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Anna-Katharina Laboissière started as researcher on the Fungateria project 1 October. She has a background in philosophy, STS, and environmental humanities, and has just completed a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie postdoctoral research fellowship at IKOS. She has previously investigated the resurgence and contemporary uses of fallowing practices and fallowed land and the biopolitics of transformative conservationist interventions, such as assisted migration, assisted evolution, and crop wild relative breeding. In addition to her academic work, she is also interested in speculative writing and has published creative texts for print and online publications.
Tuukka welcomed a daughter this week - congratulations to the family!
T?yen seminar
This semester's T?yen seminar for the ph.d. students took place 7-8 October. 8 candidates participated with Silje Tellmann, Sebastian Svenberg and Knut J?rgen Vie as opponents in addition to Tone who in the capacity of PhD responsible at TIK organized the seminar.
Knut J?rgen gave a short introduction about “Ethical reflections in the thesis“, and how he thinks the ethics section can be used to elevate the thesis. The introduction was followed by a discussion.
Upcoming events
As you already know, TIK is organizing The Eilert Sundt Lecture 2024 on 22 October 14.15-16.00. Do not miss this!
Professor Timothy Mitchell (Columbia University): Oil, climate crisis, and the alibi of growth
We are also so lucky that Timothy Mitchell will give a workshop 23 October 10.15-12.45: Exploring Energy-Democracy Connections .
Do not hesitate in signing up - seniors as well as juniors! Submit a memo (max. 1 p.) by Friday 18 October at 16.00 (extended deadline) describing your ongoing project, current research questions and a few questions you would like to discuss at the workshop to Kristin or Inger-Johanne.
6 November 14.15-15.30 Knut J?rgen is invited to the Science Studies Colloquium Series. His talk "Denial and forgetfulness: The history and social practices of research ethics" is related to his work in OSIRIS. His own presentation of the talk:
"Researchers tend to think about themselves as part of a self-correcting community. However, the history of research ethics shows that we have for the most part reacted with denial and forgetfulness when faced with examples to the contrary, and it has fallen on politicians to correct us. In the talk, I will use this history to show that we need to treat research as a social phenomenon, with all too human participants, when working to ensure our trustworthiness."
7 November 18.00-19.30 the TIK PhD students continue the events to mark the TIK25 jubilee. This time Torjus and Tanja in cooperation with the DIGIT research school organize a panel conversation at the Litteraturhus: "Samfunnet som digital pr?vekanin". Participants are among others Lars Nyre (UiB), Malcolm Langford (UiO), Suhas Govind Joshi (UiO), Lilly P. Muller (guest researcher at TIK) and Torjus (TIK).
Other upcoming events
- PhD midway seminar of Silje Svartefoss on 18 October.?
- PhD final seminar of Gro Stueland Skorpen? on 31 October.
- 8 November Closing conference OSIRIS: Registration and program at R-QUEST and OSIRIS final conference
- 11 November 12.00-13.00
Publication lunch with Kjersti, interviewed by Magnus, and Fulvio, interviewed by Ana - PhD final seminar of Lisa Scordato on 6 December.
- PhD final seminar of J?rgen Finstad on 10 December.
- PhD midway seminar of Chantale Tippett on 12 December.