News
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David Van Reybrouck: The 2024 Arne Næss Professor at the University of Oslo Feb. 6, 2024 4:04 PM
UiO's Centre for Development and the Environment is proud to announce David Van Reybrouck as the 2024 Arne Næss Professor.
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Dan Banik to lead Circle U’s democracy initiative Dec. 19, 2023 2:57 PM
Professor at SUM, Dan Banik, is the new Academic Director of Circle U’s Knowledge Hub on Democracy.
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SUM is one of the partners in Africa-Europe research cluster on pandemics Nov. 3, 2023 1:44 PM
SUM's Global Health Politics research group, represented by Katerini T. Storeng and Jacinta Victoria Muinde, is a partner in the new research cluster that aims to strengthen national and regional capacity to prevent, prepare for, and respond to pandemics and other shocks.
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SUM will conduct research on regenerative agriculture as a solution to pollution of the Oslo Fjord Oct. 27, 2023 2:03 PM
The project is led by Professor Karen V. Lykke and is funded by The Research Council of Norway.
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Dan Banik to lead new Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence Sep. 25, 2023 2:26 PM
The cluster will conduct research on the politics of sustainable development and will develop a new PhD programme focused on leadership for sustainable societal transformation.
Events
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Public defence: Narrative as technology in nineteenth century Norway Apr. 5, 2024 10:15 AM
Master Erica Colman-Denstad at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Wildness and control: Mediating technology and perceptions of nature in nineteenth century Norway for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
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Hal Wilhite Memorial Lecture: Rethinking Consumption for Environmental Justice May 7, 2024 6:00 PM
Join us for this memorial lecture by Manisha Anantharaman and a discussion on consumption and environmental justice.
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Ph.D. Course: Regenerating soils and societies – an interdisciplinary endeavour Aug. 6, 2024 9:00 AM
The objective of this course is to analyse – empirically and conceptually – the overlapping fields of soil and societies, and how they both are affected by the cultural, political, financial and scientific paradigms governing the global food system.
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Arne Næss Symposium 2024: Democratic Innovations for the Age of Anthropocene Aug. 28, 2024 6:00 PM
The symposium features David Van Reybrouck, the 2024 Arne Næss Professor.