# Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam


## Posts

- [Nuclear Waste Weeks](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nuclear-waste-weeks/): October/November 2017 The Nuclear Waste Weeks are a four-part series of events, jointly organised by the EHC, VU, Anna Volkmar (PhD candidate at LUCAS, Leiden University) and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (PhD candidate at CRAL, EHESS), taking place during the months of October and November 2017 in Amsterdam. Nuclear waste is one of the major unsolved challenges [&hellip;]
- [Holland Festival: Democracy in the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/holland-festival-democracy-in-the-anthropocene/): The arts festival Holland Festival in Amsterdam has installed a Parliament of Things (after Bruno Latour) to explore questions of democracy in the Anthropocene. One of the speakers at the Parliament is Eva Meijer, who will also speak at our non-human animals event on 23 June. The events (this month) are in Dutch, as is [&hellip;]
- [CFP: Science for Sustainability Journal](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-science-for-sustainability-journal/): Attention all students interested in the environmental humanities: our Green Office has launched a peer-reviewed student journal on sustainability. The journal&#8217;s editors are looking for contributions from the Humanities. Please take a look at their call for papers and consider this opportunity to publish your research paper. Submit your papers for publication in the second edition [&hellip;]
- [Non-human Animal Event - 23 June](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/non-human-animal-event-23-june/): Friday 23 June 15.30-17.00hrs &#8211; drinks after (please register below) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building Room 15A-33 Our final event of this academic year focuses on non-human animals. Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that explores relations between humans and other animals now and in the past. Our speakers from the fields of [&hellip;]
- [Video: Erle Ellis on the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/video-erle-ellis-on-the-anthropocene/): On 2 May, Erle Ellis gave a lecture on the Anthropocene at the Environmental Humanities Center, in cooperation with the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. If you missed the event, you can now listen to the lecture here, thanks to Erle Ellis&#8217; generosity and Tim Renders&#8216; efforts in recording sound [&hellip;]
- [CLIMATE WEEKS](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/climate-weeks/): In April and May, the Environmental Humanities Center organizes a series of events about climate change. Do spread the word &#8211; we hope to see you at these events! 30 March: Tom Buurman, &#8216;Climate Change and Everyday Life in Stockholm&#8217; 21 April: Climate Change Event 2 May: Erle Ellis, &#8216;From Pleistocene to Anthropocene: Why Humans [&hellip;]
- [EHC Podcast: Waste](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-podcast-waste/): This podcast by student board members Julia Kantelberg and Germaine van der Sanden explores the topic of waste from the perspective of a scientist, a design critic and an architect. [soundcloud url=&#8221;https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/311185160&#8243; params=&#8221;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;450&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; /] Alice Twemlow: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Alice Twemlow is a design curator, educator, event organiser and writer. She is co-head of [&hellip;]
- [The Anthropocene in "Tegenlicht"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-anthropocene-in-tegenlicht/): The latest episode of the Dutch TV programme &#8220;Tegenlicht&#8221; (VPRO) was entirely devoted to the Anthropocene. The documentary (in Dutch/interviews in English) featured contributions by Bruno Latour, Andrea Wulf, Jan Zalasiewicz, and Phil Gibbard. Watch the programme on &#8220;Uitzending Gemist&#8221;: &nbsp; &nbsp;
- [Symposium: Watermanagement before 1800 (in Dutch)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-watermanagement-before-1800-in-dutch/): Studiemiddag: veenontginningen en waterbeheer voor 1800 Nederland is ontstaan uit het moeras, althans Laag-Nederland. We zijn begonnen als ontginners van de grote venen in de kustvlakte, en de eeuwen daarna zakten we er langzaam in weg. Daarom moesten we dijken gaan bouwen en polderbesturen oprichten. Deze studiemiddag presenteert nieuwe onderzoeksresultaten over de eerste duizend jaar van dit proces, [&hellip;]
- [Environmental Humanities &amp; Waste event + Excursion](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-waste-event-excursion/): With Alice Twemlow, Rachele Dini, and Dave Hakkens Friday 10 February, 2017 At this event, we invite you to confront and ponder an object that we usually wish dispose of quickly. To examine waste in all its materiality, we invite 15 people to join us on a morning excursion to AEB, an Energy from Waste [&hellip;]
- [EHC Special Event: Christopher Preston on Climate Engineering](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-special-event-christopher-preston-on-climate-engineering/): EHC Special Event in cooperation with the Faculty of Theology Friday 13 January, 13.15 – 14.45h Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building, room 10A20 Christopher Preston Climate Engineering: When Humans Enter the Domain of God(s) Proposals to engineer the climate in order to push back against warming global temperatures are gaining increasing attention in the light [&hellip;]
- [Landscape Event: Report by Tim Renders](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/landscape-event-report-by-tim-renders/): What is a landscape? For our second event we chose three guest speakers to deal with this broad topic. But first we acknowledged that the landscape is a natural phenomenon but heavily influenced by culture and thus mankind. So how do we deal with landscapes and how do we make sure that the balance between [&hellip;]
- [CFP: Agents in the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-agents-in-the-anthropocene/): Agents in the Anthropocene: Trans/disciplinary Practices in Art and Design Education Today symposium—call for presentations Piet Zwart Institute Master Education in ArtJanuary 26–28, 2017 Proposal deadline: December 16, 2016 The Master of Education in Arts, Piet Zwart Institute is pleased to announce an open call for presentations for the two-day symposium Agents in the Anthropocene: [&hellip;]
- [Regarding Nature in Huis Marseille](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/regarding-nature-in-huis-marseille/): Chrystel Lebas, Regarding Nature Huis Marseille, 10 December 2016- 5 March 2017 Chrystel Lebas revisits negatives of the British Landscape from the early twentieth century made by botanist and ecologist Sir Edward James Salisbury (1886-1978). Since Huis Marseille does not allow reproduction of text or images from their site, please visit their website to read [&hellip;]
- [Follow us on Facebook!](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/follow-us-on-facebook/): &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Environmental Humanities Center now also has a Facebook page. All events that the EHC organizes will be announced on our Facebook page, on a newsfeed, as well as here on our website. A place where everyone is welcome to share their ideas, our Facebook page aims to stimulate conversations [&hellip;]
- [Lecture on the law and climate activism](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-on-the-law-and-climate-activism/): Jaap Spier will be interviewed in Spui25 (in Dutch) on his work in legal climate activism. Spier is one of the authors of the Oslo Principles, a set of Principles that comprise the essential obligations States and enterprises have to avert the critical level of global warming. Jaap Thielbeeke interviews him about global problems, the [&hellip;]
- [Brief introduction to animal rights](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/brief-introduction-to-animal-rights/): The latest addition to the Dutch book series &#8220;Elementaire deeltjes&#8221; is a book on animal rights, Dierenrechten. Historian Dirk-Jan Verdonk explores past, present and future of the moral position ascribed to animals in theology, philosophy, science, law, and policy. Which responsibility do people have for animal welfare? Dirk-Jan Verdonk is also the author of Het [&hellip;]
- [Expecting the Unexpected: Getting Ready for a Wild Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/expecting-the-unexpected-getting-ready-for-a-wild-anthropocene/): Lecture by Christopher Preston at the University of Amsterdam In 2016 the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy officially found that Earth has entered the Anthropocene. The purpose of this talk is to raise some questions surrounding the naming of this new epoch and to challenge some of the assumptions that have [&hellip;]
- [Video: Libby Robin on Environmental Humanities in Practice](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/listen-to-libby-robin-on-environmental-humanities-in-practice/): Libby Robin&#8217;s inspiring keynote at the launch of the Environmental Humanities Center on 4 November is now available online on our YouTube Channel. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVkue9YyjrI] Libby Robin is Professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, and affiliated professor at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in the KTH Environmental Humanities [&hellip;]
- [Our Water Week](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/our-water-week/): This is the week of ‘Our Water’ (Ons Water). The water lobby in the Netherlands has designated this week to organize activities to increase our awareness of water as an important theme in our society, as a threat (sea level rise, cluster showers), but also as an essential resource (drinking water). On Saturday evening a [&hellip;]
- [The Art of Deception](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-art-of-deception/): Exhibition by Isaac Monté, in collaboration with Toby Kiers Mediamatic, Amsterdam, 04-10-’16 / 14-02-‘17 Exhibition review by: Tim Renders This exhibition discusses the human urge for perfection by displaying transformed pigs hearts that resemble the urge for inner beauty. Belgian design activist Isaac Monté cooperated for this project with evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers, who is [&hellip;]
- [CFP: Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-environmental-humanities-and-new-materialisms/): Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms The Ethics of Decolonizing Nature and Culture 8th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms 7-9 June 2017, Paris Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms share an ethic of decolonizing nature and culture, as they depart from anthropocentric and constructivist positions. Our call is to consider ourselves as permeable, part of the [&hellip;]
- [Lecture on Biophilia in the Anthropocene by Artis professor Erik de Jong](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-on-biophilia-in-the-anthropocene-by-artis-professor-erik-de-jong/): Biophilia Lecture by Erik de Jong, Artis Professor (in Dutch) Friday 18 November, 15-17hrs at VU University Amsterdam, Main Building, room 1A-33 With a response by Tirza Brüggemann Erik de Jong holds the Artis Chair for Culture, Landscape and Nature at the University of Amsterdam. In his lecture he wonders whether we could use ‘biophilia’, [&hellip;]
- [Workshop smARTcities and Waste Network](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/workshop-smartcities-and-waste-network/): Techno-Scientific Innovation and Waste Opportunities and Consequences Van Eyck Institute, Maastricht 9th December 2016, 9.30-5pm The theme of the Maastricht workshop is Techno-Scientific Innovation and Waste; Opportunities and Consequences. This theme has developed “organically” from two main sources: The local context of Maastricht, particularly in relation to the post-industrial status of Maastricht and the legacy [&hellip;]
- [Landscape event (2 December)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/landscape-event/): The question how people relate to the natural and built environment is central to landscape studies as well as the environmental humanities. On 2 December, three speakers address questions such as: Can landscape offer democratic answers to the problems that face the world’s environment? How does the preservation of built heritage relate to landscape conservation? [&hellip;]
- [The Center in the Press](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-center-in-the-press/): This weekend, an article on our Center appeared on a two-page spread in Elsevier. Science journalist Theo Toebosch interviewed Sjoerd Kluiving and Kristine Steenbergh about the center and its aims. We&#8217;re pleasantly surprised with our first appearance in the national press, since we hope to make connections with as many communities as possible. Read the [&hellip;]
- [Launch Environmental Humanities Center](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/launch-environmental-humanities-center/): On Friday 4 November, 2016, the Environmental Humanities Center was officially launched at a festive opening event. Gert-Jan Burgers, director of the interdisciplinary research institute CLUE+, opened the Center by tying a ceremonious knot. The act of tying together rather than cutting through a ribbon symbolizes the Environmental Humanities Centers&#8217; commitment to connecting various disciplines [&hellip;]
- [Apply soon for PhD positions Environment and Society](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/apply-soon-for-phd-positions-environment-and-society/): The doctoral program “Environment and Society” in Münich invites applications from graduates in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences who wish to research the complex relationships between environment and society in an interdisciplinary setting. Applications for summer semester 2017 must be submitted by 15 November 2016 via the online application portal. To learn more [&hellip;]
- [Visiting fellow's new edited collection on climate justice and geoengineering](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/visiting-fellows-new-edited-collection-on-climate-justice-and-geoengineering/): Now that humanity’s industrial emissions have pushed the global atmosphere into states it has not experienced for more than 3 million years, should we call upon our scientists and engineers to try to push it back? This is the question raised by the dramatic prospect of climate engineering (or geoengineering). Visiting Distinguished Fellow in the [&hellip;]
- [VU professor calls for multidisciplinary global clean-energy initiative](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vu-professor-calls-for-multidisciplinary-global-clean-energy-initiative/): In Nature, VU professor in physics Rienk van Grondelle calls for a global clean-energy initiative that brings together researchers from all disciplines. &#8220;Such a shared purpose would align the efforts of governments, agencies, foundations, investors, the research and policy communities, citizens and industry. It would accommodate the many disciplines needed across the natural and social [&hellip;]
- [Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art (Barcelona)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/mutating-ecologies-in-contemporary-art-barcelona/): Ist International Symposium December 1, 2016 Meier Auditorium (MACBA, Plaça Joan Coromines, Barcelona) Production and organization: AGI | Art Globalization Interculturality, Universitat de Barcelona Coordinator: Christian Alonso (UB) In collaboration with: MACBA | Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art (Budapest) Keynotes: Maja &amp; Reuben Fowkes (Translocal Institute, Budapest) The Anthropocene [&hellip;]
- [Environmental art in Tegenlicht (TV) and Pakhuis de Zwijger](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-art-in-tegenlicht-tv-and-pakhuis-de-zwijger/): The most recent transmission of the Dutch television program tegenlicht, entitled ‘Cultuurbarbaren’ is devoted to the relation of art and activism, including highly interesting examples of environmental arts, such as the work of Femke Herregraven or the ‘dark ecology’ journey organized by Amsterdam’s Sonic Acts festival. In the transmission, available online, amongst others, Herregraven explains [&hellip;]
- [Dutch Sustainability Day](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/dutch-sustainability-day/): Today is &#8216;Dag van de Duurzaamheid&#8216;, a day devoted to Sustainability in The Netherlands. Initiated by Urgenda, the day is intended as a showcase for sustainability initiatives. Check the website for activities across the country, such as the Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week or garbage men and women visiting schools to read stories to children about [&hellip;]
- [VU Journal of Sustainability Studies 2017](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vu-journal-of-sustainability-studies-2017/): The Green Office VU (GO.VU) is pleased to announce the launch of a submissions platform for the first edition of the VU Journal of Sustainability Studies. The GO.VU recognizes the aspiration of the VU to increase students’ academic interest in sustainability studies. Simultaneously, an awareness of the importance of a swift transition towards sustainability needs [&hellip;]
- [Landscape and affect](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/landscape-and-affect/): The Dutch Society for the Protection of Birds has just coined a new term in the fight to ensure ecological diversity in Dutch meadows. The suffering brought about by the monotonous agrarian landscape to both human and non-human animals from now on goes by the name of &#8216;landschapspijn&#8217; (landscape pain). They urge the next government [&hellip;]
- [Environmental humanities: a rethinking of landscape archaeology](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-a-rethinking-of-landscape-archaeology/): Covered by this title a fruitful session was organised during the 4th international Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC2016) in Uppsala, Sweden, 23-25 August 2016. Currently we are preparing a special issue in the journal International Review of Environmental History, with guest-editors Sjoerd Kluiving (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Kirsten Liden and Christina Fredengren (both Stockholm University, Sweden). There [&hellip;]
- [Tipping Points - KNAW Symposium](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/tipping-points-knaw-symposium/): The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences hosts a symposium (in Dutch) on tipping points and climate change on 11 November. Kantelpunten zijn een belangrijk thema geworden in klimaatonderzoek omdat ze in een korte tijd kunnen zorgen voor een compleet ander klimaat. Maar wat is een kantelpunt precies en waardoor wordt het veroorzaakt? In [&hellip;]
- [AUP launches new series on environmental humanities](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/aup-launches-new-series-on-environmental-humanities/): Amsterdam University Press is launching a new book series on environmental humanities and pre-modern cultures. This series in environmental humanities offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global pre-industrial cultures from interdisciplinary environmental perspectives. They invite submissions (both monographs and edited collections) in the fields of ecocriticism, specifically ecofeminism and new ecocritical analyses of under-represented [&hellip;]
- [Welcome to the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/welcome-to-the-anthropocene/): In the Dutch radio show Nieuws BV (NPO Radio 1), Sjoerd Kluiving welcomed listeners to the Anthropocene. He explained what the process of inaugurating this geological era entails, and why its name could help raise awareness of humanity&#8217;s impact on our planetary environment. Listen to the podcast here (in Dutch).
- [An Amphibious Culture](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/an-amphibious-culture/): Since one of the effects of climate change in our current era is an increase in flooding, Professor Petra van Dam has analyzed how the Dutch dealt with floods in the past. She reached the surprising conclusion that even though risk of flooding is on the increase today, our society is now less adapted to [&hellip;]
- [Historical Climatology](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/historical-climatology/): We warmly (no pun intended) recommend a visit to the blog Historical Climatology, which focuses on climate change scholarship in disciplines other than the sciences, including history, economics, political science, and law. The blog was founded by Dr. Dagomar Degroot, now a professor of environmental history at Georgetown University. In 2010, he was a fellow [&hellip;]
- [Wybren Verstegen on Cultured Natures - podcast](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/wybren-verstegen-on-cultured-natures-podcast/): One of the early attempts to create protected conservation areas came in 1928 with the Natuurschoonwet, freely translated as Nature Scenery Act. This Act was mostly about protecting country houses set in park like settings. Wybren Verstegen, Senior Lecturer in economic, social and environmental history at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has researched the Dutch Nature [&hellip;]
- [Launch](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-in-practice-lecture-libby-robin/): Friday 4 November 2016, 15.30-17hrsFaculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam At the launch of the Environmental Humanities Center at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, you are very welcome to attend Libby Robin&#8217;s lecture on Environmental Humanities in Practice. The Environmental Humanities (EH) is a focus for collaborative projects between the humanities disciplines emerging in different forms in [&hellip;]
- [Course guide 2017-2018](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/course-guide-2016-17/): In this course guide, we aim to provide an overview of courses that focus on topics related to the environmental humanities. The guide is a work in progress: would you like to include your course here, please contact k.steenbergh@vu.nl. We also warmly welcome course descriptions from other Dutch universities. Courses at the Faculty of Humanities [&hellip;]
- [Student Blogs VII: Climate Crisis](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-vii-climate-crisis/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Student Blogs VI: Human-Nature Relationships](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-vi-human-nature-relationships/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Student Blogs V: Metaphors](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-v-metaphors/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Student Blogs IV: Framing](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-iv-framing/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic. 
- [Student Blogs III: Historical Parallels](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-iii-historical-parallels/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Student Blogs II: Imaginaries](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-ii-imaginaries/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic. 
- [Student Blogs I: Power](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-i-power/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic. 
- [Bat Subjectivity, Viral Contagions, and Zoonotic Poiesis](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/bat-subjectivity-viral-contagions-and-zoonotic-poiesis/): An essay by guest author Alex Ventimilla (MA student English &amp; Film at the University of Alberta and research assistant at SpokenWeb)
- [Science as Romantic Thought: The Curious Case of Big Bang Cosmology - Online lecture by Katherine Snow](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/science-as-romantic-thought-the-curious-case-of-big-bang-cosmology-online-lecture-by-katherine-snow/): Katherine Snow (University of Edinburgh) will give a Zoom lecture on Thursday 28 May at 15:30. See you there!
- [Ecoracism in times of Covid-19 rhetoric: an environmental humanities perspective](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ecoracism-in-times-of-covid-19-rhetoric-an-environmental-humanities-perspective/): A blogpost by guest author Elena Burgos Martinez, Leiden University
- [The Environmental Humanities Guest Blog Project](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-environmental-humanities-guest-blog-project/): In light of the Corona virus and our event cancellations, we want to open up our blog to environmental humanities guest bloggers! 
- [Call for 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities in Venice](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-4-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-environmental-humanities-in-venice/): The Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’Foscari University of Venice is seeking candidates for 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities.
- [CANCELLED Excursion to Rising Tide (Maritime Museum)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/save-the-date-rising-sea-levels-excursion-and-lectures-for-word-water-day/): This excursion is cancelled due to the health regulations regarding COVID-19
- [CANCELLED Anthropocene Book Club - ABC@ABC: Weather by Jenny Offill](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/anthropocene-book-club-abcabc-weather-by-jenny-offill/): *This event has been cancelled*
- [EHC event: Andreas Malm at Spui25](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-event-andreas-malm-at-spui25/): **This event has been cancelled **  Skin and Fuel: Two episodes in the history of fossilized whiteness  What links between whiteness and fossil fuels does history display? Renowned environmental scholar Andreas Malm suggests that the ongoing surge of an anti-climate, pro-fossil-fuel far right is bringing deep historical forces to the fore. Furthermore, Malm speculates on various possible scenarios of far-right politics in a rapidly warming world.  Date: Thursday 12 March, 17:00hrs Location: Doelenzaal, University Library (Singel 425) 
- [Call for papers: International Conference Cultural perceptions of safety](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-papers-international-conference-cultural-perceptions-of-safety/): On Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January 2021 the Humanities Department of the Open University of the Netherlands organizes the international conference 'Cultural perceptions of safety'. This is their call for papers
- [Other Futures: Open Call](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/other-futures-science-fiction-writing-workshop/): What is it like to be a plant, and to communicate through your roots?  Join Other Futures Lab to share and to explore collectively new ways of imagining alternative futures that affect the present positively. 
- [Help the Green Office make our campus greener](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/help-the-green-office-make-our-campus-greener/): The Green Office invites you to help make our campus greener. 
- [Help identify historical fish in paintings](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/help-identify-historical-fish-in-paintings/): Which fish can you recognize in paintings? The project "Fishing in the Past" aims to collect as much data as possible about fish in the period from 1500 to 1850.
- [Call for symposium on the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-symposium-on-the-anthropocene/): The British Academy and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences (KNAW) are inviting applications for early career researchers (max. 7 yrs post PhD) in the humanities and social sciences to attend a research collaboration symposium on the broad theme of the Anthropocene. 
- [Lecture Heritage and Climate Change Relations: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-heritage-and-climate-change-relations-loss-adaptation-and-creativity/): The Faculty of Humanities and CLUE+ cordially invite you to this Art and Culture Trending Topics lecture by David C. Harvey  Date: 30 January 2020 Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, KC-07 Time: 18:30-20:30hrs 
- [Book Symposium: Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/book-symposium-indigenous-modern-and-postcolonial-relations-to-nature/): CLUE+ invites you to a symposium celebrating the publication of Angela Roothaan's book Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature (Routledge, 2019).   Date: 22 January 2020 Time: 15:00-17:00 Location: HG-11A33
- [A Blue-Green Roof for Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/a-blue-green-roof-for-vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/): This Friday, 6 December, a team of the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute will present their closing colloquium about the blue-green roof of the Aula of the VU. A water carrying roof like this is meant as a measure for climate adaptation and the improvement of the biodiversity.
