Category: Events
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Film Night at Cinema De Vlugt: Soil, Water and Climate Justice
Category: EventsVoedselpark Amsterdam, a partner in our JUST ART project, invites you to a film night exploring soil, water and climate justice. Aldo Ramos, PhD candidate at VU, will be part of the concluding panel. Join artists, researchers and activists for a conversation, followed by drinks and snacks from the Lutkemeerpolder.…
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Lunch Lecture: ‘More Than Material: Living Plants as Artistic Collaborators’ – Dr. Minna Valjakka (27 October 2026)
On Tuesday, 27 October 2026, Dr. Minna Valjakka will deliver a lunch lecture at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, discussing the increasing attention to working with living plants among East and Southeast Asian artists. Building on her ongoing study Plants, Knowledge, and Contemporary Arts in East and Southeast Asia, she will discuss…
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Film screening: “Singing’ in the Rain” with introduction by Judith Keilbach
Category: EventsOn the 14th of October, Rialto VU Griffioen will host a special screening of Singin’ in the Rain as part of the Fiction & Science series. EHC board member Dr. Judith Keilbach will provide an introduction to offer an eco-materialist reading of this classic musical film. See our website for…
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EHC Welcomes Three New PhD Candidates
Category: NewsThe Environmental Humanities Center welcomes three new PhDs who have started as of this September. Aldo Esparza Ramos and Leon Lapa Pereira in the project JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research, and Karmen Samson in the project Synthetic Adventures: (un)sustainability and (dis)comfort in the design,…
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JUST ART Roundtable: What Can Art Do For Climate Justice?
Category: EventsOur JUST ART consortium is organizing an evening roundtable discussion on “What can art do for climate justice?” on Thursday 17 September at 19.00 – 20.30 CEST. You are very welcome to join the event in Groningen or follow the discussion online! See our website for more details.
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External Announcement: Call for Abstracts and Sessions – GSC 2027 (closes 25 October 2026)
Category: EventsWhat have we learned from more than a decade of working with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and what needs to change as we approach 2030? Submissions are now open for the Groningen Sustainability Conference 2027 (GSC 2027), taking place on 5-10 April 2027 at the University of Groningen in…
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Symposium: Too Close! The Pleasures and Perils of an Entangled Existence
Category: EventsTags: aesthetics, contemporary art, entanglement, environmental humanities, human-non-human interrelationsWhat does it mean to say that everything is relational and everything is connected? What possibilities and perils emerge when we understand entanglement to be a fundamental condition of life? These are some of the questions guiding the symposium ‘Too Close! The Pleasures and Perils of an Engtangled Existence’, happening…
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External Announcement: ‘Connecting citizens and systems: practical lessons for the energy transition’
Category: EventsHow can we better connect citizens, policy and energy systems in the transition to sustainable neighbourhoods? Over the past four years, the NWO research project ALIGN4energy has brought together researchers and practitioners to explore this question. On the 24th of September, the project will host a general assembly to discuss findings and meet researchers and professionals working on these challenges. See our website for more information.
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External Announcement: Local Conference Of Youth 2026 – the climate summit for and by young people!
Category: EventsOn 18 and 19 September 2026, LCOY NL will take place again: the place for young people to come together, learn new things and take action for the climate. And we’re not doing this alone: a Global Conference of Youth is organised in more than 100 countries! See our website…
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Symposium: Living Heritage in and beyond Amstelpark
Category: EventsTags: environmental humanities, environmental humanities center, human-animal-relations, symposium, vrije universiteit amsterdamOn the 1st of October 2026, Zone2Source, the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam and UvA Critical Heritage Ecologies invite various speakers to mark the occasion of 1 year Zoöp Amstelpark, which was launched on 4th of October 2025. Together, we will explore if the Amstelpark heritage as a site of a…