Talks
Talks, Conference and Workshop Presentations
Archiagape
Ambiguous Territory, Rizzoli bookstore, Feb. 1 2023.
Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021, Nov. 14, 2021.
Livet er best ute: Friluftslivets historie og filosofi
Bokbad, Norsk Sjømannskirke, New York, Dec. 7 2022.
Bokbad, Norsk skogmuseum, Elverum, Nov. 24 2022.
Bokbad, Akademika bokhandel, Bø i Telemark, Nov. 23 2022.
Institutt for friluftsliv, idrett og kroppsøving, Universitetet i sørøst Norge, Bø i Telemark, Nov. 23 2022.
Østfoldmuseene, Halden, Nov. 7. 2022.
Boklansering, Oslo, 17 august, 2022.
Paradise Lost: Nuclear Testing in the Pacific Ocean
The Nuclear-Water Nexus, Stockholm, June 21-22, 2022.
The Power of the Periphery
OsloMet, March 27, 2023
Stockholm +50: The Nordic Model of Ecological Transformation May 16, 2022.
Scandinavian Society Annual Meeting, April 30, 2022.
Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo March 14, 2022.
Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021, May 21, 2021. [Video]
Environmental History Week, April 19. 2021. [Video]
The National Library of Norway, April 12. 2021. [Video]
Department of History, University of Bergen, Feb. 18, 2021.
Department of Philosophy, NTNU Trondheim, Feb. 9 2021
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Jan. 21, 2021.
The Greenhouse, University of Stavanger, Nov. 2, 2020. [Video]
History of Science Society’s Annual Meeting, Oct. 8, 2020. [Video]
Institute of Public Knowledge, New York University, Oct. 6 2020. [Video]
Design with Life
Discussion and book launch at Microsoft Garage, May 27 2020.
Discussion at The American Scandinavian Society, June 24 2020.
Discussion at New York Institute of Technology, Sept. 30 2020.
A History of Norwegian Climate Politics
Environmental and Climate History: The Role of History in Society, University of Oslo, Dec. 18, 2019.
The Right Use of the Earth, École normale supérieure, Paris, May 31, 2018.
Letters Sent from Heaven, Ultima Academy Seminar, Oslo, Sept. 9. 2017.
A History of Environmental Designs
The Speculative City Seminar, Columbia University, Feb. 25 2020
Natur am Bau Festival, Burg Hülshoff, Münster, Germany, Sept. 13. 2019.
Dumbarton Oaks, Garden and Landscape Studies, Sept 29., 2015.
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Master of Landscape Architecture, Sept. 7, 2017.
A High Mountain Utopia: History of Ecology at the Finse Research Station in Norway
ISHPSSB, 7-12 July, Oslo, 2019
British Imperialism and the Bauhaus Legacy
Burg Hülshoff, Münster, Germany, Feb. 15. 2019, 19:30.
Climate in Motion
Panel discussion of Deborah R. Coen’s book Climate in Motion. Columbia University, Jan 30. 2019.
The Architecture of Closed Worlds
Storefront for Art and Architecture, Dec. 6, 2018.
The Cooper Union. Feb. 27. 2016. [podcast, 14:05]
School of the Earth
Gallatin Teaching-With-Technology Symposium, Sept. 27. 2017.
Gallatin Climate Change Initiative’s Conference, Sept. 15. 2017.
Urban Digital Humanities, NYU Center for the Humanities, Feb. 27 2018. [podcast]
Computing Environmental Design
Infrastructure and Materiality, Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities,Sept. 25. 2017.
Design History Society Annual Conference, key-note, Oslo, Sept. 9. 2017.
Times Square Electronic Garden
LASER (Leonardo art and science evening rendezvous), New York, Oct. 6, 2019.
Stories of the Anthropocene Festival, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Oct. 26. 2016.
The Black Power Mixtape
Q&A, Gallatin School, NYU, Feb. 24 2016.
An Environmental History of Ancient Trees
Wood at Work, Bronx Zoo, October 30 2015.
A Global History of Ecology in Norway
Department of History of Science Seminar, Harvard University, April 29 2014.
Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, Workshop, University of Oslo, June 18 2015.
College of the Art and Sciences: History, University of Kentucky, March 8 2016.
