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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 (closes 9 January 2023)
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.
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Talkshow Wild at Heart | Tolhuistuin
Category: UncategorizedOn Thursday 27 October, one of our board members, Kristine Steenbergh, will participate in the Talkshow Wild at Heart at Tolhuistuin. The fourth and last edition in the series focuses on “Eco Love”.
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TAKING CARE: Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum
Category: UncategorizedAs part of the international collaborative research project TAKING CARE – Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care, the Research Center for Material Culture is hosting a conference titled “TAKING CARE: Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum in Europe.” The project involves a set of speculative inquiries into the ways in…