- [De natuur: een cultuurwetenschappelijke blik. Symposium Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/de-natuur-een-cultuurwetenschappelijke-blik-symposium-dr-hendrik-muller-prijs/): Environmental historian Raf de Bont has been rewarded with the Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs 2019. This symposium on the 12th of December will include talks by among others founding EHC board member Kristine Steenbergh! 
- [Invitation: mid-winter reception of the EHC on December 4th](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/invitation-mid-winter-reception-of-the-ehc-on-december-4th/): After the Nuclear Heritage Event on December 4th, we are happy to invite you for a mid-winter borrel, to chat, exchange ideas, and celebrate the Environmental Humanities.
- [How To Care For Our Nuclear Heritage?](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/how-to-care-for-our-nuclear-heritage/): Artists Grit Ruhland and Agnès Villette will present their versions of nuclear waste markers, provoking us to think about how we want to relate to our nuclear heritage both in the present and in the future.
- [Are We Plastic? Art and Thinking After Plastic - Lecture by Ingrid Halland](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/are-we-plastic-art-and-thinking-after-plastic-lecture-by-ingrid-halland/): Save the date! On the 18th of November, Ingrid Halland (NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology) will give a lecture on art and thinking after plastic. 
- [Tapestries and Radiation: the EHC visits COVRA](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/tapestries-and-radiation-the-ehc-visits-covra/): On the 9th of October, the Environmental Humanities Center visited COVRA, a nuclear waste management facility. Ruby de Vos, PhD Candidate at the University of Groningen tells us all about her experience of this unique excursion. 
- [Swimming in the Anthropocene: Embassy of the North Sea at Het HEM](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/swimming-in-the-anthropocene-embassy-of-the-north-sea-at-het-hem/): On the 16th of November, The Embassy of the North Sea presents 'Swimming in the Anthropocene' in het HEM, Zaandam.
- [Crossing Border X Border Sessions: Nature](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/crossing-border-x-border-sessions-nature/): A recommendation from EHC: On the 31st of October, Crossing Border and Border Sessions present an evening programme about nature writing.  
- [ASI Symposium Water in Times of Climate Change](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/asi-symposium-water-in-times-of-climate-change/): The Amsterdam Sustainability Institute presents the Water Symposium on 6 and 7 November. 
- [We were at the #ClimateStrike in The Hague](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/we-were-at-the-climatestrike-in-the-hague/): On Friday the 27th of September, an estimated 30,000 people marched the streets of our political capital The Hague to demand climate justice. We were there to join the protest and share a feeling of community and collective action with green-minded people of all ages. 
- [Workshop Transitions in Water-/Energy-/Food-Infrastructures](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/workshop-transitions-in-water-energy-food-infrastructures/): EHC and ASI invite you to the Transitions Workshop on November 1st! The keynote lecture will be given by Derk Loorbach, followed by paper presentations by young researchers along the themes of perceptions, policy, and practice of transitions. Registration via the link this post!   NOTE changed location: Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam.
- [Climate Duties, Freedom and Well-being: Lecture by Ingrid Robeyns](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/climate-duties-freedom-and-well-being-lecture-by-ingrid-robeyns/): "We all have individual climate duties, that is, duties not to emit more than our fair share of net emissions, and then analyses the question what the implications are for our freedoms and quality of life." CLUE+ invites you to Prof. Ingrid Robeyns' lecture on September 18th!
- [Lecture and Masterclass Allan Stoekl - Sustainability: Technocracy and Meditation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-and-masterclass-allan-stoekl-sustainability-technocracy-and-meditation/): Please note a change of room for the Masterclass: VU Medical Building, room D-565.  In his public lecture on 20 September, Allan Stoekl draws on the work of Georges Bataille and E. F. Schumacher's Buddhist economics to imagine a theory of sustainability that will avoid the pitfalls of the technocratic approach.   In the morning, (R)MA and PhD students are welcome to participate in a Masterclass on this topic.
- [CfP Aarhus University: Governing Urban Natures: Infrastructure, Citizenship and Municipal Ecologies](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-aarhus-university-governing-urban-natures-infrastructure-citizenship-and-municipal-ecologies/): A call for papers from our colleagues in Denmark! The submission deadline is the 8th of September. The seminar will be held at Aarhus University from 4-5 December 2019 as a cooperative effort among the Ecological Globalizations Research Group, Urban Orders Research Center, and the Center for Environmental Humanities, all based at Aarhus University.
- [After Hiroshima: Cultural Responses to the Atomic Bomb](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/after-hiroshima-cultural-responses-to-the-atomic-bomb/): How did artists, writers, film makers, and activists respond to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their aftermath, and how do they relate to nuclear issues today? After Hiroshima highlights some of the different responses to these questions by bringing together film screenings, performances, lectures, visual art, and even a ‘nuclear game.’ The event takes place across the city center of Groningen from 7-13 September 2019.
- [Should we follow the Wizard or the Prophet? – Discussing diverging paths for sustainable food system transformation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/should-we-follow-the-wizard-or-the-prophet-discussing-diverging-paths-for-sustainable-food-system-transformation/): This food system symposium will include keynote talks by international food system experts from within and outside academia. It is held at Vrije Universiteit on Friday, September 13, 9:00-13:00. 
- [ASI Call for Integrative Project Proposals](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/asi-call-for-integrative-project-proposals/): Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI) now calls for integrative project proposals. ASI aims to invite you to submit proposals that would encourage and strengthen ‘Science for Sustainability’ at Vrije Universiteit
- [Environmental Humanities Reading Group: Let's Talk Petroculture (with Jeff Diamanti)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-reading-group-lets-talk-petroculture-with-jeff-diamanti/): Join us on June 27th for the last session of the environmental humanities reading group before the summer on Petrocultures. In this session we will familiarize ourselves with concepts like ‘petroculture,’ ‘petromelancholia,’ and ‘the energy unconscious.’ Dr Jeff Diamanti (UvA) will lead the session.
- [Izzy f.d. Block: Organic Couture Fashion Show](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/izzy-f-d-block-organic-couture-fashion-show/): On the 1st of June, the Hybrid Forms artscience Lab at Vrije Universiteit invites you to an upcoming fashion show in the Hortus of the VU, straight out of the lab, based on artscience research from master chemistry student Iza Awad. 
- [Symposium: Climate Realism – Aesthetics and Politics of Climate](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-climate-realism-aesthetics-and-politics-of-climate/): The Goethe-Institut Amsterdam is organizing a symposium on Friday the 10th of May. Climate Realism is an occasion to rethink the aesthetics and politics of climate in its myriad forms; to capture climates capacity to express embedded histories; to map the formal strategies of representation that have turned climate into cultural content; and to index embodied currents of past and future climates.  
- [Nuclear Waste and Future Heritage: Excursion to COVRA](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nuclear-waste-and-future-heritage-excursion-to-covra/): On 9 October 2019, the Environmental Humanities Centre will pay a visit to COVRA, the only nuclear waste facility in the Netherlands. In addition to learning more about the complex practices of safe storage, we also want to explore the relations between nuclear waste and art on site. Sign up for this excursion quickly, there are a limited number of available spots!
- [CLUE+ event: The Imagination of Animals](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/clue-event-the-imagination-of-animals/): Dr. Annabelle Dufourcq (Radboud University) will give a lecture on animal imagination at the Vrije Universiteit on June 12. 
- [CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the Workshop Transitions in Water-/Energy-/Food-Infrastructures](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-abstracts-workshop-transitions-in-water-energy-food-infrastructures/): The Environmental Humanities Center and Amsterdam Sustainability Institute are organising a graduate conference on the 1st of November. This is a call for presentation abstracts on the topic of transitions. Submission deadline: 1st of July. 
- [EVENT 17 May: Technology in Human-Animal Relations](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/event-17-may-technology-in-human-animal-relations/): Finn Arne and Dolly Jørgensen from the University of Stavanger will visit the VU on the 17th of May. The theme of their lectures is technology in human-animal relations, specifically concerning bird houses and dogs with antennas. Save the date!
- [Environmental Humanities Reading Group: Nature Poetry Revisited](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-reading-group-nature-poetry-revisited/): On the 28th of April, The Environmental Humanities Reading Group will be reading sections from Alice Oswald’s book-length poem Dart, which maps the flow of the river Dart in Devon and the lives it touches. 
- [Review: Drawdown - The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/review-drawdown-the-most-comprehensive-plan-ever-proposed-to-reverse-global-warming-by-paul-hawken/): Paul Hawken's book Drawdown is a revelation for anyone who cares about our environment and wants to feel responsible about the fate and future of ‘our’ planet earth. Curious? Read Sjoerd Kluiving's review here.
- [Postdoctoral Position "Moving Animals" at Maastricht University](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/postdoctoral-position-moving-animals-at-maastricht-university/): Maastricht University invites applicants for a 5 year postdoctoral position in the project “Moving Animals: A History of Science, Media and Policy in the Twentieth Century”
- [Report: Workshop Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/report-workshop-water-unsafety-and-concepts-of-nature/): On the 21st of March, the workshop: Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature was held at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. This report reflects on this day as an opportunity for scholars of many different experience levels to exchange their knowledge about the (un)safety of water. 
- [BURN-OUT: Call for Fellows Het Nieuwe Instituut](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/burn-out-call-for-fellows-het-nieuwe-instituut/): Through its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Department acknowledges and gives visibility to research projects offering departures from established modes of thinking and practice. For this iteration of the Call for Fellows, the Research Department has selected the theme of BURN-OUT. Exhaustion on a Planetary Scale.
- [LUCAS 2019 Graduate Conference - Animals: Theory, Practice, Representation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lucas-2019-graduate-conference-animals-theory-practice-representation/): On April 4th and 5th, 2019, Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) will be hosting a conference called, Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation.   This graduate conference is an international and interdisciplinary platform where PhD and master students can present, exchange, and discuss research results and innovative theoretical insights with participants from diverse backgrounds.
- [TERRANOVA call for PhDS](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/terranova-call-for-phds/): 15 PhD vacancies within the TERRANOVA International Training Network
- [Launch Kunstlicht journal on Nuclear Aesthetics](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/launch-kunstlicht-journal-on-nuclear-aesthetics/): On April 16th, at FramerFramed (Amsterdam) the Environmental Humanities Center will join forces with the Kunstlicht journal to launch the journal issue on „Nuclear Aesthetics“.
- [Workshop: Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/workshop-water-unsafety-and-concepts-of-nature/): In honour of World Water Day 2019, the Society for Water History and the Environmental Humanities Center organize a workshop on the theme of Water Safety and Unsafety and concepts of nature, on Thursday March 21 at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam. 
- [EHC Special Event: Kenny Cupers, The Earth that Modernism Built](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-kenny-cupers-the-earth-that-modernism-built/): Professor Cuper's lecture at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (15 april) explores the roots of the modernist project – both heroic and tragic – to design the human by reshaping the environment, from the domestic sphere to the earth at large. 
- [Environmental Humanities Reading Group](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-reading-group/): One of the initiatives pitched at our Birthday Event last year is a new Environmental Humanities Reading Group. Their next meeting, focused on ecoambiguity, is on 21 February on the VU Campus. 
- [Board member Sjoerd Kluiving at Dutch Design Week](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/board-member-sjoerd-kluiving-at-dutch-design-week/): Our board member Sjoerd Kluiving took part in a panel on design in the Anthropocene during Dutch Design Week. A video of the discussion is now available.
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- [Pitch, Team Up, and Make It Happen!](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/pitch-team-up-and-make-it-happen/): This month, the Environmental Humanities Center is turning two years old (already…). Next to celebrating with drinks and snacks, a brief review and outlook, and chance for conversation, we invite our members to propose activities, research, events, reading groups, interventions (from tiny to large), which you could imagine to organize – together with others. 
- [Interview with T. J. Demos](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/interview-with-t-j-demos/): Art historian T.J. Demos was at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam to present his most recent book publication Against the Anthropocene (2017) on December 12th 2017. We had the opportunity to interview him on behalf of the Environmental Humanities Center. Just before he started his book presentation we met and we had a chance to ask him some questions about his view on the environmental humanities and the importance of our Environmental Humanities Center.
- [A Lake's Life: Lecture by Eva Jakobsson (EHC Special Event)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/a-lakes-life-lecture-by-eva-jakobsson-ehc-special-event/): In honour of Dr. Eva Jakobsson’s Research Fellowship with CLUE+, the Environmental Humanities Center organizes a Special Event on the biographies of lakes.
- [Earthbound: Restorying Ecology at Perdu](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/earthbound-restorying-ecology-at-perdu/): On 30 November, Perdu organizes an evening address the relations between social and climate justice through the lens of storytelling and imaginative practices. 
- [Excursion - EuroMoonMars: Science, Space and Humanities](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/excursion-euromoonmars-science-space-and-humanities/): For those attending the Outer Space Event on 15 November or the VU Space Day on 14 November, we offer the opportunity to visit the European Space Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk the next day. Please register before 13 November.
- [Newsletter European Society for Environmental History in the Benelux](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/newsletter-european-society-for-environmental-history-in-the-benelux/): The Autumn newsletter of the Benelux section of the European Society for Environmental History
- [Plastic Diet - our experiences](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/plastic-diet-our-experiences/): Our board members share their experiences with trying to reduce our plastic use during the #PlasticDiet last month.
- [Representing Nature in the Early Modern Period, 3 October 2018](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/representing-nature-in-the-early-modern-period-3-october-2018/)
- [Symposium Producers-Parasites-Hosts (VU, 4 October)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-producers-parasites-hosts-vu-4-october/): Annabel Howland’s artistic research weaves a speculative web connecting art, science and finance. In her ongoing project P r o d u c e r s -P a r a s i t e s - H o s t s, such themes as cheating and cooperation, transparency and instability, profit and loss, intermingle with stories of microbial cooperation, dark pools and human debt. This symposium and installation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam rounds off Howland's long term project.
- [Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/animals-theory-practice-and-representation/): On April 4th and 5th, 2019, Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) will be hosting a Graduate Conference on &#8220;Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation.&#8221; This conference aims to rethink the relationships between humans and animals, in order to examine the ways in which these relationships are defined.
- [After rain comes beer](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/after-rain-comes-beer/): Continuing the conversation started during the Water and the City Event, Petra van Dam sees new possibilities for the VU Green Roof. 
- [Board member Julia Kantelberg at Embassy of the North Sea](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/board-member-julia-kantelberg-at-embassy-of-the-north-sea/): Our board member Julia Kantelberg got involved with the Embassy of the North Sea &#8211; a project of The Parliament of Things that started last spring. The Embassy of the North Sea discovers possibilities to start a conversation between all Things, Plants, Animals and Humans. Read Julia’s reports on the meetings on their website. &nbsp;
- [We're on a Plastic Diet](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/were-on-a-plastic-diet/): From 1 September, the Environmental Humanities Center will participate in the Plastic Diet, an international action to garner attention to the role of single-use plastic in environmental problems.
- [EVENT 15 November 2018:  Environmental Humanities &amp; Outer Space](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-outer-space/): On 15 November 2018, the Environmental Humanities Center organizes an interdisciplinary event on the role of the humanities and social sciences in space exploration. 
- [PhD Candidate 'Imagining the Rural in Contemporary British Culture'](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-candidate-imagining-the-rural-in-contemporary-british-culture/): A PhD position in an Environmental Humanities subject is available at the University of Amsterdam in Esther Peeren's ERC Consolidator project Imagining the Rural in a Globalizing World/RURALIMAGINATIONS.
- [Lecture: Climate Phantasms and the Image of Ice](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-climate-phantasms-and-the-image-of-ice/): This lecture by Dr. Amanda Boetzkes at ASCA will consider how images of ice are activated by the phantasms of climate change. It will address aesthetic renderings of ice in the blind spot between scientific and Inuit knowledge of climate change.
- [Report: Water and the City Event 2018](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/report-water-and-the-city-event-2018/): Read up on the Water and the City event organized by the Environmental Humanities Center in spring 2018. 
- [Microplastics Event: Invisible Invaders, 14 June](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/microplastics-event/): Microplastics are everywhere. Particles of plastic less than five millimeters in length (about the size of a sesame seed) find their way into the environment from many sources. These plastics are essentially indestructible; they do not biodegrade but break down into ever smaller pieces. At this interdisciplinary event, we explore microplastics from multiple angles.
- [ARIAS: Arts &amp; Ecology](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/arias-arts-ecology/): How do the arts and artistic research contribute to planetary-scale questions of ecological transformation and disaster? This evening will feature three examples of special ways in which the arts trace the cultural, political and social implications of local and global moving resources, showing the shifting contexts and social ecologies of primary materials (such as oil, silicate or wood).
- [Lecture: The Life of Plants by Emanuele Coccia](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-the-life-of-plants-by-emanuele-coccia/): This Stevin Seminar (CLUE+) addresses the life of plants from philosophical, biological and artistic perspectives.
- [Lecture: Na het neoliberalisme – Klimaatverandering, sociale bewegingen en politiek](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-na-het-neoliberalisme-klimaatverandering-sociale-bewegingen-en-politiek/): On Thursday 31 May, Hein-Anton van der Heijden will visit the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) to present his most recently written book: Na het neoliberalisme – Klimaatverandering, sociale bewegingen en politiek (2017). 
- [Media: Petra van Dam on the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/media-petra-van-dam-on-the-amsterdam-ordnance-datum/): The publication of our board member Petra van Dam's new book on the 200-year history of the the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum Van Amsterdams peil naar Europees Referentievlak: De Geschiedenis van het NAP tot 2018 drew a lot of attention from newspapers and radio.
