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By Martin V. Melosi, Cullen Professor Emeritus of History and Founding Director of the Center for Public History, University of Houston
Hulda Garborgs hus
10-11 December 2024: Stavanger, Norway
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UiS post-doctoral researcher Daniel Bowman writes about John Joseph Mathews’s 1934-novel Sundown, and the use of automobiles as signifiers of national identity.
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Charlotte Wrigley attends 'Thinking Through Permafrost' workshop
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Chatterjee elected on the Executive Committee of the International Committee for the History of Technology
"A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–1900" by Matthew Holmes.
"Earth Ice Bone Blood" by Charlotte Wrigley.
The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities can help you develop your project.
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Professor Dolly Jørgensen has won funding to research the links between cultural heritage and petrocultures and their connections to green transitions.
Reflections from the Green Transitions Fellows at The Greenhouse 2022
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The Greenhouse was established as a research group in 2017 and quickly distinguished itself worldwide as a leading professional environment for environmental humanities. On its fifth anniversary, The Greenhouse is moving on, now as a research centre at UiS.
In the fall of 2022, University of Stavanger welcomed 12 guest researchers and artists from across the world to engage with each other and the UiS community in a semester-long exploration of the meanings of green transitions. Each fellow gave a talk to present their project and contributed to an international conference on green transitions.
Information about our current research projects and research networks
How can we understand animals as being at home with human-built infrastructure?
Solar Energy Research Group seeks to overcome barriers to world solar adoption by connecting solar energy researchers from different disciplines and perspectives at the University of Stavanger. The research group is a place to share research, projects, dissemination, and ongoing activities. The group also helps researchers find ways to work together and promote joint initiatives.
Radioactive Waste Spatialities, Materialities and Societies in the Nordic Region, 1960s to 1990s
This research group is dedicated to the theoretical and empirical study of social and spatial justice from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
A digital exhibition chronicles the reintroduction of beavers in Scandinavia 100 years ago.
Stavanger Municipality, UiS, and NTNU are establishing an interdisciplinary collaboration that will promote art and the artist's role in society.
Can we produce energy, limit land use and create industrial opportunities by using our house facades as solar panels?
Full name of project: Building resilience through education for Sustainable, Collaborative and Smart Cities (RESICITIES)
Greencoin addresses the challenge of how to promote pro-environmental behaviours among urban citizens.
The main objective of the project is to provide security and dependability in the management and orchestration of network and data resources in 5G Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC).
The ECIU University Research Institute for smart European regions (Smart-ER) will design, develop and implement smart city research.
On this page you will find courses and subjects taught at the University of Stavanger related to smart cities.
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Associate Professor Ari Tarigan from the Department of economics, safety and planning is part of a group of researchers from Polish and Norwegian universities that was awarded almost 2 million euros for their project “Greencoin”, an interactive system that will promote environmentally friendly behaviour among citizens through a reward system.
A project focusing on the health care sector and how to amplify the voice of the users when applying digital technology.
NoRS-EH is an interdisciplinary initiative that aims to reinforce and strengthen the
contribution of Norwegian humanities scholars to environmental research and the
great global challenges that we currently face.
How can we develop and maintain livable, safe and robust urban environments that address climate changes and cater to a sustainable future?
This research network performs interdisciplinary research for smart sustainable urban development and collaborates closely with regional, national, and international players.
Creating a smart city requires joint efforts of city planners, technologists, energy experts, social scientists, artists and others.