New PhD forum: Nature, Culture, Technology

PhD candidates from the Routes project have established a new research forum at the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. The forum has been active from the autumn 2010, and is dedicated to studies of the culturalization and aestheticization of nature and technology from 1750 until the present. For more information, click here.

The Routes PhDs are active on many fronts; most recently with the session “Roads to Memory” at the International Society for Cultural History’s Annual Conference History - Memory - Myth: Re-presenting the Past at the University of Oslo on the 4th of August 2011, hosted by the Department of Cultural History and Oriental Languages, and Cultrans. Marie-Theres Fojuth gave the paper “Conceptions of Space: Railway Politics, Nation-building and Landscape Construction in Northern Europe, 1850-1910″, while Kristina Skåden spoke of “Mapping the past/future: Autobahn on display” and Torild Gjesvik on “Old people still remember… Representations of Sarpsfossen”