@dollyjorgensen
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/
From the correspondence course craze in the early 20C to MOOCs one hundred years later, the commodification of education was but a lucrative side hustle for unis. Now the compulsory technologization of education is fully integrated into extractive capitalism. What a time to be a professor.
Fully funded PhD studentship: ‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’. Closes 3 May.
With Ruth Abbott, Staffan Müller-Wille, Ed Turner & me. @theul.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Tomorrow it's 15 years since the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns struck Japan. In today's Aftenposten, I'm writing about my visits to Fukushima and what the possible lessons for Norway today are.
“After the nuclear disaster, some residents had to flee by bus, and animals were not allowed aboard.
"There were elderly people in tears, asking if someone could take their pet.”
"If I'm still going… it's because I carry with me the distress these animals experienced. That's what keeps me going."
“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!
The first issue of the year is out and it’s extra special as it marks 50 years of Landscape Research. The intro provides a fascinating reflection of where we’ve been, where we’re at today and also where the Journal sees itself in the future.
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/clar20/5...
In "The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life: Joy Parr’s Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology", @historiamagoria.bsky.social introduces a new tribute film that she recently released.
niche-canada.org/2026/03/06/t...
#envhist #histtech #cdnhist #genderhistory #history
Last call for this awesome online seminar on danger in Dartmoor tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/embodied-e... #envhist #environmentalhistory
#CFP: 'Bodies and climate : transcorporeal affects of weathering'
Workshop, 13 November 2026, France
Deadline: 15 April 2026
Info: www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
#envhum #envhist #ecocritcism #ecolit
Picture of women on a beach John Leech, ‘The mermaids' haunt’. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854 - 1869. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.
Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections
We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius.
#Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork
Frankish rivers styled as a tube-map.
This morning's lecture on the vikings in Francia was enhanced by this graphic of Frankish rivers, taken from @ccooijmans.bsky.social's admirable book.
A miniature of the construction of the Tower of Babel, from Boccaccio's Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes (Add MS 35321).
The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social
Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!
COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It’s a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
In case you missed our conversation about ghosts, extinction, and walking the halls of museums. 👇
Today marks the start of #BritishScienceWeek and we'd like to tell you about Eleanor Ormerod (1828-1901).
Ormerod was a pioneering entomologist (expert on insects) and helped to define agricultural entomology as an academic discipline in Britain.
Read our Book of the Month blog: shorturl.at/Pklbw
Please join us online on Wednesday, March 11 for another talk in the Environmental Digital Humanities seminar series
#dh #dhist #skystorians
🗺️ We're updating our interactive Global Medical Humanities Map, which plots the world’s medical & health humanities institutions, centres & networks.
To update your organisation's info or to add a new medical/health humanities unit, please complete this survey: medhumsplatform.org/updating-the...
Looking forward to talking about Ghosts Behind Glass at the Grant Museum @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social in London next week!
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
Tickets are sold out, but you can join the waiting list (there are always people who get sick or have to cancel for these things!)
I have put together a handout- it discusses the differences in HS vs uni readings, the impact that has, and suggestions for students doing readings
Feel free to use and circulate to any first years :)
#highered #higheducation #history #medievalhistory #teaching #academia #transitionpedagogy
Building on the wild success of last year's event, I'm delighted to share that Dr. Courtney Chetwynd and I are leading another 'Fish School' at the Hollyhock Centre this October. This year's iteration is entitled 'The Art of Entanglement: Fish, Flow, and Knowing'. hollyhock.ca/programs/830...
Cover of book COVID Studies: A Reader. Blue with image of knitted globes in shape of a COVID molecule
Coming in July:
COVID Studies: A Reader.
Includes an article I co-authored with Hyeonbin Park on animals & care in a pandemic.
www.pennpress.org/978151282949...
Yes! I made a similar point a couple months back. The productive struggle is the point.
My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.
Every word of this post (and the original posters, too).
The point of undertaking a literature review is to engage in the slow, cumulative cognitive process of learning as you read and write. It’s not “processing thousands of references to get a statistical summary of what the LLM was fed”
New Arcadia article by Smarika Nawani on how the autobiography of Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), the first Mughal emperor, anticipates an ecological and multispecies understanding of the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans.
#EnvHist
For anyone attending @aseh.bsky.social this year, there will be a session on the necessity of translation in the field of environmental history on the late-afternoon timeslot on Thursday.
diagram showing how a film set might simulate an underwater view, with the arrangement (from left to right) of a film camera, an aquarium, a woman dressed as a mermaid, and three sheets
my article on Georges Méliès and aquariums—the first thing published from my dissertation—is now out open access at @jcmsjournal.bsky.social!!
read on to see how fairy tale grottoes, Jules Verne's science fiction, and water infrastructure are all connected!!!
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Fungi in SFF Special Issues call for non-fiction submissions
Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF!
More information about our submission guidelines and how to submit ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.
We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist
Extreme Long shot but, if anyone visited the Permanent Exhibition at the National Museum of Finland between 1995-2016 and has any pictures of the interpretation panels/display/presentation of the Suontaka sword then I'd be extremely grateful for copies!
Many thanks!