Category: Events
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Lecture: ‘Blue Diversity: Drinking water in the Netherlands, 1500-1850’ – Prof. Dr. Petra van Dam (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: ‘Thinking about Drinking – Water Consciousness and Blue Diversity in the History of the Republic’ – Prof. Dr. Petra van Dam (12 December 2024)
Tags: waterImage: 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…
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Uitnodiging Studiedag “Water en Veranderingen in het Geschiedbeeld” – Woensdag 11 december
Category: EventsAfbeelding: Nicolaes Cruquius, Het eylandt West-Voorn of Goedereedemet de dieptens en de droogtens ronds-omme, tot aan den Hoek van Holland. 1734.Universiteitsbibliotheek, Utrecht. [This event is run in Dutch] De Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis en het Environmental Humanities Center van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam nodigen u van harte uit om de studiedag…
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Artist Talk Susanne Kriemann “Lupin, fougère, genêt” at Framer Framed on 26 November
Category: EventsImage: Susanne Kriemann, Lupin, fougère, genêt. 2024. L’Age Atomique, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam is delighted to welcome artist and lecturer Susanne Kriemann for an artist talk at Framer Framed on November 26th from 18:00 to 20:00. Susanne Kriemann will discuss the photographic project Lupin, fougère,…
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Online Seminar KU Leuven- Exploring Living Heritage for a Sustainable Future: Insights from the International ‘Water & Land’ Project – 14 November 2024
Category: EventsWe would like to hereby point your attention to the following online seminar of KU Leuven’s Interfaculty Centre for Agrarian History (ICAG) that is set to take place on the 14th of November 2024, 14:00-15:30. “Exploring Living Heritage for a Sustainable Future – Insights from the International ‘Water & Land’…
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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: ‘The State of Matter: Gas in the 19th Century Urban Environment’ – Dr. Iris Burgers (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…