Lost and Found: The Emotions Behind Extinction

How fundamental are emotions to the ways in which contemporary humans relate to nonhumans?

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Join us as we welcome guest lecturer Dr. Dolly Jørgensen, Professor of History at the University of Stavanger, Norway, who specializes in histories of human-animal relations. Her 2019 book Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging is a ‘groundbreaking study of how emotions motivate attempts to counter species loss.’ 

Jørgensen will tell us about how fundamental emotions are to the ways in which contemporary humans relate to nonhumans — despite our reliance on scientific principles. We’ll also learn why a sustainable future depends on questioning how and why belonging and longing factor into the choices we make about what to recover.

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About the speaker:

Dr. Dolly Jørgensen is a Professor of History in the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages at University of Stavanger, Norway [UiS]. She is the co-editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Humanities and co-director of The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at Uis. She is also part of Remembering Extinction, a research program exploring how narratives of species extinction and recovery from near extinction are constructed, perpetuated, and put into practice.

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This lecture is open & free to the public and has been made possible by the University of Houston Department of History.

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Light bites and refreshments will be provided.

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