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Next HUH EH Forum, on March 25 (Monday!!), at 14.15-15.45, Ekatherina Zhukova, University of Copenhagen on Chernobyl Children and Social Implications

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

we kindly invite you to the next Helsinki University Environmental Humanities Forum

March 25 (Monday!!), at 14.15-15.45

Ekatherina Zhukova

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

“The Recuperation of the Chernobyl Children and Social Implications”

Porthania P724 (Yliopistonkatu 3)

Please kindly see Abstract and short Bio of Speaker below.

Looking forward to meeting/seeing you soon!

Twitter @helsinkienvhum

Facebook @helsinkienvhum

Blog: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/environment

With kind wishes, Viktor Pál and Mikko Saikku

Bio

Dr. Zhukiva is a postdoctoral researcher (2018-2020) in a research project “Images of Conflict, Conflicting Images” (2017-2021, Velux Foundation). Her subproject looks at how images from historical events shape visual representation of contemporary conflicts and how, in turn, digital images produced today change our knowledge about the past. She focuses on the current conflict in Ukraine and how images of two historical events – the Soviet famine and the World War II – shape and are shaped by the visuals produced during the current crisis.

She hold PhD in Political Science (specialization Political Sociology) from Aarhus University (2012-2015) where she focused on media representations of responsibility for managing the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Belarus and Ukraine since 1990s. She was also a postdoctoral researcher in Gender Studies at Lund University (2017-2018) where she investigated the role of gender in humanitarian programmes for disaster survivors.

The link to her academic profile:

https://mcc.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en%2Fpersons%2Fekatherina-zhukova(87009728-9da6-4f42-b9c8-b3a942cedcde).htm

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HUH Environmental Humanities Forum, March 19 (Tuesday), Marcy Rockman, ICOMOS, Washington, DC

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

we kindly invite you to the next Helsinki University Environmental Humanities Forum

March 19 (Tuesday), at 14.15-15.45

Marcy Rockman

IPCC lead, Climate Change and Heritage Working Group

Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), Washington, DC

“Cultural Heritage as a Source of Creativity for Climate Change”

Kielikeskus (Language Center) sh.204 (Fabianinkatu 26)

Please kindly see Abstract and short Bio of Speaker below.

Looking forward to meeting/seeing you soon!

Twitter @helsinkienvhum

Facebook @helsinkienvhum

Blog: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/environment

With kind wishes, Viktor Pál and Mikko Saikku

Abstract

“Cultural Heritage as a Source of Creativity for Climate Change”

Archaeological heritage is founded in the material remains of the past. And climate change is now putting many of these material remains around the world at risk for damage or destruction. But the strongest connection of archaeological cultural heritage to climate change may lie in the creativity it allows in finding meaningful responses to climate challenges. Drawing on nine years of experience in the US federal government, this presentation outlines three areas of heritage based creativity, including research question matching, climate stories, and community engagement with what matters most.

Bio

Marcy Rockman is an archaeologist who studies how humans gather, remember, and transmit environmental information, particularly during colonization. She’s used this research to address situations as diverse as cultural resource management in the American Southwest and homeland security risk communication in Washington, DC. From 2011-2018 she served as the US National Park Service (NPS) Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator for Cultural Resources. She is now working under the auspices of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) Climate Change and Heritage Working Group to improve incorporation of heritage in reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. Rockman holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona, and B.Sc. in Geology from the College of William and Mary. Her major publications include Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation and the NPS Cultural Resources Climate Change Strategy.

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HUH Environmental Humanities Forum, March 12 (Tuesday), Dmitry Arzyutov, KTH Stockholm

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

we kindly invite you to the next Helsinki University Environmental Humanities Forum

March 12 (Tuesday) at 14.15-15.45

Dmitry Arzyutov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden

“Environmental Encounters: Woolly Mammoth, Indigenous Communities, and Metropolitan Scientists in the Soviet Arctic”

at Kielikeskus (Language Center) sh.204 (Fabianinkatu 26)

Please kindly see Abstract and short Bio of Speaker below.

