David Fedman, Assistant Professor of history at the University of California, Irvine (USA), discussed his book Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial […]
Category: Events
Online book talk: Christine Eriksen & Susan Ballard, Alliances in the Anthropocene
Christine Eriksen, Senior Lecturer in geography, and Susan Ballard, Senior Lecturer in art history, from the University of Wollongong (Australia) presented their jointly authored book […]
Online book talk: Angela Cassidy, Vermin, Victims & Disease
Angela Cassidy, Lecturer in Science & Technology Studies at University of Exeter, discussed her book Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and […]
Online book talk: Jessica Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest
Author and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee discussed her book Two Trees Make a Forest (Virago Books, 2019) on Monday, 11 May, 16:00 European Central […]
Online book talk: Antony Adler, Neptune’s Laboratory
Antony Adler, Research Associate at Carleton College (USA), presented his book Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea (Harvard University Press, 2019) on Monday, […]
Online book talk: Bathsheba Demuth, Floating Coast
Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University (USA), discussed her book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering […]
Online book talk: Eva Giraud, What Comes After Entanglement?
Eva Haifa Giraud, Lecturer in Media Studies at Keele University (UK), discussed her new book What Comes After Entanglement? Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of […]
Online book talk: Paul Merchant, Latin American Culture & the Limits of the Human
Paul Merchant, Lecturer in Latin American Film and Visual Culture at University of Bristol (UK), presented Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human […]
Online book talk: Jeremy Zallen, American Lucifers
Jeremy Zallen, Assistant Professor history at Lafayette College (USA), discussed his new book American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865 in our Greenhouse […]
Online book talk: Dolly Jørgensen, Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age
We continue our online environmental humanities book talks with Dolly Jørgensen presenting her book Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging (MIT […]
Greenhouse online book talk: David Farrier, Footprints
In these days of digital communication and physical distancing, we want to support environmental humanities scholarship that has been temporarily effected. To this end, we […]
Silver Linings book launch
The Stavanger Art Museum held a virtual opening of their “I skyene”/”In the Clouds” exhibit today, including a launch of our new book Silver Linings: […]
Gardening the Planet
Axel Goodbody, Emeritus Professor of German and European Culture at the University of Bath, UK, will speak in our Greenhouse lecture series on Thursday, 5 […]
Green Board Games Night
Join us for an evening of Green Board Games at University of Stavanger! The Greenhouse invites everyone – faculty members and students – to come […]
Da olja kom til Hammerfest
The Greenhouse inviterer til åpen gjesteforelesning på Norsk oljemuseum, torsdag 13. februar kl 19:00-20:30. Ragnhild Freng Dale: “Da olja kom til Hammerfest: Hva betyr petroleumsutvinning for […]
Storying Anthroposcenes
Franklin Ginn, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography at University of Bristol and Co-Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities, will be presenting “Storying Anthroposcenes” in the […]
Lough Derg and its Pilgrimage
On Thursday 21 November 2019, Greenhouse Fellow Dr. James L. Smith from Trinity College Dublin will be presenting a paper “Lough Derg and its Pilgrimage: […]
Cultural Histories of Fog
Sara Spike from University of New Brunswick, Canada, will present “Cultural Histories of Fog in Atlantic Canada and Beyond” in the Greenhouse speaker series on […]
The Greenhouse at Forskningsdagene
The Greenhouse was well represented at the Research Days (Forskningsdagene) in Stavanger for 2019. The theme for 2019 was environmental: “Miljøklemma”. Forskningsdagene at UiS opened […]
Talk on Climate Trauma
Stef Craps from Ghent University will present his talk “Climate Change Fiction and the Trauma of the Future” on Wednesday, October 2, 14:00-15:30, in Hulda […]
From Cognitive Narratology to Empirical Ecocriticism
Alexa Weik von Mossner, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria, will be presenting ““From Cognitive Narratology to Empirical Ecocriticism: […]
Homo aquaticus
Join us for our second a Greenhouse seminar series lecture of the fall on Thursday, September 19, 2019, 13-14:30 in HG N-203/204. Professor Helen Rozwadowski […]
Brilliant and broken bodies
Andy Flack, Lecturer in Modern and Environmental History at University of Bristol, will be joining us for our Greenhouse seminar series on Tuesday, September 17, […]
Packaged nature & technology
