Below is an overview of environmental humanities research groups within our larger network in The Netherlands and Belgium. If you work in the Netherlands and would like to join the Dutch Environmental Humanities mail-list, please contact Dr. Kristine Steenbergh.
The Netherlands
The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Humanities Cluster
- Green Web Humanities Cluster (connected to the International Institute for Social History (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis); Huygens Instituut; Meertens Instituut)
- Contact: communicatie@bb.huc.knaw.nl
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- PROJECT: Violence and the Environment
Protestant Theological University (Protestantse Theologische Universiteit)
- PROJECT: “Grond”, project lead Dr. Mirella Klomp (mcmklomp@pthu.nl)
- Contact: Dr. Eveline de Smalen (erdesmalen@pthu.nl)
Radboud University
- RICH Environmental Humanities (connected to the Radboud Center for Sustainability Challenges)
- Contact: Prof. M.G.E. Boyden (michael.boyden@ru.nl); Prof. F. Mehring (frank.mehring@ru.nl); Dr. N. de Haan (nathalie.dehaan@ru.nl); Prof. M. Oele (marjolein.oele@ru.nl)
University of Groningen (RUG)
- Environmental Humanities Network (connected to the Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development and the Research Centre for Historical Studies
- Contact: Teun Joshua Brandt (t.j.brandt@rug.nl); Femke Kramer (f.l.kramer@rug.nl); Iva Peša (i.pesa@rug.nl); ehn@rug.nl
Tilburg University
- Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences
- Contact: Department of Communication and Cognition (tshd.dcc@tilburguniversity.edu); Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence (http://tshd.dca@tilburguniversity.edu); Department of Culture Studies (tshd.dcu@tilburguniversity.edu); Department of Philosophy (tshd.dfi@tilburguniversity.edu); Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication (Ticc) (ticc@tilburguniversity.edu); Liberal Arts and Sciences (liberalarts@tilburguniversity.edu).
- Tilburg Sustainability Center
- Contact: Prof. dr. Reyer Gerlagh, Asel Doranova (tsc@tilburguniversity.edu).
Leiden University
- Environmental Humanities Research Group
- Contact: Dr. Johannes Müller (j.m.muller@hum.leidenuniv.nl); Dr. Laura Bertens (l.m.f.bertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
Maastricht University
- Arts, Media and Culture (AMC) research programme
- Contact: Prof. Susan Schreibman (director); Dr. Tullio Viola (academic secretary, t.viola@maastrichtuniversity.nl).
- Globalization, Transnationalism and Development (GTD) research programme
- Contact: Dr. Brigitte Le Normand (director, b.lenormand@maastrichtuniversity.nl).
- Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS)
- Contact: Prof. Cyrus Mody (director, c.mody@maastrichtuniversity.nl).
- PROJECT: Moving Animals: A History of Science, Media and Policy in the Twentieth Century (Prof. Raf de Bont, r.debont@maastrichtuniversity.nl)
- PROJECT: Towards an Ecology of Technoscience (Prof. Massimiliano Simons)
- PROJECT: Managing Scarcity and Sustainability (Prof. Cyrus Mody)
Utrecht University
- Network for Environmental Humanities (connected to the Pathways to Sustainability “Critical Pathways” research group)
- Contact: neh@uu.nl; Prof. Dr. Liesbeth van de Grift (l.vandegrift@uu.nl).
- PROJECT: Conceptualizing Ecocide
- PROJECT: “Whose Ocean?”
- ERC PROJECT: Ecologies of Violence: Crimes against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination (Dr. Susanne Knittel; Contact: s.c.knittel@uu.nl)
University of Amsterdam
- Environment & Society
- Contact: Prof. Peter H. van Dam (p.h.vandam@uva.nl)
Wageningen University & Research
- Economic and Environmental History Group
- Contact: office.rhi@wur.nl
- Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group
- Contact: Prof. F. Alpizar Rodriguez; secretary MEM Schurink-Heitkonig
- Sociology of Development and Change Group
- Wageningen Centre of Sustainability Governance
- Contact: GA. Iordachescu
- Wageningen Philosophy Group
- Wageningen School of Social Sciences
- Contact: Dr.ir. E.S. Roquas; Ir. H.J. Danen-Louwerse
Belgium
University of Antwerp
- Center for Research on Environmental and Social Change (CRESC)
- Contact: Prof. Frederic Vandermoere (frederic.vandermoere@uantwerpen.be)
- Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) research group
- Contact: Prof. Dr. Geert van der Snickt (geert.vandersnickt@uantwerpen.be)
- COMPOST Collective (philosophy)
KU Leuven
- CARL Centre for Archaeological Research of Landscapes
- Contact: Philip van Peer (director, philip.vanpeer@kuleuven.be)
- Fernando Gonzales Rodriguez: Ontologies and Nature Knowledge about Health in Visual Culture; Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema
- TRANSPACIFIC (Transpacific Trade, Exchange, and Environment) research project
- Crossroads Research Centre
- Contact: Angela Schottenhammer (director, angela.schottenhammer@kuleuven.be)
- ICAG (Interfaculty Centre for Agrarian History)
- Contact: Yves Segers (head research group, yves.segers@kuleuven.be); Kristel Janssens (administration, kristel.janssens@kuleuven.be)
LUCA School of Arts Brussel
- PROJECT: The Ten Thousand Things (De Tienduizend Dingen) (Wanwu 萬物): On entanglements of rural frontiers, indigeneity and the Anthropocene
- PROJECT: The Migrating Landscape (Het migrerende landschap): A diachronic research project into the representation and construction of landscapes through botanical exchanges between Patagonia and Europe
- PROJECT: Botanical and colour traces, ecological assemblages of interstitial and precarious landscapes
- PROJECT: Deep histories fragile memories