Lecture series on Energy Transitions, Ecological Vulnerability, and Visual Power in the Anthropocene
NTNU Energy Team Society
NTNU Team Society is a team of experts on energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energy-SSH). The team consists of researchers from different disciplines, departments and faculties across NTNU.
Team Society will work to combine cutting-edge research on energy-SSH, community building and activities that inclusively engage scholars across disciplinary boundaries.
Team Society organizes bi-weekly webinars to showcase energy-SSH research conducted at NTNU and beyond to a broader audience.
Beyond crisis/Beyond normal
A social science and humanities conference on sustainability
27 and 28 September 2023
Organized by NTNU Energy Team Society
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This fall lecture series titled "Collaboration" takes place at the nexus between NTNU social sciences and various multidisciplinary researchers and artists with the focus on Energy Transitions, Ecological Vulnerability, and Visual Power in the Anthropocene. A key feature of these collaborative exchanges involves the concept of Abstraction, which enables the possibility for reflecting upon the way indicators and aesthetics are taken out of one context and inserted into another. In this way, the collaborations discuss abstractive forms and their ability to decontextualize and depoliticize as well as persuade, seduce and conjure - all in the service often times of an effort to make everything under the sun exchangeable as money.
All seminars will be held on Zoom. Please email arthur.l.mason@ntnu.no if you are interested in attending.
Monday 26 October kl. 14.00: Laura Hindelang - Postdoctor, University of Bern. Laura will be discussing her recent publications on art history of petro-modernity and oil cultures in Middle East.
Monday 9 November kl. 14.00: Hannah Knox - Associate Professor Department of Anthropology, University of College London. Hannah will be discussing her latest book publication "Thinking Like a Climate" (Duke U Press).
Monday 23 November kl. 14.00: Alexander Arroyo - Department of Geography UC Berkeley. Alexander will discuss the “geographic techniques” underpinning the emerging infrastructural, energetic, and informatic complex designed to produce and organize historical oceanographic knowledge.
Monday 07 December kl. 14.00: Julia Leyda - Professor of Humanities at NTNU, Director of Environmental Humanities. Julia will be discussing her work on media representations of Norwegian oil development including an analysis of the series Lykkeland.