Kultrans undersøker endringsprosesser i samfunnet – likhet og forskjell, kontinuitet og brudd, tradisjon og innovasjon innenfor ulike kommunikasjons- og menings-sammenhenger, ulike kulturer. I fokus står effektene av globaliseringen, både i et historisk og et samtidig perspektiv, både lokalt og globalt. [English]
Arrangementer
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Kultrans PhD group: Workshop, common book project
6. mai. 2013 09:00
Kultrans PhD group: Meeting to prepare the Lofoten workshop in June. Working on common book project on transformations.
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Museological lunch with Veronica Della Dora: Taming the Sublime: Mountains as Artefacts, Commodities and Heritage
22. mai. 2013 12:15
- Is it possible to talk about mountains from a museological perspective? If so, how is a mountain an object different from or similar to those displayed in a museum?
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Engaging Environments: Analyzing lay knowledge and popular action on nature, the environment and climate change
22. mai. 2013 13:00
This international workshop seeks to stage a wider discussion of environmental knowledge, politics, participation, and democracy.
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Writing Nature in the History of Medicine
27. mai. 2013 13:00
Scholars within the natural sciences are not the only scholars who study, analyze and write about nature. So do also scholars within the social sciences and the humanities. But how is this done? And what is this thing called "nature"?
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Regimes of Temporality
5. jun. 2013 11:00
International conference, 5-7 June 2013: The goal of this conference is to open a dialogue between disciplines and fields, such as history, anthropology, media studies, sociology, STS, biology, geology, philosophy, literature and others on the emergences, conflicts, and hierarchies of different times in past, present and future. Read the call for papers.
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Defense: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
6. jun. 2013 17:00
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay is the first of our nine Kultrans research fellows to defend his doctoral thesis.
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Workshop: Grasping oil and water
10. jun. 2013 09:00
How may scholars from the social sciences and humanities get beyond the political and the cultural and better grasp the nature objects themselves? How may we study oil and water without experiencing it slipping through our fingers?
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Kultrans PhD group: Workshop, common book project
13. jun. 2013 08:00
The Kultrans PhD group will come together to finalise their common book project on transformations. Papers will be precirculated among the participants
