Month: September 2024

On September 14th our PhD candidate Karin Lillevold participated in a panel conversation about The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project by artist Koen Vanmechelen at the University Museum in Bergen. This conversation brought together Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, paleontology professor Hanneke Meijer, and anthropologist Karin Lillevold from the University of Bergen. The conversation was moderated by Gitte Sætre, debate editor at Kunsthall 3,14, where the exhibition (and live chickens!) are on view until December this year. In Continue reading Panel conversation on cosmopolitan chickens and paradoxes in the Anthropocene→

Last week, Gardening the Globe co-organized a seminar with fellow research council project Maritime Modernities and the Norwegian Fisheries Museum in Bergen. The title of the seminar was “Formats and Materializations: The Ocean as an Object of Knowledge”, and we spent a wonderful day at the Fisheries Museum presenting our research on representations of the ocean and those living there. Both Gardening the Globe and Maritime modernities are historically oriented projects, although with different theoretical Continue reading Seminar at the Norwegian Fisheries Museum→