Dolly Jørgensen

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

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We’ve added a new post on our blog, by Kristina Van Dexter (creative submissions co-editor for ‘Plant Perspectives’), on ‘Decolonising Plant Relations Through Creative Practice’. Check it out here (and enjoy the audio recording!): whitehorsepress.blog/2024/07/03/d... #plants

Decolonising Plant Relations Through Creative Practicewhitehorsepress.blog In this blog, Kristina Van Dexter, Creative Submissions co-editor (with Prue Gibson) of Plant Perspectives reflects on her deep engagement with the relations and languages of plant life that compose f...

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Really useful ways of thinking about inter/trans/cross/multi disciplinarity & what that actually means #AcademicSky

@angecass.bsky.social great #sip24 talk, thanks 💚 Where I'm from (NZ) transdisciplinary practice is having a moment ♻️ Thought I'd share my own (basic) mash-up on the 'what is interdisciplinary practice' topic (from the POV of me, a designer, trying to get my head around it) makinggood.design/icmit

Tasty | Jo Bailey: making good designmakinggood.design Wondering what the differences are between crossdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practice or approaches to research? This post helps explain in simple terms, an...

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Opening tomorrow (10 July 2024) at London's lovely Linnean Society. Free (but timed) entry:

Revolution: Nature in the time of change 1776–1848www.linnean.org Explore the wealth of content available within The Linnean Society of London's website.

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#EnvHist folks! I’m organizing a roundtable @aseh.bsky.social 2025 in Pittsburgh on forest history. If you’re an early-career scholar focusing on western/PNW forests, international forest history, or Indigenous forestry, for instance, please reach out! @asehearlycareer.bsky.social

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In "Plantation Worlds," Maan Barua explores the fraught politics of dwelling between elephants and villagers on land that once harbored colonial plantations in northeastern India. Read the introduction for free now. www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...

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Although our first issue doesn't come out till next year, our inaugural essay is out now! online.ucpress.edu/ah/article/d...

Animal History: A Brief Introduction to Its Past and Futureonline.ucpress.edu The first issue of a new scholarly journal is an important moment to mark out the state of the field, its past, and possible future goals. Animal History is dedicated to cultivating and featuring rigo...

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My cover has been released!! I love it soooooo much! www.routledge.com/Water-in-Wor...

Really poignant reminder that the journal articles posted online for old journals are not everything that was published in those journals - they also included job ads, product ads, product reviews, and more. Hard copies in libraries for the win!

Bloggade om vikten av att ibland använda pappersexemplar även när källor finns digitaliserade: www.gustavholmberg.com/tomrum/2024/...

Allt det där andra i Nature | Det perfekta tomrummet www.gustavholmberg.com

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Online Event - Let’s Chat About Communicating Environmental History to the Public - ASEH Connects Friday, July 12th – 4pm EDT – Zoom Join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social & @palmblad.bsky.social for a casual chat about communicating #EnvHist to the public! niche-canada.org/2024/07/05/o...

Online Event - ASEH Connects - Let's Chat About Communicating Environmental History to the Publicniche-canada.org 12 July 2024 - Online - Join DeWitt and Palmblad for a casual discussion of communicating environmental history to the public.

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10 days left to (write and) submit your abstract for this workshop on 'Affect and Material Cultures of Weathering' organised with @electricpunkah.bsky.social here at the @greenhouseuis.bsky.social #histtech #histsci #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #arthistory www.uis.no/en/research/...

Affect and Material Cultures of Weathering: Histories, Temporalities, and Spaces (Call for Papers)www.uis.no 10-11 December 2024: Stavanger, Norway

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Our Call for Proposals closes in less than one month! Get your proposals in soon and we'll see you in Pittsburgh!

ASEH 2025 Call for Proposals is now open, and we can't wait to see yinz in Pittsburgh! Proposals are due 8/1 and while full panels are strongly preferred, we will accept single paper submissions. Click below to submit and to read the full CfP: admin.allacademic.com/one/aseh/ase...

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Those interested in extinction and the people who inadvertently cause it might be interested in "The Cactus Hunters": www.latimes.com/entertainmen... And if you're in central Ohio, the author, my cousin, is giving a talk tmrw (7/5/24) at the Bexley library.

What can we learn from the cactus thieveswww.latimes.com Jared D. Margulies' 'The Cactus Hunters,' unearths the global trade in stolen succulents. What these thieves might have to teach us about saving our plants

Yes! And we talked to Jared about The Cactus Hunters on our Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series last fall: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... (video available to watch)

Those interested in extinction and the people who inadvertently cause it might be interested in "The Cactus Hunters": www.latimes.com/entertainmen... And if you're in central Ohio, the author, my cousin, is giving a talk tmrw (7/5/24) at the Bexley library.

