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Call for Papers: ASLE-UKI Conference on Erosion
Erosion – Creimeadh 9th August (Online Day) & 12th-14th August 2025 (University of Galway) Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, Biennial Conference 2025 Submission deadline: 19 December 2024 via links on the conference website Confirmed keynote speakers: Nessa Cronin (University of Galway), John Brannigan (University…
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Nourishing Connection: Activism, Friendship, and Care
This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. Author: Lucienne Walstra My original plan for this blog post was to discuss care on the Luktemeerpolder with a dear friend of…
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Theory and Practice in the Lukemeerpolder: reflecting on participatory research
Author: Lucía Gennari This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. In one of our class sessions, we had a thought-provoking discussion with an expert on transdisciplinary and participatory research.…
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The Lutkemeerpolder as a place of slow growth in ever-accelerating temporalities
This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. Author: Hannah Heath My first impression of the Lutkemeerpolder is that of a place of slow growth, manifested in its eco-farming and…
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Learning to See Differently and Opening up to Deep Time
Note: This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. Author: Emrys Karlas Since I grew up near the city’s western border, my familiarity with the Lutkemeerpolder began long before…
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Student Assistant Vacancy at EHC
Please send your application (CV and motivation letter) to k.steenbergh@vu.nl before June 15 The Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam is looking for a student assistant (0,1fte, that is 4 hours per week) from 1 September 2024 to 30 June 2025. The candidate needs to be enrolled at VU Amsterdam during that entire period. Payment…
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CLUE+ Workshop on Storytelling: From Socio-Ecological Peril to Safeguarding Futures
CLUE+, VU’s Interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage, is hosting its annual meeting on May 23. In the morning there will be a workshop on storytelling at 3D. Your participation is welcome! Description: Stories are leverage points for change. The stories we currently live by are proving…
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RMA transdisciplinary course to focus on Lutkemeerpolder in Amsterdam-West
Lutkemeer Reflections With the students of our ‘Environmental Humanities’ Master’s Program, the Environmental Humanities Center is engaging with the pressing case of the Amsterdam Lutkemeerpolder. Situated at the western border of Amsterdam, the polder holds the last agricultural ground of the city. However, the municipality has decided to transform it…
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Environmental Humanities Job Opportunity: Two postdoctoral positions at KNAW
We would like to share the following vacancies for postdoctoral positions a KNAW. See the links below for more information. Postdoctoral Researcher Political Ecology at KITLV – KNAW – Leiden: https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Leiden-Postdoctoral-Researcher-Political-Ecology-at-KITLV-KNAW-Leiden/975132355/ Postdoctoral Researcher Ecological History at KITLV-KNAW – Leiden: https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Leiden-Postdoctoral-Researcher-Ecological-History-at-KITLV-KNAW-Leiden/975132655/
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Petra van Dam featured on episode of water podcast “De Toekomst van ons Water”
EHC Board Member Petra van Dam has cooperated in making a podcast for the journal H2O, journal for professional water specialists in a series of podcasts on water made by journalist Wim Eikelboom. In this edition she sketches the main preliminary conclusions of the group research project Coping with drought…