary Health Education. Challenges, 13(2), 39. DOI

Salmela, T., & Valtonen, A. (2019). Towards collective ways of knowing in the Anthropocene: Walking-with multiple others. Finnish Journal of Tourism Research, 15(2), 18-32. DOI

Haanpää, M., Salmela, T., Äijälä, M., Carcía-Rosell, J. (2019) The disruptive 'other'? Exploring human-animal relations in tourism through videography. Tourism Geographies (online ahead of print). DOI

Rantala, O., Valtonen, A., Salmela, T. (2020). Walking with rocks – with care. In Valtonen, A., Rantala, O., Farah, P. (eds.) Ethics and politics of space for the Anthropocene. Edward Elgar Publishing.

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