Dolly Jørgensen
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Dolly Jørgensen
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Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/

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

Environmental science 24%
History 18%
Pinned
Excited to announce that my large interdisciplinary project Living Beings as More-Than-Human Heritage (Live Heritage) has been funded by the Research Council of Norway!

Over 6 years, we will explore how living beings are both part of cultural heritage and help shape it.

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40 millioner til forskning på planter og dyr som kulturarv
Forskere i Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities ved Universitetet i Stavanger får nær 40 millioner kroner fra Forskningsrådet til å løfte fram levende dyr og planter som en viktig del av vår felles historie.
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Yes that’s right. They have been battling it.

The estate is now doing significant conservation work in addition to making tasty wines. They have restored shrubland and seen a dramatic increase in bird species. They also participate in breeding programs for the bontebok as well as Rau quagga.

The estate has old colonial roots. Their grounds are gorgeous with manicured gardens and historic trees, including 5 camphor trees from the early 1700s.

It’s baby time in South Africa!
We visited Vergelegen estate, who have one of the Rau quagga herds. The Rau quagga hang out with the eland herd.
The quagga foal was only 5 days old! The eland foals were a few weeks.

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Cape fur seals at the V&A waterfront having a snooze.

Today was in-town bird sightings: speckled pigeon, Egyptian goose, cape wagtail, red-eyed dove, red-winged starling & kelp gull.

And lots of squirrels & some rats too.

Visit to the South African National Gallery, which has the stunning exhibition “In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the Workd” produced by Smithsonian on thru October. Great ways of personalizing the history & bringing it to the present.

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Very happy to announce the seminar programme of the Decolonising Plant Knowledge research network @crasshlive.bsky.social for Michaelmas term 2026 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/net...

Yes! Their work is highlighted down the thread.

Quagga foal at Iziko South African Museum!
Extinction (or maybe not?) on display. The team frantically taking photos.

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We’ve published a new special collection on Waste Ethnographies (edited by Trine Brox), as part of 'Worldwide Waste' volume 9; #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/WW/issue/vie... #waste #ethnographies
CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026.
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#Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism

Michele Mathison, Bushveld 2014 (in background) and Landscape 2013 (in foreground) evokes a burnt field and the cycles of destruction and construction in burning trees to make charcoal.

Hedada ibis this morning.
We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors.

Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.

Cape Town waterfront wildlife sightings:
Cape fur seals, Hartlaub’s gull (on penguin statue), and rhino parade

Doing a little birding in the small wetland park attached to the Hotel Verde at Cape Town airport. Some photos:
Southern red bishop
Brimstone canary
Southern masked-weaver
Rock kestrel

Some interesting printed fabric and stitching in Zohra Opoku, We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight exhibition

Cauleen Smith, My Caldera series playing with wax layered landscapes to materialize renewal, refuge, and repair in the aftermath of apocalypse.

Two pieces from the “Protea is not a flower” exhibition on exile and home.

History unfolding … now

“Carry-on”, which reflects on distance, memory, and belonging.

Visit to Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town. A stunning building made from an old grain silo.

This is such a huge problem, especially because a good chunk of those applications will have been generated via chat LLMs.
ERC Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship applications went from just 7.000 applicants in 2022 to over 21.000 this year 🤯🤯🤯