Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
Dolly Jørgensen is Professor of History at University of Stavanger, Norway and co-editor in Chief of Environmental Humanities. She served as president of the European Society for Environmental History, 2013–2017. Her research ranges from medieval to contemporary environmental issues, approached through environmental history, history of technology, and environmental humanities perspectives. Her primary areas of interest are human-animal relations, the urban environment, and environmental policymaking. Her research has been covered in media such as The New Yorker and Bioscience. She holds a PhD in History from University of Virginia (2008), a MA in history from University of Houston (2003), and a BA in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University (1994). .. more
Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 11 Feb www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/talk-...
M Shed Bristol, 12 Feb www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/m-s...
Oxford NatHist Museum, 13 Feb www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...
'"Venal and Inefficient" Environmental Mismanagement as a Vector and Consequence of a Failure in Monastic Lordship, c. 1300-1500,
#medievalstorytime
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#medievalstorytime
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'"Venal and Inefficient" Environmental Mismanagement as a Vector and Consequence of a Failure in Monastic Lordship, c. 1300-1500,
More importantly, in the longer term, this isn't going to help anyone. This is volume over quality, rapid-slop. This is Thorium Toothpaste - let's use this for everything before we understand it.
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And impeccable timing for this job ad that just came out; www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...
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historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.
The epidemiologist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.
The activist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.
The historian told me
that nobody
listens to historians.
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#IMC2026 is all starting to become very real now!🎊
#MedievalSky #SkyStorians
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More importantly, in the longer term, this isn't going to help anyone. This is volume over quality, rapid-slop. This is Thorium Toothpaste - let's use this for everything before we understand it.
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www.swaan.org/workshop
Please share widely, and we would love to see you there!
AND FURTHERMORE...
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"Cultural Landscapes of Energy" adds a historical perspective to current debates on energy transition by bringing together conflicting histories around work, habitation and leisure in landscapes impacted by energy production across Europe.
#envhist #envhum
350g white flour
100g sourdough starter
325g water
10g salt
Rise overnight
Cook 38 min on stone in oven @ 250C with 1c water in bottom tray for steam
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"have feet and hands like lizards, and the tail, and also the body, like an eel, they have a very broad mouth, and a beard in the neck. It is very good to eat. Food of the señores (the ruling class)"
Today it is not food, it is Critically Endangered
Same as the European eel, still eaten👇🏽
Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social, Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025) .
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Hope to see many of you there for the live talk and discussion.
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Come! www.cnhs.org.uk/diary-of-eve...
academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/10...
or listening to as audio podcast: newnatures.org/greenhouse/p...
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social, Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025) .
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Join us to hear about Burning Swamps.
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