
You are invited to join the upcoming ART SCIENCE dialogue, moderated by EHC board member Katja Kwastek. The dispossession of land and botanical practices are part of the colonial legacy, but how are they connected? In this ART SCIENCE dialogue Oscar Santillán, Lisa Ausic and Pepijn Brandon will examine the…

We would like to share this event from ESEH Environmental History Today. Date: 29 February, 3 – 5pm Book presentation: The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press 2024)Presenter: Elena Kochetkova, University of Bergen, NorwayDiscussant: Laurent Coumel, Europes-Eurasia Research Center (CREE), INALCO, Paris, FranceChair: Anastasia…

EHC board member Petra van Dam will give a lecture about sustainability in the history of the Dutch water supply. Where: Zuiderzeemuseum (Binnenmuseum), Enkhuizen When: Saturday, February 17, 2024 14:00 – 16:30 For more information (in Dutch), click here: https://www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl/nl/page/6123/lezing-duurzaam-stadswater-in-de-republiek To register, click here: https://zuiderzeemuseum.smarteventmanager.nl/online-reservation/ZZM#/ Image credit: Petra van…

The 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) invites panels, presentations, making & doing contributions, and other events that explore the role of STS in making and doing contributions to transformations in…

When: Friday 23 February 11:00-12:00 CET Where: Zoom https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82389432678 // Meeting ID: 823 8943 2678 The un-earthed reading group is teaming up with the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network to discuss selections from Melody Jue’s Wild Blue Media alongside textile artist Otobong Nkanga’s work “ Tied to the Other Side.“ For more information…

Please join us for a series of dialogue sessions at the VU ART SCIENCE gallery on the exhibition Life of Plants. These sessions will be moderated by our EHC board members. In collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and Environmental Humanities Center, the VU ART SCIENCE gallery has invited scientists…

Match with your digital research expert: CLUE+ meets the eScience Center Are you working with digital methodologies or would you like to apply digital solutions in your research? Find out what’s possible with experts from the eScience Center! The eScience Center’s Research Software Engineers are specialised in developing high quality…

EHC board Member Sjoerd Kluiving organised climate storytelling workshops with members of the VU community, and now the results are out! Leaders know that our planet is heating up dangerously. They also know how to cool it down. But they do not do it. So we need a better way…

Performance and Panel Discussion (co-sponsored by Greenhouse Stavanger) Monday 11 December, 18.00hrs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, Church Hall (HG-16A00) Ola Hassanain’s “Tell The Water What The Clay Kept Secret” is ongoing visual research that grapples extensively with the ‘spatial’ implications of catastrophe. The work, conceptualized from an ongoing poetics…

On Tuesday 14 November, join the online VU Master’s Event to find out more about the track Environmental Humanities in our Research Master programme. Lecturer Kristine Steenbergh and student Sarah Foster will tell you more about the track and answer all your questions in a live Zoom session at 17.30-18.15hrs…