The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities
The Greenhouse is an internationally leading research center for environmental humanities hosted by the University of Stavanger.
Get to know us
The Greenhouse builds a vibrant research community through weekly events: book talks on Mondays, research talks on Wednesdays, and brown bag lunches on Thursdays.
We create ideal conditions for personal growth, the cultivation of ideas, and knowledge exchange. Through our wide and diverse range of activities, we foster learning, collaboration, and excellence.
The Greenhouse supports a growing community of academics who use history, literature, media, religion, philosophy and art to understand how people relate to nature and the environment.
As an intellectual meeting place, we create connections between academics, museums, special interest groups and the public who are interested in environmental issues.
As a metaphor, The Greenhouse reminds us that we are sitting in a planetary greenhouse which is at risk of overheating.
Research hub
Research School
The Greenhouse coordinates the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH).
Forthcoming events
Greenhouse online environmental humanities book talks series: "World War Zoos" by John M. Kinder
Mon. 05.05.2025
16:00-17:00
Memorializing trees: emotional responses to species ‘lost’ to disease
Wed. 07.05.2025
14:15-15:30
Greenhouse online environmental humanities book talks series: "Moral Energy in America" by Rebecca K. Wright
Mon. 12.05.2025
16:00-17:00
“Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow:” Toward a Conservation Civil Defense in the Early Cold War Great Plains
Wed. 21.05.2025
14:15-15:30
Auraria As We Knew It: Urban Renewal, Campus History, and the Challenges and Joys of Community-Engaged Projects
Thu. 22.05.2025
11:00-13:00
Oil Museologies: Critical Perspectives on Petroleum Heritage
Mon. 26.05.2025
14:15-15:30
Wild + Free: The Role of Nature Access in Childhood Spiritual Formation
Wed. 28.05.2025
14:15-15:30
Book talks
Our latest book talk from September2024.
We invite reserchers and writers from all over the world to our online book talks every month.
Get access to all Greenhouse Book talks on Vimeo or search for them from our Resource Library.
Hosting Fellowships
Humanistic research can contribute both values and value creation through a basic way of thinking. Green transition is not a final destination, but a process of change.
Come and find us
The Greenhouse cultivates environmental humanities research at the University of Stavanger and aims to shape the future of environmental humanities by creating research projects, actively pursuing funding for guest researchers, and by developing workshops, conferences, and other events to promote environmental humanities.
The Greenhouse Library is located at Hulda Garborgs hus (HG O200a) and also functions as a hub for our weekly lunches (Thursdays, 12-13), work-in-progress seminars, readings, and social events, such as environmental boardgame nights, drawing on our own large collection. We always welcome new participants.
Book talks and research seminars are held most weeks and are open to everyone. For an overview of our weekly events, see our calendar further above.
Contact us
For general enquiries: greenhouse@uis.no
For enquiries on research activities: melina.a.buns@uis.no
For public relations: daniel.bowman@uis.no
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News from The Greenhouse
Digital Aestheticization of Fragile Environments (DigiFREN)
DigiFREN is a collaborative European project that seeks to understand how the use of digital technologies to experience ...
Greenhouse co-founder Dolly Jørgensen receives prestigious Swedish award
Dolly Jørgensen was awarded the 2025 Swedish Gad Rausing Prize for her groundbreaking research in environmental history ...
Energy Lives! Infrastructural Citizenship in Nordic Energy Transitions
Energy Lives! Infrastructural Citizenship in Nordic Energy Transitions scrutinizes the conjoined lives of energy and peo...
PhD projects at the Greenhouse
The Greenhouse has several PhD candidates – see presentation of their projects below.
London: The Heart of the British Empire
This webpage will explore the British perspective on waste treatment history in its Mediterranean colonies as the study ...
British Palestine's urban waste history
This webpage will describe British Palestine's urban waste history as the study develops in 2025-2026.
Colonial Cyprus' urban waste history
This webpage will describe Colonial Cyprus' urban waste history as the study develops in 2025-2026.
Histories of Weathering and Weathering in History
The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities hosted a workshop on “Affect and Material Cultures of Weathering: His...
New international research project on energy transitions
New international research project to explore energy transitions in the Nordic region over the past 150 years. The proje...
From Greenhouse to Cryobank: exploring planetary temporalities in Germany
Greenhouse member and Good Fire researcher Charlotte Wrigley gets fellowship at at the Panel on Planetary Thinking, host...
Hosting international fellowships at the Greenhouse
The Greenhouse welcomes applications from candidates who wish to apply for international fellowships through external fu...
Greenhouse publications
This is an overview of publications of scholars affiliated with the Greenhouse since 2023. We update this list regularly...
Burning Questions: Korean student's research visit to The Greenhouse
Hyeonbin Park, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at the Korea Advanced Institute o...
Professor Dolly Jørgensen wins funding for new collaborative project on extinction and museums
A new collaborative project on extinction histories has been selected for funding by The Research Council of Norway and ...
Melina Antonia Buns selected member of the Young Academy of Norway
Greenhouse member Melina Antonia Buns has been selected as member of the prestigious Young Academy of Norway (AYF).
NoRS- EH Course: Play and the Environmental Humanities
5 ECTS PhD course in Environmental Humanities to be held in Stavanger, 2-6 December 2024
BLOCYP: Between London, Cyprus, and Palestine: Waste History in the British Eastern Mediterranean
An MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship project by Yaron Jorgen Balslev
Ocean Energy in Japan
Aster Hoving tells about a study visit to Japan as part of her PhD studies.
The Greenhouse at the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History
The Fourth World Congress of Environmental History will take place at the University of Oulu, Finland from 19 to 23 Au...
The Greenhouse arranges international conference on Storytelling for Environmental Futures
On 7-9 August 2024, The Greenhouse is hosting an international conference on Storytelling for Environmental Futures, whi...
The Greenhouse Library
The Greenhouse maintains a world-class environmental humanities research library located at Hulda Garborgs hus (HG O-200a) at the University of Stavanger.
The Greenhouse Library holds over 2500 books in environmental humanities and related fields. In addition, it holds a collection of academic journals, environmental-themed boardgames, various publications and some historical primary source material.
You can browse our collection on LibraryThing. We frequently add new books to the library, including the books we cover in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series, and update the ctalogue at least once a term.
See also an overview of Greenhouse publications at the UiS Scholarly Publishing Services of UiS Library.
