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CfP: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency – International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability (online)
Category: UncategorizedThe 17th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability invites submissions. It will will take place on 24-26 February 2021. This year’s special focus will be on Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency. Plenary speakers: Diederik Samsom, Marjan Minnesma, Christian Felber and Ilona Otto. …
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Climate fiction: online event
Category: UncategorizedEHC Board member Kristine Steenbergh will take part in an online event on climate fiction at SPUI25, organized with de Nederlandse Boekengids and Armada on 5 November (20-21.30hrs). The event is in Dutch.
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How the poor treatment of factory-farmed chickens makes pandemics more likely
Category: UncategorizedTags: agriculture, anthropocene, coronavirus, covid19, entanglement, factory farming, farming, pandemicsIn a blog post for the Rachel Carson Center, student board member Sadie E. Hale asks us to consider what the miserable lives of intensively-reared broiler chickens can add to our understanding of global entanglements and pandemics like COVID-19.
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Digitaal Jaarcongres 2020 ‘Meer dan Menselijk Verleden: Historici, Eco-geschiedenis en Environmental Humanities’
Category: UncategorizedOn the 19th of november, the KNHG and EHC will host a digital congres on eco-history and the environmental humanities. This event – and this post – will be in Dutch.
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Call for applications: PhD position at the University of Twente (deadline 18 September 2020)
Category: UncategorizedTags: Dutch PhD, environmental studies, phd, phd positions, researcher, science technology, twente universityAs part of its Synergia project, the Science, Technology and Policy Studies department at the University of Twente is seeking a (4 year) PhD candidate to study expectations and imaginaries and explore possible transition pathways related to the new concept of ‘Technology-4-Ecology-based farming’ (T4E).
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Online Symposium: Investigating and Rethinking Single Use Plastics
Category: UncategorizedFor those interested: there is a Vrije Universiteit (online) event about single use plastics taking place on the 18th of September.
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Join the EHC Student Initiative
Category: UncategorizedAre you interested in the Environmental Humanities? Do you have great ideas for a (series of) events to do with sustainability, art, literature, history, or more? Would you like some board experience next to your studies? Consider joining the EHC Student Initiative!
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EHVenice 2020 Virtual Dialogues
Category: UncategorizedTo mark the launch of their Master’s degree in Environmental Humanities, the Ca’Foscari University of Venice has an amazing line-up of online conversations with environmental humanities scholars and authors from all over the world, to be streamed on their website.
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Fractured Ecologies
Category: UncategorizedThe edited book of one of our Dutch Environmental Humanities colleagues Chad Weidner is out now. Fractured Ecologies is a collection of papers, bent essays and poems.
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Student Blogs X: Final Blogs
Category: UncategorizedThis contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.