Author: kristinesteenbergh
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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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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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Staying With the Trouble with Four Siblings
Category: EventsOn November 11th, the Research Master’s students in Environmental Humanities visited Four Siblings as part of the seminar Staying With the Trouble: Environmental Activism, taught by Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou. What follows is a reflection by two students, Jelmer Groenenboom and Veronica Rossi, on the wide range of topics discussed during…
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Book Launch “The Future of Memory” by Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic – Friday October 24 2025
Category: EventsThe Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam would like to share the invitation to the upcoming book launch for: The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive How archivists work with and against production industries to preserve the moving image. By Jimi Jones and Marek…
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EHC Lecture “Seeing Soil Live” by Dr. Vasilis Kokkoris and Annabel Howland – Thursday November 13 2025
Category: EventsImage: Annabel Howland, Arbuscule-No14, pen-and-ink drawing, 2023. Soil, and the fungi that inhabit it, have become key topics in Environmental Humanities’ engagements with concepts like symbiosis or multispecies entanglements. Why is that so? The Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam is looking forward to welcoming artist Annabel Howland and systems ecologist Vasilis…
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“De stroom van verandering: waterkwaliteit als maatschappelijke uitdaging” – Anniversary Symposium Schilthuisfonds & Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis
Category: EventsWe would like to point your attention to the Schilthuisfonds and Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis’ upcoming anniversary symposium, titled “De stroom van verandering: waterkwaliteit als maatschappelijke uitdaging.” Among the speakers is EHC Board Member prof. dr. Petra van Dam, who will talk about her research into the environmental history of drinking…
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Theme Table: “Energy, Environment & Progress”
Category: EventsWe are excited to announce that you can now visit the first Environmental Humanities theme table, centered around the topic of Energy, Environment & Progress. This theme table was created alongside a new reading group for master’s students in the Environmental Humanities program. The first session focused on energy and…
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Hydropoetics: Surfacing with Haunted Waters – Guest Lecture by Joanne Peers
Category: EventsDr. Joanne Peers inviting students to a water ritual, picture by Kristine Steenbergh Last week, we had the honor of welcoming Dr. Joanne Peers (Researcher at the Origins Centre at The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) for a lecture to our Research Master Students and colleagues. She was in Amsterdam…
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Public Symposium “Protestantse milieugeschiedenis” – Wednesday 8 October 2025 at VU Amsterdam
Category: EventsWe would like to point your attention to the HDC Center for Religious History’s forthcoming event “Protestantse Milieugeschiedenis”, held in conjunction with the 2025 Month of History and its central theme “Natuurlijk” (“Natural”). During the event, prof. dr. Peter van Dam (University of Amsterdam) and prof. dr. David Onnekink (Utrecht…
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Lunch Lecture: ‘Reforming the Herd’ – Dr. Wesley Mwatwara (26 June 2025)
Image: Mahsona cattle in Zimbabwe. Photograph by Dr. Wesley Mwatwara We would like to hereby extend the invitation to the final lunch lecture in this year’s Environmental Humanities Center lunch lecture series!In this lecture socio-environmental historian Dr. Wesley Mwatwara will explore how colonial authorities attempted to reshape African livestock regimes by…