Category: Events
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Theory and Practice in the Lukemeerpolder: reflecting on participatory research
Author: Lucía Gennari 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. In one of our class sessions, we had a thought-provoking discussion with an expert on transdisciplinary and participatory research.…
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Discovering the Lutkemeerpolder Area: A Journey Through Multispecies Relationships
Category: EventsAuthor: Lucia Gennari In April, our group decided to take a more comprehensive tour around the surroundings of Lutkemeer, visiting nearby parks, gardens, and cycling paths. This exploration allowed us to immerse ourselves in the natural beauty of the polder and meet both human and nonhuman beings that inhabit or…
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The Lutkemeerpolder as a place of slow growth in ever-accelerating temporalities
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: Hannah Heath My first impression of the Lutkemeerpolder is that of a place of slow growth, manifested in its eco-farming and…
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Learning to See Differently and Opening up to Deep Time
Note: 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: Emrys Karlas Since I grew up near the city’s western border, my familiarity with the Lutkemeerpolder began long before…
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Symposium “Multatuli and the Animal Kingdom” at VU Amsterdam on June 13
Category: EventsImage: Raden Saleh, Boschbrand. 1849, National Gallery Singapore. On 13 June, prof. dr. Jacqueline Bel (VU) organizes a symposium on the Dutch author Multatuli and the animal kingdom. EHC board member Kristine Steenbergh will present on “the worms in the sago palm.” The symposium is in Dutch. Please sign up…
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EHC Lunch Lecture on May 28
Our next lunch lecture event will feature two PhD researchers. Lisa Ausic, Phd Candidate in anthropology, VU Amsterdam: Vegetalizing the body, vegetalizing the self: Shipibo-Konibo herbalism, “people-making” and interspecies sameness in the Peruvian Amazon Luca Filaci, PhD Candidate in philosophy, University of Cagliari: Intrinsic animality and relational immanence: Possible paths…
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RMA transdisciplinary course to focus on Lutkemeerpolder in Amsterdam-West
Lutkemeer Reflections With the students of our ‘Environmental Humanities’ Master’s Program, the Environmental Humanities Center is engaging with the pressing case of the Amsterdam Lutkemeerpolder. Situated at the western border of Amsterdam, the polder holds the last agricultural ground of the city. However, the municipality has decided to transform it…
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EHC Lunch Lecture Series: Next Event April 9
Join us for our series of Lunch Lectures hosted by the Environmental Humanities Center. In this session on April 9, Dr. Madhura Rao from the Athena Institute will be discussing her research on food systems with the lecture “Eating in an Era of Radical Food Innovation: Reflections on the Changing Meanings of…
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EHC Lecture Series Environmental Justice: Emily Eliza Scott on Tracking Inequity
Category: EventsIn this EHC lecture on 19 September (18.30hrs, VU Amsterdam), Emily Eliza Scott will share from her book-in-progress on art that traces, and thereby actively attempts to resist, various forms of environmental violence as writ into land, air, and water.
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EHC Lecture: Tracking Inequity with Emily Eliza Scott
Category: EventsWe hope you can join us for a lecture with Emily Eliza Scott, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. Title: Tracking Inequity: Contemporary Art and Environmental Justice Place: VU Amsterdam Date: September 19 Time: 18:30 More information and registration here.