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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities
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The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities is a research center at University of Stavanger, Norway.
- Webpage: https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse
- Weekly book talks: https://newnatures.org/greenhouse
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 10d
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...
Poster for Masters in Public Environmental Humanities. Our 2-year masters program in beautiful Stavanger, Norway, invites you to study today's environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history. Key aspects: • Combine critical thinking with hands-on engagement • Work across humanities fields • Put learning into action through an internship • Taught entirely in English • Free tuition for students from EU/EEA/Switzerland and affordable for others If you believe community-engaged humanities can help build a more sustainable future, this is the place to start. GET MORE INFO & APPLY FOR FALL 2026 Questions? Email PEH@uis.no
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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
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d
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

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Book cover with colorful parakeet in a bell jar
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Spread 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!
greenhouseuis.net Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 10d
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...
Poster for Masters in Public Environmental Humanities. Our 2-year masters program in beautiful Stavanger, Norway, invites you to study today's environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history. Key aspects: • Combine critical thinking with hands-on engagement • Work across humanities fields • Put learning into action through an internship • Taught entirely in English • Free tuition for students from EU/EEA/Switzerland and affordable for others If you believe community-engaged humanities can help build a more sustainable future, this is the place to start. GET MORE INFO & APPLY FOR FALL 2026 Questions? Email PEH@uis.no
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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finnarne.me
On 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/...
Poster for event, "Fotografisk vandring 16. november 2025 Sørmarka 12:00 - 14:00." Light green background. Collage illustration, greenery, hands holding historical photos up to landscape.
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
greenhouseuis.net
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...
Poster for Masters in Public Environmental Humanities. Our 2-year masters program in beautiful Stavanger, Norway, invites you to study today's environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history. Key aspects: • Combine critical thinking with hands-on engagement • Work across humanities fields • Put learning into action through an internship • Taught entirely in English • Free tuition for students from EU/EEA/Switzerland and affordable for others If you believe community-engaged humanities can help build a more sustainable future, this is the place to start. GET MORE INFO & APPLY FOR FALL 2026 Questions? Email PEH@uis.no
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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
Man standing in front of screen on concrete wall. Title on screen: «Ecodesigning Sustainable Products?»
October 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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It’s time for another Greenhouse Green Boardgames Night, starting with a nice potluck dinner. Food, fun, and community! #envhum
Counter full of various dishes. All vegetarian.
October 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Apply 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
Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities
5 ECTS PhD course ‘Themes within Environmental Humanities’ to be held in Stavanger, 1-5 December 2025. This year’s thematic focus is the developing field of the Energy Humanities.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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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.
Woman standing in front of monitor on concrete wall.
October 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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melinabuns.bsky.social
10 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
melinabuns.bsky.social Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Sep 16
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
Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd
October 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Energy History People, see this great opportunity: PhD Course in Energy Humanities, 1–5 Dec @greenhouseuis.net. Apply by 24 Oct!
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory #energistories
melinabuns.bsky.social Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Sep 16
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
Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd
October 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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finnarne.me
Starting 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
Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850
Nature & Nation is an environmental history of Norway since 1850. Through five thematic modules, you will learn about the history of modern Norway seen through the lens of environmental interactions a...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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melinabuns.bsky.social
'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...
Learning to read energy: reflections from a summer residency at E-WERK Luckenwalde
Suzanne Ros, PhD Candidate at the University of Stavanger / Energy Lives Project, reflects on her experience of her summer residency at E-WERK, Luckenwalde, Germany.
www.uis.no
October 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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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
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Oct 6
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...
Author holding copy of book Page with birds on left, text on right Double page spread with a photo of diorama Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right
October 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Tomorrow 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
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Book cover of Impasse by Roy Scranton with swirls of color like a wave or dragon
October 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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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!
Woman holding a plant standing in front of bookcases full of books
October 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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October is here! A month full of exciting #envhum #envhist events in The Greenhouse! Hope to see many of you online or in person.
October Schedule for The Greenhouse
October 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Monday 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...
Cover of book Lab Dog with a dog hooked up to a scale
September 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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melinabuns.bsky.social
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
Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd
September 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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The Greenhouse Inaugural Professorial Lecture with Ingvil Hellstrand is about to begin! www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum
Woman standing in front of screen, text «Imagining otherwise»
September 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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@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
September 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Here'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.
Map of the Interior World from the novel The Goddess of Atvatabar. A cross section of the planet shows the continents and oceans on the inverse side of Earth's crust, and inner sun.
August 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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We start up our weekly online #envhum book talks on Monday! Join us!
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Aug 28
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).
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#histsci
On left: purple flower and underneath Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks On right: cover of the book Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935 with drawings of many animals and two naked people
August 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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melinabuns.bsky.social
excited 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
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August 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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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
Three people standing in front of popup museum exhibition
August 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM