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.
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)
#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)
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.