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Sign-up to LAX LAB 2.0 | school of climate fiction is now open
LAX LAB 2.0 | school of climate fiction has been soft launched.
The community and book club will be hosted at Substack, where you can now sign up to join.

LAX LAB 2.0 is launching soon
The first major project of the Institute for Art & Environment will be launching soon.
LAX LAB 2.0 is a collaborative community, book club, and educational resource dedicated to the stories and worlds of climate fiction and it is on its way!

Climate Fiction and Narrative Imaginations — Conversation between Emma Arnold and Liisa-Rávná Finbog
The Major Arcana: Justice – Climate Fiction and Narrative Imaginations
14 March 2024, 18:00—19:00
MUNCH Museet / MUNCH Museum
Edvard Munchs Plass 1, 0194 Oslo, Norway

Urban Surfaces Research Network — Inaugural international workshop
Urban Surfaces Research Network (USRN) inaugural international workshop (closed online event)
6 March 2024, 09:00—12:00
Zoom

Finissage — Conversation between Emma Arnold and Karen O’Brien
Finissage of exhibition Art of Climate/Change and conversation between Emma Arnold and Professor Karen O’Brien
15 November 2023, 14:00—15:00
Hum-Sam Bibliotek / Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Georg Sverdrups hus, University of Oslo, Moltke Moes vei 39, 0851 Oslo, Norway

Climate Fiction Book Club: Discussing Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow
Public book club discussion on Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, in conversation with Sámi scholar and curator Liisa-Rávná Finbog and student Søren Mortensen
19 October 2023, 16:15—17:15
Hum-Sam Bibliotek / Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Georg Sverdrups hus, University of Oslo, Moltke Moes vei 39, 0851 Oslo, Norway

Art of Climate/Change — Exhibition of artefacts and photographs from artistic study of climate activism
Art of Climate/Change exhibition of artefacts collected and photographs taken by Emma Arnold
Oct. 19, 2023 – Nov. 24, 2023
Hum-Sam Bibliotek / Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Georg Sverdrups hus, University of Oslo, Moltke Moes vei 39, 0851 Oslo, Norway