UIS The Greenhouse presentations at the Fourth World Congress of Environmental History (WCEH4)

Here is an overview of presentations and events incvolving scholars from The Greenhouse - Center for Environmental Humanities at the Fourth World Congress of Environmental History (WCEH4), held August 19-23rd at University of Oulu, Finland and online with the theme “Transitions, transformations and transdisciplinarity: Histories beyond history”.

Poster for my Ljubljana lecture May 14th

The poster below advertises my lecture in Ljubljana, titled «The Anthropocene: Alpha and omega?», which will be held tomorrow at Alma Mater Europaea, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis.

Greenhouse Research talk by Lenart Skof moderated; Erasmus exchange

Yesterday, on Wednesday December 13th, I moderated Lenart Skof´s The Greenhouse Research talk “From Forgetting of Air to (post-)Anthropocene: Sketches for Respiratory Paradigm Shift in Environmental Humanities» at the University of Stavanger. Around 10 people attended.

I am hosting an Erasmus exchange by Lenart Skof this week.

The Greenhouse now a research center

"The Greenhouse: An environmental humanities initiative at University of Stavanger", which has until now formally been a program area for research, has from September 1st onwards been granted the status as a research center, titled "The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities". I have been one of the members of The Greenhouse from the start in 2017.

Steffens presentation scheduled for oral presentation October 9th

My invited presentation "Steffens’ ideas about organic meteorology. From the Totalorganismus to planetary health?" has been scheduled for oral presentation on Saturday October 9th at 10.00-10.30, as part of the conference «“…just as alluring as instructive…” – Henrik Steffens’ Concept of Nature in Science, Humanities and Arts around 1800», to be held at University of Copenhagen October 7-9th 2021 (see here for a brief thematic description of the conference).

A meeting and a book talk

Today I have attended a meeting, and a Greenhouse book talk by Timo Maran on ecosemiotics.

The Greenhouse approaching new program period, 2021-2023

I have signalled interest in remaining a member of the program area for research The Greenhouse: An environmental history initiative at University of Stavanger for the next program period, 2021-2023.

Call for candidates for MSCA IF 2020

Interested in coming to University of Stavanger to do a Post.Doc. under supervison by me or one of the other Greenhouse members? Info about application procedure etc. here. Statements of interests (which is only the first step in the process) are due February 28th.

Presentation of sustainability-themed UHR conference at Greenhouse lunch

Yesterday, Thursday November 28th, I talked about the sustainability-themes Universities Norway conference held earlier this week in Oslo for The Greenhouse during the weekly Greenhouse Thursday lunch. Some 10 people attended.

Greenhouse lunch

For the first time in quite a while I attended the (mostly weekly) Greenhouse work lunch at UiS today. Nice catching up.

Publication date for framing the environmental humanities book

I have been informed that the book Framing the Environmental Humanities, where I contribute with the chapter "Animals in Norwegian Political Party Programs: A Critical Reading" (see reference), will be released (not in April, but) February 22nd. Here´s the publisher´s, Brill´s, online info. My chapter is no. 7, and part of Part 2, "History, Politics, and National Frames".

Research program area on environmental humanities approved

I have been notified that our application for establishing a research program area at University of Stavanger on environmental humanities has been approved, under the auspices of The Greenhouse initiative. I am one of its members. As of today I am a member of two program areas. Application for a third is in process.

The full name of the new program area is The Greenhouse: A Cross-Disciplinary Environmental Humanities Initiative.

PhD project plans

Today I have attended a meeting with my head of department in relation to plans for a PhD scholarship with focus on the connection between welfare and wealth, with me as supervisor.

Environmental humanities lunch

Today, for the second time, I attended a Greenhouse lunch at UiS.

Anthropocene lecture by Sverker Sörlin attended

Yesterday I attended an open lecture by environmental historian Sverker Sörlin at Museum of Archaeology, on the Anthropocene, organized by GreenHouse, the environmental humanities initiatives at University of Stavanger. Some 50-60 people showed up and were enlightened.

Work lunch with The GreenHouse network

Today I attended the first work lunch with the research network, which has applied for establishment of a program area at University of Stavanger, The GreenHouse. During and after the meeting I agreed to be part of two SAMKUL research applications with deadline in November.

Included in Environmental Humanities research application

I am included as one of the researchers in a University of Stavanger research application for a new program area entitled The Greenhouse. This is a cross-disciplinary Environmental Humanities initiative.

Biosemiotics 10(1) published; humanities manifesto reference

Biosemiotics volume 10, issue 1 has now been published. Online issue here. Among other texts it features "How can the study of the humanities inform the study of Biosemiotics?", co-authored by me.

Reference:

Don Favareau, Kalevi Kull, Gerald Ostdiek, Timo Maran, Louise Westling, Paul Cobley, Frederik Stjernfelt, Myrdene Anderson, Morten Tønnessen and Wendy Wheeler 2017. How can the study of the humanities inform the study of biosemiotics? Biosemiotics 10(1): 9–31. DOI: 10.1007/s12304-017-9287-6 (published online April 8th 2017).

"Mentions of animals" chapter revised

Today I have finished revising the book chapter "A critical reading of mentions of animals in Norwegian political party programs" (see also previous posts).

Extended deadline for politics and animals chapter

I have been allowed an extended deadline for my book chapter "A critical reading of mentions of animals in political party programs". The new deadline is March 31st.

See also:

To write chapter on mentions of animals in political party programs