Category: Events
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Grounding Reparations – Sabi Falgás Ortega (Student Blog)
Category: NewsOn the 8th of May 2026, Prof. Kathryn Yusoff delivered a lecture titled “Inhuman Reparations” at the University of Amsterdam for the New Tendencies in Critical Theory Series. Sabi Falgás Ortega, a second-year student from the RMA Environmental Humanities, shares their thoughts on the question of how to reach for reparations while addressing harm in its…
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Lecture: ‘On How Emotions Matter in Climate Transitions’ – Anne Jesuina Tobias de Andrade (26 June 2026)
Category: EventsTags: climate change, climate justice, colonialism, emotions, environmental humanities, lecture, natureIn the lecture ‘On How Emotions Matter in Climate Transitions: Emotional Dynamics and Decision-Making in Zoöps Through an Embodied and Politicized Lens’, Anne Jesuina will explore how the systemic denial of the embodied dimension hinders moving into constructive and meaningful climate transitions and how challenging emotions often end up reinforcing…
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Workshop: ‘Weathering Together’ – Astrida Neimanis (2 July 2026)
Category: EventsWhat does it mean to weather, together? Climate change bears down on us not only as an atmospheric event but as a political, social, and embodied reality, one that is felt unevenly across different bodies, communities, and landscapes. In this workshop, feminist environmental scholar Astrida Neimanis guides participants through the concept…
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Introducing Plato’s Garden: an educators’ movement for nature-based learning
Category: NewsPlato’s Garden is a bottom-up, cross-faculty educators’ movement aimed at promoting nature-based pedagogy (NBP). It unites academics interested in learning with nature, instead of only learning about it. Interested in learning more or collaborating? Read the full article on our website.
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Full programme announced: media/environment – Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis (26+27 August 2026)
Category: EventsTags: aesthetics, artificial intelligence, climate change, colonialism, conference, digital culture, film, film screening, sustainability, symposiumThe symposium “media/environment: Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis” at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam explores media’s entanglements with the environment through talks and discussions with global experts. Topics include the ecological impact of AI, colonial materialities of film, and many others. Read more on our website.
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Call for Papers: Supply Chain Criticism symposium (closes 3 August 2026)
Category: NewsIn the rush to fulfil the twinned promises of green and digital transition, state actors across the globe are rapidly mobilising and expanding extractive infrastructures to procure and secure the flow of rare earth elements and critical minerals. The Supply Chain Criticism symposium invites contributions from researchers and practitioners interested…
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Vacancy: two students assistants and one intern
Category: NewsThe Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam / Zoöp Amstelpark is looking for two student assistants (95 hrs. each in total) and one intern (12EC, ca. 330 hrs. in total), for a period from June 2026 to February 2027, to help with research in the NWO funded project “Emotional dynamics and decision-making…
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Online event: ‘Arts & The Environmental Humanities’ (13 May 2026)
Category: EventsWhat does it mean to do environmental humanities with or through the arts? This online event brings together researchers and practitioners working at this intersection. When: Wednesday 13 May 2026, 14:15-15:30 Where: Online (click on online for a link to the Zoom)as well as atThe Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesUniversity…
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A thank you to our students
Category: NewsNow that our two year Research Master track ‘Environmental Humanities’ has been running for nearly three years, and that the second cohort of students is busy writing their theses, we feel it is time to express our admiration and gratitude. What an incredible group of students, with not only each…
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External announcement: ‘Summer School Mainz: Resilient Humanscapes: Exploring Resiliencies in Human-Spatial Interactions’
Category: NewsAugust 17 to 21, 2026Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie in Mainz The Leibniz ScienceCampus is organizing the summer school “Resiliencies: Comparing and Integrating Methodologies, Methods, Narratives, and Theories – Mainz/Trier (RECOMENT),” devoted to the topic of resilient humanscapes. Aimed at postgraduate students, doctoral candidates, and postdoctoral researchers, the summer school invites participants…