@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
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/
The exhibition catalog is also available as a pdf (only in German):
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Carbon Culture: Museum of the Fossil Fuel Age is now on in Berlin at the Deutsches Technik Museum. This is a great intervention taking a critical look at modern dependence on coal, oil, and gas through objects already on display.
Produced as part of our EU-funded PITCH project (pitch-horizon.eu)
Registration for our new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities is still open for Nordic students (either citizens or did bachelors in a Nordic country). Please pass along this great tuition-free study opportunity!
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#envhum #envhist #ecocrit
We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027.
Learn more and apply through the link below!
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Congrats!
This evening we were thrilled to host @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social and hear her insights about extinction and how it is presented in natural history museums in her new book Ghosts Behind Glass. A must-read for all nature and museum lovers!
Developing and Writing Funding Applications for Early Career Researchers - FREE online training 18 March 2-3pm. Explore some of the pitfalls, opportunities and challenges you can expect to face as you put together your funding application.
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🚨Call for Papers!
3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!
This is a companion piece to Sadiah's longer article 'The Rebirth of the Wollemi Pine: Plant Lives in Histories of Extinction' which is currently free to read in Issue 100 of History Workshop Journal 🌱
From the correspondence course craze in the early 20C to MOOCs one hundred years later, the commodification of education was but a lucrative side hustle for unis. Now the compulsory technologization of education is fully integrated into extractive capitalism. What a time to be a professor.
Fully funded PhD studentship: ‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’. Closes 3 May.
With Ruth Abbott, Staffan Müller-Wille, Ed Turner & me. @theul.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social
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Tomorrow it's 15 years since the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns struck Japan. In today's Aftenposten, I'm writing about my visits to Fukushima and what the possible lessons for Norway today are.
“After the nuclear disaster, some residents had to flee by bus, and animals were not allowed aboard.
"There were elderly people in tears, asking if someone could take their pet.”
"If I'm still going… it's because I carry with me the distress these animals experienced. That's what keeps me going."
“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!
The first issue of the year is out and it’s extra special as it marks 50 years of Landscape Research. The intro provides a fascinating reflection of where we’ve been, where we’re at today and also where the Journal sees itself in the future.
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/clar20/5...
In "The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life: Joy Parr’s Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology", @historiamagoria.bsky.social introduces a new tribute film that she recently released.
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#envhist #histtech #cdnhist #genderhistory #history
Last call for this awesome online seminar on danger in Dartmoor tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/embodied-e... #envhist #environmentalhistory
#CFP: 'Bodies and climate : transcorporeal affects of weathering'
Workshop, 13 November 2026, France
Deadline: 15 April 2026
Info: www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
#envhum #envhist #ecocritcism #ecolit
Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections
We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius.
#Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork
This morning's lecture on the vikings in Francia was enhanced by this graphic of Frankish rivers, taken from @ccooijmans.bsky.social's admirable book.
The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social
Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!
COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It’s a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
In case you missed our conversation about ghosts, extinction, and walking the halls of museums. 👇
Today marks the start of #BritishScienceWeek and we'd like to tell you about Eleanor Ormerod (1828-1901).
Ormerod was a pioneering entomologist (expert on insects) and helped to define agricultural entomology as an academic discipline in Britain.
Read our Book of the Month blog: shorturl.at/Pklbw
Please join us online on Wednesday, March 11 for another talk in the Environmental Digital Humanities seminar series
#dh #dhist #skystorians
🗺️ We're updating our interactive Global Medical Humanities Map, which plots the world’s medical & health humanities institutions, centres & networks.
To update your organisation's info or to add a new medical/health humanities unit, please complete this survey: medhumsplatform.org/updating-the...
Looking forward to talking about Ghosts Behind Glass at the Grant Museum @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social in London next week!
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Tickets are sold out, but you can join the waiting list (there are always people who get sick or have to cancel for these things!)
I have put together a handout- it discusses the differences in HS vs uni readings, the impact that has, and suggestions for students doing readings
Feel free to use and circulate to any first years :)
#highered #higheducation #history #medievalhistory #teaching #academia #transitionpedagogy
Building on the wild success of last year's event, I'm delighted to share that Dr. Courtney Chetwynd and I are leading another 'Fish School' at the Hollyhock Centre this October. This year's iteration is entitled 'The Art of Entanglement: Fish, Flow, and Knowing'. hollyhock.ca/programs/830...
Coming in July:
COVID Studies: A Reader.
Includes an article I co-authored with Hyeonbin Park on animals & care in a pandemic.
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