Rescheduling the date! Dear doctoral candidates and supervisors You are invited to the first online seminar in the HEALENAE Seminar series. The first seminars are organized from University of Oslo by DC Artemis Janneke Mantheakis and Professor Paul Wenzel Geissler. The seminar series is a monthly online reading seminar that involves the presentation of suggested readings written by the speaker themselves, followed by a discussion and questions session with the speaker. The speakers include supervisors, external advisory board members, and other scholars invited to present topics relevant to specific project themes within HEALENAE related to health and the environment. These seminars create the space to speak directly with researchers and authors in related fields and to regularly bring the cohort together to collaboratively build knowledge, methodological, and analytical capacity on the interlinkages between health and the environment as part of the HEALENAE training programme. Dr Iva van Halen-Peša - Rethinking Environmentalism on Extractive Frontiers October 16, 2026, 14:15 – 16:00 Dr Iva van Halen-Peša is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen, studying environmental histories of resource extraction and environmentalism in Africa through her ERC-funded project, AFREXTRACT, that explores how people respond to environmental transformation, pollution, and degradation from mining and oil drilling in the Niger Delta, the Zambian Copperbelt and gold mining in Johannesburg through oral histories, archival research, participant observation, and literary analysis. Together with her AFREXTRACT team, Iva recently published the ‘Abundance Extracted: Living with Mining and Oil in Africa’ book featuring writing, poetry, oral histories, and photographs. Readings: (attached) Iva van Halen-Peša, “Mufulira: Abundance and Pollution on the Zambian Copperbelt”, in Lifeworlds of Pollution. Forthcoming. Iva van Halen-Peša et al., Abundance Extracted: Living with Mining and Oil in Africa (African Studies Centre Leiden, 2026). Join Zoom Meeting https://uio.zoom.us/j/69672232350?pwd=GbThP8eaW19wZqo04CjEQV87S2DKbb.1 Meeting ID: 696 7223 2350 Passcode: 329525