Dolly Jørgensen

@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

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Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Co-editor Environmental Humanities journal. Extinction; animal history.
New book: The Medieval Pig (Boydell 2024) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651689/th .. more

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Dolly Jørgensen is Professor of History at University of Stavanger, Norway and co-editor in Chief of Environmental Humanities. She served as president of the European Society for Environmental History, 2013–2017. Her research ranges from medieval to contemporary environmental issues, approached through environmental history, history of technology, and environmental humanities perspectives. Her primary areas of interest are human-animal relations, the urban environment, and environmental policymaking. Her research has been covered in media such as The New Yorker and Bioscience. She holds a PhD in History from University of Virginia (2008), a MA in history from University of Houston (2003), and a BA in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University (1994). .. more

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 12d

Ghosts Behind Glass has been officially published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

If you are looking for an absolutely gorgeous book that tackles a deeply serious topic, this is a perfect choice. Would make a really thoughtful Christmas gift.

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Ghosts Behind Glass

How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us. While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

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Reposted by Claire Connolly

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2h

Finally we have two new entries in the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities:
"Hurakán Culture" by Yairen Jerez Columbié
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"Metabolism" by Molly MacVeagh
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Reposted by Joanna Brück

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2h

Commentary: "Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have: An Interview with Vinciane Despret" features Iwona Janicka, Stephen Muecke, & Vinciane Despret in conversation on how the dead, animals, and people animate each other.

Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2h

Ana Croegaert & Amy Leia McLachlan, "Museum Work as Protection Beyond the Human: Co-Curating Possibility at the Intersection of COVID-19, Race, and Environment" explores possible museum praxis that reflects intersecting vulnerabilities of racialized communities surviving the COVID-19 pandemic

Museum Work as Protection Beyond the Human | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2h

Provocation: Bob Frame et al (incl @widewhitestage.bsky.social) , "Monuments for the End of the World?: Antarctic Heritage Ecology in the Early Anthropocene" proposes a role for #envhum in formalizing a shift from predominantly historical to increasingly futures-focused heritage.

Monuments for the End of the World? | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2h

Article 7: Kregg Hetherington, "The Time of Ghost Rivers" explores a ghost river in Montreal, its various revivals in the present, and the halting attempts by urban actors to form relations with it.
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A sepia map showing a river in middle. From “Hydrographie de Montréal au 17e siècle” from Mahaut, “Cartographie des Anciens Cours.”

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2h

Article 6: Kristoffer Balslev Willert & Nicolai Knudsen, "Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene: Toward an Ostensive Humanism" clarifies the merits and limitations of both anthropocentric and post-anthropocentric views in ethics and ontology, then outlines a minimal form of anthropocentrism.

Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2h

Article 5: Justin Gaudry & Stephen Healy, "Matter, Consciousness, and the Anthropocene: Panpsychism Encounters Vital Materialism and Historical Materialism" analyses the value of panpsychist theory, which holds that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous property of the natural world.

Matter, Consciousness, and the Anthropocene | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2h

Article 4: Patrick Anthony Barbosa Brock, "Synchronization and Spectacle as a Community Response to Forever Chemicals" proposes speculative communities address the deep entanglement of fluorosurfactants with ants, humans, transnational capital, international treaties, and temporality.

Synchronization and Spectacle as a Community Response to Forever Chemicals | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3h

Article 3: @wombatscholar.bsky.social, "Gathering Dust: Perceivability, Breathability, and Grievability in Modern Atmospheres" on the 9/11 World Trade Center dust & ashes as both valued as remains of loved ones and feared as toxic residue
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Jar with contents labeled "125 Cedar St. 9/11 DUST"
Urn or jar, Cedar St., by Elena del Rivero; courtesy of the artist.

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3h

Article 2: Austin Lillywhite, "What Is a 'Plant-Human'?: Caribbean Trans Ecologies in Suzanne Césaire and Shani Mootoo" argues that the allegorical plant-human demonstrates the capacity of gendered embodying & geopolitical longue durée of bodies set in motion to fuel racial capitalism.

