Gitte Westergaard

Ekstern tilknyttet UiS

Fakultet for utdanningsvitenskap og humaniora
Institutt for kultur- og språkvitenskap
HG N-317

Bio

I am a PhD candidate affiliated with the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at UiS. My research explores how museum practices and heritage management shape human understandings of nature. I hold a B.A. in history of ideas and an M.A. in sustainable heritage management from Aarhus University. 

I am currently working with the research project Beyond Dodos and Dinosaurs: Displaying Extinction and Recovery in Museums led by Professor Dolly Jørgensen financed by the Norwegian Research Council. My project engages with the present mass extinction crisis through colonial collections of island specimens. 

I work as the editorial assistant for Environmental Humanities. I am a member of the Norwegian researcher school in environmental humanities as well as the research school in radical interdisciplinarity.

Publikasjoner
  • Vitenskapelige publikasjoner
  • Bøker og kapitler
  • Formidling
    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2022)

      Øer, klimaforandringer og biokulturelle genstande .

      Havets Historier;

      2022-02-24 - .

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2022)

      Heritage.

      Hva er Historie?;

      2022-03-29 - .

    • Jørgensen, Dolly; Westergaard, Gitte

      (2022)

      Animal Remains Book Launch panel 2.

      Animal Remains Book Launch;

      2022-04-20 - 2022-04-21.

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2022)

      Creating Room for Response-ability beyond Cultural and Biological Binaries inside Museums .

      Green Transitions in Blue Museums;

      2022-09-07 - 2022-09-08.

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2021)

      Decolonising Animal Remains in Natural History Museums.

      Heritage & Colonialism Discussion Group;

      2021-05-04 - .

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2021)

      Storying Extinction beyond Natural History Museums.

      STREAMS: Transformative Environmental Humanities;

      2021-08-03 - 2021-08-06.

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2021)

      Bringing Extinction Back to Life: The Hawaiian Feather Cloak.

      Environment and Empire in the Museum ;

      2021-09-01 - .

    • Westergaard, Gitte; Maabjerg Mikkelsen, Anne; Samson, Kathleen; Attia, Yael

      (2021)

      Institutionalising the Non-Human: in conversation with Gitte Westergaard and Anne Maabjerg Mikkelsen.

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2021)

      Colonising & Decolonising.

      History through 20 Things;

      2021-09-23 - .

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2021)

      Ghostly Presence: Giant Lizards on Culebra Island.

      Towards an Environmental History of Islands;

      2021-11-17.

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2021)

      Panel: Conservation, Life and Afterlives.

      Extinction Studies across the Disciplines;

      2021-12-07.

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2021)

      Wildlife Dioramas: Natures without Humans .

      Environmental History Now.

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2020)

      Brita Brenna, Hans Dam Christensen and Olav Hamran (eds.): Museums as Cultures of Copies: The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity.

      Norsk museumstidsskrift.

      ISSN 2464-2525.

      Volum 6.

      Hefte 1.

      s.60-63.

      DOI: 10.18261/issn.2464-2525-2020-01-05

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2020)

      Extinction on Display.

      Topics in World Environmental History;

      2020-04-23 - .

    • Burke, Verity Alison; Westergaard, Gitte

      (2020)

      Jorge and Alfred: Multiple Bodies in Extinction Narratives.

      Extinction in Public;

      2020-10-16 - 2020-10-17.

    • Westergaard, Gitte

      (2019)

      To Catch, Pluck and Let Go: The ʻŌʻō and the ʻAhuʻula Feather Cloaks.

      Museums and Environmental Humanities ;

      2019-08-19 - .

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