Gallatin School, New York University, Apr 24, 2017.
The Economic Fix: The Norwegian Approach to Climate Change
Climate Change, Methods, and Practice: A Conversation across the Social Sciences and Humanities, Columbia University, March 8 ,2013. Program here.
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Workshop on Historicizing Climate Change, Princeton University, May 2-3, 2014. Program here.
American Society for Environmental History, Annual Conference, Washington DC, March 19, 2015. Program here.
Thoreau’ s Walden
Seeing the Display: Environmentalism’s Ideological Habitat, The Natural History Museum at the Queens Museum, Sept 28, 2014. [podcast 25:28]
The Environmental Antagonist at the Center Stage?
History of Science Society’s Annual Meeting, Boston, 21-24 November 2013.
The Human and its Environment: The Fifth Norwegian Conference of the History of Science, January 24-25 2013, Bergen, Norway.
The Call for a New Eco-religion in Norway
Center for Historical Analyses, Rutgers University, Dec. 11, 2012.
Scales of the Earth
Global Design Symposium, NYU London, Oct 19, 2012.
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, April 1, 2011.
A History of Sustainability: Science as a Vacation
History of Science and Medicine Colloquium, Yale University, April 18, 2011.
“Groovy Science” Conference, Princeton University, Feb. 4-5, 2011.
“Rethinking Modern University History” Conference, University of Oslo, Oct. 28-29, 2011.
The 4th Norwegian Conference of History of Science, University of Oslo, Nov. 20-22, 2011
Spaceship Earth: A History of Ecological Designs
Parsons, The New School, March 21, 2011.
Columbia University, Legal and Social Environmental Issues, March 16, 2011.
University of California, Santa Barbara, University lecture, Jan. 20, 2011.
New York Academy of Sciences / NYU, Dec. 1, 2010.
UCLA, Department of History Colloquium, May 24, 2010.
Wellesley College / MIT, April 8, 2010.
Oberlin College, March 17, 2010.
John Hopkins University, Department History of Science Colloquium, Jan. 28, 2010.
Princeton University, History of Science Colloquium, Dec. 2, 2009.
Student Union, University of Bergen, Feb. 27, 2012
Science Studies Seminar, NTNU Trondheim, March 3 2012
Department of Archaeology, University of Oslo, March 9, 2012.
Modeling the Earth from Outer Space
Changing Climate: Historians and Hemispheres in Conversation, 5-6 March 2010, Harvard University.
Science as a Vacation: A History of Ecology in Norway
History of Science Society, Washington, 2007.
Graphic Language: Herbert Bayer’s Environmental Design
Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, Oslo 2006.
Ecological Communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute
Colonialism, Post-Colonialism and the Environment, German Historical Institute, Washington 2006.
A Post-Colonial Reading of the History of Ecological Architecture
Thinking Through the Environment, Nordic Environmental History Society, Turku 2005.
The Ecological Colonization of Space
Humanism for the 21st Century: Perspectives East and West, University of Oslo 2004.
From Holism to Radicalism: History of Ecology in South Africa
Workshop, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich 2004.
The Bauhaus of Nature
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Cambridge 2003.
Barker Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University 2001.
Buckminster Fuller’s Dome and the Dymaxion of Nature
American Society for Environmental History, Providence 2003.
The Politics of Ecology in South Africa
Center for Historical Social Sciences, Columbia University 2003.
History of Science Society’s Annual Meeting, Vancouver 2000.
Ecology and Environmental Ethics
Radiation Protection in the 21st Century: Ethical, Philosophical and Environmental Issues, The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Oslo, Oct. 22-25, 2001.
Imperial Memories in the Inland Waters of Africa
American Society for Environmental History, Tucson 1999.
H. G. Wells and the Economy of Nature
Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University 1999.
History of Ecology and Aviation Technologies
History of Science Society, Kansas 1998.
Natural Law and Human Rights: On History of Ecology and the UN-Charter
Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University 1998.
Arthur George Tansley’s Social Psychology and Ecology in the Context of South African Racism
History of Science Society, San Diego 1997.
The Cultivation of Nature-Metaphors in Thomas Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics
Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology, Harvard University 1996.
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