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
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
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).
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...
Literary Birding in Taiwan
Endre Harvold Kvangraven describes the experience of a research trip to Taiwan as part of his PhD studies at the Univers...
The Osage, Automobility, and the Environment in Sundown (1934)
UiS post-doctoral researcher Daniel Bowman writes about John Joseph Mathews’s 1934-novel Sundown, and the use of automob...
The Greenhouse Centre’s permafrost expert invited to ‘first of its kind’ workshop in Paris
Charlotte Wrigley attends 'Thinking Through Permafrost' workshop
Animesh Chatterjee brings the Greenhouse and ICOHTEC in dialogue
Chatterjee elected on the Executive Committee of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Researching the unnoticed connections between petroculture and cultural heritage
Professor Dolly Jørgensen has won funding to research the links between cultural heritage and petrocultures and their co...
Combining art and science in a film project on the ethical challenges of the Green Transition
The artist Hans Baumann has received a Fulbright-scholarship to spend four months at the University of Stavanger working...
Indigenous stories, and the weather in Calcutta: Two new Marie Curie postdoctoral fellows at The Greenhouse
The EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (MSCA) are an attractive and prestigious mobility award that give r...
New research centre at UiS: The Greenhouse
The Greenhouse was established as a research group in 2017 and quickly distinguished itself worldwide as a leading prof...
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 publication 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.
