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EHC Environmental Justice Series: Samia Henni on Colonial Toxicity
Category: UncategorizedTags: Algeria, colonialism, environmental humanities, environmental justice, nuclear colonialism, Samia Henni, toxicityIn the context of her exhibition Performing Colonial Toxicity, which sheds light on the redacted history of French nuclear colonialism in the Algerian Sahara, Samia Henni discusses colonial toxicity and its on-going forms of publicness.
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Board Member Dr. Sjoerd Kluiving is VU’s first Distinguished Fellow of the Anthropocene
Category: UncategorizedDr. Sjoerd Kluiving, EHC founder and board member, is VU’s first Distinguished Fellow of the Anthropocene, which has been set up by the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities. Kluiving is Associate Professor in Geoarchaeology and Anthropocene Studies and works in the Faculties of Humanities and…
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“Who Drinks Which Water” wins Poster Prize at ESEH Conference
Category: UncategorizedAt the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference in Bern, The White Horse Press awarded their Poster Prize to the “Coping With Drought” project.
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CFP The Aesthetics of Geopower – University of Amsterdam
Category: UncategorizedCall for Papers for “The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies” at University of Amsterdam in April 2024. Deadline CFP: 15 October 2023.
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Job Posting: Post-doc Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa
Category: UncategorizedWe would like to share the following job opportunity at the University of Groningen. Job description Specialty areas: literary analysis, ethnomusicology, contemporary history, African history, environmental history Applications are invited for a 2.5 years (30 months) postdoctoral research position within the AFREXTRACT project Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction in Africa:…
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International Workshop on Rice Cultivation and Culture
Category: UncategorizedWe would like to share this opportunity. International Workshop Rice: Cultivation and Culture in Europe and the Mediterranean Venice, Italy 30 May 2023 Università Ca’Foscari Venezia More details are available here: https://pric.unive.it/projects/water-cultures/home
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Kathryn Yusoff Lecture: Inhuman Memory
Category: UncategorizedResearch Institute CLUE+, the Environmental Humanities Center and the Graduate School of Humanities, in cooperation with the Research Center for Material Culture present Lecture by Kathryn Yusoff (Professor of Inhuman Geography) Inhuman Memory If the earth remembers more than it forgets—as a billion blackened Anthropocenes of colonial earth suggest—what is…
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Environmental Media Symposium
Category: UncategorizedTags: data, ecological thinking, environmental media, more-than-human infrastructures, perception, sensor, sensor literacy, sensory interactionCLUE+ in collaboration with Waag Futurelab invites you to join an interdisciplinary symposium on sensing practices, environmental media and more-than-human infrastructures on 22 April at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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Hybrid Workshop Learning from Aliens: New Directions in Environmental Humanities Research and Practice
Category: UncategorizedTags: environmental humanitiesThe Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam would like to share this hybrid workshop organized by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS). The world’s flora and fauna are often classified as native and non-native, indigenous and alien. These simple binaries mark biological life and, in doing so, define what…
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Save the date: 24 May Kathryn Yusoff at Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam
Category: UncategorizedOn Wednesday 24 May 2023, 17:30hrs, Kathryn Yusoff, the author of A Billion Black Anthropocenes will give a public lecture at the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam. Yusoff’s current work focuses on Inhuman Memory. She will be joined by members of Planetary Portals, a creative research group that uses imperial archives to create critical cartographies…