- [Interview with René ten Bos: Life in the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/interview-with-rene-ten-bos-life-in-the-anthropocene/): On Friday, 16th February a group of students, academics and other inquisitive attendants came together to listen to a lecture by &#8216;Thinker Laureate&#8217; René ten Bos, Professor of Philosophy at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. He was granted the title of &#8216;Thinker Laureate&#8217; in the Spring of 2017, and will bear this honour for two [&hellip;]
- [How Gardens Feel: The Natural History of Sensation in Spenser and Milton](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/how-gardens-feel-the-natural-history-of-sensation-in-spenser-and-milton/): Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan Lecture organized by ACCESS, the Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotions and Sensory Studies (CLUE+). Wednesday 18 April 2018 3.30 -5.00pm, drinks afterwards Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building Room: 13A33 In this talk, Michael Schoenfeldt explores the relation between the environment and the sensation of pleasure in Spenser and Milton [&hellip;]
- [How Will Art Survive Us? Lecture by Tal Beery, 22 May](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/how-will-art-survive-us-lecture-by-tal-beery-22-may/): Respondent: Joost Adriaanse and Juliette Huijgen Date: Tuesday, 22 May 2018 Time: 4 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Room: VU main building, room HG-12A33 Drinks afterwards Attendance is free of charge; please register using the form below. Facing social and ecological changes that may threaten the very survival of our species, our times require large-scale collective [&hellip;]
- [Water &amp; the City Symposium, 23 March](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/water-the-city-symposium/): Environmental Humanities Center Symposium Friday 23 March 2018, 14.00 – 17.00u Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building, room 12A-00 For catering reasons, please register using the form below. Climate change, increasing rainfall, sea level rise, and flood risk pose significant challenges for low-lying countries such as The Netherlands. Historically, Amsterdam has devised a number of strategies [&hellip;]
- [Presidential Academic Fellowship in Environmental History (Manchester)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/presidential-academic-fellowship-in-environmental-history-manchester/): The History department of the University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Presidential Fellow specialising in environmental history. Environmental history is a growing area of research that seeks to understand how people have understood, shaped and been shaped by their world. Applications are welcome from researchers working on any historical period or geographical area, whose [&hellip;]
- [Lecture René ten Bos: Leven in het Antropoceen](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-rene-ten-bos-leven-in-het-antropoceen/): 16 February 2018, 15.30hrs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building Room 10A-00 Please register below. The Dutch &#8216;Thinker Laureate&#8217; (Denker des Vaderlands) René ten Bos will visit the Environmental Humanities Center to talk about his new book Dwalen in het Antropoceen. Please note that this lecture will be in Dutch. Leven in het Antropoceen Hoe overleven [&hellip;]
- [Missed our Nuclear Waste Events?](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/missed-our-nuclear-waste-events/): In October and November 2017, the Environmental Humanities Center organised the Nuclear Waste Weeks in cooperation with Anna Volkmar (Leiden University) and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (CRAL, EHESS). Nuclear waste is one of the major unsolved challenges of our time, raising an array of questions, from the possibilities and politics of storage and disposal, over deep time, [&hellip;]
- [Lecture T.J. Demos: Against the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-t-j-demos-against-the-anthropocene/): Tuesday December 12 17.30-19.00 uur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Lecture Hall 0B-60 Initium Building, ground floor De Boelelaan 1077 Behind Main Building, across from stop De Boelelaan/VU (tram 5/metro 51) Admission free; please register below. NB: Because of overwhelming interest, we are moving to a bigger lecture hall: 0B-60 in the Initium Building, behind the Main [&hellip;]
- [On Demons, Clay and Greek Mythology: A Visit to Nuclear Belgium](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/on-demons-clay-and-greek-mythology-a-visit-to-nuclear-belgium/): This blog post shares some impressions from an excursion with the Environmental Humanities Center to an underground research laboratory for the storage of nuclear waste and an art exhibition on nuclear culture. By Anna Volkmar (Leiden University) On October 27, I went underground. Together with thirteen volunteers I descended into the bowels of HADES, the [&hellip;]
- [Nuclear Waste Event: report](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nuclear-waste-event-report/): Our Nuclear Waste Weeks have come to a close. Student board member Ankie Petersen reports on the Nuclear Waste Event: Nuclear Waste Event During our Nuclear Waste Weeks, local and global news outlets talked about the extent of the pollution of sea water after the Fukushima disaster of 2011, an anti-nuclear weapon campaign won the [&hellip;]
- [Nuclear Waste Weeks: film screening this Friday](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nuclear-waste-weeks-film-screening-this-friday/): In the context of our Nuclear Waste Weeks, Anna Volkmar and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou invite you to a film screening this Friday 15-16hrs.They will show two recent short films that focus on the issue of nuclear waste: Julian Charrière&#8217;s Somewhere (2014) and Myroslav Slaboshpitskyy&#8217;s Nuclear Waste (2012).Everyone is welcome to this (free) screening on Friday afternoon. [&hellip;]
- [Workshop: Earth Matters in the Museum](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/earth-matters-in-the-museum/): On Thursday 28 September, 14-17hrs, the Research Center for Material Culture organises the workshop Earth Matters in the Museum: Planetary Entanglements and Precarities. The workshop is organised by Wayne Modest, professor (by special appointment) of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies in the faculty of humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Member of the board of [&hellip;]
- [Call for Papers](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-papers/): Please find below the call for abstracts for the International Sociological Association World Congress, July 2018 in Toronto, where our thematic group TG07 Senses &amp; Society is organizing 9 panels and a business meeting. The deadline for abstract submission is 30th September 2017. Abstract submission &#8211; https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium436.html Panels organized by TG07 Senses and Society (ISA) [&hellip;]
- [New book: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-book-anglo-saxon-literary-landscapes/): Amsterdam University Press has started a book series devoted to Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures. The first book in the series is just out: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination by Heide Estes. &#8220;Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people&#8217;s actions. [&hellip;]
- [Thin Ice: opening of academic year](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/thin-ice-opening-of-academic-year/): The opening of the academic year at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam focused on the question ‘Thin ice! What can science do to help?’, and explored what the arts can teach the sciences in the case of climate change &#8211; a topic we also explored last year at the Environmental Humanities Center. The question was addressed by [&hellip;]
- [On the Roof Film Festival - Sustainable edition](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/on-the-roof-film-festival-sustainable-edition/): The annual On the Roof Film Festival, held on the roof of the main building of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam this week, is devoted to the theme of Sustainability. Together with the Green Office, the organizers put together a programme of four films, talks, food, and drinks. For four evenings the latest films from world cinema [&hellip;]
- [New publication: Environmental History and Water Management](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-publication-environmental-history-and-water-management/): Drought, flooding. Water is the main environmental problem of the near future, already the cause of wars. How did we deal with water in the past? This summer, the results of a large research project into the history of water were published in a special issue of the journal Environment and History. Our board member Petra [&hellip;]
- [New issue Metropolis M: Degrowth](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-issue-metropolis-m-degrowth/): The latest issue of the Dutch Journal Metropolis M focuses on the notion of degrowth in the art world (in Dutch). Degrowth is een begrip afkomstig uit de late jaren zestig, toen door een forum van economen, wetenschappers en politici een wereld werd bepleit die niet in het teken van de groei staat, maar waarin [&hellip;]
- [Pinar Yoldas // Carboniferous](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/pinar-yoldas-carboniferous/): Still on view until coming Sunday at the Glazen Huis in Amsterdam’s Amstelpark: Turkish artist Pinar Yoldas presents two new works based on Speculative Biology, in which she imagines new life forms which might develop on our man made planet. Part of it are imagined animals who have managed to adapt to the huge amount [&hellip;]
- [Nuclear Waste Weeks](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nuclear-waste-weeks/): October/November 2017 The Nuclear Waste Weeks are a four-part series of events, jointly organised by the EHC, VU, Anna Volkmar (PhD candidate at LUCAS, Leiden University) and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (PhD candidate at CRAL, EHESS), taking place during the months of October and November 2017 in Amsterdam. Nuclear waste is one of the major unsolved challenges [&hellip;]
- [Holland Festival: Democracy in the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/holland-festival-democracy-in-the-anthropocene/): The arts festival Holland Festival in Amsterdam has installed a Parliament of Things (after Bruno Latour) to explore questions of democracy in the Anthropocene. One of the speakers at the Parliament is Eva Meijer, who will also speak at our non-human animals event on 23 June. The events (this month) are in Dutch, as is [&hellip;]
- [CFP: Science for Sustainability Journal](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-science-for-sustainability-journal/): Attention all students interested in the environmental humanities: our Green Office has launched a peer-reviewed student journal on sustainability. The journal&#8217;s editors are looking for contributions from the Humanities. Please take a look at their call for papers and consider this opportunity to publish your research paper. Submit your papers for publication in the second edition [&hellip;]
- [Non-human Animal Event - 23 June](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/non-human-animal-event-23-june/): Friday 23 June 15.30-17.00hrs &#8211; drinks after (please register below) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building Room 15A-33 Our final event of this academic year focuses on non-human animals. Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that explores relations between humans and other animals now and in the past. Our speakers from the fields of [&hellip;]
- [Video: Erle Ellis on the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/video-erle-ellis-on-the-anthropocene/): On 2 May, Erle Ellis gave a lecture on the Anthropocene at the Environmental Humanities Center, in cooperation with the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. If you missed the event, you can now listen to the lecture here, thanks to Erle Ellis&#8217; generosity and Tim Renders&#8216; efforts in recording sound [&hellip;]
- [CLIMATE WEEKS](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/climate-weeks/): In April and May, the Environmental Humanities Center organizes a series of events about climate change. Do spread the word &#8211; we hope to see you at these events! 30 March: Tom Buurman, &#8216;Climate Change and Everyday Life in Stockholm&#8217; 21 April: Climate Change Event 2 May: Erle Ellis, &#8216;From Pleistocene to Anthropocene: Why Humans [&hellip;]
- [EHC Podcast: Waste](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-podcast-waste/): This podcast by student board members Julia Kantelberg and Germaine van der Sanden explores the topic of waste from the perspective of a scientist, a design critic and an architect. [soundcloud url=&#8221;https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/311185160&#8243; params=&#8221;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;450&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; /] Alice Twemlow: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Alice Twemlow is a design curator, educator, event organiser and writer. She is co-head of [&hellip;]
- [The Anthropocene in "Tegenlicht"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-anthropocene-in-tegenlicht/): The latest episode of the Dutch TV programme &#8220;Tegenlicht&#8221; (VPRO) was entirely devoted to the Anthropocene. The documentary (in Dutch/interviews in English) featured contributions by Bruno Latour, Andrea Wulf, Jan Zalasiewicz, and Phil Gibbard. Watch the programme on &#8220;Uitzending Gemist&#8221;: &nbsp; &nbsp;
- [Symposium: Watermanagement before 1800 (in Dutch)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-watermanagement-before-1800-in-dutch/): Studiemiddag: veenontginningen en waterbeheer voor 1800 Nederland is ontstaan uit het moeras, althans Laag-Nederland. We zijn begonnen als ontginners van de grote venen in de kustvlakte, en de eeuwen daarna zakten we er langzaam in weg. Daarom moesten we dijken gaan bouwen en polderbesturen oprichten. Deze studiemiddag presenteert nieuwe onderzoeksresultaten over de eerste duizend jaar van dit proces, [&hellip;]
- [Environmental Humanities &amp; Waste event + Excursion](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-waste-event-excursion/): With Alice Twemlow, Rachele Dini, and Dave Hakkens Friday 10 February, 2017 At this event, we invite you to confront and ponder an object that we usually wish dispose of quickly. To examine waste in all its materiality, we invite 15 people to join us on a morning excursion to AEB, an Energy from Waste [&hellip;]
- [EHC Special Event: Christopher Preston on Climate Engineering](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-special-event-christopher-preston-on-climate-engineering/): EHC Special Event in cooperation with the Faculty of Theology Friday 13 January, 13.15 – 14.45h Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building, room 10A20 Christopher Preston Climate Engineering: When Humans Enter the Domain of God(s) Proposals to engineer the climate in order to push back against warming global temperatures are gaining increasing attention in the light [&hellip;]
- [Landscape Event: Report by Tim Renders](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/landscape-event-report-by-tim-renders/): What is a landscape? For our second event we chose three guest speakers to deal with this broad topic. But first we acknowledged that the landscape is a natural phenomenon but heavily influenced by culture and thus mankind. So how do we deal with landscapes and how do we make sure that the balance between [&hellip;]
- [CFP: Agents in the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-agents-in-the-anthropocene/): Agents in the Anthropocene: Trans/disciplinary Practices in Art and Design Education Today symposium—call for presentations Piet Zwart Institute Master Education in ArtJanuary 26–28, 2017 Proposal deadline: December 16, 2016 The Master of Education in Arts, Piet Zwart Institute is pleased to announce an open call for presentations for the two-day symposium Agents in the Anthropocene: [&hellip;]
- [Regarding Nature in Huis Marseille](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/regarding-nature-in-huis-marseille/): Chrystel Lebas, Regarding Nature Huis Marseille, 10 December 2016- 5 March 2017 Chrystel Lebas revisits negatives of the British Landscape from the early twentieth century made by botanist and ecologist Sir Edward James Salisbury (1886-1978). Since Huis Marseille does not allow reproduction of text or images from their site, please visit their website to read [&hellip;]
- [Follow us on Facebook!](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/follow-us-on-facebook/): &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Environmental Humanities Center now also has a Facebook page. All events that the EHC organizes will be announced on our Facebook page, on a newsfeed, as well as here on our website. A place where everyone is welcome to share their ideas, our Facebook page aims to stimulate conversations [&hellip;]
- [Lecture on the law and climate activism](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-on-the-law-and-climate-activism/): Jaap Spier will be interviewed in Spui25 (in Dutch) on his work in legal climate activism. Spier is one of the authors of the Oslo Principles, a set of Principles that comprise the essential obligations States and enterprises have to avert the critical level of global warming. Jaap Thielbeeke interviews him about global problems, the [&hellip;]
- [Brief introduction to animal rights](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/brief-introduction-to-animal-rights/): The latest addition to the Dutch book series &#8220;Elementaire deeltjes&#8221; is a book on animal rights, Dierenrechten. Historian Dirk-Jan Verdonk explores past, present and future of the moral position ascribed to animals in theology, philosophy, science, law, and policy. Which responsibility do people have for animal welfare? Dirk-Jan Verdonk is also the author of Het [&hellip;]
- [Expecting the Unexpected: Getting Ready for a Wild Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/expecting-the-unexpected-getting-ready-for-a-wild-anthropocene/): Lecture by Christopher Preston at the University of Amsterdam In 2016 the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy officially found that Earth has entered the Anthropocene. The purpose of this talk is to raise some questions surrounding the naming of this new epoch and to challenge some of the assumptions that have [&hellip;]
- [Video: Libby Robin on Environmental Humanities in Practice](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/listen-to-libby-robin-on-environmental-humanities-in-practice/): Libby Robin&#8217;s inspiring keynote at the launch of the Environmental Humanities Center on 4 November is now available online on our YouTube Channel. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVkue9YyjrI] Libby Robin is Professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, and affiliated professor at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in the KTH Environmental Humanities [&hellip;]
- [Our Water Week](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/our-water-week/): This is the week of ‘Our Water’ (Ons Water). The water lobby in the Netherlands has designated this week to organize activities to increase our awareness of water as an important theme in our society, as a threat (sea level rise, cluster showers), but also as an essential resource (drinking water). On Saturday evening a [&hellip;]
- [The Art of Deception](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-art-of-deception/): Exhibition by Isaac Monté, in collaboration with Toby Kiers Mediamatic, Amsterdam, 04-10-’16 / 14-02-‘17 Exhibition review by: Tim Renders This exhibition discusses the human urge for perfection by displaying transformed pigs hearts that resemble the urge for inner beauty. Belgian design activist Isaac Monté cooperated for this project with evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers, who is [&hellip;]
- [CFP: Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-environmental-humanities-and-new-materialisms/): Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms The Ethics of Decolonizing Nature and Culture 8th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms 7-9 June 2017, Paris Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms share an ethic of decolonizing nature and culture, as they depart from anthropocentric and constructivist positions. Our call is to consider ourselves as permeable, part of the [&hellip;]
- [Lecture on Biophilia in the Anthropocene by Artis professor Erik de Jong](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-on-biophilia-in-the-anthropocene-by-artis-professor-erik-de-jong/): Biophilia Lecture by Erik de Jong, Artis Professor (in Dutch) Friday 18 November, 15-17hrs at VU University Amsterdam, Main Building, room 1A-33 With a response by Tirza Brüggemann Erik de Jong holds the Artis Chair for Culture, Landscape and Nature at the University of Amsterdam. In his lecture he wonders whether we could use ‘biophilia’, [&hellip;]
- [Workshop smARTcities and Waste Network](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/workshop-smartcities-and-waste-network/): Techno-Scientific Innovation and Waste Opportunities and Consequences Van Eyck Institute, Maastricht 9th December 2016, 9.30-5pm The theme of the Maastricht workshop is Techno-Scientific Innovation and Waste; Opportunities and Consequences. This theme has developed “organically” from two main sources: The local context of Maastricht, particularly in relation to the post-industrial status of Maastricht and the legacy [&hellip;]
- [Landscape event (2 December)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/landscape-event/): The question how people relate to the natural and built environment is central to landscape studies as well as the environmental humanities. On 2 December, three speakers address questions such as: Can landscape offer democratic answers to the problems that face the world’s environment? How does the preservation of built heritage relate to landscape conservation? [&hellip;]
- [The Center in the Press](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-center-in-the-press/): This weekend, an article on our Center appeared on a two-page spread in Elsevier. Science journalist Theo Toebosch interviewed Sjoerd Kluiving and Kristine Steenbergh about the center and its aims. We&#8217;re pleasantly surprised with our first appearance in the national press, since we hope to make connections with as many communities as possible. Read the [&hellip;]
- [Launch Environmental Humanities Center](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/launch-environmental-humanities-center/): On Friday 4 November, 2016, the Environmental Humanities Center was officially launched at a festive opening event. Gert-Jan Burgers, director of the interdisciplinary research institute CLUE+, opened the Center by tying a ceremonious knot. The act of tying together rather than cutting through a ribbon symbolizes the Environmental Humanities Centers&#8217; commitment to connecting various disciplines [&hellip;]
- [Apply soon for PhD positions Environment and Society](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/apply-soon-for-phd-positions-environment-and-society/): The doctoral program “Environment and Society” in Münich invites applications from graduates in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences who wish to research the complex relationships between environment and society in an interdisciplinary setting. Applications for summer semester 2017 must be submitted by 15 November 2016 via the online application portal. To learn more [&hellip;]
- [Visiting fellow's new edited collection on climate justice and geoengineering](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/visiting-fellows-new-edited-collection-on-climate-justice-and-geoengineering/): Now that humanity’s industrial emissions have pushed the global atmosphere into states it has not experienced for more than 3 million years, should we call upon our scientists and engineers to try to push it back? This is the question raised by the dramatic prospect of climate engineering (or geoengineering). Visiting Distinguished Fellow in the [&hellip;]
- [VU professor calls for multidisciplinary global clean-energy initiative](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vu-professor-calls-for-multidisciplinary-global-clean-energy-initiative/): In Nature, VU professor in physics Rienk van Grondelle calls for a global clean-energy initiative that brings together researchers from all disciplines. &#8220;Such a shared purpose would align the efforts of governments, agencies, foundations, investors, the research and policy communities, citizens and industry. It would accommodate the many disciplines needed across the natural and social [&hellip;]
- [Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art (Barcelona)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/mutating-ecologies-in-contemporary-art-barcelona/): Ist International Symposium December 1, 2016 Meier Auditorium (MACBA, Plaça Joan Coromines, Barcelona) Production and organization: AGI | Art Globalization Interculturality, Universitat de Barcelona Coordinator: Christian Alonso (UB) In collaboration with: MACBA | Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art (Budapest) Keynotes: Maja &amp; Reuben Fowkes (Translocal Institute, Budapest) The Anthropocene [&hellip;]
- [Environmental art in Tegenlicht (TV) and Pakhuis de Zwijger](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-art-in-tegenlicht-tv-and-pakhuis-de-zwijger/): The most recent transmission of the Dutch television program tegenlicht, entitled ‘Cultuurbarbaren’ is devoted to the relation of art and activism, including highly interesting examples of environmental arts, such as the work of Femke Herregraven or the ‘dark ecology’ journey organized by Amsterdam’s Sonic Acts festival. In the transmission, available online, amongst others, Herregraven explains [&hellip;]
- [Dutch Sustainability Day](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/dutch-sustainability-day/): Today is &#8216;Dag van de Duurzaamheid&#8216;, a day devoted to Sustainability in The Netherlands. Initiated by Urgenda, the day is intended as a showcase for sustainability initiatives. Check the website for activities across the country, such as the Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week or garbage men and women visiting schools to read stories to children about [&hellip;]
- [VU Journal of Sustainability Studies 2017](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vu-journal-of-sustainability-studies-2017/): The Green Office VU (GO.VU) is pleased to announce the launch of a submissions platform for the first edition of the VU Journal of Sustainability Studies. The GO.VU recognizes the aspiration of the VU to increase students’ academic interest in sustainability studies. Simultaneously, an awareness of the importance of a swift transition towards sustainability needs [&hellip;]
- [Landscape and affect](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/landscape-and-affect/): The Dutch Society for the Protection of Birds has just coined a new term in the fight to ensure ecological diversity in Dutch meadows. The suffering brought about by the monotonous agrarian landscape to both human and non-human animals from now on goes by the name of &#8216;landschapspijn&#8217; (landscape pain). They urge the next government [&hellip;]
- [Environmental humanities: a rethinking of landscape archaeology](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-a-rethinking-of-landscape-archaeology/): Covered by this title a fruitful session was organised during the 4th international Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC2016) in Uppsala, Sweden, 23-25 August 2016. Currently we are preparing a special issue in the journal International Review of Environmental History, with guest-editors Sjoerd Kluiving (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Kirsten Liden and Christina Fredengren (both Stockholm University, Sweden). There [&hellip;]
- [Tipping Points - KNAW Symposium](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/tipping-points-knaw-symposium/): The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences hosts a symposium (in Dutch) on tipping points and climate change on 11 November. Kantelpunten zijn een belangrijk thema geworden in klimaatonderzoek omdat ze in een korte tijd kunnen zorgen voor een compleet ander klimaat. Maar wat is een kantelpunt precies en waardoor wordt het veroorzaakt? In [&hellip;]
- [AUP launches new series on environmental humanities](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/aup-launches-new-series-on-environmental-humanities/): Amsterdam University Press is launching a new book series on environmental humanities and pre-modern cultures. This series in environmental humanities offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global pre-industrial cultures from interdisciplinary environmental perspectives. They invite submissions (both monographs and edited collections) in the fields of ecocriticism, specifically ecofeminism and new ecocritical analyses of under-represented [&hellip;]
- [Welcome to the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/welcome-to-the-anthropocene/): In the Dutch radio show Nieuws BV (NPO Radio 1), Sjoerd Kluiving welcomed listeners to the Anthropocene. He explained what the process of inaugurating this geological era entails, and why its name could help raise awareness of humanity&#8217;s impact on our planetary environment. Listen to the podcast here (in Dutch).
- [An Amphibious Culture](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/an-amphibious-culture/): Since one of the effects of climate change in our current era is an increase in flooding, Professor Petra van Dam has analyzed how the Dutch dealt with floods in the past. She reached the surprising conclusion that even though risk of flooding is on the increase today, our society is now less adapted to [&hellip;]
- [Historical Climatology](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/historical-climatology/): We warmly (no pun intended) recommend a visit to the blog Historical Climatology, which focuses on climate change scholarship in disciplines other than the sciences, including history, economics, political science, and law. The blog was founded by Dr. Dagomar Degroot, now a professor of environmental history at Georgetown University. In 2010, he was a fellow [&hellip;]
- [Wybren Verstegen on Cultured Natures - podcast](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/wybren-verstegen-on-cultured-natures-podcast/): One of the early attempts to create protected conservation areas came in 1928 with the Natuurschoonwet, freely translated as Nature Scenery Act. This Act was mostly about protecting country houses set in park like settings. Wybren Verstegen, Senior Lecturer in economic, social and environmental history at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has researched the Dutch Nature [&hellip;]
- [Launch](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-in-practice-lecture-libby-robin/): Friday 4 November 2016, 15.30-17hrsFaculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam At the launch of the Environmental Humanities Center at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, you are very welcome to attend Libby Robin&#8217;s lecture on Environmental Humanities in Practice. The Environmental Humanities (EH) is a focus for collaborative projects between the humanities disciplines emerging in different forms in [&hellip;]
- [Course guide 2017-2018](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/course-guide-2016-17/): In this course guide, we aim to provide an overview of courses that focus on topics related to the environmental humanities. The guide is a work in progress: would you like to include your course here, please contact k.steenbergh@vu.nl. We also warmly welcome course descriptions from other Dutch universities. Courses at the Faculty of Humanities [&hellip;]
- [International Workshop on Rice Cultivation and Culture](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/international-workshop-on-rice-cultivation-and-culture/): We would like to share this opportunity. International Workshop Rice: Cultivation and Culture in Europe and the Mediterranean Venice, Italy 30 May 2023 Università Ca&#8217;Foscari Venezia More details are available here: https://pric.unive.it/projects/water-cultures/home
- [Kathryn Yusoff Lecture: Inhuman Memory](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/kathryn-yusoff-lecture-inhuman-memory/): Research 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 inhuman memory?&nbsp; Can a gritty [&hellip;]
- [Environmental Media Symposium](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-media-symposium/): CLUE+ 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. 
- [Hybrid Workshop Learning from Aliens: New Directions in Environmental Humanities Research and Practice](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/hybrid-workshop-learning-from-aliens-new-directions-in-environmental-humanities-research-and-practice/): The 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 belongs where and why. But [&hellip;]
- [Save the date: 24 May Kathryn Yusoff at Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/save-the-date-24-may-kathryn-yusoff-at-environmental-humanities-center-amsterdam/): On 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 of the colonial praxis of [&hellip;]
- [Symposium on the history of water landscapes (in Dutch)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-on-the-history-of-water-landscapes-in-dutch/): Dutch 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."
- [Crawly Creatures at Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, with former student-board member Julia Kantelberg](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/crawly-creatures-at-amsterdam-rijksmuseum-with-former-student-board-member-julia-kantelberg/): This 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!). 
- [Two PhD vacancies at Radboud University Nijmegen (closes 9 January 2023)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/two-phd-vacancies-at-radboud-university-nijmegen/): The NWO VIDI project Poison, Medicine, or Magic Potion: Shifting Perspectives on Drugs in Latin America (1820-2020) has two vacancies for PhD students. 
- [Summer Course: Icelandic Field Stations 2023](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/summer-course-icelandic-field-stations-2023/): The 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.
- [Vacancy Doctoral Candidate Environmental Humanities](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vacancy-doctoral-candidate-environmental-humanities/): The 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.
- [<strong>Artistic performance about basking shark hunting</strong>](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/artistic-performance-about-basking-shark-hunting/): This 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 each summer. 