What Is a “Plant-Human”? | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3h

Article 1: Rebecca Oh, "Apocalyptic Realism: Death and Life Amid Nuclear Infrastructures" which reads Idrissou Mora-Kpai’s documentary "Arlit, deuxième Paris" and Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s poem “Anointed” as examples of apocalyptic realism
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Video still of Runit Dome seen from the air in “Anointed,” dir. Dan Lin, 2018

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3h

We also give a commendation to Alex Moulton for "Plotting a New Course for the Environmental Humanities: Provision Grounds, Race, and the Future" read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3h

We start with announcement of Environmental Humanities 2025 Best Article Prize which goes to (drumroll):

@susanneferwerda.bsky.social for "Blue Humanities and the Color of Colonialism" read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Read the citation for the award:
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Reposted by Claire Connolly

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3h

The November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship
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Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

cover of journal Environmental Humanities. White sticks laid out in a shape on a light blue background

Reposted by Elizabeth Pisani, Dolly Jørgensen

The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · 22h

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.

Reposted by Libby Robin, Dolly Jørgensen

EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 1d

#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.

Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025

Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities

Poster for the seminar, featuring a ocean waves on a blue background.

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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · 1d

As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Linking publications to collections : adding cites work, uses or acknowledged statements to Wikidata

This resource outlines simple workflows for adding “cites work”, “uses” and “acknowledges” statements to Wikidata items for publications. These statements link publications to natural history collecti...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

Have you read Moallem’s American Hippopotamus? magazine.atavist.com/2013/america...
Could be a publication like that.

American Hippopotamus - The Atavist Magazine

A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.

magazine.atavist.com

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

I must know more about farming manatees whenever it is written up!

Reposted by Dolly Jørgensen, Sandra Swart

Robert Groß @robertgro5.bsky.social · 1d

Are you an early-career environmental historian or interested in the challenges aspiring environmental historians face? Join our panel discussion with
@askehn.bsky.social @kathiescharf.bsky.social @tidetales.bsky.social and @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social et al., hosted by @eseh.bsky.social #envhist

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

Nice extinction history article.

Steller’s sea cows are one of my favorite extinction encounters in museums. I discuss them in chapter 8 on playful figures (examples from @mnhn.fr & Smithsonian NatHist) and chapter 1 on forms (example from @nathist.bsky.social )

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A book page with image of a room with skeletons. Finnish Natural History Museum.

A book page with image of Steller’s sea cow skull. France’s National Natural History Museum.

Book page with image of a person holding up a phone showing a sea cow and in background in skeleton. Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 1d

It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

In case you are curious to see more, November is #Nudivember so there are lots of drawings and pictures of nudibranches with that hashtag.

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Dolly Jørgensen

Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 3d

The RHS Plant Collector Archive is a unique collection of papers associated with the 12 plant collectors and their journeys. For the first time they are now fully catalogued, digitised, and free for everyone to access #skystorians #gardenhistory #nineteenthcentury
collections.rhs.org.uk/view/343871

RHS Plant Collector Archive - 19th century papers

collections.rhs.org.uk

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3d

Basically dreaming of my book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
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Esther Marijnen @esthermarijnen.bsky.social · 4d

CfP POLLEN26 - please join our panel, "Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War" - see for more details and how to submit a proposal before 5th of December here; nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

@casesofyou.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @nicosananes.bsky.social

P066: Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War

Standard Panel

nomadit.co.uk

Reposted by Celia Kitzinger, Dolly Jørgensen

National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 4d

Today is St Clement's Day, the patron saint of blacksmiths and metal workers.

At Finch Foundry in Devon, blacksmiths will gather to show their skills and complete in the annual snail race. Not what you might immediately think of, the race is to create an iron snail sculpture!

📷 Mel Peters

Four delightfully cute snail sculptures made from iron in a forge. Behind them is a glowing hot fire.

Reposted by Dolly Jørgensen

Animesh Chatterjee @electricpunkah.com · 4d

I’ve just launched Research Notes Studio, where I support researchers and organisations with editing, research development, and grant-writing.
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com

Reposted by Dolly Jørgensen

Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4d

Highly recommended. Mine's just arrived. It is a good read and very friendly - with lots of excellent pix. Congratulations, @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
and #ChicagoUP

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