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ASI Call for Integrative Project Proposals
Category: UncategorizedAmsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI) now calls for integrative project proposals. ASI aims to invite you to submit proposals that would encourage and strengthen ‘Science for Sustainability’ at Vrije Universiteit
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Environmental Humanities Reading Group: Let’s Talk Petroculture (with Jeff Diamanti)
Category: UncategorizedJoin us on June 27th for the last session of the environmental humanities reading group before the summer on Petrocultures. In this session we will familiarize ourselves with concepts like ‘petroculture,’ ‘petromelancholia,’ and ‘the energy unconscious.’ Dr Jeff Diamanti (UvA) will lead the session.
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Izzy f.d. Block: Organic Couture Fashion Show
Category: UncategorizedOn the 1st of June, the Hybrid Forms artscience Lab at Vrije Universiteit invites you to an upcoming fashion show in the Hortus of the VU, straight out of the lab, based on artscience research from master chemistry student Iza Awad.
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Symposium: Climate Realism – Aesthetics and Politics of Climate
Category: UncategorizedThe Goethe-Institut Amsterdam is organizing a symposium on Friday the 10th of May. Climate Realism is an occasion to rethink the aesthetics and politics of climate in its myriad forms; to capture climates capacity to express embedded histories; to map the formal strategies of representation that have turned climate into…
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Nuclear Waste and Future Heritage: Excursion to COVRA
Category: UncategorizedOn 9 October 2019, the Environmental Humanities Centre will pay a visit to COVRA, the only nuclear waste facility in the Netherlands. In addition to learning more about the complex practices of safe storage, we also want to explore the relations between nuclear waste and art on site. Sign up…
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CLUE+ event: The Imagination of Animals
Category: UncategorizedDr. Annabelle Dufourcq (Radboud University) will give a lecture on animal imagination at the Vrije Universiteit on June 12.
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the Workshop Transitions in Water-/Energy-/Food-Infrastructures
Category: UncategorizedTags: amsterdam sustainability institute, call for abstracts, call for papers, conference, conference calls, energy, food, transitions workshop, water, water food energyThe Environmental Humanities Center and Amsterdam Sustainability Institute are organising a graduate conference on the 1st of November. This is a call for presentation abstracts on the topic of transitions. Submission deadline: 1st of July.
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EVENT 17 May: Technology in Human-Animal Relations
Category: UncategorizedTags: animals, birdhouses, design, environmental humanities, event, human-animal-relations, lecture, non-human animals, stavanger, technologyFinn Arne and Dolly Jørgensen from the University of Stavanger will visit the VU on the 17th of May. The theme of their lectures is technology in human-animal relations, specifically concerning bird houses and dogs with antennas. Save the date!
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Environmental Humanities Reading Group: Nature Poetry Revisited
Category: UncategorizedOn the 28th of April, The Environmental Humanities Reading Group will be reading sections from Alice Oswald’s book-length poem Dart, which maps the flow of the river Dart in Devon and the lives it touches.
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Review: Drawdown – The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
Category: UncategorizedPaul Hawken’s book Drawdown is a revelation for anyone who cares about our environment and wants to feel responsible about the fate and future of ‘our’ planet earth. Curious? Read Sjoerd Kluiving’s review here.