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Dolly Jørgensen

Dolly Jørgensen

@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

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Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Co-editor Environmental Humanities journal. Extinction; animal history.
New book: The Medieval Pig (Boydell 2024) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651689/th .. more

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

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 9d

Ghosts Behind Glass has been officially published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

If you are looking for an absolutely gorgeous book that tackles a deeply serious topic, this is a perfect choice. Would make a really thoughtful Christmas gift.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Ghosts Behind Glass

How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us. While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

press.uchicago.edu

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Esther Marijnen @esthermarijnen.bsky.social · 3h

CfP POLLEN26 - please join our panel, "Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War" - see for more details and how to submit a proposal before 5th of December here; nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

@casesofyou.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @nicosananes.bsky.social

P066: Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War

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Animesh Chatterjee @electricpunkah.com · 17h

I’ve just launched Research Notes Studio, where I support researchers and organisations with editing, research development, and grant-writing.
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 21h

Highly recommended. Mine's just arrived. It is a good read and very friendly - with lots of excellent pix. Congratulations, @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
and #ChicagoUP

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 23h

It’s terrible to think that we are nearly to the end of November and need to start Christmas shopping!
But, hey, that also means it is the perfect time to encourage you to buy copies of the beautifully illustrated Ghosts Behind Glass from your local or online bookstore to give away as gifts!

Ghosts Behind Glass

How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us. While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

press.uchicago.edu

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CATTLEFRONTIERS @cattlefrontiers.bsky.social · 1d

Next Tuesday will be the third lecture of our Livestock Histories Lecture Series! Helen Cowie (University of York) will be talking about Silk of the Andes: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire. For more information and to register visit our website: cattlefrontiers.eu/helen-cowie-...

Livestock Histories – Helen Cowie

Helen Cowie – Silk of the Andes: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire

cattlefrontiers.eu

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

In this amazing assemblage, hunters barbarously slaughter wildlife until, in center, wildlife turns on them and metes out well-deserved, gruesome justice. Painted in 1647 by Paulus Potter, whose day is today.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 2d

Call for papers #CFP

Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present

18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition

Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Deadline: 25 Jan 2026

Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present

When and where:
University of Warwick, Coventry, on Thursday 18 June 2026.

Conference summary:
This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry.

Held jointly by the University of Warwick's Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, and Modern Records Centre, the event will run alongside an exhibition which will explore some of the themes covered by the speakers through the National Union of Mineworkers' archives.

We welcome contributions from new and established researchers, working inside and outside higher education.

Confirmed participants include:

- Jörg Arnold (University of Augsburg / Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin), author of The British Miner in the Age of DeIndustrialization

- Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), Principal Investigator on research project On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994 and former miner

- Quentin Outram (University of Leeds), Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History and co-editor of Coal in Victorian Britain

Conference themes:

Subjects that could be addressed include but are not limited to:

The human cost of coal, including:
- Mining disasters, their contemporary impacts and later memorialisation.

- Industrial accidents, industrial diseases and workers’ compensation.
- Mine safety and the improvement of conditions.
- Mining and mental health.

Industrial health and welfare, including:
- Pre-nationalisation provision in and beyond the colliery.
- National Coal Board provision, including the NCB Medical Service, housing and the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation.
- Trade union campaigns and benefit schemes.
- Sport and social provision as mining welfare.

Coal and community, including:
- Environmental impact.
- Mining families and the intergenerational effects of the mining industry.
- Impacts of the industry with particular reference to gender, race and ethnicity.
- Coalfield communities after coal: the effects of deindustrialisation.

Submission guidelines

We wish to make space for dialogue between academic and community-based researchers, and welcome involvement from mining heritage and local history groups / researchers from former coalfield communities. We welcome and encourage alternative presentational styles. Possible formats for contributions could include:

- 15-20 minute papers.
- 5 minute lightning papers (for example showcasing a particular object or archival source, or highlighting a particular place, event, individual or experience).
- Round table discussions.
- Posters or displays.

Submission deadline: 25 January 2026.

