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
- 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...
- "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.
- 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
- 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!
- 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...
- 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...
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View full threadA 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 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.
- 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
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View full threadSetting up Wingspan and Land Run 1893 (by @jacobleetom.bsky.social!). And Mato Mato for the kids. Will probably need to take out one more from the pile, but people are still busy talking and eating!
- It’s good to bring games that work for the younger kids.
- 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.
- 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...
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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.
- The Greenhouse Inaugural Professorial Lecture with Ingvil Hellstrand is about to begin! www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum
- 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
- 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
- The Greenhouse is well represented at #eseh2025! Come hang out with us tonight at William’s Pub from 19:30! #envhist
- 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
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- 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.
- 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
- 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!
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View full threadAnd finally, @louisjameshenry.bsky.social made us discover the archives on the national library in London!
- Thank you all for participating and following this Greenhouse takeover, we hope you liked it!
- Then Yaron Jorgen Baslev took us in Cyprus, showing us the archives and his research on waste!
- @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social took us with her in the US for different conferences
- @agathefrmrt.bsky.social shared her research on Petroculture and the Norwegian Petroleum Museum
- Then @wrigleyca.bsky.social made us discover the UCD conference in Dublin
- Federico Comollo, a visiting PhD from Italy shared his research on biosemiotics and plant philosophy
- @jamesweldon.bsky.social, a visiting PhD at the Greenhouse made us discover his very interesting research on the restoration of treescapes in the aftermath of disease
- On our first week, @finnarne.me shared his research and his time as a professor at UiS
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- Quite a bizarre find but if it keeps the roll secure its worth it I suppose! L.H. #envhum