What can we learn from the cactus thieveswww.latimes.com Jared D. Margulies' 'The Cactus Hunters,' unearths the global trade in stolen succulents. What these thieves might have to teach us about saving our plants

Online book talk: Margulies, Cactus Hunters – The Greenhousenewnatures.org

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An Empty pot. arboretum.harvard.edu/stories/an-e... A new article by me on a curated absence of extinction at Kew Gardens. Fantastic to see this in the beautiful latest issue of Arnoldia on the theme 'Perspectives on Extinction and Botanical Collections' #extinction #envhist

An Empty Potarboretum.harvard.edu Seeking stories of extinction in museums worldwide, Dolly Jørgensen finds a curated absence at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. It is just an empty pot. The huge orange clay container stands amidst verdant ...

An Empty pot. arboretum.harvard.edu/stories/an-e... A new article by me on a curated absence of extinction at Kew Gardens. Fantastic to see this in the beautiful latest issue of Arnoldia on the theme 'Perspectives on Extinction and Botanical Collections' #extinction #envhist

An Empty Potarboretum.harvard.edu Seeking stories of extinction in museums worldwide, Dolly Jørgensen finds a curated absence at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. It is just an empty pot. The huge orange clay container stands amidst verdant ...

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Happy 4th to those celebrating. Here is a piece that adds a bit of complexity to what it means to be American and to eat pie. www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

Why Americans Love Their Apple Piewww.smithsonianmag.com How did a humble dessert become a recipe for democracy?

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New episode out now! I had a great time talking to Tore Olsson about how pandemic gaming changed (and didn't ruin!) his career, how he's reaching new audiences, and the fun of rediscovering some of his middle school writer's voice. Listen now: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis... 🗃️ #writingcommunity

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Trying to put a panel together on Storytelling and the Environment for @aseh.bsky.social I'll be writing about storytelling through the concept of terroir. Anyone interested please DM me. Tales of Terroir

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Today @imc-leeds.bsky.social #imc2024, 2:15pm at Esther Simpson Building, 2.07: Session 746: "The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Miners: Interdisciplinary and Trans-Regional Approaches to Mining Cemeteries in Later Medieval Europe." Image: Rocca San Silvestro historic mining settlement

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#Climate & the Beginning of the #Crisis Decades: A one-day workshop that seeks to generate critical transdisciplinary engagement around climate research and discourse in the #1970s. Manchester, 30 Aug 2024. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2024/0...

Workshop: Climate & the Beginning of the Crisis Decadesblogs.manchester.ac.uk 30 August 2024. A one-day workshop that seeks to generate critical transdisciplinary engagement around climate research and discourse in the 1970s

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In case you need something kind of neat to think about: Every at Wimbledon they employ a Harris Hawk to scare away pigeons and other unwanted birds from the tennis courts. His name is Rufus. He may this year (?) get a co-worker named Rhea? www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

Wimbledon hawk Rufus completes 15th year of servicewww.bbc.com This year Rufus was joined by Rhea, a pigeon scarer in training.

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Coming briefly out of my summer hibernation to announce this - I’ll be a fellow at the SHI in October with a project on Gaming Green Transitions. Definitely a side project, but such a fun one! #envhum and #boardgames!

Science History Institute Welcomes 2024–2025 Beckman Center Fellowswww.sciencehistory.org Our scholars study a wide range of topics in the history and social studies of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.

My book on display at #IMC2024! Order your own copy of The Medieval Pig 🐷 here: boydellandbrewer.com/978183765168...

Excited to be #IMC2024! The first plenary session on crisis is about to start. #envhist scholar Tim Soens kicks things off with “The Black Death and the Commoner: Tales of Crisis from the Urban Low Countries”

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Just search "#IMC2024" and you'll feel the second-hand excitement from as faraway as Hong Kong. 🤞👀 IMC kicks off with keynote speakers Tim Soens + Carenza Lewis on the (unequal) experiences of, and the long-term impacts, of the Black Death. www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/u... #archaeology

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I understand (and adopt) an anti-AI stance but I don’t get all the gasping at the dumbing-down literature app & Great Gatsby. Cliffsnotes has been around since 1950s and does this. Many people read this kind of lit as an assignment & they only care about what happens, not the literary elegance.

Visited the National Mining Museum in Newtongrange, Scotland. Fantastic guided visit in Lady Victoria colliery by former mining surveyor Dave.

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Reminder for the non-UK crowd flocking to the #IMC2024 this week: bring at least one of these bad boys. You know, the thing you always end up forgetting.

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Still another six months to go until the book is available (via UCL Press as an open access publication!), but we now have a catalogue page and a cover - by @markwitton.bsky.social, and featuring Gertie the Dinosaur in centre stage www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/...

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The last woolly mammoths survived on a remote island till 4000 years ago, wracked for millennia by genetic disorders. Here's my story on what they can tell us about saving endangered species today. 🧪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/s...

The Last Stand of the Woolly Mammothswww.nytimes.com The species survived on an island north of Siberia for thousands of years, scientists reported, but were most likely plagued by genetic abnormalities.