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Looking for covert environmental crime at sea
Rusty oil tankers in the shadow fleet, illegal waste shipments in containers and dubious ship insurance will be put under the microscope when researchers at the University of Oslo launch the highly topical project CargoCrime.
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Idea work: 18 experts on the high seas
Environmental scientists, campaigners, and shipping experts embark on a sailing ship and set out on the open sea for three days. Will they be able to figure out how shipping can contribute to a more sustainable future before they return?
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Election in India: Populist Modi seem to win for the third time
There is an election in India, which, with its over 1.3 billion inhabitants, is the most populous country in the world. Many indications suggest that the incumbent Prime Minister Modi – also known as India's Trump – will be reelected. Why is that? And what is at stake?
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Reading and concentration: "We cannot rely on willpower when faced with algorithms"
Students at the University of Oslo are joining forces against screens to regain their concentration and improve their reading.
News
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Field research on Burmese amber worlds Aug. 4, 2026
In 2025–2026, Laur did several months of field research on Burmese amber worlds—in Burma (Myanmar), in China, and beyond. Here are some highlights.
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A conversation on extinction, catastrophe, and time. May 13, 2026
What does it mean to think and write extinction from an antrhropological perspective, and how do old and new paradigms in the earth sciences (might) inform political action today?
Events
Publications
- Remembering the Covid pandemic with state health workers in Kenya (2026) Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, Paul Wenzel
- Border as infrastructure: violence and the technopolitics of connectivity and containment (2026) Rippa, Alessandro
- Narrating religious intolerance, constructing secularism: Chronotopes of raced secularism and abnormal religious violence at a parliamentary commission in Brazil (2026) Hartikainen, Elina I