- [Programme update Fashion in the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/programme-update-fashion-in-the-anthropocene/): Programme and registration for our event on Fashion and Sustainability  on Thursday 27 October.
- [Vacancies | SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vacancies-soy-stories-connected-sustainability-histories-and-futures-of-the-global-soyacene/): The 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.
- [Talkshow Wild at Heart | Tolhuistuin](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/talkshow-wild-at-heart-tolhuistuin/): On 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". 
- [TAKING CARE: Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/taking-care-recreating-kinship-in-the-ethnographic-museum/): As 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 which ethnographic and world cultures museums, their histories and their collections, can be refashioned to address the growing precarity of our planet and the plurality of our human and non-human world.
- [Sonic Acts Biennale](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/sonic-acts-biennale/): The biennial international festival celebrating electronic and digital art forms returns to Amsterdam this October, bringing together the environmental humanities and contemporary art to ask how we can care for what we cannot see or understand.
- [Masterclass eco-literature](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/masterclass-eco-literature/): One of our board members, Kristine Steenbergh, will be teaching a masterclass on the role of literature in reshaping human-nature relations. The masterclass is in De Nieuwe Liefde on Sunday 30 October, and is in Dutch. 
- [Fashion and the Anthropocene: towards a sustainable fashion future](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/fashion-and-the-anthropocene-towards-a-sustainable-fashion-future/): Thursday 27th October 2022 14.00-17.00 incl. reception NU Building, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Today the fashion industry forcefully promotes its sustainability credentials. From branding and promotion strategies to recycling, resale, rental and reuse, fashion companies are keen to demonstrate awareness of the climate crisis. But are these responses adequate? As the damage the Anthropocene represents for [&hellip;]
- [Water Heritage for Sustainable Cities Course](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/water-heritage-for-sustainable-cities-course/): In the autumn of 2022, The Netherlands Institute in Turkey offers a course that addresses past experiences and current and future challenges of urban water supply. 
- [Excursion: guided tour exhibition Still Waters Run Deep](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/excursion-guided-tour-exhibition-still-waters-run-deep/): Excursion opportunity prior to the symposium 'Sink or Swim. Searching for a sustainable relationship with water'. 
- [EHC Entanglements Lecture Report: Dr Kristian Mennen - "How to oppose the reclamation of ‘waste land’? Political strategies of the Dutch nature conservation movement in the 1930s"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-entanglements-lecture-report-dr-kristian-mennen-how-to-oppose-the-reclamation-of-waste-land-political-strategies-of-the-dutch-nature-conservation-movement-in-the-1930s/): On the 19th of May, Dr Kristian Mennen delivered a lecture on the political strategies of the Dutch conservation movement in the 1930s, as a part of the EHC Entanglements Lecture Series. Dr Mennen addressed an online audience. The political historian with an interest in environmental history discussed aspects of his current research in a presentation titled “How to Oppose the reclamation. You can read a report of the lecture and access the related online media.
- [Video Entanglements Lecture Dr Kristian Mennen](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/video-entanglements-lecture-dr-kristian-mennen/): The recording of Dr Mennen's lecture "How to oppose the reclamation of waste land’? Political strategies of the Dutch nature conservation movement in the 1930s" is now available on our YouTube channel.
- [Art Science dialogues: Natural Technologies](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/save-the-date-art-science-dialogues-natural-technologies/): EHC and VU art science gallery present: Art Science dialogues: Natural Technologies exhibition. 
- [Symposium: Sink or Swim. Searching for a sustainable relationship with water.](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-sink-or-swim-searching-for-a-sustainable-relationship-with-water/): ‘Sink or Swim’ is an interdisciplinary symposium establishing an encounter between visual art, history, philosophy, ecology and governance, seeking to provide current insights and creative inspiration for building a sustainable relationship with water. Still Waters Run Deep is an interdisciplinary programme curated by Marlies Augustijn, taking place from 26 June until 7 August 2022 at Nieuw Dakota, an exhibition space for contemporary art in Amsterdam-Noord. 
- [Entanglements: Dr. Kristian Mennen, "How to oppose the reclamation of ‘waste land’? Political strategies of the Dutch nature conservation movement in the 1930s"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-dr-kristian-mennen-how-to-oppose-the-reclamation-of-waste-land-political-strategies-of-the-dutch-nature-conservation-movement-in-the-1930s/): Dr Mennen will be addressing the politics of the early Dutch conservation movement. Date: 19 May 2022, 15:00hrs CEST Time: To be announced Please register to receive a zoom link. 
- [Symposium report: Urban Past, Urban Future? Sustainable Drinking Water in Dutch Cities, 1500-1900](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-report-urban-past-urban-future-sustainable-drinking-water-in-dutch-cities-1500-1900/): On Thursday the 17th of March 2022, the project team Omgaan met droogte or Coping with Drought which includes EHC Board members Petra van Dam and Dániel Moerman, hosted their first Symposium as an EHC special event. In a hybrid format, with more than 30 attendants combined in person and on Zoom, several team members presented [&hellip;]
- [Entanglements: Dr Bram Büscher, "The Conservation Revolution - moving beyond foundational contradictions in biodiversity protection"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-dr-bram-buscher-the-conservation-revolution-moving-beyond-foundational-contradictions-in-biodiversity-protection/): In his lecture he will focus on his recent co-authored book with Robert Fletcher: The Conservation Revolution. Radical ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene (Verso, 2020). Büscher and Fletcher argue that the Anthropocene challenges contemporary conservation models and exposes their deep contradictions.
- [EHC Special Event: Symposium, "Urban Past, Urban Future? Sustainable Drinking Water in Dutch Cities, 1500-1900"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-special-event-symposium-urban-past-urban-future-sustainable-drinking-water-in-dutch-cities-1500-1900/): During this interdisciplinary symposium the members of the VU-N.W.O. research project Omgaan met waterschaarste (Coping with drought, 2020-2025) will present some preliminary conclusions of their research.
- [Call for Candidates - University of Cork: "Radical Humanities Laboratory](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-candidates-university-of-cork-radical-humanities-laboratory/): The University of Cork are setting up a Radical Humanities Laboratory and they are hiring scholars in the environmental humanities. Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Thursday, 24th March 2022. The Radical Humanities Laboratory will work across disciplinary boundaries and UCC’s four Colleges to explore the roots of global [&hellip;]
- [Sadie Hale wins Deborah Bird Rose Prize](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/sadie-hale-wins-deborah-bird-rose-prize/): Former student assistant to the Environmental Humanities Center, Sadie Hale, has been co-awarded the inaugural Deborah Bird Rose Prize 2022 by ASLEC-ANZ (Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia + Aotearoa New Zealand). Sadie’s winning essay proposal builds on her Research MA thesis she completed at Vrije Universiteit, and is entitled “On sharks never seen: Absence, nonencounters, and the possibility of extinction in multispecies ethnography”.
- [Earth Beings at the Commodity Frontier: Federico Luisetti at University of Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/earth-beings-at-the-commodity-frontier-federico-luisetti-at-university-of-amsterdam/): In this lecture at the University of Amsterdam on 25 February, the Italian philosopher Federico Luisetti focuses on the concept of 'earth beings'. For Quechua speakers, these are other-than-human subjects that frighten and preannounce, protect and punish, deceive and heal, sharing emotions, feelings and expressions with the people (runakuna). 
- [Video Lecture in Entanglements Series by Dr. Dagomar Degroot](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/video-lecture-in-entanglements-series-by-dr-dagomar-degroot/): Dr. Dagomar Degroot&#8217;s lecture “Finding ET (for the first time): The Nineteenth-Century “Discovery” of Life on Mars”, which took place in our online Entanglements Series on 1 February 2022, was recorded. The video is now available on the Environmental Humanities Center’s YouTube channel.
- [Kick-off ASI Cluster Biodiversity and Landscape Change ](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/kick-off-asi-cluster-biodiversity-and-landscape-change/): 27th&nbsp;of January 2022.&nbsp;15.00-16.00 live via Zoom&nbsp;from The Global Room&nbsp;HG 1A 36 (Main Building VU). Our typical landscapes are intensely used, resulting in a myriad of ecological, social and economic problems. Especially biodiversity is declining rapidly as well as ecosystem health. How to stop this decline and make our landscapes sustainable in the future? If these [&hellip;]
- [Workshop: "Speaking about the humans. Animal perspectives on the multispecies world"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/workshop-speaking-about-the-humans-animal-perspectives-on-the-multispecies-world/): Online 17 &amp; 18 March 2022 This one-day interdisciplinary workshop aims to get a better understanding of other animals’ perspectives on humans and the implications of these perspectives for developing better relations. Prairie dogs discuss humans in detail. Elephants have a word for humans. Sperm whales warn each other about human attacks. Many if not [&hellip;]
- [Digital Colloquium - "The Impact of Climate and Weather on the Premodern Provision of Food and Water: New Historical Perspectives on Resilience and Vulnerability"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/digital-colloquium-the-impact-of-climate-and-weather-on-the-premodern-provision-of-food-and-water-new-historical-perspectives-on-resilience-and-vulnerability/): 16 February 2022, 13:00-17:00 Register for Zoom access (no attendance fee required Food and water are essential goods for human and animal life. The provision of these goods to society has always been prone to climatic and environmental shocks, such as drought, floods, and extreme weather circumstances. Recent studies have made clear that premodern societies [&hellip;]
- [Entanglements: Dr. Dagomar Degroot, "Finding ET (for the first time): The Nineteenth Century "Discovery" of Life on Mars"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-dr-dagomar-degroot-finding-et-for-the-first-time-the-nineteenth-century-discovery-of-life-on-mars/): The previous date for the event has been updated. Please refer to the information below. It is accurate. Date: Tuesday, 1 February 2022 Time: 15:30hrs CET Venue: Online, Zoom Please register below to receive a zoom link shortly. We are excited to announce our second lecture in the series with Dr. Dagomar Degroot. The launch [&hellip;]
- [Externalities of Value: NICA Lecture and masterclass by prof. Amanda Boetzkes](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/externalities-of-value-nica-lecture-and-masterclass-by-prof-amanda-boetzkes/): NICA lecture and masterclass by Amanda Boetzkes in the 'Externalities of Value' series on 10 December 2021.
- [(Post) Anthropocene Museologies Symposium](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/post-anthropocene-museologies-symposium/): On 30 November, Framed Framed will host a hybrid symposium, co-organised by Colin Sterling (University of Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture) and Blake Ewing (University of Oxford). The event aims to ‘take stock’ of Anthropocene related projects in the museum sector over the past decade and begin to sketch out the contribution museums might make to a post-Anthropocene world.
- [Workshop series on Ecocritical methods in Art History](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/workshop-series-on-ecocritical-methods-in-art-history/): Workshop 1: 3-4 December, 20221 ; Workshop 2: 31 March -1 April, 2022 ; Workshop 3: 1-2 July, 2022 Andrew Patrizio (University of Edinburgh) and Olga Smith (University of Vienna), are looking for participants to join a series of workshops in the environmental humanities with a focus on methods and practices in ecocritical art history. Their main [&hellip;]
- [Ryosuke Ohashi, "The Deep Layers of Responsibility, or Anti-Nature in Nature"(CLUE+)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ryosuke-ohashi-the-deep-layers-of-responsibility-or-anti-nature-in-natureclue/): What does it mean to be responsible in the context of the crises confronting the world today? In this CLUE+ lecture, Ryosuke Ohashi reflects on responsibility as a problem of philosophical as well as linguistic dimensions. 
- [Cinema Ecologica at EYE Film museum Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cinema-ecologica-at-eye-film-museum-amsterdam/): Our board member Kristine Steenbergh participates in Cinema Ecologica at EYE Film Museum Amsterdam. 
- [The World as We Don't Know It - @Droog](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-world-as-we-dont-know-it-droog/): VU professor by special appointment Maarten Doorman made three short films with the title "Omdenken" for this exhibition at Droog. The programme includes an exhibition, films and talks.
- [365 Plants at CASCO](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/365-plants-at-casco/): This project at the Travelling Farm Museum in Leidsche Rijn (Utrecht) is of interest to the EHC community: 365 PLANTS by Dutch artist Mariëlle Videler is an artwork that is part of an ongoing project that consists of 365 BIRDS / 365 PLANTS / 365 INSECTS.  
- [Invitation to join Sound Ecologies Lab](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/invitation-to-join-sound-ecologies-lab/): Fiber is looking for researchers who are interested in joining their Lab and Field Trip to Borssele between 25 and 30 October. 
- [Video Entanglements Lecture Catriona Sandilands](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/video-entanglements-lecture-catriona-sandilands/): The recording of Cate Sandilands' lecture "Mulberries: A Biopolitical Love Story" is now available on your YouTube channel. 
- [](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/5577-2/): Over the summer the EHC has had a joint project with the stories-on–floods project of TMY in India. On Monday Petra van Dam talks with participants of the project about their stories which have been published recently.
- [There's No Such Thing as Waste! Circular Economy in the Early Modern Netherlands](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/theres-no-such-thing-as-waste-circular-economy-in-the-early-modern-netherlands/): De Nederlandse en Vlaamse overheden willen naar een circulaire economie in 2050. Dat voornemen vormt een goede aanleiding om te onderzoeken hoe circulair de steden en de landbouw eigenlijk waren vóór de industrialisatie. Hoe was het hergebruik van afval en restproducten geregeld? 
- [CFP: 'Sentimental Extraction' Virtual Workshop, Friedrich-Alexander-University](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-sentimental-extraction-virtual-workshop/): Of special interest to members of our community who attended Cara Daggett's lecture in our Entanglements series: our colleagues at Friedrich-Alexander University are calling for contributions to a virtual workshop on Sentimental Extraction. NB: the deadline for submissions is on 31 August.
- [Sonic Acts: OVEREXPOSED residency](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/sonic-acts-overexposed-residency/): Sonic Acts is proud to announce the continuation of the OVEREXPOSED residency programme. With this renewed open call, we invite applications from artists and researchers working across the fields of environmental humanities with a special focus on pollution and experimental art and media.
- [The Amphibious Culture: A History of Coping with Disastrous Floods](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-amphibious-culture-a-history-of-coping-with-disastrous-floods/): With climate change and rising sea levels the threat of flooding increases in low-lying areas all over the world. The Netherlands are famous for their long history of surviving floods. How did people cope with floods in the past? Watch this video lecture by Petra van Dam to find out. 
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Cate Sandilands, "Mulberries: A Biopolitical Love Story"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-cate-sandilands-mulberries-a-biopolitical-love-story/): Apologies if you were taken to this page by the button in our newsletter. Please click here to be taken to the page for Iva Peša, “Understanding Environmentalism in Africa”. Thursday 30 September 2021, 20:00hrs CEST, on Zoom Please register below to receive the Zoom link for this event We are thrilled that our Entanglements Series [&hellip;]
- [Call for Rachel Carson - Simone Veil Fellows 2022](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-rachel-carson-simone-veil-fellows-2022/): The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and Project House Europe, both located at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, invite applications for their joint fellowship. The Rachel Carson Center (RCC) fosters innovative research and education in the environmental humanities and social sciences.&nbsp;Project House Europe (PHE) promotes cutting-edge research from around the world on the history of Europe during the 20th&nbsp;and 21st&nbsp;centuries. [&hellip;]
- [The green side of history: An interview with the EHC's Petra van Dam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-green-side-of-history-an-interview-with-the-ehcs-petra-van-dam/): The student journal Skript recently interviewed Petra van Dam about her field of environmental history, and how it relates to Environmental Humanities. Petra is chair professor of Water and Environmental History and board member of the EHC.&nbsp; Environmental history, she says, demonstrates how important environment and climate are in the description and understanding of historical [&hellip;]
- [Call for Research Interns (MA-level, humanities &amp; social science; 4 months, fall 2021)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-research-interns-ma-level-humanities-social-science-4-months-fall-2021/): Are you a (research) master student with a keen interest in organizations that are set up and managed by groups of citizens, such as cooperatives? Are you interested in learning about the conditions to make such organizations durable and resilient, in the face of both internal problems and external challenges, such as crises, pandemics, climate [&hellip;]
- [Special event, 17 June: Jeff Diamanti on his new book Climate and Capital](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/special-event-17-june-jeff-diamanti-on-his-new-book-climate-and-capital/): We are looking forward to a special online book launch event with our dear colleague in Amsterdam, Dr Jeff Diamanti. In Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum, Jeff Diamanti describes the destructive relationship between climate and capital through the exponential growth of the petroleum industry over the last 40 years. 
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Iva Peša, "Understanding Environmentalism in Africa"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-iva-pesa-understanding-environmentalism-in-africa/): The Anthropocene presents itself as a turning point in human history: if current fossil fuel dependency is not reversed and if economic thought is not reconceptualised to question the logic of growth models, the earth’s future will be imperiled. Viewing the Anthropocene from the perspective of sub-Saharan Africa shows the need to ask different questions, which challenge the singular and universal nature of the Anthropocene. 
- [Online book launch: "Environmental Humanities: a Rethinking of Landscape Archaeology?"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/online-book-launch-environmental-humanities-a-rethinking-of-landscape-archaeology/): The &#8220;environment&#8221; cannot be regarded as a blank space that landscape meaning is projected onto. Humans reinforce the environmental challenges in the past,  today and in the future. What cultural factors drive human action, what role is played by ethics and how is landscape experienced emotionally? This new book asks: how are concepts derived from [&hellip;]
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Elmas Deniz on investigating human-nature relations in art](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-elmas-deniz-on-investigating-human-nature-relations-in-art/): We 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.
- [Art in the age of pollution: Sonic Acts announces new event, magazine, installation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/art-in-the-age-of-pollution-sonic-acts-announces-new-event-magazine-installation/): Sonic 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.
- [Travelling concepts: the long life of the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/travelling-concepts-the-long-life-of-the-anthropocene/): We briefly explore the term 'Anthropocene', in honour of the late Paul Crutzen, who sadly passed away in January this year.
- [Nuclear landscapes: your reading recommendations](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nuclear-landscapes-your-reading-recommendations/): In 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&#8217;s book, The Future of Nuclear Waste (2020), we&#8217;ve gathered your recommendations below. If you would like to add more reading tips [&hellip;]
- [Vacancy: Assistant Professor in History of Art, Architecture, and Landscape at University of Groningen](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vacancy-assistant-professor-in-history-of-art-architecture-and-landscape-at-university-of-groningen/): Candidates with expertise in art and ecology / art and environmental humanities are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline: 29 April
- [Environmental History Today! New online seminar series from European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-history-today-new-online-seminar-series-from-european-society-for-environmental-history-eseh/): New online seminar series from ESEH. Register now!
- [This Friday: The Promise of Future Foods](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/this-friday-the-promise-of-future-foods/): In 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 Masterclass studies solarity and agriculture.
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Jane Bennett, "Out for a Walk in the Middle Voice"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-jane-bennett-out-for-a-walk-in-the-middle-voice/): We 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. 
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Online lecture series](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-online-lecture-series/): An overview of upcoming lectures in our online "Entanglements" series,  with an archive of past lectures. 
- [PhD Workshop and Keynote: Austrian Environmental History](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-workshop-and-keynote-austrian-environmental-history/): The 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!
- [New book on Fukushima disaster published, with contribution from VU's Sven Lütticken](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-book-on-fukushima-disaster-published-with-contribution-from-vus-sven-lutticken/): On the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Sternberg Press has published a volume on Don&#8217;t Follow the Wind (eds.&nbsp;Nikolaus Hirsch and Jason Waite), the acclaimed collaborative project situated in Fukushima&#8217;s radioactive exclusion zone. The book explores the long-term environmental crisis in the coastal Japanese region through this ongoing, inaccessible exhibition, which maintains traces of [&hellip;]
- [Vacancy: Tutor in MA Ecology Futures](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vacancy-tutor-in-ma-ecology-futures/): Avans Hogeschool (Den Bosch) is  looking for a Theory Tutor in their MA Ecology Futures (0,2 fte; starting 1 May 2021). 
- [ENTANGLEMENTS Book Club](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-book-club-2/): The third edition of our online book club accompanying our Entanglements lecture series is on 8 April. All welcome!
- [Snippets (BASCE)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/snippets-basce/): The Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment is proud to introduce a monthly online discussion series called Snippets.   Join them in close-reading snippets of text from influential works in ecocriticism and green media studies on the first Friday of each month. 
- [Symposium on Future Landscapes, 24 February: complete programme live &amp; registration open!](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-on-future-landscapes-24-february-complete-programme-live-registration-open/): The TERRANOVA and HERILAND Symposium on Future Landscapes, 24 February: complete programme now available!
- [Het Coronavirus, klimaat en droogte: hebben ze met elkaar te maken? - New blog post from our PhD student](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/het-coronavirus-klimaat-en-droogte-hebben-ze-met-elkaar-te-maken-new-blog-post-from-our-phd-student/): Our PhD student Dániel Moerman has written a new blog post for the Coping With Drought project website. Read (in Dutch) now!
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Georg Stöger on Urban Environmental History](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-georg-stoger-on-urban-environmental-history/): Georg Stöger analyzes change and persistence in the town Linz in a long-term perspective. He is explicitly interested in the collective and individual practices in everyday life that shaped (and were shaped by) the urban environment.
- [Seminar series: 'Why history and politics matter in times of environmental crisis'](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/seminar-series-why-history-and-politics-matter-in-times-of-environmental-crisis/): The programme of events for the new online seminar series at the University of Groningen, 'Why History and politics matter in times of environmental crisis', is now available!
- [Vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher, Art &amp; Sustainability, Hanzehogeschool Groningen](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vacancy-postdoctoral-researcher-art-sustainability-hanzehogeschool-groningen/): The Research Centre Art &amp; Society currently has a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Researcher Art &amp; Sustainability.
- [ENTANGLEMENTS Book Club](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-book-club/): We are launching an online book club accompanying our Entanglements lecture series. With low-key and accessible meetings, we hope to bring some intellectual companionship to these challenging times. 
- [New Center for AnimalHuman Studies](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-center-for-animalhuman-studies/): The new Center for AnimalHuman Studies in the Netherlands is a platform for researchers, teachers, students and others in the Netherlands who focus on the relationship between humans and other animals. 
- [Winternachten Festival: Writing Climate (In)justice](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/winternachten-festival-writing-climate-injustice/): Our alumna and former student assistant Joëlle Koorneef curated and produced a programme on literature and climate (in)justice for Winternachten Festival. The festival takes place online on the evening of 14 January 2021. 
- [EHC SPECIAL EVENT: YWY, THE ANDROID](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-special-event-ywy-the-android/): On the occasion of their solo exhibition at 1646 in Rotterdam, artist and filmmaker Pedro Neves Marques will screen their work “YWY, the Android”, followed by a lecture and Q&amp;A. In the video, set in a present-future, YWY, an indigenous android, talks with a GMO corn crop in the agricultural interior of Brazil. 
- [Cow language and multispecies ethics: your reading recommendations](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cow-language-and-multispecies-ethics-your-reading-recommendations/): In our meeting with Leonie Cornips, we asked all participants for one reading tip connected to the lecture on how dairy cows relate to humans and to each other, sourcing the wisdom of our community via the Zoom chat function. These are your recommendations. 
- [More than the Human Past. Historians, Eco-history and Environmental Humanities](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/more-than-the-human-past-historians-eco-history-and-environmental-humanities/): This is an evaluation of the EHC-KNHG congres on November 19th, including the YouTube links to the lectures and an environmental humanities reading list.
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Rosemary Joyce on Nuclear Landscapes](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-rosemary-joyce-on-nuclear-landscapes/): The global nuclear industry has for decades used sites like Stonehenge to justify designs for long-term markers to be placed over nuclear waste repositories to ensure they are not violated in distant, imagined futures. Alternative proposals propose a variety of aesthetic installations as alternative ways of marking the contaminated landscapes under construction.   Moving back and forth between the proposals rooted in cultural heritage thinking, and those aligned with art worlds, this talk questions how both imagine human intentions as singularly effective in structuring place over spans of thousands of years.
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Cara Daggett on Petro-masculinity](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-cara-daggett-on-petro-masculinity/): Far-right movements are on the rise worldwide, and many have embraced both misogynistic and anti-climate action positions. While these resentments are often treated separately, in this webinar, Cara Daggett will discuss their interconnections through the concept of petro-masculinity.
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Leonie Cornips on Dairy Cow Relations](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-leonie-cornips-on-dairy-cow-relations/): Leonie Cornips will present her research on how the dairy cow makes social meaning in her barn within the power dynamics of industrial farming. 
- [ENTANGLEMENTS, a new online event series by the Environmental Humanities Center](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-a-new-online-event-series-by-the-environmental-humanities-center/): Beginning in December 2020 and running until summer 2021, the Environmental Humanities Center presents a series of webinars with scholars from environmental humanities and beyond. Click to learn more!
- [Registration open: life stream conference ‘Cultural perceptions of Safety’](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/registration-open-life-stream-conference-cultural-perceptions-of-safety/): This two-day conference will bring together scholars from eight different countries and various humanities disciplines to pursue fluctuations in conceptualizations, expressions and feelings of safety over time as well as in cultures of surveillance and safety practices. Speakers will address a variety of topics, ranging from narratives and visual discourses of (un)safety, to representations and imaginations of places and spaces of safety and regulations to ensure safety.
- [CfP: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency - International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic &amp; Social Sustainability (online)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-accelerating-the-transition-to-sustainability-policy-solutions-for-the-climate-emergency-international-conference-on-environmental-cultural-economic-social-sustainability-online/): The 17th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic &amp; Social Sustainability invites submissions. It will will take place on 24-26 February 2021. This year’s special focus will be on Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency.  Plenary speakers: Diederik Samsom, Marjan Minnesma, Christian Felber and Ilona Otto.  For those that are interested [&hellip;]
- [Climate fiction: online event](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/climate-fiction-online-event/): EHC Board member Kristine Steenbergh will take part in an online event on climate fiction at SPUI25, organized with de Nederlandse Boekengids and Armada on 5 November (20-21.30hrs). The event is in Dutch. 
- [How the poor treatment of factory-farmed chickens makes pandemics more likely](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/how-the-poor-treatment-of-factory-farmed-chickens-makes-pandemics-more-likely/): In a blog post for the Rachel Carson Center, student board member Sadie E. Hale asks us to consider what the miserable lives of intensively-reared broiler chickens can add to our understanding of global entanglements and pandemics like COVID-19. 
- [Digitaal Jaarcongres 2020 ‘Meer dan Menselijk Verleden: Historici, Eco-geschiedenis en Environmental Humanities’](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/digitaal-jaarcongres-2020-meer-dan-menselijk-verleden-historici-eco-geschiedenis-en-environmental-humanities/): On the 19th of november, the KNHG and EHC will host a digital congres on eco-history and the environmental humanities. This event - and this post - will be in Dutch.
- [Call for applications: PhD position at the University of Twente (deadline 18 September 2020)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-applications-phd-position-at-the-university-of-twente-deadline-18-september/): As part of its Synergia project, the Science, Technology and Policy Studies department at the University of Twente is seeking a (4 year) PhD candidate to study expectations and imaginaries and explore possible transition pathways related to the new concept of ‘Technology-4-Ecology-based farming’ (T4E). 
- [Online Symposium: Investigating and Rethinking Single Use Plastics](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/online-symposium-investigating-and-rethinking-single-use-plastics/): For those interested: there is a Vrije Universiteit (online) event about single use plastics taking place on the 18th of September.
- [Join the EHC Student Initiative](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/join-the-ehc-student-initiative/): Are you interested in the Environmental Humanities? Do you have great ideas for a (series of) events to do with sustainability, art, literature, history, or more? Would you like some board experience next to your studies? Consider joining the EHC Student Initiative!
- [EHVenice 2020 Virtual Dialogues](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehvenice-2020-virtual-dialogues/): To mark the launch of their Master's degree in Environmental Humanities, the Ca'Foscari University of Venice has an amazing line-up of online conversations with environmental humanities scholars and authors from all over the world, to be streamed on their website.
- [Fractured Ecologies](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/fractured-ecologies/): The edited book of one of our Dutch Environmental Humanities colleagues Chad Weidner is out now. Fractured Ecologies is a collection of papers, bent essays and poems.
- [Student Blogs X: Final Blogs](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-x-final-blogs/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Transitie Motor: join the conversation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/transitie-motor-join-the-conversation/): Our founding board member Sjoerd Kluiving is coordinating a platform for conversations about transitions. This is an invitation to join the conversation on the 5th of June, 15:00
- [Student Blogs IX: Behaviour in Crisis](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-ix-behaviour-in-crisis/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Student Blogs VIII: Bodies](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-viii-bodies/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Student Blogs VII: Climate Crisis](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-vii-climate-crisis/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Student Blogs VI: Human-Nature Relationships](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-vi-human-nature-relationships/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Student Blogs V: Metaphors](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-v-metaphors/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Student Blogs IV: Framing](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-iv-framing/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic. 
- [Student Blogs III: Historical Parallels](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-iii-historical-parallels/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Student Blogs II: Imaginaries](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-ii-imaginaries/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic. 
- [Student Blogs I: Power](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-i-power/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic. 
- [Bat Subjectivity, Viral Contagions, and Zoonotic Poiesis](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/bat-subjectivity-viral-contagions-and-zoonotic-poiesis/): An essay by guest author Alex Ventimilla (MA student English &amp; Film at the University of Alberta and research assistant at SpokenWeb)
- [Science as Romantic Thought: The Curious Case of Big Bang Cosmology - Online lecture by Katherine Snow](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/science-as-romantic-thought-the-curious-case-of-big-bang-cosmology-online-lecture-by-katherine-snow/): Katherine Snow (University of Edinburgh) will give a Zoom lecture on Thursday 28 May at 15:30. See you there!
- [Ecoracism in times of Covid-19 rhetoric: an environmental humanities perspective](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ecoracism-in-times-of-covid-19-rhetoric-an-environmental-humanities-perspective/): A blogpost by guest author Elena Burgos Martinez, Leiden University
- [The Environmental Humanities Guest Blog Project](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-environmental-humanities-guest-blog-project/): In light of the Corona virus and our event cancellations, we want to open up our blog to environmental humanities guest bloggers! 
- [Call for 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities in Venice](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-4-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-environmental-humanities-in-venice/): The Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’Foscari University of Venice is seeking candidates for 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities.
- [CANCELLED Excursion to Rising Tide (Maritime Museum)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/save-the-date-rising-sea-levels-excursion-and-lectures-for-word-water-day/): This excursion is cancelled due to the health regulations regarding COVID-19
- [CANCELLED Anthropocene Book Club - ABC@ABC: Weather by Jenny Offill](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/anthropocene-book-club-abcabc-weather-by-jenny-offill/): *This event has been cancelled*
- [EHC event: Andreas Malm at Spui25](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-event-andreas-malm-at-spui25/): **This event has been cancelled **  Skin and Fuel: Two episodes in the history of fossilized whiteness  What links between whiteness and fossil fuels does history display? Renowned environmental scholar Andreas Malm suggests that the ongoing surge of an anti-climate, pro-fossil-fuel far right is bringing deep historical forces to the fore. Furthermore, Malm speculates on various possible scenarios of far-right politics in a rapidly warming world.  Date: Thursday 12 March, 17:00hrs Location: Doelenzaal, University Library (Singel 425) 
- [Call for papers: International Conference Cultural perceptions of safety](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-papers-international-conference-cultural-perceptions-of-safety/): On Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January 2021 the Humanities Department of the Open University of the Netherlands organizes the international conference 'Cultural perceptions of safety'. This is their call for papers
- [Other Futures: Open Call](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/other-futures-science-fiction-writing-workshop/): What is it like to be a plant, and to communicate through your roots?  Join Other Futures Lab to share and to explore collectively new ways of imagining alternative futures that affect the present positively. 
- [Help the Green Office make our campus greener](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/help-the-green-office-make-our-campus-greener/): The Green Office invites you to help make our campus greener. 
- [Help identify historical fish in paintings](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/help-identify-historical-fish-in-paintings/): Which fish can you recognize in paintings? The project "Fishing in the Past" aims to collect as much data as possible about fish in the period from 1500 to 1850.
- [Call for symposium on the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-symposium-on-the-anthropocene/): The British Academy and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences (KNAW) are inviting applications for early career researchers (max. 7 yrs post PhD) in the humanities and social sciences to attend a research collaboration symposium on the broad theme of the Anthropocene. 
- [Lecture Heritage and Climate Change Relations: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-heritage-and-climate-change-relations-loss-adaptation-and-creativity/): The Faculty of Humanities and CLUE+ cordially invite you to this Art and Culture Trending Topics lecture by David C. Harvey  Date: 30 January 2020 Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, KC-07 Time: 18:30-20:30hrs 
- [Book Symposium: Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/book-symposium-indigenous-modern-and-postcolonial-relations-to-nature/): CLUE+ invites you to a symposium celebrating the publication of Angela Roothaan's book Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature (Routledge, 2019).   Date: 22 January 2020 Time: 15:00-17:00 Location: HG-11A33
- [A Blue-Green Roof for Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/a-blue-green-roof-for-vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/): This Friday, 6 December, a team of the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute will present their closing colloquium about the blue-green roof of the Aula of the VU. A water carrying roof like this is meant as a measure for climate adaptation and the improvement of the biodiversity.
- [De natuur: een cultuurwetenschappelijke blik. Symposium Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/de-natuur-een-cultuurwetenschappelijke-blik-symposium-dr-hendrik-muller-prijs/): Environmental historian Raf de Bont has been rewarded with the Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs 2019. This symposium on the 12th of December will include talks by among others founding EHC board member Kristine Steenbergh! 
- [Invitation: mid-winter reception of the EHC on December 4th](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/invitation-mid-winter-reception-of-the-ehc-on-december-4th/): After the Nuclear Heritage Event on December 4th, we are happy to invite you for a mid-winter borrel, to chat, exchange ideas, and celebrate the Environmental Humanities.
- [How To Care For Our Nuclear Heritage?](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/how-to-care-for-our-nuclear-heritage/): Artists Grit Ruhland and Agnès Villette will present their versions of nuclear waste markers, provoking us to think about how we want to relate to our nuclear heritage both in the present and in the future.
- [Are We Plastic? Art and Thinking After Plastic - Lecture by Ingrid Halland](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/are-we-plastic-art-and-thinking-after-plastic-lecture-by-ingrid-halland/): Save the date! On the 18th of November, Ingrid Halland (NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology) will give a lecture on art and thinking after plastic. 
- [Tapestries and Radiation: the EHC visits COVRA](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/tapestries-and-radiation-the-ehc-visits-covra/): On the 9th of October, the Environmental Humanities Center visited COVRA, a nuclear waste management facility. Ruby de Vos, PhD Candidate at the University of Groningen tells us all about her experience of this unique excursion. 
- [Swimming in the Anthropocene: Embassy of the North Sea at Het HEM](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/swimming-in-the-anthropocene-embassy-of-the-north-sea-at-het-hem/): On the 16th of November, The Embassy of the North Sea presents 'Swimming in the Anthropocene' in het HEM, Zaandam.
- [Crossing Border X Border Sessions: Nature](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/crossing-border-x-border-sessions-nature/): A recommendation from EHC: On the 31st of October, Crossing Border and Border Sessions present an evening programme about nature writing.  
- [ASI Symposium Water in Times of Climate Change](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/asi-symposium-water-in-times-of-climate-change/): The Amsterdam Sustainability Institute presents the Water Symposium on 6 and 7 November. 
- [We were at the #ClimateStrike in The Hague](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/we-were-at-the-climatestrike-in-the-hague/): On Friday the 27th of September, an estimated 30,000 people marched the streets of our political capital The Hague to demand climate justice. We were there to join the protest and share a feeling of community and collective action with green-minded people of all ages. 
- [Workshop Transitions in Water-/Energy-/Food-Infrastructures](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/workshop-transitions-in-water-energy-food-infrastructures/): EHC and ASI invite you to the Transitions Workshop on November 1st! The keynote lecture will be given by Derk Loorbach, followed by paper presentations by young researchers along the themes of perceptions, policy, and practice of transitions. Registration via the link this post!   NOTE changed location: Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam.
- [Climate Duties, Freedom and Well-being: Lecture by Ingrid Robeyns](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/climate-duties-freedom-and-well-being-lecture-by-ingrid-robeyns/): "We all have individual climate duties, that is, duties not to emit more than our fair share of net emissions, and then analyses the question what the implications are for our freedoms and quality of life." CLUE+ invites you to Prof. Ingrid Robeyns' lecture on September 18th!
- [Lecture and Masterclass Allan Stoekl - Sustainability: Technocracy and Meditation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-and-masterclass-allan-stoekl-sustainability-technocracy-and-meditation/): Please note a change of room for the Masterclass: VU Medical Building, room D-565.  In his public lecture on 20 September, Allan Stoekl draws on the work of Georges Bataille and E. F. Schumacher's Buddhist economics to imagine a theory of sustainability that will avoid the pitfalls of the technocratic approach.   In the morning, (R)MA and PhD students are welcome to participate in a Masterclass on this topic.
- [CfP Aarhus University: Governing Urban Natures: Infrastructure, Citizenship and Municipal Ecologies](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-aarhus-university-governing-urban-natures-infrastructure-citizenship-and-municipal-ecologies/): A call for papers from our colleagues in Denmark! The submission deadline is the 8th of September. The seminar will be held at Aarhus University from 4-5 December 2019 as a cooperative effort among the Ecological Globalizations Research Group, Urban Orders Research Center, and the Center for Environmental Humanities, all based at Aarhus University.
- [After Hiroshima: Cultural Responses to the Atomic Bomb](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/after-hiroshima-cultural-responses-to-the-atomic-bomb/): How did artists, writers, film makers, and activists respond to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their aftermath, and how do they relate to nuclear issues today? After Hiroshima highlights some of the different responses to these questions by bringing together film screenings, performances, lectures, visual art, and even a ‘nuclear game.’ The event takes place across the city center of Groningen from 7-13 September 2019.
- [Should we follow the Wizard or the Prophet? – Discussing diverging paths for sustainable food system transformation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/should-we-follow-the-wizard-or-the-prophet-discussing-diverging-paths-for-sustainable-food-system-transformation/): This food system symposium will include keynote talks by international food system experts from within and outside academia. It is held at Vrije Universiteit on Friday, September 13, 9:00-13:00. 
- [ASI Call for Integrative Project Proposals](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/asi-call-for-integrative-project-proposals/): Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI) now calls for integrative project proposals. ASI aims to invite you to submit proposals that would encourage and strengthen ‘Science for Sustainability’ at Vrije Universiteit
- [Environmental Humanities Reading Group: Let's Talk Petroculture (with Jeff Diamanti)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-reading-group-lets-talk-petroculture-with-jeff-diamanti/): Join us on June 27th for the last session of the environmental humanities reading group before the summer on Petrocultures. In this session we will familiarize ourselves with concepts like ‘petroculture,’ ‘petromelancholia,’ and ‘the energy unconscious.’ Dr Jeff Diamanti (UvA) will lead the session.
- [Izzy f.d. Block: Organic Couture Fashion Show](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/izzy-f-d-block-organic-couture-fashion-show/): On the 1st of June, the Hybrid Forms artscience Lab at Vrije Universiteit invites you to an upcoming fashion show in the Hortus of the VU, straight out of the lab, based on artscience research from master chemistry student Iza Awad. 
- [Symposium: Climate Realism – Aesthetics and Politics of Climate](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-climate-realism-aesthetics-and-politics-of-climate/): The Goethe-Institut Amsterdam is organizing a symposium on Friday the 10th of May. Climate Realism is an occasion to rethink the aesthetics and politics of climate in its myriad forms; to capture climates capacity to express embedded histories; to map the formal strategies of representation that have turned climate into cultural content; and to index embodied currents of past and future climates.  
- [Nuclear Waste and Future Heritage: Excursion to COVRA](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nuclear-waste-and-future-heritage-excursion-to-covra/): On 9 October 2019, the Environmental Humanities Centre will pay a visit to COVRA, the only nuclear waste facility in the Netherlands. In addition to learning more about the complex practices of safe storage, we also want to explore the relations between nuclear waste and art on site. Sign up for this excursion quickly, there are a limited number of available spots!
- [CLUE+ event: The Imagination of Animals](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/clue-event-the-imagination-of-animals/): Dr. Annabelle Dufourcq (Radboud University) will give a lecture on animal imagination at the Vrije Universiteit on June 12. 
- [CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the Workshop Transitions in Water-/Energy-/Food-Infrastructures](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-abstracts-workshop-transitions-in-water-energy-food-infrastructures/): The Environmental Humanities Center and Amsterdam Sustainability Institute are organising a graduate conference on the 1st of November. This is a call for presentation abstracts on the topic of transitions. Submission deadline: 1st of July. 
- [EVENT 17 May: Technology in Human-Animal Relations](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/event-17-may-technology-in-human-animal-relations/): Finn Arne and Dolly Jørgensen from the University of Stavanger will visit the VU on the 17th of May. The theme of their lectures is technology in human-animal relations, specifically concerning bird houses and dogs with antennas. Save the date!
- [Environmental Humanities Reading Group: Nature Poetry Revisited](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-reading-group-nature-poetry-revisited/): On the 28th of April, The Environmental Humanities Reading Group will be reading sections from Alice Oswald’s book-length poem Dart, which maps the flow of the river Dart in Devon and the lives it touches. 
- [Review: Drawdown - The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/review-drawdown-the-most-comprehensive-plan-ever-proposed-to-reverse-global-warming-by-paul-hawken/): Paul Hawken's book Drawdown is a revelation for anyone who cares about our environment and wants to feel responsible about the fate and future of ‘our’ planet earth. Curious? Read Sjoerd Kluiving's review here.
- [Postdoctoral Position "Moving Animals" at Maastricht University](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/postdoctoral-position-moving-animals-at-maastricht-university/): Maastricht University invites applicants for a 5 year postdoctoral position in the project “Moving Animals: A History of Science, Media and Policy in the Twentieth Century”
- [Report: Workshop Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/report-workshop-water-unsafety-and-concepts-of-nature/): On the 21st of March, the workshop: Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature was held at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. This report reflects on this day as an opportunity for scholars of many different experience levels to exchange their knowledge about the (un)safety of water. 
- [BURN-OUT: Call for Fellows Het Nieuwe Instituut](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/burn-out-call-for-fellows-het-nieuwe-instituut/): Through its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Department acknowledges and gives visibility to research projects offering departures from established modes of thinking and practice. For this iteration of the Call for Fellows, the Research Department has selected the theme of BURN-OUT. Exhaustion on a Planetary Scale.
- [LUCAS 2019 Graduate Conference - Animals: Theory, Practice, Representation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lucas-2019-graduate-conference-animals-theory-practice-representation/): On April 4th and 5th, 2019, Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) will be hosting a conference called, Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation.   This graduate conference is an international and interdisciplinary platform where PhD and master students can present, exchange, and discuss research results and innovative theoretical insights with participants from diverse backgrounds.
- [TERRANOVA call for PhDS](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/terranova-call-for-phds/): 15 PhD vacancies within the TERRANOVA International Training Network
- [Launch Kunstlicht journal on Nuclear Aesthetics](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/launch-kunstlicht-journal-on-nuclear-aesthetics/): On April 16th, at FramerFramed (Amsterdam) the Environmental Humanities Center will join forces with the Kunstlicht journal to launch the journal issue on „Nuclear Aesthetics“.
- [Workshop: Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/workshop-water-unsafety-and-concepts-of-nature/): In honour of World Water Day 2019, the Society for Water History and the Environmental Humanities Center organize a workshop on the theme of Water Safety and Unsafety and concepts of nature, on Thursday March 21 at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam. 
- [EHC Special Event: Kenny Cupers, The Earth that Modernism Built](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-kenny-cupers-the-earth-that-modernism-built/): Professor Cuper's lecture at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (15 april) explores the roots of the modernist project – both heroic and tragic – to design the human by reshaping the environment, from the domestic sphere to the earth at large. 
- [Environmental Humanities Reading Group](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-reading-group/): One of the initiatives pitched at our Birthday Event last year is a new Environmental Humanities Reading Group. Their next meeting, focused on ecoambiguity, is on 21 February on the VU Campus. 
- [Board member Sjoerd Kluiving at Dutch Design Week](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/board-member-sjoerd-kluiving-at-dutch-design-week/): Our board member Sjoerd Kluiving took part in a panel on design in the Anthropocene during Dutch Design Week. A video of the discussion is now available.
