Category: News
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Missed our Nuclear Waste Events?
Category: NewsIn October and November 2017, the Environmental Humanities Center organised the Nuclear Waste Weeks in cooperation with Anna Volkmar (Leiden University) and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (CRAL, EHESS). Nuclear waste is one of the major unsolved challenges of our time, raising an array of questions, from the possibilities and politics of storage…
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Lecture T.J. Demos: Against the Anthropocene
Category: NewsTags: anthropocene, eco-sexual economies, mutispecies ontologies, pedagogies, T. J. Demos, visual cultureTuesday December 12 17.30-19.00 uur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Lecture Hall 0B-60 Initium Building, ground floor De Boelelaan 1077 Behind Main Building, across from stop De Boelelaan/VU (tram 5/metro 51) Admission free; please register below. NB: Because of overwhelming interest, we are moving to a bigger lecture hall: 0B-60 in the…
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On Demons, Clay and Greek Mythology: A Visit to Nuclear Belgium
Category: NewsThis blog post shares some impressions from an excursion with the Environmental Humanities Center to an underground research laboratory for the storage of nuclear waste and an art exhibition on nuclear culture. By Anna Volkmar (Leiden University) On October 27, I went underground. Together with thirteen volunteers I descended into…
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Nuclear Waste Event: report
Category: NewsTags: Jantine Schröder, nuclear art, nuclear culture, nuclear storage, nuclear waste, Sven Lütticken, underground storageOur Nuclear Waste Weeks have come to a close. Student board member Ankie Petersen reports on the Nuclear Waste Event: Nuclear Waste Event During our Nuclear Waste Weeks, local and global news outlets talked about the extent of the pollution of sea water after the Fukushima disaster of 2011, an…
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Workshop: Earth Matters in the Museum
Category: NewsTags: anthropocene, ethnographic collections, Katja Kwastek, material culture, museum, planetary entanglement, sense of planet, Wayne ModestOn Thursday 28 September, 14-17hrs, the Research Center for Material Culture organises the workshop Earth Matters in the Museum: Planetary Entanglements and Precarities. The workshop is organised by Wayne Modest, professor (by special appointment) of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies in the faculty of humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.…
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Call for Papers
Category: NewsTags: call for papers, de-sensing, isa conference, senses, senses and society, sensory interaction, urban sensescapesPlease find below the call for abstracts for the International Sociological Association World Congress, July 2018 in Toronto, where our thematic group TG07 Senses & Society is organizing 9 panels and a business meeting. The deadline for abstract submission is 30th September 2017. Abstract submission – https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium436.html Panels organized by…
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New book: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
Category: NewsAmsterdam University Press has started a book series devoted to Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures. The first book in the series is just out: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination by Heide Estes. “Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of…
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Thin Ice: opening of academic year
Category: NewsThe opening of the academic year at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam focused on the question ‘Thin ice! What can science do to help?’, and explored what the arts can teach the sciences in the case of climate change – a topic we also explored last year at the Environmental Humanities Center.…
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On the Roof Film Festival – Sustainable edition
Category: NewsThe annual On the Roof Film Festival, held on the roof of the main building of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam this week, is devoted to the theme of Sustainability. Together with the Green Office, the organizers put together a programme of four films, talks, food, and drinks. For four evenings the…
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New publication: Environmental History and Water Management
Category: NewsDrought, flooding. Water is the main environmental problem of the near future, already the cause of wars. How did we deal with water in the past? This summer, the results of a large research project into the history of water were published in a special issue of the journal Environment…