The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities extends an invitation to an open celebration lecture by Dolly Jørgensen.
Professor Dolly Jørgensen was awarded the Gad Rausings prize, the highest prize for Nordic humanities research, by the Swedish Royal Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities in April 2025. In celebration of that award, Jørgensen will give a lecture on her approach to historical research: more-than-human histories. Using examples from her three books, including her new book Ghosts Behind Glass, she will explain how more-than-human histories reveal the interconnectedness of humans and animals and expose animals as agents of history.
Dolly Jørgensen is an environmental historian whose most recent work focuses on cultural histories of animals. She has published three monographs: Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums (University of Chicago Press, 2025), The Medieval Pig (Boydell, 2024) and Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging (MIT Press, 2019). She is Professor of History and co-director of The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger.
Light refreshments and vegan snacks will be served.
Registration required.
Register by Monday, 26 January 2026, noon.