Category: News
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Prof. Dr. Judith Keilbach joins the board of the EHC Amsterdam
Category: NewsTags: board membersWe are pleased to announce that three new members have joined the board of the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam. This is the first in a series of three posts introducing them. Judith Keilbach is Professor of Media and Culture at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on media infrastructures, which…
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Phd Position: Art and Regenerative Entrepreneurship (closes 15 March 2026)
Category: NewsWe are hiring! We are excited to announce the second PhD position on “Art and Regenerative Entrepreneurship” within the JUST ART research consortium, in collaboration with the Hogeschool van Amsterdam Center for Economic Transformation. The project engages artistic and arts-based solutions for the challenges that entrepreneurs face when striving to…
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Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies (closes 15 March 2026)
Category: NewsWe are hiring! We are excited to announce a PhD position on “Art and Soil Ecologies” within the JUST ART research consortium. The project engages with the vital role crucial role soil plays within climate justice. We are looking for candidates eager to explore arts-based and artistic research approaches to…
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New research project announcement: JUST ART – artistic research and climate justice
Category: NewsTags: climate justice, creative methods, just art, phd, regenerative business, regenerative entrepreneurship, research project, soilWe are delighted to share that in January 2026, our large new research consortium ‘JUST ART’ on art research and climate justice took off. Bringing together artists, researchers, campaigners and communities in rural and urban regions across the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the coming six years, the consortium (led…
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“Art can open the eyes” — Interview with Prof. Dr. Katja Kwastek
Category: NewsKatja Kwastek was recently interviewed by Idea magazine for social sciences and humanities alumni about the project JUST ART.
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BURN-OUT: Call for Fellows Het Nieuwe Instituut
Category: NewsThrough its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Department acknowledges and gives visibility to research projects offering departures from established modes of thinking and practice. For this iteration of the Call for Fellows, the Research Department has selected the theme of BURN-OUT. Exhaustion on a Planetary Scale.
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LUCAS 2019 Graduate Conference – Animals: Theory, Practice, Representation
Category: NewsOn April 4th and 5th, 2019, Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) will be hosting a conference called, Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation. This graduate conference is an international and interdisciplinary platform where PhD and master students can present, exchange, and discuss research results and innovative theoretical insights…
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TERRANOVA call for PhDS
Category: News15 PhD vacancies within the TERRANOVA International Training Network
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Launch Kunstlicht journal on Nuclear Aesthetics
Category: NewsOn April 16th, at FramerFramed (Amsterdam) the Environmental Humanities Center will join forces with the Kunstlicht journal to launch the journal issue on „Nuclear Aesthetics“.
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Workshop: Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature
Category: NewsIn honour of World Water Day 2019, the Society for Water History and the Environmental Humanities Center organize a workshop on the theme of Water Safety and Unsafety and concepts of nature, on Thursday March 21 at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam.