Seminar: Scaling across fields of knowledge

We invite you to a seminar and discussion about scales and scaling in different fields of knowledge. Register before 12 April!

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The seminar

This is a seminar organized by the research projects The Afterlives of Natural History and Collecting Norden at the University of Oslo.

What do scaling do for research and public engagement within
paleontology, medicine, pharmacology, history of ideas, botany, geology and in museum research and exhibition making?

Climate and nature crises force us to translate between and work on scales that are not easily aligned – scaling up and down in space and time increases in importance, both for the production and communication of knowledge. How can we understand and utilize our different scalework in knowledge making for a time of crises?

We are so happy that eminent scholars in a variety of fields will present what scaling means in their work. We end the evening with a dialogue between the participants: How can we work with and across ways of scaling?

We will serve light vegetarian food and softdrinks. Please register here before April 12th.

Time and place

Wednesday April 19th from 16:00-19:30, Klimahuset, The Botanical Garden at T?yen, Oslo.

Program

16:00 Welcome by Line Esborg (Associate professor, Cultural History, University of
Oslo)

16:15 Ketil G. Andersen (Senior curator, History of science and technology, The Norwegian museum of Science and Technology)

16:30 Kari Tvete Inngjerdingen (Associate professor, Pharmacy, University of Oslo)

16:45 Marit Inngjerdingen (Professor, Immunology and pharmacology, University of Oslo)


Light food


17:15 Grace Shephard (Researcher, Geology and Geophysics, University of Oslo)

17:30 Lene Liebe Delsett (Researcher in Collecting Norden, Vertebrate palaeontology,
University of Oslo)

17:45 Nicholas Pyenson (Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals, Paleobiology and Data
diplomacy, Smithsonian Institution)

18:00 Anders Ekstr?m (Professor, History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University)
Stretch and drink

18:30 - 19.30 Panel discussion led by Brita Brenna (Professor, Museology, University of Oslo)

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