Category: News
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Visiting fellow’s new edited collection on climate justice and geoengineering
Category: NewsTags: anthropocene, christopher preston, climate engineering, climate justice, ethics, geoengineeringNow that humanity’s industrial emissions have pushed the global atmosphere into states it has not experienced for more than 3 million years, should we call upon our scientists and engineers to try to push it back? This is the question raised by the dramatic prospect of climate engineering (or geoengineering).…
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VU professor calls for multidisciplinary global clean-energy initiative
Category: NewsIn Nature, VU professor in physics Rienk van Grondelle calls for a global clean-energy initiative that brings together researchers from all disciplines. “Such a shared purpose would align the efforts of governments, agencies, foundations, investors, the research and policy communities, citizens and industry. It would accommodate the many disciplines needed…
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Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art (Barcelona)
Category: NewsTags: anthropocene, Barcelona, conference, contemporary art, neomaterialism, posthumanism, symposiumIst International Symposium December 1, 2016 Meier Auditorium (MACBA, Plaça Joan Coromines, Barcelona) Production and organization: AGI | Art Globalization Interculturality, Universitat de Barcelona Coordinator: Christian Alonso (UB) In collaboration with: MACBA | Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art (Budapest) Keynotes: Maja & Reuben Fowkes…
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Environmental art in Tegenlicht (TV) and Pakhuis de Zwijger
Category: NewsThe most recent transmission of the Dutch television program tegenlicht, entitled ‘Cultuurbarbaren’ is devoted to the relation of art and activism, including highly interesting examples of environmental arts, such as the work of Femke Herregraven or the ‘dark ecology’ journey organized by Amsterdam’s Sonic Acts festival. In the transmission, available…
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Dutch Sustainability Day
Category: NewsToday is ‘Dag van de Duurzaamheid‘, a day devoted to Sustainability in The Netherlands. Initiated by Urgenda, the day is intended as a showcase for sustainability initiatives. Check the website for activities across the country, such as the Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week or garbage men and women visiting schools to…
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VU Journal of Sustainability Studies 2017
Category: NewsThe Green Office VU (GO.VU) is pleased to announce the launch of a submissions platform for the first edition of the VU Journal of Sustainability Studies. The GO.VU recognizes the aspiration of the VU to increase students’ academic interest in sustainability studies. Simultaneously, an awareness of the importance of a…
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Landscape and affect
Category: NewsThe Dutch Society for the Protection of Birds has just coined a new term in the fight to ensure ecological diversity in Dutch meadows. The suffering brought about by the monotonous agrarian landscape to both human and non-human animals from now on goes by the name of ‘landschapspijn’ (landscape pain).…
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Environmental humanities: a rethinking of landscape archaeology
Category: NewsCovered by this title a fruitful session was organised during the 4th international Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC2016) in Uppsala, Sweden, 23-25 August 2016. Currently we are preparing a special issue in the journal International Review of Environmental History, with guest-editors Sjoerd Kluiving (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Kirsten Liden and Christina Fredengren…
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Tipping Points – KNAW Symposium
Category: NewsThe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences hosts a symposium (in Dutch) on tipping points and climate change on 11 November. Kantelpunten zijn een belangrijk thema geworden in klimaatonderzoek omdat ze in een korte tijd kunnen zorgen voor een compleet ander klimaat. Maar wat is een kantelpunt precies en…
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AUP launches new series on environmental humanities
Category: NewsTags: amsterdam university press, animal studies, blue humanities, ecofeminism, environmental history, environmental humanities, landscape studies, pre-modern culture, queer ecologiesAmsterdam University Press is launching a new book series on environmental humanities and pre-modern cultures. This series in environmental humanities offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global pre-industrial cultures from interdisciplinary environmental perspectives. They invite submissions (both monographs and edited collections) in the fields of ecocriticism, specifically ecofeminism and…