Author: jelmer
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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…
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RMeS Masterclass: “Mediating Water and Memory: Towards Hydro-citizenship” with Jo Garde-Hansen – Dr. Linda Kopitz & Dr. Carolyn Birdsall (10 September 2026)
Category: EventsTags: climate change, drought, environmental humanities, flooding, vrije universiteit amsterdam, waterLiving with or without water depends on what we choose to remember or forget, and how we use archival knowledge and living memories to adapt. On Thursday, 10 September 2026, Jo Garde-Hansen (University of Leeds) will join us for an RMeS Masterclass on “Mediating Water and Memory”. See our website…
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VENI grant for EHC board member Marilena Mela
Category: NewsTags: energy transitions, environmental humanities, environmental humanities center, heritage, landscape, researchStudying how people relate to their environments through history, culture, and place can provide essential knowledge amidst the climate crisis. Unearth, Re-earth researches how heritage is mobilised to resist environmental damage and imagine more sustainable futures. It examines three landscapes shaped by mining and energy extraction in the Netherlands, Greece,…
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Student Blog: ‘Grounding Reparations’ – Sabi Falgás Ortega
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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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…