Limited funding for travel support will be available, with priority given to early career researchers or participants who cannot draw upon institutional funding.

For additional enquiries, please contact the conference organisers at archives@warwick.ac.uk

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

New Masters in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026 in Stavanger.

Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it!

Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇

www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

#envhum #environment

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.

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely Peppa Pig. Always has nuggets for the parents hidden in there.

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 2d

#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The Latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) in Great Britain. They included wooden seats along the sides, set over a deep channel. A smaller channel in the centre of the building was used for washing sponges.
followinghadrian.com/2013/05/09/h...

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 3d

Call for papers!

We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.

Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun

Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3d

Some good university press suggestions in this thread for publishing mini-monographs

Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 3d

Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3d

Academics need to quit publishing with these commercial behemoths (Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Routledge, etc) and support university nonprofit presses instead.

Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 4d

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 3d

Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...

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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 3d

From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place.

But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.

Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...

Archives, manuscripts and material culture in health and wellbeing research | Reports | Wellcome

Archives, manuscripts and material culture collections hold profound potential for advancing knowledge about life, health and wellbeing. This report examines how these collections are currently used i...

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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 4d

For those who couldn't attend last week, here is @s-pooley.bsky.social's excellent talk on their new book DISCOVERING THE OKAPI.
Out now with Johns Hopkins University Press! 📗🦒
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx1Z...

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 4d

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

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Aadita Chaudhury @aadita.bsky.social · 4d

My doctoral dissertation, ‘Chasing flames: Racial capitalism in fire ecology research and praxis,’ is finally online!

yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/9c832f...

Chasing Flames: Racial Capitalism in Fire Ecology Research and Praxis

This dissertation explores fire ecology and its applications in settler colonial environments. It introduces the framework of pyrosociality to understand fire’s role in ecosystems, guided by an analys...

yorkspace.library.yorku.ca

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t miss the first talk in the WOMNH (Women in Natural History Museums and Collections) Online Fall Seminar Series! Monday 24 November 2025, 4:00–5:00 pm CET
by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

If you appreciate the great deal of labour and love that we pour into supporting the global #envhist community, please consider supporting our annual fundraising campaign.

We do all of this on a very small budget, and we do it independently.

fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

#envhum #cdnhist

Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign

The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Energy Humanities and American History” | Modern American History | Cambridge Core

“Energy Humanities and American History”

www.cambridge.org

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed that they are different, but in my job (I can’t speak to yours), gathering data and writing it up as texts are both research tasks that I am paid for. I write the vast majority of my texts at my desk during regular working hours.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: You can now freely access the *full* introduction of our new book, The Price of Gold, on the refreshed website for @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social:

www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...

The Price of Gold

Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environment...

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 5d

Environmental protest, Portsmouth on Saturday, from my Rebellion! series.
#Photography

Environmental protest with a gravestone to the 95 Portsmouth who die each year due to pollution and with two child dolls sucking air from an exhaust pipe

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 5d

If you are publishing a book to make money, then no, it’s not the right place. But most academic books are about knowledge exchange rather than profit. After all, as a university prof I’m already paid a salary to generate my research.

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 5d

#HSS2025 may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off & free domestic shipping using code EX58108: bit.ly/UCPEXHSS

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 5d

@shannonmattern.bsky.social might have suggestions ?

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to Jeannie N. Shinozuka on winning the 2025 Philip J. Pauly Prize for her remarkable work in Biotic Borders! Explore the profound relationship between race and species migration and celebrate this well-deserved recognition by securing your copy here: bit.ly/UCPEXHSS

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 6d

The latest case-in-point: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting

Nervous reporter is chased across English countryside by baying bloodhounds, in what could soon be only legal way to hunt with dogs

www.theguardian.com

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · 7d

One month to go for nominations for the 2026 Esmond B. Martin RGS Prize! 🏆

If you know someone whose achievements in geographical research, especially wildlife conservation or environmental research, deserve recognition, nominate them by 15 December 👇
http://bit.ly/3KYU8r5