Looking forward to meeting/seeing you soon!

Twitter @helsinkienvhum

Facebook @helsinkienvhum

Blog: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/environment

With kind wishes, Viktor Pál and Mikko Saikku

Abstract

Environmental Encounters: Woolly Mammoth, Indigenous Communities, and Metropolitan Scientists in the Soviet Arctic

The article deals with the history of mammoth (re)search and perceptions in the Soviet Arctic. Based on published and unpublished sources as well as interviews with scholars and reindeer hunters and herders the author argues that the mammoth as a material paleontological find embodies indigenous sense of belonging to the land, various scholarly models and (academic) geopolitics which encounter each other in different times as well as social, political and natural environments. These encounters shape the temporal stabilisations of knowledge which enable the mammoth to live its post-extinct life. The article combines the approaches of environmental history, history of science and indigenous studies showing the social vitality of a ‘fossil object’. The text is organised around the narratives which crystalize the argument of the article, namely (a) indigenous concepts of the mammoth in the context of mammoth tusk trade and the Arctic exploration, (b) the search of the mammoth as a political project supporting the national building in pre-war Soviet Union, and (c) the mammoth ‘diplomacy’ during the Cold War and its role in shaping transnational networks of collaborations the threads of which go to the modern concepts of the mammoth as a symbol of “Arcticness”. Following the mammoth through all these narratives a reader can see how this ‘fossil object’ has been used and is able to be part of multiple negotiations at various levels.

Key words: mammoth, encounters, environment, stabilisation, indigeneity, palaeontology, Soviet Union, Arctic

Bio

Dmitry V. Arzyutov is a doctoral candidate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen (UK). He holds PhD in Anthropology (St Petersburg) and is working on his second doctorate in the History of Science and Environment. He has published extensively in Russian, English and French on indigenous religions in South Siberia, environmental anthropology and history of the Russian Arctic, history of Russian/Soviet anthropology in a transnational context, and visual anthropology.

Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment

KTH Royal Institute for Technology

100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

arzyutov@kth.se

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Shut up and write! :-)

Helsinki University Environmental Humanities Forum now has a “Shut up and write group” that focuses on project development as well as speeding up producing publication output.

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UPDATED! Helsinki University Humanities Program, Environmental Humanities Forum Spring 2019 Schedule

Helsinki University Humanities Program, Environmental Humanities Forum

Spring 2019 Schedule

February 19 (Tuesday)

14.15-15.45

Veronica Walker Vadillo

University of Helsinki, HCAS

“The birth of riverine cultural traditions in the Mekong River during the Angkor era”

Metsätalo, sali A113 (Unioninkatu 40)

February 26 (Tuesday)

14.15-15.45

Katherine Borland

Ohio State University, USA

University of Helsinki

“How about Slow Activism?: Grassroots Environmentalism in Southern Ohio”

Metsätalo, sali A113 (Unioninkatu 40)

March 12 (Tuesday)

14.15-15.45

Dmitry Arzyutov

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden

“Environmental Encounters: Woolly Mammoth, Indigenous Communities, and Metropolitan Scientists in the Soviet Arctic”

Kielikeskus (Language Center) sh.204 (Fabianinkatu 26)

March 19 (Tuesday)

14.15-15.45

Marcy Rockman

IPCC lead, Climate Change and Heritage Working Group

Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), Washington, DC

“Cultural Heritage as a Source of Creativity for Climate Change”

Kielikeskus (Language Center) sh.204 (Fabianinkatu 26)

March 25 (Monday!!!)

14.15-15.45

Ekatherina Zhukova

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

“The Recuperation of the Chernobyl Children and Social Implications”

Porthania P724 (Yliopistonkatu 3)

May 14 (Tuesday)

14.15-15.45

Kati Lindström, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden

“Nature or Culture? Negotiating Outstanding Universal Value of Mt Fuji in the Japanese World Heritage Nomination”

Kielikeskus (Language Center) sh. 405 (Fabianinkatu 26)

May 21 (Tuesday)

16.15-17.45 (!!!)

Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen

Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

“Hydrocarbon Culture in the making in Russia”

Kielikeskus (Language Center) sh.204 (Fabianinkatu 26)

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INVITATION: Professor Katherine Borland @ HUH Environmental Humanities Forum, February 26 (Tuesday), 14.15-15.45

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
we kindly invite you to the next Helsinki University Environmental Humanities Forum

on February 26 (Tuesday) at 14.15-15.45

when KATHERINE BORLAND OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, USA & UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI will present
“How about Slow Activism?: Grassroots Environmentalism in Southern Ohio”

at Metsätalo, sali A113 (Unioninkatu 40)

Please kindly see Abstract and short Bio of Speaker below.

Looking forward to meeting/seeing you soon!

Twitter @helsinkienvhum
Facebook @helsinkienvhum
With kind wishes, Viktor Pál and Mikko Saikku

Abstract
Since the passing of the U.S. Clean Water Act in the early 1970s, the health of many city waterways has improved. However, legislation is not enough to turn around a system that rewards polluting industries, because they promise jobs with good wages to rural areas. Since the late 1990s, local people, supported by state and federal agencies as well as nonprofit advocacy groups (Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy), have organized watershed protection groups to try to make change from the ground up, one stream at a time. In this talk I will discuss the work of two such groups in Southeastern Ohio, the Sunday Creek Association and the Friends of Scioto- Brush Creek. Both have made remarkable progress in their areas, which pose distinctive challenges. What can local activists teach us about promoting stewardship and environmental awareness in impoverished and conservative rural contexts?

Bio
Katherine Borland is Director of the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University. She is committed to developing university-community partnerships that center the needs and interests of communities. She is engaged in a multi-year, team-based, Participatory Action Research project on placemaking in rural Ohio, in which she studies grassroots environmentalism. She is currently editing a volume with John McDowell, Sue Tuohy, and Rebecca Dirksen, entitled Diverse Environmentalisms. Dr. Borland also collaborates with faculty in the OSU Theatre Department on Be the Street, a performance studies project on mobility, immobility and migration, located in the Hilltop neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.

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Helsinki University Humanities Program, Environmental Humanities Forum Spring 2019 Schedule

Helsinki University Humanities Program, Environmental Humanities Forum
Spring 2019 Schedule

February 19 (Tuesday)
14.15-15.45
Veronica Walker Vadillo
University of Helsinki, HCAS
“The birth of riverine cultural traditions in the Mekong River during the Angkor era”
Metsätalo, sali A113 (Unioninkatu 40)

February 26 (Tuesday)
14.15-15.45
Katherine Borland
Ohio State University, USA
University of Helsinki
“Slow Activism?: Grassroots Environmentalism in Southern Ohio”
Metsätalo, sali A113 (Unioninkatu 40)

March 12 (Tuesday)
14.15-15.45
Dmitry Arzyutov
KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
“Environmental Encounters: Woolly Mammoth, Indigenous Communities, and Metropolitan Scientists in the Soviet Arctic”
Kielikeskus (Language Center) sh.204 (Fabianinkatu 26)

March 25 (Monday!!!)
14.15-15.45
Ekatherina Zhukova
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
“The Recuperation of the Chernobyl Children and Social Implications”
Porthania P724 (Yliopistonkatu 3)

May 14 (Tuesday)
14.15-15.45
Kati Lindström, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
“Nature or Culture? Negotiating Outstanding Universal Value of Mt Fuji in the Japanese World Heritage Nomination”
Kielikeskus (Language Center) sh. 405 (Fabianinkatu 26)

May 21 (Tuesday)
16.15-17.45 (!!!)
Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
“Hydrocarbon Culture in the making in Russia”
Kielikeskus (Language Center) sh.204 (Fabianinkatu 26)