Do you want to learn about examples and how they work rhetorically? Listen to Hall Bjørnstad, member of the project’s advisory board, give a short introduction to the rhetorical force and the complex temporality of examples (1:18 minutes).
Author Archives: Kyrre Kverndokk
Podcasting The Future is Now
Have you heard about Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)? Lone Ree Milkær has produced a series of short podcasts portraying central topics and perspectives of the project. In the first one geoscientist Henrik H. Svensen explain how a rapid climatic change 56 million years ago may be used to inform present climate change research. (4:01 minutes)
Intrinsic value in nature?
Does nature have intrinsic value in Norwegian environmental politics? Or has the economical language of ecosystem services removed the possibility of expressing values not connected with nature as a service provider for humans? In the latest edition of Nytt norsk tidsskrift and in a shorter, popular artilce in Morgenbladet, postdoctoral researcher Marit Ruge Bjærke demonstrates that there has been major changes in how the Norwegian government and environmental management has expressed value in nature during the last 10 to 15 years.
The articles are in Norwegian.
The first publications
The first results are now published:
- Kyrre Kverndokk 2017.Klimakrisens tid. Arr. Idéhistorisk tidsskrift, No. 2, pp. 33–47.
- John Ødemark 2017. Timing Indigenous Culture and Religion: Tales of Conversation and Ecological Salvation from the Amazon. In Olav Hammer and Mikael Rothstein (eds.). Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion. Brill.
Marit Ruge Bjærke and Lone Ree Milkær
The project has now been running for a few months and is it time to update the blog. The postdoctoral researcher Marit Ruge Bjærke and the PhD canidate Lone Ree Milkær started in August 2017. Ruge Bjærke has a PhD in biology and a master degree in European culture (history of ideas), while Ree Milkær has a master degree in folklore studies. Their backgrounds fit well into the interdisciplinary profile of the project. Read more about them and the project here (in Norwegian) .
The Future is Now!
The Future is Now: Temporality and exemplarity in climate change discourses is a research project located at Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen, running from April 1 2017 - August 31 2020. The project is funded by Climate Programme of The Research Council of Norway.