Category: Events
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Lunch Lecture on “Reforming the Herd” by Dr. Wesley Mwatwara – Thursday June 26 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…
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Symposium “Water Pasts & Futures: (In)securing water in times of drought” September 30th 2025 at VU Amsterdam
Category: EventsWe would like to hereby point your attention to the conference on the histories and futures of water and drought, organised by the VU projects Dealing with Drought and PerfectSTORM, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI) and the Drought in the Anthropocene network (DitA) set to take place at VU…
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Lunch Lecture on “Heritage in Environmental Activism and Landscape Stewardship” by Dr. Marilena Mela – Thursday 22 May 2025
We want to hereby warmly welcome you to the fourth lunch lecture in the Environmental Humanities Center’s lunch lecture series! In this lecture Dr. Marilena Mela will discuss the roles heritage can play in the environmental humanities through case-studies pertaining to environmental activism and landscape stewardship in which heritage is…
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Hybrid Symposium “More-than-Human Worlds in Artistic Research” with the universities of Bristol and Stavanger – Wednesday 14 May 2025
Category: EventsThis hybrid, synchronous symposium focuses on the place of the arts within the environmental humanities, and how creative work helps us become attuned to more-than-human forms of intelligence, agency and sentience, and is held on May 14th, 2025. It brings together three artistic research practitioners based in Norway, the Netherlands, and the…
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Events Spring 2025
Category: EventsLunch lectures in the VU Library LoungeApril 10th 12:00-13:00 Dr. Maria-Kyveli: Crafting with Radiotoxicity – Feminist Approaches to Nuclear Materials in Art during the Cold War May 22nd 12:00-13:00 Dr. Marilena Mela: Heritage in Environmental Activism and Landscape StewardshipJune – To be announced Reading group sessions in the Environmental Humanities…
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Lunch Lecture on “Crafting with Radiotoxicity” by Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou – Thursday 10 April 2025
We invite you to join the third lunch lecture of our lunch lecture series to learn more about Cold War art through a feminist lens. In this lunch lecture, historian of modern and contemporary art Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou will discuss radiotoxic approaches to art by female artists during times of…
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Lecture on “Blue Diversity: Drinking water in the Netherlands, 1500-1850” by prof. dr. Petra van Dam – Tuesday 8 April 2025
Category: EventsTags: MediaImage: A water seller in Naples offers a glass of water as refreshment to a woman who is carrying a large bundle under her arm, 1800-1899. London. The Wellcome Collection. We would like to draw your attention to a lunch lecture by to environmental historian prof. dr. Petra van Dam.…
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Zonnebloemprotest, Reclaim the Seeds, and Environmental Humanities Center event
Category: EventsBy Lucienne Walstra On February 18 2025, the Environmental Humanities Center and VU Green Office hosted Voedselpark Amsterdam’s Zonnebloemprotest and Reclaim the Seeds for a seed-sorting session at the VU’s main entrance. Stationed at a large table covered with flyers and banners about local food justice movements, lessons on sunflower…
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Conference “Navigating the Anthropocene” January 30th 2025 at VU Amsterdam
Category: EventsWe would like to hereby direct your attention to the VU Conference “Shared Pathways to a Sustainable and Just Future: Navigating the Anthropocene” which will take place on location in Amsterdam on Thursday January 30th 2025 between 9:00 and 17:00. The conference includes keynote lectures, workshops, debates and experiential experiments…
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Lunch Lecture on “Thinking about Drinking – Water Consciousness and Blue Diversity in the History of the Republic” by prof. dr. Petra van Dam – Thursday 12 December 2024
Image: A water seller in Naples offers a glass of water as refreshment to a woman who is carrying a large bundle under her arm, 1800-1899. London. The Wellcome Collection. We would like to welcome you to the third Environmental Humanities Center lunch lecture to learn more about Dutch water…