Category: Events
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26 October 2024- Environmental Historian Richard C. Hoffmann at Leiden University
Category: EventsImage: Medieval Eel Rents in England, Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th Century. Lampreys. Folio 84r On Saturday the 26th of October from 13:30 to 14:30, Leiden University will welcome Richard C. Hoffmann for a presentation on his latest work on fish and fisheries in mediaeval Europe: The Catch (Cambridge University Press, 2023).…
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Lunch Lecture on “The State of Matter: Gas in the 19th Century Urban Environment” by Dr. Iris Burgers – Thursday 17 October 2024
Image: Jacobus Pelgrom, De gasfabriek van de Amsterdamsche Pijp-gaz Compagnie aan de Schans, 1840 – 1850. Amsterdam. Depot Amsterdam Museum. Please be welcome at the second lunch lecture of our lunch lecture series to learn more about the spatial dimension of the urban transition from coal to gas in the…
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Info session on Environmental Humanities Research Master track
Category: EventsOn Thursday 10 October 2024, join the online VU Master’s Event to find out more about the track Environmental Humanities in our Research Master programme. Explore the different programmes in the dedicated online rooms. You can use the live chat to learn more about studying the Environmental Humanities Research Master track. During…
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Symposium “What Wolves Want – Animal-Human-Connections in the Anthropocene” at VU Amsterdam on November 1
Category: EventsImage: “The Lone Wolf” by Alfred von Wierusz On November 1st 2024, CLUE+, ASI Biodiversity and Resources Cluster and the Environmental Humanities Center organise the symposium “What Wolves Want – Animal-Human-Connections in the Anthropocene” at VU Amsterdam. The symposium deals with the relationships between wolves and humans, and the wolves’…
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Call for International PhD Seminar Environmental History Spring 2025
Category: EventsWe would like to bring your attention to this call for a PhD seminar on environmental history that is set to take place in Middelburg coming June. Roosevelt Institute – Call for Papers Environmental History PhD Seminar in Middelburg Opportunities for pursuing research in environmental history are expanding in the…
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Invitation to RE:Nature Festival for Art & Nature at Ruigoord
Category: EventsJoin us in attending this year’s RE:Nature Festival, which takes place at Ruigoord in Amsterdam! On September 21 & 22 at Ruigoord (Amsterdam), you can enjoy a weekend full of green inspiration. The festival offers a diverse program with workshops, talks, walks, ceremonies, art projects, dinners, market stalls, concerts, films…
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Lunch Lecture on “The Raw Nature of Cinema” by Dr. Marek Jancovic – Thursday 19 September 2024
Join us for the inaugural Environmental Humanities Center lunch lecture of the 2024/2025 academic year to learn more about the organic material components of film production history from Dr. Marek Jancovic. This lunch lecture takes place on Thursday the 19th of September 2024 from 12:45 until 13:30 in the Environmental Humanities…
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Online work-in-progress seminar “Bodies of Water” on September 13
Category: EventsImage: George K. Gillespie Rua, On the River Shannon, Corbally, County Limerick. Eaking Gallery, Belfast. We would like to draw your attention to the following event, set to take place online on September 13th 2024. The OSL Sustainable Humanities research group will be hosting an online work-in-progress seminar on “bodies…
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8,000-year-old marine clay drilled up! Interdisciplinary Summer Field Visit to Lutkemeerpolder
Category: EventsBy Sjoerd Kluiving On Monday, July 15, during an Environmental Humanities Center field trip to organic farm De Boterbloem in the Lutkemeerpolder, a core was taken (and then returned to the borehole) with the aim of learning something of the (deep) history of the subsurface. For a start, the farm…
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Nourishing Connection: Activism, Friendship, and Care
This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. Author: Lucienne Walstra My original plan for this blog post was to discuss care on the Luktemeerpolder with a dear friend of…