Category: News
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Symposium: Watermanagement before 1800 (in Dutch)
Category: NewsStudiemiddag: veenontginningen en waterbeheer voor 1800 Nederland is ontstaan uit het moeras, althans Laag-Nederland. We zijn begonnen als ontginners van de grote venen in de kustvlakte, en de eeuwen daarna zakten we er langzaam in weg. Daarom moesten we dijken gaan bouwen en polderbesturen oprichten. Deze studiemiddag presenteert nieuwe onderzoeksresultaten over de…
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Environmental Humanities & Waste event + Excursion
Category: NewsTags: consumerism, design, excursion, literature, plastic, re-use, recycling, smart cities, waste, waste managementWith Alice Twemlow, Rachele Dini, and Dave Hakkens Friday 10 February, 2017 At this event, we invite you to confront and ponder an object that we usually wish dispose of quickly. To examine waste in all its materiality, we invite 15 people to join us on a morning excursion to…
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EHC Special Event: Christopher Preston on Climate Engineering
Category: NewsEHC Special Event in cooperation with the Faculty of Theology Friday 13 January, 13.15 – 14.45h Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building, room 10A20 Christopher Preston Climate Engineering: When Humans Enter the Domain of God(s) Proposals to engineer the climate in order to push back against warming global temperatures are gaining…
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Landscape Event: Report by Tim Renders
Category: NewsTags: agriculture, eco-museum, environmental humanities center, heritage, landscape, landscape studies, romanticism, vrije universiteit amsterdamWhat is a landscape? For our second event we chose three guest speakers to deal with this broad topic. But first we acknowledged that the landscape is a natural phenomenon but heavily influenced by culture and thus mankind. So how do we deal with landscapes and how do we make…
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CFP: Agents in the Anthropocene
Category: NewsTags: Alistair Fuad-Luke, anthropocene, art, design, education, environmental humanities, Piet Zwart Institute, symposium, T. J. DemosAgents in the Anthropocene: Trans/disciplinary Practices in Art and Design Education Today symposium—call for presentations Piet Zwart Institute Master Education in ArtJanuary 26–28, 2017 Proposal deadline: December 16, 2016 The Master of Education in Arts, Piet Zwart Institute is pleased to announce an open call for presentations for the two-day…
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Regarding Nature in Huis Marseille
Category: NewsChrystel Lebas, Regarding Nature Huis Marseille, 10 December 2016- 5 March 2017 Chrystel Lebas revisits negatives of the British Landscape from the early twentieth century made by botanist and ecologist Sir Edward James Salisbury (1886-1978). Since Huis Marseille does not allow reproduction of text or images from their site, please…
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Follow us on Facebook!
Category: NewsThe Environmental Humanities Center now also has a Facebook page. All events that the EHC organizes will be announced on our Facebook page, on a newsfeed, as well as here on our website. A place where everyone is welcome to share their ideas, our Facebook…
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Lecture on the law and climate activism
Category: NewsJaap Spier will be interviewed in Spui25 (in Dutch) on his work in legal climate activism. Spier is one of the authors of the Oslo Principles, a set of Principles that comprise the essential obligations States and enterprises have to avert the critical level of global warming. Jaap Thielbeeke interviews…
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Brief introduction to animal rights
Category: NewsThe latest addition to the Dutch book series “Elementaire deeltjes” is a book on animal rights, Dierenrechten. Historian Dirk-Jan Verdonk explores past, present and future of the moral position ascribed to animals in theology, philosophy, science, law, and policy. Which responsibility do people have for animal welfare? Dirk-Jan Verdonk is…
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Expecting the Unexpected: Getting Ready for a Wild Anthropocene
Category: NewsLecture by Christopher Preston at the University of Amsterdam In 2016 the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy officially found that Earth has entered the Anthropocene. The purpose of this talk is to raise some questions surrounding the naming of this new epoch and to challenge some…