Category: Lunch Lectures
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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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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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…