Dolly Jørgensen

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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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After lunch, visited the National Glass Centre in Sunderland. A good history exhibit of glass in the area since Roman times and a great glass blowing demonstration. Shame on Sunderland Univ for deciding to close their glass art program & the Centre soon. cgs.org.uk/news/sunderl...

Visit to Souter Point lighthouse, built in 1871 as an electric lighthouse. Although it started with an electric light (very rare), it was converted to oil in 1915 to save money on the tonnes of coal (& labor) used to power the steam boilers that ran the electricity generators.

The views of the coast and the seabirds from The Leas is stunning. So many kittiwakes & cormorants.

A visit to Lindisfarne holy island on a beautiful day.

Congratulations to Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social for winning the Battle Conference Poster Prize 2024! She’s doing great work on maritime medieval Normandy.

Hadrian’s wall guarded by Vercovicium Roman fort - and lots of sheep 🐑

Fab visit to Hexham Abbey. Contemporary participatory art display (Stars for Eternity) alongside medieval panel paintings of dance of death and stone carvings like Reynard preaching to geese, and reused ancient Roman carved stones in the crypt.

Also two of Shona Branigan’s Heartwood prints made from the felled Sycamore Gap tree.

CFP for session "Environmental Art History: Ecosystems in Early Modern Painting and Sculpture" at the Renaissance Society of America meeting, Boston, 20-25 March 2025 See image for details. Deadline for abstracts 1 August. #envhum #enviroart

Online workshop "Nested and (Un)nested Human and Nonhuman Life-forms in Industrial Toxic Environments. An empirical ecocritical approach on Oil Fiction of the 21st century." 28 October 2024 16:00 p.m. CET on Zoom #envhum #petrocultures

It’s been a jam-making few days for me. Picked raspberries & gooseberries at a farm, black & red currants at home, then wild blueberries on a hike. A flavor sampling: Raspberry-amaretto jam, raspberry-grapefruit jam, black current-red beet jam, red currant-lemon verbena jelly, blueberry-lime jam

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

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

Got a little animal history in there too with pit ponies and canaries

Today I got to see the medieval bagpipe-playing pig of Melrose Abbey!

Looking for an easy, fun and enlightening summer read? Pick up a copy of The Medieval Pig 🐷 and learn all about how medieval people lived alongside swine. Paperback £19.95 boydellandbrewer.com/978183765168... #envhist #medieval

Visited Robert Smail’s Printing Works (National Trust 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) in Innerleithen. Fantastic tour of Victorian printing techniques! Started in 1866, taken over by Trust in 1986 & still printing. The shop kept a copy of *every single* thing they printed - an amazing archive! www.nts.org.uk/visit/places...

A gorgeous day to visit the magnificent gothic Rosslyn chapel with its fantastic 15th & 16th c sandstone carvings

Also ran across a brilliant art exhibition “The Solway Hoard” on at Dunbar Townhouse Museum. It imagines how a museum 1000 years into the future would curate plastics. museumsofthefuturenow.org/the-solway-h...

Visited the John Muir birthplace museum in Dunbar Nice exhibition placing Muir’s thinking in Scotland, US Midwest, and US west.

At the EEHN away day in Granton blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta... We started with a lovely walk around a local project to revitalize a historic walled castle garden.

Animal sightings on highway to Incheon airport

Now the final roundtable of the conference focusing on heritage site interpretation, heritage policy, and community inclusion

All of these talks going live on YouTube (and you can rewind to talks you’ve missed so far) : www.youtube.com/live/lz6GuiQ...

2024 History, Memory, and Heritage in the Age of Ecological Crisis 'Day1'www.youtube.com 2024 History, Memory, and Heritage in the Age of Ecological Crisis 'Day1'UNESCO WHIPICDate: Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 9:00 a.mSeoul, Republic of KoreaWHIPIC...

Visited the temporary exhibition “Nostalgic Energy Source: Coal” at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History A beautiful design for an exhibition marking the closure in June 2024 of the last South Korean coal mine

Focus of exhibition was workers, especially danger and “sacrifice” for the nation. My favorite part was a human-animal history: workers took lunch down with them and would hang them from ceiling to protect from rats. But 🐀 not killed because serve as warnings of cave ins & CO.

As expected, there was no mention at all of costs of the mining operations to either local or global environment. Nothing said about the slag heaps, river pollution, or carbon emissions. There was a section on home charcoal burners but only the health effects discussed.

I discovered last night that there is a Dokdo Exhibition Hall in an underground passageway near the conference site - so of course I had to visit today to see if they talked about the sea lions. While there was no text about it, the sea lion is the mascot of the exhibition.

Getting started on the History, Memory and Heritage in the Age of Ecological Crisis conference hosted at the Seoul Museum of Art and organized Sogang University and WHIPIC wbspider.a.aa.aaa.aaaa.cgsi.ac/bbs/board.ph...

My talk on extinction & extraction as difficult cultural heritage was first

Elizabeth Kryder-Reid on Absence, Amnesia and Activism. She’s looking at toxic sites and environmental harms like Love Canal in US (toxic waste disposal) and Place à Gaz in France (munitions destruction & disposal). Asks about invisibility of env contamination, effaced people, env history.