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- [Pitch, Team Up, and Make It Happen!](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/pitch-team-up-and-make-it-happen/): This month, the Environmental Humanities Center is turning two years old (already…). Next to celebrating with drinks and snacks, a brief review and outlook, and chance for conversation, we invite our members to propose activities, research, events, reading groups, interventions (from tiny to large), which you could imagine to organize – together with others. 
- [Interview with T. J. Demos](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/interview-with-t-j-demos/): Art historian T.J. Demos was at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam to present his most recent book publication Against the Anthropocene (2017) on December 12th 2017. We had the opportunity to interview him on behalf of the Environmental Humanities Center. Just before he started his book presentation we met and we had a chance to ask him some questions about his view on the environmental humanities and the importance of our Environmental Humanities Center.
- [A Lake's Life: Lecture by Eva Jakobsson (EHC Special Event)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/a-lakes-life-lecture-by-eva-jakobsson-ehc-special-event/): In honour of Dr. Eva Jakobsson’s Research Fellowship with CLUE+, the Environmental Humanities Center organizes a Special Event on the biographies of lakes.
- [Earthbound: Restorying Ecology at Perdu](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/earthbound-restorying-ecology-at-perdu/): On 30 November, Perdu organizes an evening address the relations between social and climate justice through the lens of storytelling and imaginative practices. 
- [Excursion - EuroMoonMars: Science, Space and Humanities](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/excursion-euromoonmars-science-space-and-humanities/): For those attending the Outer Space Event on 15 November or the VU Space Day on 14 November, we offer the opportunity to visit the European Space Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk the next day. Please register before 13 November.
- [Newsletter European Society for Environmental History in the Benelux](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/newsletter-european-society-for-environmental-history-in-the-benelux/): The Autumn newsletter of the Benelux section of the European Society for Environmental History
- [Plastic Diet - our experiences](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/plastic-diet-our-experiences/): Our board members share their experiences with trying to reduce our plastic use during the #PlasticDiet last month.
- [Representing Nature in the Early Modern Period, 3 October 2018](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/representing-nature-in-the-early-modern-period-3-october-2018/)
- [Symposium Producers-Parasites-Hosts (VU, 4 October)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-producers-parasites-hosts-vu-4-october/): Annabel Howland’s artistic research weaves a speculative web connecting art, science and finance. In her ongoing project P r o d u c e r s -P a r a s i t e s - H o s t s, such themes as cheating and cooperation, transparency and instability, profit and loss, intermingle with stories of microbial cooperation, dark pools and human debt. This symposium and installation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam rounds off Howland's long term project.
- [Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/animals-theory-practice-and-representation/): On April 4th and 5th, 2019, Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) will be hosting a Graduate Conference on &#8220;Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation.&#8221; This conference aims to rethink the relationships between humans and animals, in order to examine the ways in which these relationships are defined.
- [After rain comes beer](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/after-rain-comes-beer/): Continuing the conversation started during the Water and the City Event, Petra van Dam sees new possibilities for the VU Green Roof. 
- [Board member Julia Kantelberg at Embassy of the North Sea](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/board-member-julia-kantelberg-at-embassy-of-the-north-sea/): Our board member Julia Kantelberg got involved with the Embassy of the North Sea &#8211; a project of The Parliament of Things that started last spring. The Embassy of the North Sea discovers possibilities to start a conversation between all Things, Plants, Animals and Humans. Read Julia’s reports on the meetings on their website. &nbsp;
- [We're on a Plastic Diet](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/were-on-a-plastic-diet/): From 1 September, the Environmental Humanities Center will participate in the Plastic Diet, an international action to garner attention to the role of single-use plastic in environmental problems.
- [EVENT 15 November 2018:  Environmental Humanities &amp; Outer Space](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-outer-space/): On 15 November 2018, the Environmental Humanities Center organizes an interdisciplinary event on the role of the humanities and social sciences in space exploration. 
- [PhD Candidate 'Imagining the Rural in Contemporary British Culture'](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-candidate-imagining-the-rural-in-contemporary-british-culture/): A PhD position in an Environmental Humanities subject is available at the University of Amsterdam in Esther Peeren's ERC Consolidator project Imagining the Rural in a Globalizing World/RURALIMAGINATIONS.
- [Lecture: Climate Phantasms and the Image of Ice](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-climate-phantasms-and-the-image-of-ice/): This lecture by Dr. Amanda Boetzkes at ASCA will consider how images of ice are activated by the phantasms of climate change. It will address aesthetic renderings of ice in the blind spot between scientific and Inuit knowledge of climate change.
- [Report: Water and the City Event 2018](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/report-water-and-the-city-event-2018/): Read up on the Water and the City event organized by the Environmental Humanities Center in spring 2018. 
- [Microplastics Event: Invisible Invaders, 14 June](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/microplastics-event/): Microplastics are everywhere. Particles of plastic less than five millimeters in length (about the size of a sesame seed) find their way into the environment from many sources. These plastics are essentially indestructible; they do not biodegrade but break down into ever smaller pieces. At this interdisciplinary event, we explore microplastics from multiple angles.
- [ARIAS: Arts &amp; Ecology](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/arias-arts-ecology/): How do the arts and artistic research contribute to planetary-scale questions of ecological transformation and disaster? This evening will feature three examples of special ways in which the arts trace the cultural, political and social implications of local and global moving resources, showing the shifting contexts and social ecologies of primary materials (such as oil, silicate or wood).
- [Lecture: The Life of Plants by Emanuele Coccia](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-the-life-of-plants-by-emanuele-coccia/): This Stevin Seminar (CLUE+) addresses the life of plants from philosophical, biological and artistic perspectives.
- [Lecture: Na het neoliberalisme – Klimaatverandering, sociale bewegingen en politiek](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-na-het-neoliberalisme-klimaatverandering-sociale-bewegingen-en-politiek/): On Thursday 31 May, Hein-Anton van der Heijden will visit the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) to present his most recently written book: Na het neoliberalisme – Klimaatverandering, sociale bewegingen en politiek (2017). 
- [Media: Petra van Dam on the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/media-petra-van-dam-on-the-amsterdam-ordnance-datum/): The publication of our board member Petra van Dam's new book on the 200-year history of the the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum Van Amsterdams peil naar Europees Referentievlak: De Geschiedenis van het NAP tot 2018 drew a lot of attention from newspapers and radio.
- [Interview with René ten Bos: Life in the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/interview-with-rene-ten-bos-life-in-the-anthropocene/): On Friday, 16th February a group of students, academics and other inquisitive attendants came together to listen to a lecture by &#8216;Thinker Laureate&#8217; René ten Bos, Professor of Philosophy at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. He was granted the title of &#8216;Thinker Laureate&#8217; in the Spring of 2017, and will bear this honour for two [&hellip;]
- [How Gardens Feel: The Natural History of Sensation in Spenser and Milton](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/how-gardens-feel-the-natural-history-of-sensation-in-spenser-and-milton/): Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan Lecture organized by ACCESS, the Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotions and Sensory Studies (CLUE+). Wednesday 18 April 2018 3.30 -5.00pm, drinks afterwards Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building Room: 13A33 In this talk, Michael Schoenfeldt explores the relation between the environment and the sensation of pleasure in Spenser and Milton [&hellip;]
- [How Will Art Survive Us? Lecture by Tal Beery, 22 May](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/how-will-art-survive-us-lecture-by-tal-beery-22-may/): Respondent: Joost Adriaanse and Juliette Huijgen Date: Tuesday, 22 May 2018 Time: 4 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Room: VU main building, room HG-12A33 Drinks afterwards Attendance is free of charge; please register using the form below. Facing social and ecological changes that may threaten the very survival of our species, our times require large-scale collective [&hellip;]
- [Water &amp; the City Symposium, 23 March](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/water-the-city-symposium/): Environmental Humanities Center Symposium Friday 23 March 2018, 14.00 – 17.00u Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building, room 12A-00 For catering reasons, please register using the form below. Climate change, increasing rainfall, sea level rise, and flood risk pose significant challenges for low-lying countries such as The Netherlands. Historically, Amsterdam has devised a number of strategies [&hellip;]
- [Presidential Academic Fellowship in Environmental History (Manchester)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/presidential-academic-fellowship-in-environmental-history-manchester/): The History department of the University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Presidential Fellow specialising in environmental history. Environmental history is a growing area of research that seeks to understand how people have understood, shaped and been shaped by their world. Applications are welcome from researchers working on any historical period or geographical area, whose [&hellip;]
- [Lecture René ten Bos: Leven in het Antropoceen](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-rene-ten-bos-leven-in-het-antropoceen/): 16 February 2018, 15.30hrs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building Room 10A-00 Please register below. The Dutch &#8216;Thinker Laureate&#8217; (Denker des Vaderlands) René ten Bos will visit the Environmental Humanities Center to talk about his new book Dwalen in het Antropoceen. Please note that this lecture will be in Dutch. Leven in het Antropoceen Hoe overleven [&hellip;]
- [Missed our Nuclear Waste Events?](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/missed-our-nuclear-waste-events/): In October and November 2017, the Environmental Humanities Center organised the Nuclear Waste Weeks in cooperation with Anna Volkmar (Leiden University) and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (CRAL, EHESS). Nuclear waste is one of the major unsolved challenges of our time, raising an array of questions, from the possibilities and politics of storage and disposal, over deep time, [&hellip;]
- [Lecture T.J. Demos: Against the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-t-j-demos-against-the-anthropocene/): Tuesday December 12 17.30-19.00 uur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Lecture Hall 0B-60 Initium Building, ground floor De Boelelaan 1077 Behind Main Building, across from stop De Boelelaan/VU (tram 5/metro 51) Admission free; please register below. NB: Because of overwhelming interest, we are moving to a bigger lecture hall: 0B-60 in the Initium Building, behind the Main [&hellip;]
- [On Demons, Clay and Greek Mythology: A Visit to Nuclear Belgium](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/on-demons-clay-and-greek-mythology-a-visit-to-nuclear-belgium/): This blog post shares some impressions from an excursion with the Environmental Humanities Center to an underground research laboratory for the storage of nuclear waste and an art exhibition on nuclear culture. By Anna Volkmar (Leiden University) On October 27, I went underground. Together with thirteen volunteers I descended into the bowels of HADES, the [&hellip;]
- [Nuclear Waste Event: report](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nuclear-waste-event-report/): Our Nuclear Waste Weeks have come to a close. Student board member Ankie Petersen reports on the Nuclear Waste Event: Nuclear Waste Event During our Nuclear Waste Weeks, local and global news outlets talked about the extent of the pollution of sea water after the Fukushima disaster of 2011, an anti-nuclear weapon campaign won the [&hellip;]
- [Nuclear Waste Weeks: film screening this Friday](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nuclear-waste-weeks-film-screening-this-friday/): In the context of our Nuclear Waste Weeks, Anna Volkmar and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou invite you to a film screening this Friday 15-16hrs.They will show two recent short films that focus on the issue of nuclear waste: Julian Charrière&#8217;s Somewhere (2014) and Myroslav Slaboshpitskyy&#8217;s Nuclear Waste (2012).Everyone is welcome to this (free) screening on Friday afternoon. [&hellip;]
- [Workshop: Earth Matters in the Museum](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/earth-matters-in-the-museum/): On Thursday 28 September, 14-17hrs, the Research Center for Material Culture organises the workshop Earth Matters in the Museum: Planetary Entanglements and Precarities. The workshop is organised by Wayne Modest, professor (by special appointment) of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies in the faculty of humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Member of the board of [&hellip;]
- [Call for Papers](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-papers/): Please find below the call for abstracts for the International Sociological Association World Congress, July 2018 in Toronto, where our thematic group TG07 Senses &amp; Society is organizing 9 panels and a business meeting. The deadline for abstract submission is 30th September 2017. Abstract submission &#8211; https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium436.html Panels organized by TG07 Senses and Society (ISA) [&hellip;]
- [New book: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-book-anglo-saxon-literary-landscapes/): Amsterdam University Press has started a book series devoted to Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures. The first book in the series is just out: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination by Heide Estes. &#8220;Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people&#8217;s actions. [&hellip;]
- [Thin Ice: opening of academic year](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/thin-ice-opening-of-academic-year/): The opening of the academic year at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam focused on the question ‘Thin ice! What can science do to help?’, and explored what the arts can teach the sciences in the case of climate change &#8211; a topic we also explored last year at the Environmental Humanities Center. The question was addressed by [&hellip;]
- [On the Roof Film Festival - Sustainable edition](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/on-the-roof-film-festival-sustainable-edition/): The annual On the Roof Film Festival, held on the roof of the main building of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam this week, is devoted to the theme of Sustainability. Together with the Green Office, the organizers put together a programme of four films, talks, food, and drinks. For four evenings the latest films from world cinema [&hellip;]
- [New publication: Environmental History and Water Management](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-publication-environmental-history-and-water-management/): Drought, flooding. Water is the main environmental problem of the near future, already the cause of wars. How did we deal with water in the past? This summer, the results of a large research project into the history of water were published in a special issue of the journal Environment and History. Our board member Petra [&hellip;]
- [New issue Metropolis M: Degrowth](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-issue-metropolis-m-degrowth/): The latest issue of the Dutch Journal Metropolis M focuses on the notion of degrowth in the art world (in Dutch). Degrowth is een begrip afkomstig uit de late jaren zestig, toen door een forum van economen, wetenschappers en politici een wereld werd bepleit die niet in het teken van de groei staat, maar waarin [&hellip;]
- [Pinar Yoldas // Carboniferous](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/pinar-yoldas-carboniferous/): Still on view until coming Sunday at the Glazen Huis in Amsterdam’s Amstelpark: Turkish artist Pinar Yoldas presents two new works based on Speculative Biology, in which she imagines new life forms which might develop on our man made planet. Part of it are imagined animals who have managed to adapt to the huge amount [&hellip;]
- [International Workshop on Rice Cultivation and Culture](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/international-workshop-on-rice-cultivation-and-culture/): We would like to share this opportunity. International Workshop Rice: Cultivation and Culture in Europe and the Mediterranean Venice, Italy 30 May 2023 Università Ca&#8217;Foscari Venezia More details are available here: https://pric.unive.it/projects/water-cultures/home
- [Kathryn Yusoff Lecture: Inhuman Memory](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/kathryn-yusoff-lecture-inhuman-memory/): Research 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 inhuman memory?&nbsp; Can a gritty [&hellip;]
- [Environmental Media Symposium](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-media-symposium/): CLUE+ 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. 
- [Hybrid Workshop Learning from Aliens: New Directions in Environmental Humanities Research and Practice](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/hybrid-workshop-learning-from-aliens-new-directions-in-environmental-humanities-research-and-practice/): The 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 belongs where and why. But [&hellip;]
- [Save the date: 24 May Kathryn Yusoff at Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/save-the-date-24-may-kathryn-yusoff-at-environmental-humanities-center-amsterdam/): On 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 of the colonial praxis of [&hellip;]
- [Symposium on the history of water landscapes (in Dutch)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-on-the-history-of-water-landscapes-in-dutch/): Dutch 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."
- [Crawly Creatures at Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, with former student-board member Julia Kantelberg](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/crawly-creatures-at-amsterdam-rijksmuseum-with-former-student-board-member-julia-kantelberg/): This 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!). 
- [Two PhD vacancies at Radboud University Nijmegen (closes 9 January 2023)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/two-phd-vacancies-at-radboud-university-nijmegen/): The NWO VIDI project Poison, Medicine, or Magic Potion: Shifting Perspectives on Drugs in Latin America (1820-2020) has two vacancies for PhD students. 
- [Summer Course: Icelandic Field Stations 2023](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/summer-course-icelandic-field-stations-2023/): The 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.
- [Vacancy Doctoral Candidate Environmental Humanities](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vacancy-doctoral-candidate-environmental-humanities/): The 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.
- [<strong>Artistic performance about basking shark hunting</strong>](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/artistic-performance-about-basking-shark-hunting/): This 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 each summer. 
- [Programme update Fashion in the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/programme-update-fashion-in-the-anthropocene/): Programme and registration for our event on Fashion and Sustainability  on Thursday 27 October.
- [Vacancies | SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vacancies-soy-stories-connected-sustainability-histories-and-futures-of-the-global-soyacene/): The 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.
- [Talkshow Wild at Heart | Tolhuistuin](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/talkshow-wild-at-heart-tolhuistuin/): On 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". 
- [TAKING CARE: Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/taking-care-recreating-kinship-in-the-ethnographic-museum/): As 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 which ethnographic and world cultures museums, their histories and their collections, can be refashioned to address the growing precarity of our planet and the plurality of our human and non-human world.
- [Sonic Acts Biennale](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/sonic-acts-biennale/): The biennial international festival celebrating electronic and digital art forms returns to Amsterdam this October, bringing together the environmental humanities and contemporary art to ask how we can care for what we cannot see or understand.
- [Masterclass eco-literature](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/masterclass-eco-literature/): One of our board members, Kristine Steenbergh, will be teaching a masterclass on the role of literature in reshaping human-nature relations. The masterclass is in De Nieuwe Liefde on Sunday 30 October, and is in Dutch. 
- [Fashion and the Anthropocene: towards a sustainable fashion future](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/fashion-and-the-anthropocene-towards-a-sustainable-fashion-future/): Thursday 27th October 2022 14.00-17.00 incl. reception NU Building, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Today the fashion industry forcefully promotes its sustainability credentials. From branding and promotion strategies to recycling, resale, rental and reuse, fashion companies are keen to demonstrate awareness of the climate crisis. But are these responses adequate? As the damage the Anthropocene represents for [&hellip;]
- [Water Heritage for Sustainable Cities Course](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/water-heritage-for-sustainable-cities-course/): In the autumn of 2022, The Netherlands Institute in Turkey offers a course that addresses past experiences and current and future challenges of urban water supply. 
- [Excursion: guided tour exhibition Still Waters Run Deep](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/excursion-guided-tour-exhibition-still-waters-run-deep/): Excursion opportunity prior to the symposium 'Sink or Swim. Searching for a sustainable relationship with water'. 
- [EHC Entanglements Lecture Report: Dr Kristian Mennen - "How to oppose the reclamation of ‘waste land’? Political strategies of the Dutch nature conservation movement in the 1930s"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-entanglements-lecture-report-dr-kristian-mennen-how-to-oppose-the-reclamation-of-waste-land-political-strategies-of-the-dutch-nature-conservation-movement-in-the-1930s/): On the 19th of May, Dr Kristian Mennen delivered a lecture on the political strategies of the Dutch conservation movement in the 1930s, as a part of the EHC Entanglements Lecture Series. Dr Mennen addressed an online audience. The political historian with an interest in environmental history discussed aspects of his current research in a presentation titled “How to Oppose the reclamation. You can read a report of the lecture and access the related online media.
- [Video Entanglements Lecture Dr Kristian Mennen](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/video-entanglements-lecture-dr-kristian-mennen/): The recording of Dr Mennen's lecture "How to oppose the reclamation of waste land’? Political strategies of the Dutch nature conservation movement in the 1930s" is now available on our YouTube channel.
- [Art Science dialogues: Natural Technologies](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/save-the-date-art-science-dialogues-natural-technologies/): EHC and VU art science gallery present: Art Science dialogues: Natural Technologies exhibition. 
- [Symposium: Sink or Swim. Searching for a sustainable relationship with water.](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-sink-or-swim-searching-for-a-sustainable-relationship-with-water/): ‘Sink or Swim’ is an interdisciplinary symposium establishing an encounter between visual art, history, philosophy, ecology and governance, seeking to provide current insights and creative inspiration for building a sustainable relationship with water. Still Waters Run Deep is an interdisciplinary programme curated by Marlies Augustijn, taking place from 26 June until 7 August 2022 at Nieuw Dakota, an exhibition space for contemporary art in Amsterdam-Noord. 
- [Entanglements: Dr. Kristian Mennen, "How to oppose the reclamation of ‘waste land’? Political strategies of the Dutch nature conservation movement in the 1930s"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-dr-kristian-mennen-how-to-oppose-the-reclamation-of-waste-land-political-strategies-of-the-dutch-nature-conservation-movement-in-the-1930s/): Dr Mennen will be addressing the politics of the early Dutch conservation movement. Date: 19 May 2022, 15:00hrs CEST Time: To be announced Please register to receive a zoom link. 
- [Symposium report: Urban Past, Urban Future? Sustainable Drinking Water in Dutch Cities, 1500-1900](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-report-urban-past-urban-future-sustainable-drinking-water-in-dutch-cities-1500-1900/): On Thursday the 17th of March 2022, the project team Omgaan met droogte or Coping with Drought which includes EHC Board members Petra van Dam and Dániel Moerman, hosted their first Symposium as an EHC special event. In a hybrid format, with more than 30 attendants combined in person and on Zoom, several team members presented [&hellip;]
- [Entanglements: Dr Bram Büscher, "The Conservation Revolution - moving beyond foundational contradictions in biodiversity protection"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-dr-bram-buscher-the-conservation-revolution-moving-beyond-foundational-contradictions-in-biodiversity-protection/): In his lecture he will focus on his recent co-authored book with Robert Fletcher: The Conservation Revolution. Radical ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene (Verso, 2020). Büscher and Fletcher argue that the Anthropocene challenges contemporary conservation models and exposes their deep contradictions.
- [EHC Special Event: Symposium, "Urban Past, Urban Future? Sustainable Drinking Water in Dutch Cities, 1500-1900"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-special-event-symposium-urban-past-urban-future-sustainable-drinking-water-in-dutch-cities-1500-1900/): During this interdisciplinary symposium the members of the VU-N.W.O. research project Omgaan met waterschaarste (Coping with drought, 2020-2025) will present some preliminary conclusions of their research.
- [Call for Candidates - University of Cork: "Radical Humanities Laboratory](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-candidates-university-of-cork-radical-humanities-laboratory/): The University of Cork are setting up a Radical Humanities Laboratory and they are hiring scholars in the environmental humanities. Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Thursday, 24th March 2022. The Radical Humanities Laboratory will work across disciplinary boundaries and UCC’s four Colleges to explore the roots of global [&hellip;]
- [Sadie Hale wins Deborah Bird Rose Prize](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/sadie-hale-wins-deborah-bird-rose-prize/): Former student assistant to the Environmental Humanities Center, Sadie Hale, has been co-awarded the inaugural Deborah Bird Rose Prize 2022 by ASLEC-ANZ (Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia + Aotearoa New Zealand). Sadie’s winning essay proposal builds on her Research MA thesis she completed at Vrije Universiteit, and is entitled “On sharks never seen: Absence, nonencounters, and the possibility of extinction in multispecies ethnography”.
