Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities
The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities is a research center at University of Stavanger, Norway.
- Webpage: uis.no/en/greenhouse
- Weekly book talks: newnatures.org/greenhouse
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesFebruary at the @greenhouseuis.net is packed with fantastic academic and social events for and by the #envhum community, starting with a book talk today at 4 pm, as always online, and a perfect way to close the first work day of a week with. 🌿
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesI am running a course on the Histories of Energy Transitions this spring, starting 2 March! The course is fully online and asynchronous and it is open to students at ECIU universities as well as anyone enrolled at Norwegian universities. #energyhistory For more information, see below ⤵
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesJoin us for our first podcast! We talk with the amazing Alexandra Cotofana about landscape sentience in the Romanian Carpathians and the concept of xenophobic mountains. shorturl.at/DfOrj @carsoncenter.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net @aseh.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesWe are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project. www.uis.no/en/research/...
- A good crowd at the Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social celebration lecture with our co-director Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social tonight. www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist
- Join us for the first online Greenhouse #envhum book talk of the year with @issygapp.bsky.social on Monday 19 January at 16:00/4pm CET. Info on attending here: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesKom på festførelesing med @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social! 28. januar inviterer @greenhouseuis.net til ei open førelesing på @unistavanger.bsky.social for å feire at Dolly har blitt tildelt Gad Rausings Prisen 2025. Det er ope for alle. Meir info og påmelding ⤵ www.uis.no/en/research/...
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesThe @greenhouseuis.net is slowly awaking from hibernation and is starting off the year with book talks by @issygapp.bsky.social and @kbruisch.bsky.social (as always online and open to all) and a special event to celebrate the Gad Rausing Prize 2025 awarded to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social! #envhum
- "New cross-Nordic research project on forest cultural heritage" - the official press release and announcement for ROOTS, @wrigleyca.bsky.social's new Nordforsk-funded #envhum project on forest cultural heritage.
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesLast week, 15 amazing students gathered in Stavanger for a PhD course on energy humanities. It was an inspiring week during which we visited a wind farm and the students produced this wonderful catalogue filled with personal reflections on encounters with energy in its various ways and meanings.
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesFor our last #envhum book talk of 2025, Nathan Hensley will discuss his book Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (UChicago Press, 2025) Monday Dec 8th. Join us for live talk at 16:00 CET / 10:00 Eastern. Details here: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
- A fabulous week of energy humanities PhD course is over. We ended with a roundtable on the future of energy humanities followed by the students presenting The Energy Catalogue - a small publication they made during the week. Truly inspiring. Thanks again to @melinabuns.bsky.social for organizing!
- Some happy news to share - our excellent colleague Charlotte Wrigley @wrigleyca.bsky.social leads one of the eight projects that was funded by the Joint Nordic-Baltic Initiative on Sustainable Futures for Forests this week! We are super proud of her! #envhum #heritage
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesLots of charismatic infrastructure (and wind!) on our energy humanities excursion to Måkaknuten wind farm south of Stavanger today. #envhist #envhum
- The Greenhouse Christmas tree is now 120% better thanks to this new ornament. You can make your own! www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...
- Wonderful energy in the room at the first day of our week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, organized by @melinabuns.bsky.social. We had a great session by @untamed.bsky.social on criminal energy. #envhist #envhum
- We had a great book talk with Joanna Allan on Saharan Winds, live in the classroom with good questions from the audience. Love to involve students.
- And now, to finish up an intense day, pizza and energy-themed boardgames!
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesLooking forward to hearing Joanna Allan talk about her prize-winning book Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara in the @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks tomorrow (Monday, 1 December) at 16:00 CET / 15:00 GMT. Hope you will join us for the live discussion!
- Our new Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities now has an Instagram page. It’s a bit rudimentary still, but we are grateful for follows, as Meta restricts new accounts significantly. www.instagram.com/mapeh_uis #envhist #envhum
- The account will be in marketing mode until the program launches in August 2026, and after that it will document and highlight the activities in the program.
- December 2025 in the Greenhouse! We are winding down for the year with some exciting #envhist #envhum events.
- We decorated the Greenhouse Christmas tree at our weekly open lunch today. It’s a plastic tree, to signify our deep entanglements with petroculture in the Anthropocene. Also, it was really cheap at the IKEA January sale a few years ago.
- This week’s #envhum research talk is with MSCA scholar Anne Hemkendreis: «Marvelous Flowers of the Arctic: Concepts of Nature, Epistemologies, and Transcolonial Relations».
- Special book talk today - we do not only talk about books, we also occasionally write them! Join @finnarne.me and @medievalpenguin.bsky.social in discussing Ghosts Behind Glass with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social. #envhum #envhist
- Tomorrow (Monday, Nov 10) the tables are turned: I’m the guest on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk to discuss Ghosts Behind Glass with @finnarne.me & guest host @medievalpenguin.bsky.social Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesSpread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway. For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
- The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesOn 16 November, we are organizing a rephotography walk in Sørmarka to mark the approaching end of the #DigiFREN project and to launch a package of educational materials on historical rephotography. All are welcome! #envhist #envhum #photography www.uis.no/en/research/...
- The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
- This is an exciting and unique 2-year program that combines research and practice to study environmental issues through a humanities lens, including history, literature, art history, and museum studies.
- A key feature of the program is that students will do a semester-long internship that includes developing a public-facing component based on their own research.
- We are hosting two online information sessions in November, go to the website for more information.
- This week’s research talk is with Carl Zimring (Pratt Institute/CAS Oslo), who will talk about «Ecodesigning Sustainable Products?», the project he’s working on this fall as a guest researcher at CAS. #envhist #envhum
- Here's the full abstract for his talk.
- It’s time for another Greenhouse Green Boardgames Night, starting with a nice potluck dinner. Food, fun, and community! #envhum
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesApply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025 www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist #energy
- This week’s #envhum research talk in The Greenhouse is with Julia Drewnowicz, who is visiting us from University of Bristol this month. Her talk, «Deep Womb: The Gynaecological Abyss in Twentieth-Century Transatlantic Gothic,» builds on her PhD research.
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities10 days left to apply for this course! Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social! #envhist #energyhistory #envhum
- I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesEnergy History People, see this great opportunity: PhD Course in Energy Humanities, 1–5 Dec @greenhouseuis.net. Apply by 24 Oct! #envhum #envhist #energyhistory #energistories
- I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesStarting my online course «Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850» today. The timing could have been better since things are ridiculously busy, but I’m still excited about this opportunity! #envhist
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities'What does it mean to become energy literate?' Read @sros.bsky.social reflections on her time at E-WERK Luckenwalde published on the #energylives project blog. ⤵ #envhum #energyhistory #nordforsk www.uis.no/en/the-curre...
- We are so proud of @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and her new book. It truly is a stunningly beautiful book - and an important one. #envhist #envhum
- It’s real!! I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesTomorrow Monday Oct 6, we’ll be talking to @royscranton.bsky.social about Impasse: Climate Change & the Limits of Progress on the @greenhouseuis.net book talk. Join us for the live discussion at 4pm Central European time / 10am Eastern newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
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- Today’s Greenhouse lunch was packed! The main event was to celebrate our colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth, who was just awarded funding from the Research Council of Norway for her project «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems». Congratulations!
- October is here! A month full of exciting #envhum #envhist events in The Greenhouse! Hope to see many of you online or in person.
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesMonday 29 Sept 2025: Brad Bolman @bolman.bsky.social will discuss his book Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles (UChicago Press, 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series. Join us online at 16:00 Central European / 10:00 Eastern / 9:00 Central. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesI am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory
- The Greenhouse Inaugural Professorial Lecture with Ingvil Hellstrand is about to begin! www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities@bolman.bsky.social discusses his new book, LAB DOG, with the @greenhouseuis.net Humanities Book Talks on September 29! Learn more or register for this online event. buff.ly/Uijiib1
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesHere's the link for my @greenhouseuis.net talk about my new book: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e.... It'll be at 3–4pm UK time on 1 September. Be there or be square! Or be a hollow globe filled with concentric spheres.
- We start up our weekly online #envhum book talks on Monday! Join us!
- Join us Mon 1 Sept 2025 for @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk with @richardfallon.bsky.social on Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture 1860-1935: Believers & Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology & Palaeontology (Oxford UP 2025). newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #histsci
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanitiesexcited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum
- The Greenhouse has been well represented at #eseh2025 this week. Wonderful to see old and new friends and colleagues, and to participate in stimulating sessions. Here’s the ESEH Climate Histories Museum organized by Marie-Theres Fojuth, @eikeheine.bsky.social & @dominikhhh.bsky.social. #envhist
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesI have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted! Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time. For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
- The Greenhouse is well represented at #eseh2025! Come hang out with us tonight at William’s Pub from 19:30! #envhist
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesNB! @wrigleyca.bsky.social will take over research event responsibilities this term, so make sure to follow her and @greenhouseuis.net for updates from the Greenhouse! 🌿
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanitiesbut before that, many of us will be at the most important #envhist event this summer: #ESEH2025! see below who is going, what the will talk about, and make sure to join us on Monday evening for informal chats and drinks 👇
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanitiesthe academic year 2025/2026 has started here in Norway and we are slowly returning to our offices - for every one in town, @greenhouseuis.net will resume next week and Anna Grasskamp and her team from Oslo are kicking off the autumn term events on 27 August ! #envhum ☀️
- This fall, The Greenhouse is offering three 5 ECTS micromodules @unistavanger.bsky.social, based in environmental history & humanities, online and open for all to take. #envhist #envhum
- First, @melinabuns.bsky.social is teaching "Histories of Energy Transitions," exploring energy transitions as a concept and as a political, social, and environmental reality. #envhist #envhum
- Second, @finnarne.me is teaching "Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850", using the #envhist of Norway to explore themes such as ideas of nature, the rise of sustainability discourse, resources production, formation of national identity, and changing climates. #envhum
- Third, @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social is teaching "The Sixth Mass Extinction," offering an interdisciplinary examination of extinction in the last 300 years.
- Reposted by Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesWe are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist
- After 7 weeks of takeover by different members of the Greenhouse, professors, postdocs, PhDs, intern, we hope you discovered the variety of research topics and interests within our research center. It is now time for holidays, and the events will start on week 35! Thank you for following along!
- On our first week, @finnarne.me shared his research and his time as a professor at UiS
- Then Yaron Jorgen Baslev took us in Cyprus, showing us the archives and his research on waste!
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