Category: News
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Video: Libby Robin on Environmental Humanities in Practice
Category: NewsLibby Robin’s inspiring keynote at the launch of the Environmental Humanities Center on 4 November is now available online on our YouTube Channel. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVkue9YyjrI] Libby Robin is Professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, and affiliated professor at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,…
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Our Water Week
Category: NewsThis is the week of ‘Our Water’ (Ons Water). The water lobby in the Netherlands has designated this week to organize activities to increase our awareness of water as an important theme in our society, as a threat (sea level rise, cluster showers), but also as an essential resource (drinking…
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The Art of Deception
Category: NewsExhibition by Isaac Monté, in collaboration with Toby Kiers Mediamatic, Amsterdam, 04-10-’16 / 14-02-‘17 Exhibition review by: Tim Renders This exhibition discusses the human urge for perfection by displaying transformed pigs hearts that resemble the urge for inner beauty. Belgian design activist Isaac Monté cooperated for this project with evolutionary…
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CFP: Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms
Category: NewsTags: conference, environmental humanities, environmental posthumanities, new materialisms, posthumanismEnvironmental Humanities and New Materialisms The Ethics of Decolonizing Nature and Culture 8th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms 7-9 June 2017, Paris Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms share an ethic of decolonizing nature and culture, as they depart from anthropocentric and constructivist positions. Our call is to consider ourselves…
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Lecture on Biophilia in the Anthropocene by Artis professor Erik de Jong
Category: NewsTags: anthropocene, biophilia, Erik de Jong, human-animal-nature relations, nature-culture, Tirza BrüggemannBiophilia Lecture by Erik de Jong, Artis Professor (in Dutch) Friday 18 November, 15-17hrs at VU University Amsterdam, Main Building, room 1A-33 With a response by Tirza Brüggemann Erik de Jong holds the Artis Chair for Culture, Landscape and Nature at the University of Amsterdam. In his lecture he wonders…
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Workshop smARTcities and Waste Network
Category: NewsTechno-Scientific Innovation and Waste Opportunities and Consequences Van Eyck Institute, Maastricht 9th December 2016, 9.30-5pm The theme of the Maastricht workshop is Techno-Scientific Innovation and Waste; Opportunities and Consequences. This theme has developed “organically” from two main sources: The local context of Maastricht, particularly in relation to the post-industrial status…
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Landscape event (2 December)
Category: NewsTags: agricultural innovation, art, experience, landscape, landscape studies, literature, museumification, recreation, tourismThe question how people relate to the natural and built environment is central to landscape studies as well as the environmental humanities. On 2 December, three speakers address questions such as: Can landscape offer democratic answers to the problems that face the world’s environment? How does the preservation of built…
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The Center in the Press
Category: NewsThis weekend, an article on our Center appeared on a two-page spread in Elsevier. Science journalist Theo Toebosch interviewed Sjoerd Kluiving and Kristine Steenbergh about the center and its aims. We’re pleasantly surprised with our first appearance in the national press, since we hope to make connections with as many…
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Launch Environmental Humanities Center
Category: NewsTags: CLUE+, environmental humanities center, Libby Robin, museum, Oostvaardersplassen, rewilding, vrije universiteit amsterdamOn Friday 4 November, the Environmental Humanities Center was officially launched at a festive opening event. Gert-Jan Burgers, director of the interdisciplinary research institute CLUE+, opened the Center by tying a ceremonious knot. The act of tying together rather than cutting through a ribbon symbolizes the Environmental Humanities Centers’ commitment…
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Apply soon for PhD positions Environment and Society
Category: NewsThe doctoral program “Environment and Society” in Münich invites applications from graduates in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences who wish to research the complex relationships between environment and society in an interdisciplinary setting. Applications for summer semester 2017 must be submitted by 15 November 2016 via the online…