Project Opening: An Aquatic Anthropocene? The domestication of fish and rivers

Join the opening event for the new research project "Global Trout: Investigating environmental change through more-than human world systems".

Four persons holding a fishing net at a fish farm in a lake in Underberg, South Africa. Photo: Knut Gunnar Nustad

The picture displays a fish farm in Underberg, South Africa, where they raise trout for both food and recreational fishing. Photo: Knut Gunnar Nustad

"Global Trout" looks into the domestication of fish and rivers, and the project starts out this autumn. To kick off this interdisciplinary research project, we invite everyone to an opening event. You will get to know the project and also get to see the documentary film, "Artifishal",  a film that traces the impact of fish hatcheries and farms on wild salmon and trout around the world. The screening will be followed by comments and a plenary discussion.

Program

16.00: Opening remarks by Director Ursula Münster (Oslo School of the Environmental Humanities, UiO)

16.15: Project introduction by Professor Knut Nustad, Head of Department Rune Flikke, (both Social Anthropology, UiO) and Associate Professor Heather Swanson (Anthropology, Aarhus University)

16.30: Film screening: "Artifishal", directed by Josh “Bones” Murphy.

17.45: Break

18.00: Short comments by Professor Marianne Lien (Social Anthropology, UiO), followed by a plenary discussion.

18.30: Closing

The event is free and open to all. It will be held in English. No registration required.

Learn more about the research project Global Trout

Published Aug. 20, 2019 3:50 PM - Last modified Aug. 20, 2019 3:50 PM