Category: News
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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.
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EVENT 15 November 2018: Environmental Humanities & Outer Space
Category: NewsTags: biocentricity, biodiversity, interdisciplinarity, Mars, Moon, outer space, South Pole, space colonization, space travelOn 15 November 2018, the Environmental Humanities Center organizes an interdisciplinary event on the role of the humanities and social sciences in space exploration.
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PhD Candidate ‘Imagining the Rural in Contemporary British Culture’
Category: NewsA PhD position in an Environmental Humanities subject is available at the University of Amsterdam in Esther Peeren’s ERC Consolidator project Imagining the Rural in a Globalizing World/RURALIMAGINATIONS.
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Lecture: Climate Phantasms and the Image of Ice
Category: NewsThis lecture by Dr. Amanda Boetzkes at ASCA will consider how images of ice are activated by the phantasms of climate change. It will address aesthetic renderings of ice in the blind spot between scientific and Inuit knowledge of climate change.
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Microplastics Event: Invisible Invaders, 14 June
Category: NewsMicroplastics are everywhere. Particles of plastic less than five millimeters in length (about the size of a sesame seed) find their way into the environment from many sources. These plastics are essentially indestructible; they do not biodegrade but break down into ever smaller pieces. At this interdisciplinary event, we explore…
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ARIAS: Arts & Ecology
Category: NewsHow do the arts and artistic research contribute to planetary-scale questions of ecological transformation and disaster? This evening will feature three examples of special ways in which the arts trace the cultural, political and social implications of local and global moving resources, showing the shifting contexts and social ecologies of…
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Lecture: The Life of Plants by Emanuele Coccia
Category: NewsThis Stevin Seminar (CLUE+) addresses the life of plants from philosophical, biological and artistic perspectives.