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ENTANGLEMENTS: Elmas Deniz on investigating human-nature relations in art
Category: UncategorizedTags: art, capitalism, economics, elmas deniz, entanglement, human-nature relationships, landscape, visual artWe are excited to welcome Turkish visual artist Elmas Deniz to our Entanglements Series on 20 May. Deniz’ concept-driven works investigate the points of entanglement between economics and nature, focusing on the human-nature relationship, the idea of nature throughout history, and ecological concerns.
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Art in the age of pollution: Sonic Acts announces new event, magazine, installation
Category: UncategorizedSonic Acts has announced an exciting new upcoming event and magazine. For those in Amsterdam, the installation the Plastic Hypersea soundwalk can be visited on the NDSM site from April 23.
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Travelling concepts: the long life of the Anthropocene
Category: UncategorizedWe briefly explore the term ‘Anthropocene’, in honour of the late Paul Crutzen, who sadly passed away in January this year.
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Nuclear landscapes: your reading recommendations
Category: UncategorizedIn our meeting with Rosemary Joyce, we asked participants for their reading tips connected to the lecture on nuclear landscapes, sourcing the wisdom of our community via the Zoom chat function. In addition to Rosemary’s book, The Future of Nuclear Waste (2020), we’ve gathered your recommendations below. If you would like…
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Vacancy: Assistant Professor in History of Art, Architecture, and Landscape at University of Groningen
Category: UncategorizedCandidates with expertise in art and ecology / art and environmental humanities are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline: 29 April
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Environmental History Today! New online seminar series from European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)
Category: UncategorizedNew online seminar series from ESEH. Register now!
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This Friday: The Promise of Future Foods
Category: UncategorizedTags: aesthetics, agriculture, fermentation, food production, human-nonhuman relations, narrative, technologyIn his public lecture “Unsoiled: The Promise of Future Foods” organized by the Political Ecologies Seminar (UvA), Rhys Williams explores the narratives and aesthetics mobilised by radical developments in food production technologies, and asks what new formal relations between human and non-human nature they might bring into being. The accompanying Graduate…
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Jane Bennett, “Out for a Walk in the Middle Voice”
Category: UncategorizedTags: agency, entanglement, grammar, henry thoreau, jane bennett, nonhuman, syntax, vegetal, walt whitmanWe are thrilled to welcome professor Jane Bennett into our Entanglements lecture series! In her lecture, she will explore the radical entanglement of human and nonhuman activities, and ask what lexicon is able to acknowledge a trans-specied kind of agency.
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Online lecture series
Category: UncategorizedAn overview of upcoming lectures in our online “Entanglements” series, with an archive of past lectures.
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PhD Workshop and Keynote: Austrian Environmental History
Category: UncategorizedThe American Society for Environmental History invites you to join the “environmental” part of its annual PhD workshop on economic, social and environmental history on 20 April. Sign up now!