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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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Ruth A. Morgan discusses her book Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice
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Registration deadline is 29 April. The course is for doctoral students, and is organized by the Knowledge Center for Education, at the University of Stavanger.
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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
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Greenhouse Research Talk Series panel discussion by Magne Drangeid, University of Stavanger, Marion G. Stavsøien NTNU in Trondheim, and Per Esben Svelstad, NTNU in Trondheim.. Hybrid event.
Hulda Garborgs hus and online
"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.
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Melissa Bond, associate professor 2 at the Knowledge Center for Education, has been appointed as a member of the editorial board of the journal Review of Education.
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What factors make the relationship work well between the kindergarten and multilingual parents? A forthcoming, systematic review will address this topic. The research project is presented as a protocol in KCE's new journal - Nordic Journal of Systematic Reviews in Education.
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.
The Nordic Journal of Systematic Reviews in Education (NJSRE) announces the first publication.
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The artist Hans Baumann has received a Fulbright-scholarship to spend four months at the University of Stavanger working on his film project "Carbon Permanence". The project examines the complex ethics of Norway’s energy transition, with a particular emphasis on the role of oil in shaping a post-fossil fuel future.
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The EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (MSCA) are an attractive and prestigious mobility award that give researchers from all over the world the opportunity to work for two years in a European country. The newly announced awards include two fellows who will undertake research at The Greenhouse.
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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.
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How can we understand animals as being at home with human-built infrastructure?
Radioactive Waste Spatialities, Materialities and Societies in the Nordic Region, 1960s to 1990s
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A comprehensive meta-analysis of prior research has found, overall, that children ages 1 to 8 were less likely to understand picture books when they read the digital, versus the printed version. However, when digital picture books contain the right enhancements that reinforce the story content, they outperform their print counterparts.
Why are Vikings and the Norse past increasingly popular?
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.