Greenhouse co-director Finn Arne Jørgensen will be giving a public lecture on Thursday, 12 September, 18-19:30 at the Stavanger maritime museum titled “Natur på boks”. […]
Weekly lunches have begun
The Greenhouse has a weekly lunch get together every Thursday beginning at 12 in the Greenhouse Library on the 2nd floor of the old part […]
Green Day 2019
The Greenhouse will be participating in the university-wide Grønn dag (Green Day) on September 17th. The event takes place in Arne Rettedal hus from 11:00 […]
Fall 2019 Lecture Series
The Greenhouse lecture series for the fall 2019 semester promises an exciting program of international environmental humanities scholarship. Mark your calendars so you don’t miss […]
Museums & Environmental Humanities: A Master Class
August 12-16, 2019 in Stavanger, Norway Arranged by The Greenhouse: Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger Note: This course has been held. One of […]
Seed Exchange Day
On Thursday May 2, The Greenhouse arranges a Seed Exchange Day for everyone at UiS. Spring is here and it’s time to set seeds and […]
Guest lecture by Kelly Sultzbach
Dr. Kelly Sultzbach, Associate Professor of English at University of Wisconsin La Cross (USA), and current Fulbright scholar at the University of Liverpool (UK), will […]
Guest lecture by Gabriella Petrick
Red and White: How Cabernet and Chardonnay Came to Define Wine Friday, 26 April 2019, 13:15-15:00. Hulda Garborgs Hus N-106. In this Greenhouse seminar, Gabriella […]
Guest lecture by Nayla Naoufal
On Thursday February 21, Nayla Naoufal (University of Oslo) will give a talk in the Greenhouse seminar series in R-218, Hulda Garborgs hus, from 12:30-14:00. All are […]
In the Clouds ArtScience Workshop
The “In The Clouds” ArtScience Workshop organised by Dolly Jørgensen (UiS) and Inger M.L. Gudmundson (Stavanger Art Museum) is taking place 24-26 January 2019 in […]
Lecture with André Brett: It Was Very Tiresome to Travel at Night
Kick off 2019 with our first Greenhouse lecture of the New Year with Dr. André Brett, Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History at University of […]
Guest lecture with Terje Finstad on ‘Homo mikrobis’
The Greenhouse is excited to welcome our last guest speaker of 2018: Terje Finstad, who will hold a lecture with the title Homo mikrobis: kroppens natur fra […]
Lecture with Ellen Arnold: Imagining Riverscapes in the Early Middle Ages
Join us for the 2nd speaker in the Greenhouse Lecture Series for the 2018-19 academic year! We will be welcoming Associate Professor Ellen Arnold who […]
Fall 2018 Greenhouse Lecture Series
The Greenhouse is happy to announce our schedule of speakers for the 2018 fall semester. We have some really exciting talks that all are welcome […]
Call for Participants: In the Clouds Workshop
“In the Clouds” An Interdisciplinary ArtScience Workshop January 24-26, 2019 Stavanger, Norway They’re heavenly Clouds, great goddesses for lazy men—from them we get our […]
Marco Armiero: Trespassing. Environmental history of migrations
The Greenhouse, in collaboration with EMMIR, the European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations at UiS, arranges a guest lecture with environmental historian Marco Armiero […]
Gjesteforelesning med Kjetil Fallan: Norwegian Wood: Økologiens estetikk i norsk designhistorie
I samarbeid med Vitenfabrikken i Sandnes arrangerer The Greenhouse gjesteforelesning om økologi og norsk designhistorie med professor Kjetil Fallan, Universitetet i Oslo. Forelesningen vil holdes […]
Anthropocene Romanticism: Ecopoetics in the light of things
On Monday, 12 March 2018, Professor Kate Rigby from Bath Spa University, UK and Monash University, Australia, will give an open lecture “Anthropocene Romanticism: Ecopoetics […]
Environmental Archeology with Phil Buckland
Phil Buckland will give a lecture “Understanding past environments through digital environmental archaeology” on Monday, February 26 from 13-15, in R-218, Hulda Garborgs hus, University of […]
Anthropocene Art? Guest lecture with Katja Kwastek
On January 18, 2018, from 13:30-14:30, The Greenhouse arranges a guest lecture with Katja Kwastek at Stavanger Art Museum. This talk will discuss works of […]
Ecocritical perspectives on children’s literature
Nina Goga, Professor of Children’s Literature at Høgskulen på Vestlandet in Bergen, will present “Økokritiske perspektiv på barnelitteraturen – landskap, dyr og planter” in our […]
Lecture: Libby Robin, Environmental Humanities and Climate Change
The Greenhouse lecture series will continue November 22, 14:00-15:30, in Hulda Garborgs hus R-354 with the lecture: Environmental Humanities and Climate Change by Professor Libby […]
Workshop: Local museums and global environmental challenges
The Greenhouse and Stavanger Museum are arranging a workshop for museum professionals and academics in conjunction with Professor Libby Robin’s Stavanger visit. The workshop will […]
First lecture in Greenhouse Series
Our first guest lecture in the Greenhouse series will be Professor Sverker Sörlin (KTH Stockholm), who will discuss his new book Antropocen. En essä om […]
