Category: News
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EHC Special Event: Kenny Cupers, The Earth that Modernism Built
Category: NewsProfessor Cuper’s lecture at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (15 april) explores the roots of the modernist project – both heroic and tragic – to design the human by reshaping the environment, from the domestic sphere to the earth at large.
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Environmental Humanities Reading Group
Category: NewsTags: ecoambiguity, ecocriticism, environmental art criticism, environmental history, environmental humanities, reading groupOne of the initiatives pitched at our Birthday Event last year is a new Environmental Humanities Reading Group. Their next meeting, focused on ecoambiguity, is on 21 February on the VU Campus.
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Board member Sjoerd Kluiving at Dutch Design Week
Category: NewsOur board member Sjoerd Kluiving took part in a panel on design in the Anthropocene during Dutch Design Week. A video of the discussion is now available.
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Newsletter European Society for Environmental History in the Benelux
Category: NewsThe Autumn newsletter of the Benelux section of the European Society for Environmental History
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Plastic Diet – our experiences
Category: NewsTags: containers, experiences, glass, microplastics, plastic, plastic diet, recycling, waste, wrappingOur board members share their experiences with trying to reduce our plastic use during the #PlasticDiet last month.
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Symposium Producers-Parasites-Hosts (VU, 4 October)
Category: NewsAnnabel Howland’s artistic research weaves a speculative web connecting art, science and finance. In her ongoing project P r o d u c e r s -P a r a s i t e s – H o s t s, such themes as cheating and cooperation, transparency and instability,…
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Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation
Category: NewsTags: human-animal-relationsOn April 4th and 5th, 2019, Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) will be hosting a Graduate Conference on “Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation.” This conference aims to rethink the relationships between humans and animals, in order to examine the ways in which these relationships are defined.
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After rain comes beer
Category: NewsContinuing the conversation started during the Water and the City Event, Petra van Dam sees new possibilities for the VU Green Roof.
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We’re on a Plastic Diet
Category: NewsFrom 1 September, the Environmental Humanities Center will participate in the Plastic Diet, an international action to garner attention to the role of single-use plastic in environmental problems.
