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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…
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Symposium on the history of water landscapes (in Dutch)
Category: UncategorizedDutch symposium on the history of water landscapes at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on 30 March: “Grenzen en grienden. Sociaal-ecologische en andere aspecten van de geschiedenis van rivieren- en kanalenlandschappen.”
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Crawly Creatures at Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, with former student-board member Julia Kantelberg
Category: UncategorizedTags: animal studies, environmental humanities, Jan de Hond, Julia Kantelberg, museum, Rijksmuseum, spidersThis week, the board members of the Environmental Humanities Center got a special guided tour through the exhibition on ‘crawly creatures’, co-curated by our former student board member Julia Kantelberg, who is now junior curator at the history department of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum (congratulations, Julia!).
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Two PhD vacancies at Radboud University Nijmegen
Category: UncategorizedTags: affect studies, critical plant studies, decoloniality, environmental humanities, phd positions, posthumanismThe NWO VIDI project Poison, Medicine, or Magic Potion: Shifting Perspectives on Drugs in Latin America (1820-2020) has two vacancies for PhD students.
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Summer Course: Icelandic Field Stations 2023
Category: UncategorizedThe Svartárkot Culture-Nature Project in collaboration with The Wright Ingraham Institute offer an interdisciplinary, immersive, place-based course intended for scholars, emerging professionals, researchers, post-graduates, master’s and doctoral students.
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Vacancy Doctoral Candidate Environmental Humanities
Category: UncategorizedThe Rachel Carson Center invites applications for a doctoral candidate who will explore and critically analyze visual representations of planetary health within and across the domains of art, science, popular culture, and activism.
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Artistic performance about basking shark hunting
Category: UncategorizedTags: animal studies, archive, art, baking shark, endangered species, environmental humanities, sadie haleThis Saturday, 29 October, former EHC board member Sadie Hale and former UvA student and artist Miriam Sentler will collaborate in a performance at Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam. The performance takes as its subject the elusive basking shark, a large shark that migrates to the waters around the Hebrides in Scotland…
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Programme update Fashion in the Anthropocene
Category: UncategorizedProgramme and registration for our event on Fashion and Sustainability on Thursday 27 October.
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Vacancies | SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene
Category: UncategorizedTags: Athena Institute, critical plant studies, environmental humanities, food, soy, sustainability, transdisciplinaryThe Athena Institute (VU Amsterdam) has announced two PhD and one postdoc position on a new project SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene.