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Sonja K. Pieck discusses "Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain."
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Jamie Wang discusses "Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore."
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Michael Lobel presents "Van Gogh and the End of Nature."
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John Macneill Miller presents "The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science."
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Elsa Devienne discusses "Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles."
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Daniel Vandersommers discusses "Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive."
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By Marie-Theres Fojuth, Associate Professor of History at the University of Stavanger.
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Endre Harvold Kvangraven describes the experience of a research trip to Taiwan as part of his PhD studies at the University of Stavanger.
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UiS post-doctoral researcher Daniel Bowman writes about John Joseph Mathews’s 1934-novel Sundown, and the use of automobiles as signifiers of national identity.
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Charlotte Wrigley attends 'Thinking Through Permafrost' workshop
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Chatterjee elected on the Executive Committee of the International Committee for the History of Technology
"A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–1900" by Matthew Holmes.
"Earth Ice Bone Blood" by Charlotte Wrigley.
The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities can help you develop your project.
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Professor Dolly Jørgensen has won funding to research the links between cultural heritage and petrocultures and their connections to green transitions.
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The artist Hans Baumann has received a Fulbright-scholarship to spend four months at the University of Stavanger working on his film project "Carbon Permanence". The project examines the complex ethics of Norway’s energy transition, with a particular emphasis on the role of oil in shaping a post-fossil fuel future.
Reflections from the Green Transitions Fellows at The Greenhouse 2022
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The Greenhouse was established as a research group in 2017 and quickly distinguished itself worldwide as a leading professional environment for environmental humanities. On its fifth anniversary, The Greenhouse is moving on, now as a research centre at UiS.
In the fall of 2022, University of Stavanger welcomed 12 guest researchers and artists from across the world to engage with each other and the UiS community in a semester-long exploration of the meanings of green transitions. Each fellow gave a talk to present their project and contributed to an international conference on green transitions.
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How can we understand animals as being at home with human-built infrastructure?
Radioactive Waste Spatialities, Materialities and Societies in the Nordic Region, 1960s to 1990s
Why are Vikings and the Norse past increasingly popular?
NoRS-EH is an interdisciplinary initiative that aims to reinforce and strengthen the
contribution of Norwegian humanities scholars to environmental research and the
great global challenges that we currently face.