- [Earth Beings at the Commodity Frontier: Federico Luisetti at University of Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/earth-beings-at-the-commodity-frontier-federico-luisetti-at-university-of-amsterdam/): In this lecture at the University of Amsterdam on 25 February, the Italian philosopher Federico Luisetti focuses on the concept of 'earth beings'. For Quechua speakers, these are other-than-human subjects that frighten and preannounce, protect and punish, deceive and heal, sharing emotions, feelings and expressions with the people (runakuna). 
- [Video Lecture in Entanglements Series by Dr. Dagomar Degroot](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/video-lecture-in-entanglements-series-by-dr-dagomar-degroot/): Dr. Dagomar Degroot&#8217;s lecture “Finding ET (for the first time): The Nineteenth-Century “Discovery” of Life on Mars”, which took place in our online Entanglements Series on 1 February 2022, was recorded. The video is now available on the Environmental Humanities Center’s YouTube channel.
- [Kick-off ASI Cluster Biodiversity and Landscape Change ](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/kick-off-asi-cluster-biodiversity-and-landscape-change/): 27th&nbsp;of January 2022.&nbsp;15.00-16.00 live via Zoom&nbsp;from The Global Room&nbsp;HG 1A 36 (Main Building VU). Our typical landscapes are intensely used, resulting in a myriad of ecological, social and economic problems. Especially biodiversity is declining rapidly as well as ecosystem health. How to stop this decline and make our landscapes sustainable in the future? If these [&hellip;]
- [Workshop: "Speaking about the humans. Animal perspectives on the multispecies world"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/workshop-speaking-about-the-humans-animal-perspectives-on-the-multispecies-world/): Online 17 &amp; 18 March 2022 This one-day interdisciplinary workshop aims to get a better understanding of other animals’ perspectives on humans and the implications of these perspectives for developing better relations. Prairie dogs discuss humans in detail. Elephants have a word for humans. Sperm whales warn each other about human attacks. Many if not [&hellip;]
- [Digital Colloquium - "The Impact of Climate and Weather on the Premodern Provision of Food and Water: New Historical Perspectives on Resilience and Vulnerability"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/digital-colloquium-the-impact-of-climate-and-weather-on-the-premodern-provision-of-food-and-water-new-historical-perspectives-on-resilience-and-vulnerability/): 16 February 2022, 13:00-17:00 Register for Zoom access (no attendance fee required Food and water are essential goods for human and animal life. The provision of these goods to society has always been prone to climatic and environmental shocks, such as drought, floods, and extreme weather circumstances. Recent studies have made clear that premodern societies [&hellip;]
- [Entanglements: Dr. Dagomar Degroot, "Finding ET (for the first time): The Nineteenth Century "Discovery" of Life on Mars"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-dr-dagomar-degroot-finding-et-for-the-first-time-the-nineteenth-century-discovery-of-life-on-mars/): The previous date for the event has been updated. Please refer to the information below. It is accurate. Date: Tuesday, 1 February 2022 Time: 15:30hrs CET Venue: Online, Zoom Please register below to receive a zoom link shortly. We are excited to announce our second lecture in the series with Dr. Dagomar Degroot. The launch [&hellip;]
- [Externalities of Value: NICA Lecture and masterclass by prof. Amanda Boetzkes](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/externalities-of-value-nica-lecture-and-masterclass-by-prof-amanda-boetzkes/): NICA lecture and masterclass by Amanda Boetzkes in the 'Externalities of Value' series on 10 December 2021.
- [(Post) Anthropocene Museologies Symposium](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/post-anthropocene-museologies-symposium/): On 30 November, Framed Framed will host a hybrid symposium, co-organised by Colin Sterling (University of Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture) and Blake Ewing (University of Oxford). The event aims to ‘take stock’ of Anthropocene related projects in the museum sector over the past decade and begin to sketch out the contribution museums might make to a post-Anthropocene world.
- [Workshop series on Ecocritical methods in Art History](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/workshop-series-on-ecocritical-methods-in-art-history/): Workshop 1: 3-4 December, 20221 ; Workshop 2: 31 March -1 April, 2022 ; Workshop 3: 1-2 July, 2022 Andrew Patrizio (University of Edinburgh) and Olga Smith (University of Vienna), are looking for participants to join a series of workshops in the environmental humanities with a focus on methods and practices in ecocritical art history. Their main [&hellip;]
- [Ryosuke Ohashi, "The Deep Layers of Responsibility, or Anti-Nature in Nature"(CLUE+)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ryosuke-ohashi-the-deep-layers-of-responsibility-or-anti-nature-in-natureclue/): What does it mean to be responsible in the context of the crises confronting the world today? In this CLUE+ lecture, Ryosuke Ohashi reflects on responsibility as a problem of philosophical as well as linguistic dimensions. 
- [Cinema Ecologica at EYE Film museum Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cinema-ecologica-at-eye-film-museum-amsterdam/): Our board member Kristine Steenbergh participates in Cinema Ecologica at EYE Film Museum Amsterdam. 
- [The World as We Don't Know It - @Droog](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-world-as-we-dont-know-it-droog/): VU professor by special appointment Maarten Doorman made three short films with the title "Omdenken" for this exhibition at Droog. The programme includes an exhibition, films and talks.
- [365 Plants at CASCO](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/365-plants-at-casco/): This project at the Travelling Farm Museum in Leidsche Rijn (Utrecht) is of interest to the EHC community: 365 PLANTS by Dutch artist Mariëlle Videler is an artwork that is part of an ongoing project that consists of 365 BIRDS / 365 PLANTS / 365 INSECTS.  
- [Invitation to join Sound Ecologies Lab](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/invitation-to-join-sound-ecologies-lab/): Fiber is looking for researchers who are interested in joining their Lab and Field Trip to Borssele between 25 and 30 October. 
- [Video Entanglements Lecture Catriona Sandilands](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/video-entanglements-lecture-catriona-sandilands/): The recording of Cate Sandilands' lecture "Mulberries: A Biopolitical Love Story" is now available on your YouTube channel. 
- [](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/5577-2/): Over the summer the EHC has had a joint project with the stories-on–floods project of TMY in India. On Monday Petra van Dam talks with participants of the project about their stories which have been published recently.
- [There's No Such Thing as Waste! Circular Economy in the Early Modern Netherlands](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/theres-no-such-thing-as-waste-circular-economy-in-the-early-modern-netherlands/): De Nederlandse en Vlaamse overheden willen naar een circulaire economie in 2050. Dat voornemen vormt een goede aanleiding om te onderzoeken hoe circulair de steden en de landbouw eigenlijk waren vóór de industrialisatie. Hoe was het hergebruik van afval en restproducten geregeld? 
- [CFP: 'Sentimental Extraction' Virtual Workshop, Friedrich-Alexander-University](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-sentimental-extraction-virtual-workshop/): Of special interest to members of our community who attended Cara Daggett's lecture in our Entanglements series: our colleagues at Friedrich-Alexander University are calling for contributions to a virtual workshop on Sentimental Extraction. NB: the deadline for submissions is on 31 August.
- [Sonic Acts: OVEREXPOSED residency](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/sonic-acts-overexposed-residency/): Sonic Acts is proud to announce the continuation of the OVEREXPOSED residency programme. With this renewed open call, we invite applications from artists and researchers working across the fields of environmental humanities with a special focus on pollution and experimental art and media.
- [The Amphibious Culture: A History of Coping with Disastrous Floods](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-amphibious-culture-a-history-of-coping-with-disastrous-floods/): With climate change and rising sea levels the threat of flooding increases in low-lying areas all over the world. The Netherlands are famous for their long history of surviving floods. How did people cope with floods in the past? Watch this video lecture by Petra van Dam to find out. 
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Cate Sandilands, "Mulberries: A Biopolitical Love Story"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-cate-sandilands-mulberries-a-biopolitical-love-story/): Apologies if you were taken to this page by the button in our newsletter. Please click here to be taken to the page for Iva Peša, “Understanding Environmentalism in Africa”. Thursday 30 September 2021, 20:00hrs CEST, on Zoom Please register below to receive the Zoom link for this event We are thrilled that our Entanglements Series [&hellip;]
- [Call for Rachel Carson - Simone Veil Fellows 2022](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-rachel-carson-simone-veil-fellows-2022/): The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and Project House Europe, both located at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, invite applications for their joint fellowship. The Rachel Carson Center (RCC) fosters innovative research and education in the environmental humanities and social sciences.&nbsp;Project House Europe (PHE) promotes cutting-edge research from around the world on the history of Europe during the 20th&nbsp;and 21st&nbsp;centuries. [&hellip;]
- [The green side of history: An interview with the EHC's Petra van Dam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-green-side-of-history-an-interview-with-the-ehcs-petra-van-dam/): The student journal Skript recently interviewed Petra van Dam about her field of environmental history, and how it relates to Environmental Humanities. Petra is chair professor of Water and Environmental History and board member of the EHC.&nbsp; Environmental history, she says, demonstrates how important environment and climate are in the description and understanding of historical [&hellip;]
- [Call for Research Interns (MA-level, humanities &amp; social science; 4 months, fall 2021)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-research-interns-ma-level-humanities-social-science-4-months-fall-2021/): Are you a (research) master student with a keen interest in organizations that are set up and managed by groups of citizens, such as cooperatives? Are you interested in learning about the conditions to make such organizations durable and resilient, in the face of both internal problems and external challenges, such as crises, pandemics, climate [&hellip;]
- [Special event, 17 June: Jeff Diamanti on his new book Climate and Capital](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/special-event-17-june-jeff-diamanti-on-his-new-book-climate-and-capital/): We are looking forward to a special online book launch event with our dear colleague in Amsterdam, Dr Jeff Diamanti. In Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum, Jeff Diamanti describes the destructive relationship between climate and capital through the exponential growth of the petroleum industry over the last 40 years. 
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Iva Peša, "Understanding Environmentalism in Africa"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-iva-pesa-understanding-environmentalism-in-africa/): The Anthropocene presents itself as a turning point in human history: if current fossil fuel dependency is not reversed and if economic thought is not reconceptualised to question the logic of growth models, the earth’s future will be imperiled. Viewing the Anthropocene from the perspective of sub-Saharan Africa shows the need to ask different questions, which challenge the singular and universal nature of the Anthropocene. 
- [Online book launch: "Environmental Humanities: a Rethinking of Landscape Archaeology?"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/online-book-launch-environmental-humanities-a-rethinking-of-landscape-archaeology/): The &#8220;environment&#8221; cannot be regarded as a blank space that landscape meaning is projected onto. Humans reinforce the environmental challenges in the past,  today and in the future. What cultural factors drive human action, what role is played by ethics and how is landscape experienced emotionally? This new book asks: how are concepts derived from [&hellip;]
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Elmas Deniz on investigating human-nature relations in art](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-elmas-deniz-on-investigating-human-nature-relations-in-art/): We 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.
- [Art in the age of pollution: Sonic Acts announces new event, magazine, installation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/art-in-the-age-of-pollution-sonic-acts-announces-new-event-magazine-installation/): Sonic 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.
- [Travelling concepts: the long life of the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/travelling-concepts-the-long-life-of-the-anthropocene/): We briefly explore the term 'Anthropocene', in honour of the late Paul Crutzen, who sadly passed away in January this year.
- [Nuclear landscapes: your reading recommendations](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nuclear-landscapes-your-reading-recommendations/): In 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&#8217;s book, The Future of Nuclear Waste (2020), we&#8217;ve gathered your recommendations below. If you would like to add more reading tips [&hellip;]
- [Vacancy: Assistant Professor in History of Art, Architecture, and Landscape at University of Groningen](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vacancy-assistant-professor-in-history-of-art-architecture-and-landscape-at-university-of-groningen/): Candidates with expertise in art and ecology / art and environmental humanities are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline: 29 April
- [Environmental History Today! New online seminar series from European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-history-today-new-online-seminar-series-from-european-society-for-environmental-history-eseh/): New online seminar series from ESEH. Register now!
- [This Friday: The Promise of Future Foods](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/this-friday-the-promise-of-future-foods/): In 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 Masterclass studies solarity and agriculture.
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Jane Bennett, "Out for a Walk in the Middle Voice"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-jane-bennett-out-for-a-walk-in-the-middle-voice/): We 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. 
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Online lecture series](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-online-lecture-series/): An overview of upcoming lectures in our online "Entanglements" series,  with an archive of past lectures. 
- [PhD Workshop and Keynote: Austrian Environmental History](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-workshop-and-keynote-austrian-environmental-history/): The 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!
- [New book on Fukushima disaster published, with contribution from VU's Sven Lütticken](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-book-on-fukushima-disaster-published-with-contribution-from-vus-sven-lutticken/): On the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Sternberg Press has published a volume on Don&#8217;t Follow the Wind (eds.&nbsp;Nikolaus Hirsch and Jason Waite), the acclaimed collaborative project situated in Fukushima&#8217;s radioactive exclusion zone. The book explores the long-term environmental crisis in the coastal Japanese region through this ongoing, inaccessible exhibition, which maintains traces of [&hellip;]
- [Vacancy: Tutor in MA Ecology Futures](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vacancy-tutor-in-ma-ecology-futures/): Avans Hogeschool (Den Bosch) is  looking for a Theory Tutor in their MA Ecology Futures (0,2 fte; starting 1 May 2021). 
- [ENTANGLEMENTS Book Club](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-book-club-2/): The third edition of our online book club accompanying our Entanglements lecture series is on 8 April. All welcome!
- [Snippets (BASCE)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/snippets-basce/): The Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment is proud to introduce a monthly online discussion series called Snippets.   Join them in close-reading snippets of text from influential works in ecocriticism and green media studies on the first Friday of each month. 
- [Symposium on Future Landscapes, 24 February: complete programme live &amp; registration open!](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-on-future-landscapes-24-february-complete-programme-live-registration-open/): The TERRANOVA and HERILAND Symposium on Future Landscapes, 24 February: complete programme now available!
- [Het Coronavirus, klimaat en droogte: hebben ze met elkaar te maken? - New blog post from our PhD student](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/het-coronavirus-klimaat-en-droogte-hebben-ze-met-elkaar-te-maken-new-blog-post-from-our-phd-student/): Our PhD student Dániel Moerman has written a new blog post for the Coping With Drought project website. Read (in Dutch) now!
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Georg Stöger on Urban Environmental History](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-georg-stoger-on-urban-environmental-history/): Georg Stöger analyzes change and persistence in the town Linz in a long-term perspective. He is explicitly interested in the collective and individual practices in everyday life that shaped (and were shaped by) the urban environment.
- [Seminar series: 'Why history and politics matter in times of environmental crisis'](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/seminar-series-why-history-and-politics-matter-in-times-of-environmental-crisis/): The programme of events for the new online seminar series at the University of Groningen, 'Why History and politics matter in times of environmental crisis', is now available!
- [Vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher, Art &amp; Sustainability, Hanzehogeschool Groningen](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vacancy-postdoctoral-researcher-art-sustainability-hanzehogeschool-groningen/): The Research Centre Art &amp; Society currently has a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Researcher Art &amp; Sustainability.
- [ENTANGLEMENTS Book Club](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-book-club/): We are launching an online book club accompanying our Entanglements lecture series. With low-key and accessible meetings, we hope to bring some intellectual companionship to these challenging times. 
- [New Center for AnimalHuman Studies](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-center-for-animalhuman-studies/): The new Center for AnimalHuman Studies in the Netherlands is a platform for researchers, teachers, students and others in the Netherlands who focus on the relationship between humans and other animals. 
- [Winternachten Festival: Writing Climate (In)justice](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/winternachten-festival-writing-climate-injustice/): Our alumna and former student assistant Joëlle Koorneef curated and produced a programme on literature and climate (in)justice for Winternachten Festival. The festival takes place online on the evening of 14 January 2021. 
- [EHC SPECIAL EVENT: YWY, THE ANDROID](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-special-event-ywy-the-android/): On the occasion of their solo exhibition at 1646 in Rotterdam, artist and filmmaker Pedro Neves Marques will screen their work “YWY, the Android”, followed by a lecture and Q&amp;A. In the video, set in a present-future, YWY, an indigenous android, talks with a GMO corn crop in the agricultural interior of Brazil. 
- [Cow language and multispecies ethics: your reading recommendations](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cow-language-and-multispecies-ethics-your-reading-recommendations/): In our meeting with Leonie Cornips, we asked all participants for one reading tip connected to the lecture on how dairy cows relate to humans and to each other, sourcing the wisdom of our community via the Zoom chat function. These are your recommendations. 
- [More than the Human Past. Historians, Eco-history and Environmental Humanities](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/more-than-the-human-past-historians-eco-history-and-environmental-humanities/): This is an evaluation of the EHC-KNHG congres on November 19th, including the YouTube links to the lectures and an environmental humanities reading list.
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Rosemary Joyce on Nuclear Landscapes](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-rosemary-joyce-on-nuclear-landscapes/): The global nuclear industry has for decades used sites like Stonehenge to justify designs for long-term markers to be placed over nuclear waste repositories to ensure they are not violated in distant, imagined futures. Alternative proposals propose a variety of aesthetic installations as alternative ways of marking the contaminated landscapes under construction.   Moving back and forth between the proposals rooted in cultural heritage thinking, and those aligned with art worlds, this talk questions how both imagine human intentions as singularly effective in structuring place over spans of thousands of years.
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Cara Daggett on Petro-masculinity](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-cara-daggett-on-petro-masculinity/): Far-right movements are on the rise worldwide, and many have embraced both misogynistic and anti-climate action positions. While these resentments are often treated separately, in this webinar, Cara Daggett will discuss their interconnections through the concept of petro-masculinity.
- [ENTANGLEMENTS: Leonie Cornips on Dairy Cow Relations](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-leonie-cornips-on-dairy-cow-relations/): Leonie Cornips will present her research on how the dairy cow makes social meaning in her barn within the power dynamics of industrial farming. 
- [ENTANGLEMENTS, a new online event series by the Environmental Humanities Center](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/entanglements-a-new-online-event-series-by-the-environmental-humanities-center/): Beginning in December 2020 and running until summer 2021, the Environmental Humanities Center presents a series of webinars with scholars from environmental humanities and beyond. Click to learn more!
- [Registration open: life stream conference ‘Cultural perceptions of Safety’](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/registration-open-life-stream-conference-cultural-perceptions-of-safety/): This two-day conference will bring together scholars from eight different countries and various humanities disciplines to pursue fluctuations in conceptualizations, expressions and feelings of safety over time as well as in cultures of surveillance and safety practices. Speakers will address a variety of topics, ranging from narratives and visual discourses of (un)safety, to representations and imaginations of places and spaces of safety and regulations to ensure safety.
- [CfP: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency - International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic &amp; Social Sustainability (online)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-accelerating-the-transition-to-sustainability-policy-solutions-for-the-climate-emergency-international-conference-on-environmental-cultural-economic-social-sustainability-online/): The 17th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic &amp; Social Sustainability invites submissions. It will will take place on 24-26 February 2021. This year’s special focus will be on Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency.  Plenary speakers: Diederik Samsom, Marjan Minnesma, Christian Felber and Ilona Otto.  For those that are interested [&hellip;]
- [Climate fiction: online event](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/climate-fiction-online-event/): EHC Board member Kristine Steenbergh will take part in an online event on climate fiction at SPUI25, organized with de Nederlandse Boekengids and Armada on 5 November (20-21.30hrs). The event is in Dutch. 
- [How the poor treatment of factory-farmed chickens makes pandemics more likely](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/how-the-poor-treatment-of-factory-farmed-chickens-makes-pandemics-more-likely/): In a blog post for the Rachel Carson Center, student board member Sadie E. Hale asks us to consider what the miserable lives of intensively-reared broiler chickens can add to our understanding of global entanglements and pandemics like COVID-19. 
- [Digitaal Jaarcongres 2020 ‘Meer dan Menselijk Verleden: Historici, Eco-geschiedenis en Environmental Humanities’](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/digitaal-jaarcongres-2020-meer-dan-menselijk-verleden-historici-eco-geschiedenis-en-environmental-humanities/): On the 19th of november, the KNHG and EHC will host a digital congres on eco-history and the environmental humanities. This event - and this post - will be in Dutch.
- [Call for applications: PhD position at the University of Twente (deadline 18 September 2020)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-applications-phd-position-at-the-university-of-twente-deadline-18-september/): As part of its Synergia project, the Science, Technology and Policy Studies department at the University of Twente is seeking a (4 year) PhD candidate to study expectations and imaginaries and explore possible transition pathways related to the new concept of ‘Technology-4-Ecology-based farming’ (T4E). 
- [Online Symposium: Investigating and Rethinking Single Use Plastics](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/online-symposium-investigating-and-rethinking-single-use-plastics/): For those interested: there is a Vrije Universiteit (online) event about single use plastics taking place on the 18th of September.
- [Join the EHC Student Initiative](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/join-the-ehc-student-initiative/): Are you interested in the Environmental Humanities? Do you have great ideas for a (series of) events to do with sustainability, art, literature, history, or more? Would you like some board experience next to your studies? Consider joining the EHC Student Initiative!
- [EHVenice 2020 Virtual Dialogues](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehvenice-2020-virtual-dialogues/): To mark the launch of their Master's degree in Environmental Humanities, the Ca'Foscari University of Venice has an amazing line-up of online conversations with environmental humanities scholars and authors from all over the world, to be streamed on their website.
- [Fractured Ecologies](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/fractured-ecologies/): The edited book of one of our Dutch Environmental Humanities colleagues Chad Weidner is out now. Fractured Ecologies is a collection of papers, bent essays and poems.
- [Student Blogs X: Final Blogs](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-x-final-blogs/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Transitie Motor: join the conversation](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/transitie-motor-join-the-conversation/): Our founding board member Sjoerd Kluiving is coordinating a platform for conversations about transitions. This is an invitation to join the conversation on the 5th of June, 15:00
- [Student Blogs IX: Behaviour in Crisis](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-ix-behaviour-in-crisis/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [Student Blogs VIII: Bodies](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-blogs-viii-bodies/): This contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
- [EHC Welcomes Three New PhD Candidates](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-welcomes-three-new-phd-candidates/): The Environmental Humanities Center welcomes three new PhDs who have started as of this September. Aldo Esparza Ramos and Leon Lapa Pereira in the project JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research, and Karmen Samson in the project Synthetic Adventures: (un)sustainability and (dis)comfort in the design, making and use of outdoor clothing. For more details, see our website.
