The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities

The Greenhouse is an internationally leading research center for environmental humanities hosted by the University of Stavanger.

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Get to know us

As a metaphor, The Greenhouse reminds us that we are sitting in a planetary greenhouse which is at risk of overheating.

Research hub

Forthcoming events

Care in the Anthropocene?

Wed. 23.04.2025

14:15-15:30

Hulda Garborgs hus
HG N-106

Memorializing trees: emotional responses to species ‘lost’ to disease

Wed. 07.05.2025

14:15-15:30

Hulda Garborgs hus
HG N-106

“Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow:” Toward a Conservation Civil Defense in the Early Cold War Great Plains

Wed. 21.05.2025

14:15-15:30

Hulda Garborgs hus
HG N-106

Oil Museologies: Critical Perspectives on Petroleum Heritage

Mon. 26.05.2025

14:15-15:30

Hulda Garborgs hus
HG N-107

Book talks


Our latest book talk from September2024.

Hosting Fellowships

Humanistic research can contribute both values ​​and value creation through a basic way of thinking. Green transition is not a final destination, but a process of change.

Professor Dolly Jørgensen, co-director of The Greenhouse

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News from The Greenhouse

Digital Aestheticization of Fragile Environments (DigiFREN)

DigiFREN is a collaborative European project that seeks to understand how the use of digital technologies to experience ...

Greenhouse co-founder Dolly Jørgensen receives prestigious Swedish award

Dolly Jørgensen was awarded the 2025 Swedish Gad Rausing Prize for her groundbreaking research in environmental history ...

Energy Lives! Infrastructural Citizenship in Nordic Energy Transitions

Energy Lives! Infrastructural Citizenship in Nordic Energy Transitions scrutinizes the conjoined lives of energy and peo...

PhD projects at the Greenhouse

The Greenhouse has several PhD candidates – see presentation of their projects below.

London: The Heart of the British Empire

This webpage will explore the British perspective on waste treatment history in its Mediterranean colonies as the study ...

British Palestine's urban waste history

This webpage will describe British Palestine's urban waste history as the study develops in 2025-2026.

Colonial Cyprus' urban waste history

This webpage will describe Colonial Cyprus' urban waste history as the study develops in 2025-2026.

Histories of Weathering and Weathering in History

The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities hosted a workshop on “Affect and Material Cultures of Weathering: His...

New international research project on energy transitions

New international research project to explore energy transitions in the Nordic region over the past 150 years. The proje...

From Greenhouse to Cryobank: exploring planetary temporalities in Germany

Greenhouse member and Good Fire researcher Charlotte Wrigley gets fellowship at at the Panel on Planetary Thinking, host...

Hosting international fellowships at the Greenhouse

The Greenhouse welcomes applications from candidates who wish to apply for international fellowships through external fu...

Greenhouse publications

This is an overview of publications of scholars affiliated with the Greenhouse since 2023. We update this list regularly...

Burning Questions: Korean student's research visit to The Greenhouse

Hyeonbin Park, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at the Korea Advanced Institute o...

Professor Dolly Jørgensen wins funding for new collaborative project on extinction and museums

A new collaborative project on extinction histories has been selected for funding by The Research Council of Norway and ...

Melina Antonia Buns selected member of the Young Academy of Norway

Greenhouse member Melina Antonia Buns has been selected as member of the prestigious Young Academy of Norway (AYF).

NoRS- EH Course: Play and the Environmental Humanities

5 ECTS PhD course in Environmental Humanities to be held in Stavanger, 2-6 December 2024

BLOCYP: Between London, Cyprus, and Palestine: Waste History in the British Eastern Mediterranean

An MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship project by Yaron Jorgen Balslev

Ocean Energy in Japan

Aster Hoving tells about a study visit to Japan as part of her PhD studies.

The Greenhouse at the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History

The Fourth World Congress of Environmental History will take place at the University of Oulu, Finland from 19 to 23 Au...

The Greenhouse arranges international conference on Storytelling for Environmental Futures

On 7-9 August 2024, The Greenhouse is hosting an international conference on Storytelling for Environmental Futures, whi...

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