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Panel conversation on cosmopolitan chickens and paradoxes in the Anthropocene

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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→

Seminar at the Norwegian Fisheries Museum

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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→

WP3 start up: Cultivating Eradication

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Project members at the department of history of science and ideas

Last week, members and associates of Gardening the Globe gathered for a workshop at Uppsala University. The workshop signaled the start up of work package 3 of the project, which is called “Cultivating eradication”. In “Cultivating eradication”, we explore how socio-natures are produced through practices of removal or eradication of organisms and species. Through a set of different case studies, we investigate how species in the wrong place and in wrong numbers are often eradicated Continue reading WP3 start up: Cultivating Eradication→

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One book – two book launches

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Kyrre Kverndokk and Marit Ruge Bjærke have now launched their book Fremtiden er nå. Klimaendringenes tider – twice. First launch was on Wednesday 21 September, with the Environmental Humanities group at the University of Bergen. The Environmental Humanities group has been a wonderful research group for discussing climate issues as well as time and temporality. After a short presentation by Kyrre and Marit, Ida Vikøren Andersen from the ClimLife project gave an interesting comment on Continue reading One book – two book launches→

Opening Conference Completed

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On Monday 23 May, we held our “Gardening the Globe Opening Conference” at the House of literature, Bergen, Norway. We had wonderful talks from some of our advisory board members: Karen Rader discussed Gardening the Globe with project leader Kyrre Kverndokk. She advised more messiness and also brought up power structures and decentralized perspectives as themes to consider. Gunhild Setten asked the question “When is nature?” in her talk. She discussed nature as a moving Continue reading Opening Conference Completed→

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Opening Conference: Program and registration

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The program for our GARDENING THE GLOBE opening conference on 23 May is now ready. The conference will be held at The House of Literature in Bergen on 23 May 2022. We look very much forward to a day of exploring the cultural aspects of changing natures and the question of how to study them. And of course, we are also delighted to present the Gardening the Globe project itself in more detail. Please see Continue reading Opening Conference: Program and registration→

Opening conference: 23 May 2022

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Our new research project Gardening the Globe: Historicizing the Anthropocene through the production of socio-nature in Scandinavia, 1750-2020 has been running for a few months now, and things are starting to happen. Our website is finally in place, and so is the date for our one-day opening conference: 23 May 2022. The conference will be held in Bergen… Continue reading Opening conference: 23 May 2022→