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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 16/09/2026

This week’s Greenhouse Research Talk is with Camden Burd, Clemson University, on “From Rustbelt to Refuge”. Camden is a visiting researcher with us this month and we’re excited to hear about his work! #envhum #envhist

Man in front of wall screen with presentation title, “From Rustbelt to Refuge”

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 02/09/2026

And then we continued with a green boardgames night with Ethiopian food for all. We tried many games, including the in-development urban medieval waste management game developed by @jacobleetom.bsky.social based on @louisjameshenry.bsky.social’s Phd thesis work for @greenhousegameslab.bsky.social!

People sitting around a table playing a boardgame.

Hand holding cards, with a prototype board and game pieces in the background

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 02/09/2026

Launching the fall series of Greenhouse Research Talks, held most Wednesdays, with a showcase of five short research talks by our excellent #envhum researchers. Designed as a place for our our new Public Environmental Humanities MA students to meet the rest of the Greenhouse.

Man presenting in front of a room full of people.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 11/08/2026

Over the summer, the new Greenhouse #envhum Library space has taken shape. Today we found some really nice solid wood tables in the building’s bomb shelter! We salvaged them so that we can have our Thursday lunches here from now on.

Room with meeting room table, shelves of book on the back. Nice and bright.

Books by Greenhouse people (current and former) on display

Shelves of books, window looking out on a path and the botanical gardens.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 04/07/2026

The Greenhouse Library is on the move again! This summer, we are finally taking over a bigger space in the new wing of our building @unistavanger.bsky.social! The fall will be very exciting, with the new public #envhum MA program launching, the big national center final, and many more things!

Large open and empty space, shelves on the wall, all to be filled with books and stuff

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 05/06/2026

Big day today, as @asterhoving.bsky.social defends her PhD thesis «Ocean Energies: Transition Across Art, Science, and Technology». We start with the trial lecture! #envhum #energyhumanities

Woman starting lecture on «what are the roles of archives for/in the energy humanities, and how can they critically address dominant epistemologies?»

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 15/04/2026

This week’s #envhum research talk is with Jenna Coughlin, St Olaf College - currently a Fulbright scholar in Oslo - on «Making Meaning of Energy Dilemmas through Hydropower Media».

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 20/03/2026

The Greenhouse Library is on the move! Our giant collection of #envhum #envhist and adjacent books is finally available for use again, while awaiting our new space becoming available closer to the summer. It’ll be great!

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 04/03/2026

Excellent workshop and research talk on climate justice and education in The Greenhouse today, with Ellorie McKnight and Dana Jennejohn from Yukon University. Happy that they stopped here on their UArctic-funded Norway tour. #envhum

Two women standing in front of monitor on wall. «Climate justice at the intersection of climate education & social work in Yukon (Canada)»

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 18/02/2026

We’re launching the year’s #envhum research talks with a presentation by our very own @melinabuns.bsky.social on «Thinking Through Energy Transitions with the Ranstad Uranium Mine», building on the #energylives project.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 28/01/2026

A good crowd at the Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social celebration lecture with our co-director Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social tonight. www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist

Woman at podium, giving a lecture. Crowd on amfitheater steps in front.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 16/01/2026

Join us for the first online Greenhouse #envhum book talk of the year with @issygapp.bsky.social on Monday 19 January at 16:00/4pm CET. Info on attending here: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Cover of Isabelle Gapp's book A Circumpolar Landscape.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 05/12/2025

A fabulous week of energy humanities PhD course is over. We ended with a roundtable on the future of energy humanities followed by the students presenting The Energy Catalogue - a small publication they made during the week. Truly inspiring. Thanks again to @melinabuns.bsky.social for organizing!

A5 publication, stark white, titled
THE ENERGY CATALOGUE
a collection of personal reflections

Blackboard with 17 A4 pages of The Energy Catalogue content

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 02/12/2025

The Greenhouse Christmas tree is now 120% better thanks to this new ornament. You can make your own! www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...

Tiny Chicago Manual of Style ornament on tree

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 01/12/2025

And now, to finish up an intense day, pizza and energy-themed boardgames!

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 01/12/2025

Wonderful energy in the room at the first day of our week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, organized by @melinabuns.bsky.social. We had a great session by @untamed.bsky.social on criminal energy. #envhist #envhum

People standing in front of blackboard with writing on it. Energy Humanities is in the center

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 29/11/2025

December 2025 in the Greenhouse! We are winding down for the year with some exciting #envhist #envhum events.

Poster with overview of activities in the Greenhouse in December 2025.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 27/11/2025

We decorated the Greenhouse Christmas tree at our weekly open lunch today. It’s a plastic tree, to signify our deep entanglements with petroculture in the Anthropocene. Also, it was really cheap at the IKEA January sale a few years ago.

Instant photo, still developing, of people standing around a Christmas tree

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 19/11/2025

This week’s #envhum research talk is with MSCA scholar Anne Hemkendreis: «Marvelous Flowers of the Arctic: Concepts of Nature, Epistemologies, and Transcolonial Relations».

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 31/10/2025

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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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 22/10/2025

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?»

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 17/10/2025

It’s good to bring games that work for the younger kids.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 17/10/2025

Setting up Wingspan and Land Run 1893 (by @jacobleetom.bsky.social!). And Mato Mato for the kids. Will probably need to take out one more from the pile, but people are still busy talking and eating!

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 17/10/2025

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.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 15/10/2025

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.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 02/10/2025

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

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 01/10/2025

October is here! A month full of exciting #envhum #envhist events in The Greenhouse! Hope to see many of you online or in person.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 11/09/2025

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»

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 21/08/2025

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

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 18/08/2025

The Greenhouse is well represented at #eseh2025! Come hang out with us tonight at William’s Pub from 19:30! #envhist

Poster with Greenhouse at the ESEH program

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 20/06/2025

Quite a bizarre find but if it keeps the roll secure its worth it I suppose! L.H. #envhum

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 17/06/2025

Today I'm at the National Archives in Kew! There are a small number of court rolls stored here instead of the British Library. As I'm only in London for a few weeks, I will be taking photos of the rolls so I'm able to analyse them in more detail later. L.H. #envhum

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 16/06/2025

This week I am on a research trip in London where I will be going to the British Library and National Archives! Currently I am looking at some account rolls from Ramsey Abbey to see if the Abbey was funding the construction/repair of sewers, gutters, or latrines. L.H. #envhum

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 12/06/2025

Hello #envhum! As every thursday, we had lunch together, and this time with the great and sunny weather. /AFM

Five people sitting around a table, outside, with sun and blue sky.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 11/06/2025

A very nice place to meet with the Greenhouse researchers is the Greenhouse Library. Around 3000 books to look at, and currently, even a beautiful Lego greenhouse! /AFM

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 10/06/2025

Today I have spend a few hours in the Norwegian Oil Museum in Stavanger. I usually spend some time in the "Climate for change" exhibition. This time I had a look on undersea labor and the sea agency, for another project. /AFM

Picture of the Oil museum, a Grey building and three panels displaying images

Model of a diver hanging from the ceiling, near a diving bell

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 04/06/2025

Today was mainly a travel day for me as I moved from Pennsylvania to Minnesota. Now installed in St Paul for the Agricultural History Society meeting. www.aghistorysociety.org/2025-meeting

Poster showing Mississippi River, bridge & skyline. Ebbs and Flows: Water and Agrhcukture

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 28/05/2025

Hello #envhum! Today, we are following the second research talk of the week. Kiara Jorgenson is giving a talk about children's spiritual development and access to nature! FC

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 26/05/2025

#envhum This afternoon, we follow the research talk of Camille-Mary Sharp, who will discuss oil museologies from a comparative and critical perspective. FC

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 24/05/2025

It's the final day of the UCD conference on permacrisis and polycrisis. We've spent the last 3 days getting to grips with what crisis means at this current moment, but also radical ways of shaking free from the feeling of constant destabilisation. #Envhum /CW

A conference speaker underneath a screen reading 'three futures and practices of repair'

A conference speaker next to a screen displaying apocalypse bunkers of the super rich

A conference speaker under a screen displaying the programme for the day

A conference speaker next to a screen titled 'permacrisis, epochal threshold and the problem of time'

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 22/05/2025

Made it to sunny Dublin for the first day of the UCD conference 'From modern crisis to permacrisis'. Held today in the beautiful Museum of Literature Ireland. #Envhum /CW

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 20/05/2025

Currently the Copernicus warning system that collates data across Europe in relation to emergencies is showing several active forest fires across Norway (the red dots).

A digital map of south Norway showing active forest fires as red dots

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 20/05/2025

If we zoom out even further we can see the east of Norway (usually much drier) has been allocated a severe danger warning - and Stavanger will join it tomorrow as this weather is set to continue.

A map of southern Norway showing a forest fire danger index - red is severe danger and yellow is some danger.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 20/05/2025

Norway already bans campfires in nature from April - September regardless because a stray spark can easily start a wildfire. But prolonged periods of dry weather massively increase the risk of forest fire. For a while now my weather app has had this warning:

A weather app displaying forest fire warnings across the south west coast of Norway

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 19/05/2025

Plus I - and the rest of the Greenhouse crew - got to enjoy the sunshine at the 17th May (Norway's constitution day) garden party held at the home of the GH co-founders Dolly and Finn Arne!

A group of people sitting round a table chatting. The sky is blue and they are sheltering from the sun under an umbrella.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 16/05/2025

For example, how much does this 'New Horizon' elm (a cross between Japanese Elm and Siberian Elm) resemble elm of the past? and why does it 'matter' if it does/doesn't? / JW

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 14/05/2025

#envhum is a varied subject. Some days it involves sitting behind a desk on a laptop. Others it involves sitting in a botanic garden drawing trees grown from seed from Hibakujumoku (trees that survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima)

Sign marking a tree grown from Hibakujumoku seed

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 14/05/2025

In the morning a hybrid session run between The Greenhouse, University of Bristol and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam involved artists discussing their work. It was great to think about what we humans can learn from trees, fungi and other more-than-humans!/ JW

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 13/05/2025

The chapter focuses on efforts to commemorate the loss of trees to disease, such as this beautiful sculpture 'The Gilded Elm' in Brighton which marks the death of a 400-year old English elm tree. The sculpture was created with the remnants of that tree after it had succumbed to Dutch elm disease

A black sculpture of an ancient tree with a gilded gold interior

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 09/05/2025

#envhis: Waste history is a significant theme of the Greenhouse. Besides @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and @finnarne.me, who worked a lot on this subject, we are currently three young waste historians (from left): @yaronbalslev.bsky.social (me), @louisjameshenry.bsky.social, and @dporsnovs.bsky.social

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