- [JUST ART Roundtable: What Can Art Do For Climate Justice?](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/just-art-roundtable-what-can-art-do-for-climate-justice/): Our JUST ART consortium is organizing an evening roundtable discussion on "What can art do for climate justice?" on Thursday 17 September at 19.00 - 20.30 CEST. You are very welcome to join the event in Groningen or follow the discussion online! See our website for more details.
- [External Announcement: Call for Abstracts and Sessions - GSC 2027 (closes 25 October 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/external-announcement-call-for-abstracts-and-sessions-gsc-2027-closes-25-october-2026/): What have we learned from more than a decade of working with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and what needs to change as we approach 2030? Submissions are now open for the Groningen Sustainability Conference 2027 (GSC 2027), taking place on 5-10 April 2027 at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. See our website for more details.
- [Symposium: Too Close! The Pleasures and Perils of an Entangled Existence](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-too-close-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-an-entangled-existence/): What does it mean to say that everything is relational and everything is connected? What possibilities and perils emerge when we understand entanglement to be a fundamental condition of life? These are some of the questions guiding the symposium 'Too Close! The Pleasures and Perils of an Engtangled Existence', happening on the 23rd of October. See our website for more details.
- [External Announcement: 'Connecting citizens and systems: practical lessons for the energy transition'](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/external-announcement-connecting-citizens-and-systems-practical-lessons-for-the-energy-transition/): How can we better connect citizens, policy and energy systems in the transition  to sustainable neighbourhoods? Over the past four years, the NWO research project ALIGN4energy  has brought together researchers and practitioners to explore this question. On the 24th of September, the project will host a general assembly to discuss findings and meet researchers and professionals working on these challenges. See our website for more information.
- [External Announcement: Local Conference Of Youth 2026 - the climate summit for and by young people!](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/external-announcement-local-conference-of-youth-2026-the-climate-summit-for-and-by-young-people/): On 18 and 19 September 2026, LCOY NL will take place again: the place for young people to come together, learn new things and take action for the climate. And we’re not doing this alone: a Global Conference of Youth is organised in more than 100 countries! See our website for more details.
- [Symposium: Living Heritage in and beyond Amstelpark](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-living-heritage-in-and-beyond-amstelpark/): On the 1st of October 2026, Zone2Source, the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam and UvA Critical Heritage Ecologies invite various speakers to mark the occasion of 1 year Zoöp Amstelpark, which was launched on 4th of October 2025. Together, we will explore if the Amstelpark heritage as a site of a former world exhibition on horticulture can become a place where we inquire into the ecological issues of our times. See our website for more details.
- [RMeS Masterclass: "Mediating Water and Memory: Towards Hydro-citizenship" with Jo Garde-Hansen - Dr. Linda Kopitz &amp; Dr. Carolyn Birdsall (10 September 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/rmes-masterclass-mediating-water-and-memory-towards-hydro-citizenship-with-jo-garde-hansen-dr-linda-kopitz-dr-carolyn-birdsall-10-september-2026/): Living with or without water depends on what we choose to remember or forget, and how we use archival knowledge and living memories to adapt. On Thursday, 10 September 2026, Jo Garde-Hansen (University of Leeds) will join us for an RMeS Masterclass on “Mediating Water and Memory”. See our website for more details.
- [VENI grant for EHC board member Marilena Mela ](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/veni-grant-for-ehc-board-member-marilena-mela/): Studying how people relate to their environments through history, culture, and place can provide essential knowledge amidst the climate crisis. Unearth, Re-earth researches how heritage is mobilised to resist environmental damage and imagine more sustainable futures. It examines three landscapes shaped by mining and energy extraction in the Netherlands, Greece, and Chile that are now part of the green energy transition. By combining fieldwork, archival re-search, and collaboration with local partners, the project uncovers how long-lived landscape knowledge and protest movements inform environmental stewardship today. Its findings support just, place-based approaches to climate and energy transitions. Read the full article on our website.
- [Last call: media/environment - Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis (26+27 August 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/last-call-media-environment-screens-and-streams-in-the-age-of-climate-crisis-2627-august-2026/): The symposium "media/environment: Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis" at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam explores media's entanglements with the environment through talks and discussions with global experts. Topics include the ecological impact of AI, colonial materialities of film, and many others. Read more on our website.
- [Student Blog: 'Grounding Reparations' - Sabi Falgás Ortega](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/grounding-reparations-sabi-falgas-ortega-student-blog/): On the 8th of May 2026, Prof. Kathryn Yusoff delivered a lecture titled “Inhuman Reparations” at the University of Amsterdam for the New Tendencies in Critical Theory Series. Sabi Falgás Ortega, a second-year student from the RMA Environmental Humanities, shares their thoughts on the question of how to reach for reparations while addressing harm in its many complex manifestations. Read more on our website.
- [Lecture: 'On How Emotions Matter in Climate Transitions' - Anne Jesuina Tobias de Andrade (26 June 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-on-how-emotions-matter-in-climate-transitions-anne-jesuina-tobias-de-andrade-26-june-2026/): In the lecture 'On How Emotions Matter in Climate Transitions: Emotional Dynamics and Decision-Making in Zoöps Through an Embodied and Politicized Lens', Anne Jesuina will explore how the systemic denial of the embodied dimension hinders moving into constructive and meaningful climate transitions and how challenging emotions often end up reinforcing the systems we need to change.   By combining decolonial multi-species perspectives, embodied social justice, tools from Western psychology, and intergenerational insights, Anne Jesuina is developing a methodology to foster collective emotional and relational responsibility in order to support much needed (climate) transitions. See our website for more details.
- [Workshop: 'Weathering Together' - Astrida Neimanis (2 July 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/workshop-weathering-together-astrida-neimanis-2-july-2026/): What does it mean to weather, together? Climate change bears down on us not only as an atmospheric event but as a political, social, and embodied reality, one that is felt unevenly across different bodies, communities, and landscapes. In this workshop, feminist environmental scholar Astrida Neimanis guides participants through the concept of weathering as both a way of thinking about and actively responding to our shared ecological predicament.
- [Introducing Plato's Garden: an educators' movement for nature-based learning](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/introducing-platos-garden-an-educators-movement-for-nature-based-learning/): Plato's Garden is a bottom-up, cross-faculty educators' movement aimed at promoting nature-based pedagogy (NBP). It unites academics interested in learning with nature, instead of only learning about it. Interested in learning more or collaborating? Read the full article on our website.
- [Full programme announced: media/environment - Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis (26+27 August 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/full-programme-announced-media-environment-screens-and-streams-in-the-age-of-climate-crisis-2627-august-2026/): The symposium "media/environment: Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis" at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam explores media's entanglements with the environment through talks and discussions with global experts. Topics include the ecological impact of AI, colonial materialities of film, and many others. Read more on our website.
- [Call for Papers: Supply Chain Criticism symposium (closes 3 August 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-papers-supply-chain-criticism-symposium-closes-3-august-2026/): In the rush to fulfil the twinned promises of green and digital transition, state actors across the globe are rapidly mobilising and expanding extractive infrastructures to procure and secure the flow of rare earth elements and critical minerals. The Supply Chain Criticism symposium invites contributions from researchers and practitioners interested in skillshares on supply chain criticism and in extending the resources we bring collectively to the communities in which we seek to nourish solidarities.   Read more on our website.
- [Vacancy: two students assistants and one intern](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vacancy-two-students-assistants-and-one-intern/): The Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam / Zoöp Amstelpark is looking for two student assistants (95 hrs. each in total) and one intern (12EC, ca. 330 hrs. in total), for a period from June 2026 to February 2027, to help with research in the NWO funded project “Emotional dynamics and decision-making in Zoöps”. In October 2025, Zone2Source and the Municipality of Amsterdam, together with the Zoönomic Institute, signed a contract to manage the Amstelpark in the future as a ZOÖP and a learning place for multispecies politics for the city. This made ZOÖP Amstelpark the first public ZOÖP. Any organization that has [&hellip;]
- [Online event: 'Arts &amp; The Environmental Humanities' (13 May 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/online-event-arts-the-environmental-humanities-13-may-2026/): What does it mean to do environmental humanities with or through the arts? This online event brings together researchers and practitioners working at this intersection. When: Wednesday 13 May 2026, 14:15-15:30 Where: Online (click on online for a link to the Zoom)as well as atThe Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesUniversity of Stavanger, Hulda Garborgs hus, HG N-105 Environmental humanities has long engaged with art as both a practice and a framework that challenges the boundary between aesthetic and analytical knowledge-making. What does it mean to do environmental humanities with or through the arts? This online event brings together researchers and practitioners [&hellip;]
- [A thank you to our students](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/a-thank-you-to-our-students/): Now that our two year Research Master track ‘Environmental Humanities’ has been running for nearly three years, and that the second cohort of students is busy writing their theses, we feel it is time to express our admiration and gratitude. What an incredible group of students, with not only each of them, but also each new cohort with their very own dynamics. Students giving a statement at the city council to support the fight of the Lutkemeer activists, writing highly thoughtful theses, taking quiet care of the plant in our Environmental Humanities Library Room, starting their own artist collective, becoming core [&hellip;]
- [External announcement: 'Summer School Mainz: Resilient Humanscapes: Exploring Resiliencies in Human-Spatial Interactions'](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/external-announcement-summer-school-mainz-resilient-humanscapes-exploring-resiliencies-in-human-spatial-interactions/): August 17 to 21, 2026Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie in Mainz The Leibniz ScienceCampus is organizing the summer school “Resiliencies: Comparing and Integrating Methodologies, Methods, Narratives, and Theories – Mainz/Trier (RECOMENT),” devoted to the topic of resilient humanscapes. Aimed at postgraduate students, doctoral candidates, and postdoctoral researchers, the summer school invites participants to explore how resiliencies emerge, are negotiated, and become observable in the entanglements of human societies with their cultural, environmental, and historical contexts. Find more information here.
- [External announcement: 3 ERC PhD Fellowships 'Oecologie. The German Sources of Ecology' (closes 10 June 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/external-announcement-3-erc-phd-fellowships-oecologie-the-german-sources-of-ecology-closes-10-june-2026/): The ERC "Oecologie. The German Sources of Ecology" project seeks three PhD candidates starting September 2026. The positions focus on the historical and philosophical development of ecology, particularly through Ernst Haeckel's contributions. The project emphasizes interdisciplinary research, workshops, and the use of digital humanities in exploring ecological thought from a Franco-German perspective.
- [Podcast: Prof. Petra van Dam on Coping with Drought](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/podcast-petra-van-dam-on-coping-with-drought/): In the latest episode of the Blue History Network podcast, Amelie Homp interviews Petra van Dam about her research on climate adaptation and drinking water management in the Netherlands. They explore historical droughts and floods, the inequalities in coping mechanisms, and lessons for current policies and individual actions regarding climate resilience.
- [Prof. Dr. Jeff Diamanti joins the board of the EHC Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/jeff-diamanti-joins-board-of-ehc-amsterdam/): Three new members have joined the board of the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, including Prof. Dr. Jeff Diamanti, a Professor of Global History of Sustainable Development at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research addresses critical global supply chains, sustainability studies, and the sourcing of raw materials for renewable energy, with emphasis on historical and collaborative approaches. Read more about his research on our website.
- [Lecture: 'Inhuman Reparations' - Prof. Kathryn Yusoff (8 May 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-inhuman-reparations-by-prof-kathryn-yusoff-8-may-2026/): Kathryn Yusoff, Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London, will speak at the University of Amsterdam on May 8, 2026, from 15:00 to 17:00. Her research encompasses geology, race, and critical environmental studies. The event is part of the New Tendencies in Critical Theory Series, co-hosted by ASCA.
- [New research project: ‘Troubling Pigments (after Polke)’ - Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-research-project-troubling-pigments-after-polke-dr-kyveli-mavrokordopoulou/): ‘Troubling Pigments (after Polke)’ is a new research project by Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, funded by the Anna Polke Stiftung. It investigates the ecological and social histories of eight pigments from Polke’s monochrome paintings at the Stedelijk Museum. The project involves Rijksakademie alumni and will conclude with a public presentation in June. Read more on our website.
- [SAVE THE DATE: media/environment - Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis (Symposium, 26+27 August 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/save-the-date-symposium-media-environment-screens-and-streams-in-the-age-of-climate-crisis-2026/): The symposium "media/environment: Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis" at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam explores media's entanglements with the environment through talks and discussions with global experts. Topics include the ecological impact of AI, colonial materialities of film, and many others. Read more on our website.
- [Dr. Marilena Mela joins the board of the EHC Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/marilena-mela-joins-board-of-ehc-amsterdam/): Three new members have joined the board of the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam. This post introduces Dr. Marilena Mela, Assistant Professor of Heritage Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research intersects heritage, sustainability, and climate, with a focus on their connections in energy transitions, as explored in her upcoming book and collaborations.
- [Open Day 7 March: Environmental Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/open-day-7-march-environmental-humanities-at-vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/): Learn more about the Environmental Humanities track in the Research Master Humanities at the VU Master’s Event on Saturday, 7 March 2026. The Open Day is from 10.30-15.00; the information round on the Research Master Humanities starts at 14:00. At the Open Day, you can: Are you an international student? Join the session of the International Office and get info on visas, housing and studying in Amsterdam. For more information and registration, see: https://vu.nl/en/education/more-about/vu-masterevent Any questions? Contact Kristine Steenbergh, track coordinator: k.steenbergh@vu.nl.
- [Prof. Dr. Judith Keilbach joins the board of the EHC Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/judith-keilbach-joins-board-of-ehc/): We are pleased to announce that three new members have joined the board of the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam. This is the first in a series of three posts introducing them. Judith Keilbach&nbsp;is Professor of Media and Culture at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on media infrastructures, which she approaches, on one hand, from a historical and, on the other, from an environmental perspective. Her interest in media and sustainability resulted in a project on sustainable film production, commissioned by the Netherlands Film Fund. Further research topics include the relation of media technology and historiography; media archives; and television [&hellip;]
- [Phd Position: Art and Regenerative Entrepreneurship (closes 15 March 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-position-art-and-regenerative-entrepreneurship/): We are hiring! We are excited to announce the second PhD position on “Art and Regenerative Entrepreneurship” within the JUST ART research consortium, in collaboration with the Hogeschool van Amsterdam Center for Economic Transformation. The project engages artistic and arts-based solutions for the challenges that entrepreneurs face when striving to produce life-sustaining goods in a regenerative manner. Please find further information here: Please find further information here. The application period closes on 15 March, 2026.
- [Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies (closes 15 March 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-position-art-and-soil-ecologies/): We are hiring! We are excited to announce a PhD position on “Art and Soil Ecologies” within the JUST ART research consortium. The project engages with the vital role crucial role soil plays within climate justice. We are looking for candidates eager to explore arts-based and artistic research approaches to soil: as a life-sustaining system that serves both human and non-human life, as a vital site of multispecies conviviality and as a highly sophisticated regenerative system.&nbsp; Please find further information here. The application period closes on 15 March, 2026.
- [New research project announcement: JUST ART – artistic research and climate justice](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/new-research-project-just-art-artistic-research-and-climate-justice/): We are delighted to share that in January 2026, our large new research consortium ‘JUST ART’ on art research and climate justice took off. Bringing together artists, researchers, campaigners and communities in rural and urban regions across the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the coming six years, the consortium (led by the University of &nbsp;Groningen and financed by the Dutch Research Council NWO) will research creative ways of understanding the intersectional dimensions of climate (in)justices, so that people feel empowered to act. At Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Katja Kwastek and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, board members of the Environmental Humanities center, will be leading [&hellip;]
- [Lunch Lecture: 'An Energy History and Future of Computing' - Dr. Anne Pasek (10 March 2026)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lunch-lecture-an-energy-history-and-future-of-computing-by-dr-anne-pasek-10-march-2026/): On Tuesday, 10 March 2026, Dr. Anne Pasek will deliver a lunch lecture at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, discussing two approaches to computing in the Global North—one focused on energy efficiency in the tech sector and the other on alternative methods like degrowth computing. The event is free and open to the public.
- [First International Regenerative Business Leaders Conference (12 March 2026, Zuidas Botanic Garden)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/first-international-regenerative-business-leaders-conference-12-march-2026-zuidas-botanic-garden/): Launch of Regenerative Business Leaders initiative: Meeting of researchers, government officials and university and business leaders. Promoting systemic business transformation Date: 12 March 2026, 9.00-17.00Location: Zuidas Botanic Garden, Van der Boechorststraat 8, 1081 BT Amsterdam Supported by: UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Netherlands, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Amsterdam Sustainability Institute Preliminary program: 09:00–09:30 Arrival and Registration, exploring Botanic Garden and light breakfast 09:30–10:15 Opening Plenary: The Regenerative Imperative Speakers:Margrethe Jonkman, President of the Executive Board, VU Amsterdam: The emergence of Regenerative Business Leaders initiative;Sjoerd Kluiving, associate professor Anthropocene Studies, VUPhilipp Pattberg,professor, UNSDN, director Amsterdam Sustainability Institute 10:15–11:15 Practitioner [&hellip;]
- [“Art can open the eyes” — Interview with Prof. Dr. Katja Kwastek](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/art-can-open-the-eyes-interview-with-prof-dr-katja-kwastek/): Katja Kwastek was recently interviewed by Idea magazine for social sciences and humanities alumni about the project JUST ART.
- [Staying With the Trouble with Four Siblings](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/staying-with-the-trouble-with-four-siblings/): On November 11th, the Research Master&#8217;s students in Environmental Humanities visited Four Siblings as part of the seminar Staying With the Trouble: Environmental Activism, taught by Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou. What follows is a reflection by two students, Jelmer Groenenboom and Veronica Rossi, on the wide range of topics discussed during the class; from situated approaches to gardening to strategies for combating plant blindness. On a crisp and now-and-then sunny day, we were welcomed at the Four Siblings collective in Amsterdam, a self-described ‘queer-eco-feminist art project and community garden’ run by artists Müge Yılmaz, Emiel Wolf and Clara Arámburo, to get a [&hellip;]
- [Book Launch "The Future of Memory" by Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic - Friday October 24 2025](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/book-launch-the-future-of-memory-by-jimi-jones-and-marek-jancovic-friday-october-24-2025/): The Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam would like to share the invitation to the upcoming book launch for: The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive How archivists work with and against production industries to preserve the moving image. By Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic – published by University of Illinois Press. Programme The event will be held at the Eye Filmmuseum Collection Center. About the book The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive&nbsp; “A new generation of video standards promises lossless storage of digital objects for [&hellip;]
- [EHC Lecture "Seeing Soil Live" by Dr. Vasilis Kokkoris and Annabel Howland - Thursday November 13 2025](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-lecture-seeing-soil-live-by-dr-vasilis-kokkoris-and-annabel-howland-thursday-november-13-2025/): Image: Annabel Howland, Arbuscule-No14, pen-and-ink drawing, 2023. Soil, and the fungi that inhabit it, have become key topics in Environmental Humanities’ engagements with concepts like symbiosis or multispecies entanglements. Why is that so? The Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam is looking forward to welcoming artist Annabel Howland and systems ecologist Vasilis Kokkoris to each give a talk, followed by a discussion, on the question of how scientists and artists seek ways to make sense of the fungal networks beneath our feet. Systems ecologist Vasilis Kokkoris (GR-NL) will introduce us to the world of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), a group of ancient fungi [&hellip;]
- ["De stroom van verandering: waterkwaliteit als maatschappelijke uitdaging" -  Anniversary Symposium Schilthuisfonds & Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/de-stroom-van-verandering-waterkwaliteit-als-maatschappelijke-uitdaging-anniversary-symposium-schilthuisfonds-vereniging-voor-waterstaatsgeschiedenis/): We would like to point your attention to the Schilthuisfonds and Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis&#8217; upcoming anniversary symposium, titled &#8220;De stroom van verandering: waterkwaliteit als maatschappelijke uitdaging.&#8221; Among the speakers is EHC Board Member prof. dr. Petra van Dam, who will talk about her research into the environmental history of drinking water in The Netherlands. Dutch abstract: Waterkwaliteit staat volop in de belangstelling. Klimaatverandering, Europese regelgeving en maatschappelijke druk vragen om nieuwe keuzes en scherpe afwegingen als het gaat om waterbeheer. Hoe verhouden deze actuele uitdagingen zich tot het verleden? En welke lessen kunnen we daaruit trekken voor de toekomst? Tijdens deze [&hellip;]
- [Theme Table: "Energy, Environment & Progress"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/theme-table-energy-environment-progress/): We are excited to announce that you can now visit the first Environmental Humanities theme table, centered around the topic of Energy, Environment &amp; Progress. This theme table was created alongside a new reading group for master&#8217;s students in the Environmental Humanities program. The first session focused on energy and the living environment, specifically on how the concept of ‘energy’ has shaped society, and spurred our dependency on fossil fuels. For anyone interested in learning more about this topic, feel free to browse the new thematic table. Here, you can find the texts we discussed during the reading group, as well [&hellip;]
- [Hydropoetics: Surfacing with Haunted Waters - Guest Lecture by Joanne Peers](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/hydropoetics-surfacing-with-haunted-waters-guest-lecture-by-joanne-peers/): Dr. Joanne Peers inviting students to a water ritual, picture by Kristine Steenbergh Last week, we had the honor of welcoming Dr. Joanne Peers (Researcher at the Origins Centre at The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) for a lecture to our Research Master Students and colleagues. She was in Amsterdam in the context of her seed grant in the Engaged Scholarship against Climate Change (ESCC) project. She generously shared stories about her experience of what she calls the &#8220;human and more-than-human ghosts of South Africa’s Apartheid&#8221;. These often deeply moving stories enabled us to feel how liquidity is at the same [&hellip;]
- [Public Symposium "Protestantse milieugeschiedenis" - Wednesday 8 October 2025 at VU Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/public-symposium-protestantse-milieugeschiedenis-wednesday-8-october-2025-at-vu-amsterdam/): We would like to point your attention to the HDC Center for Religious History&#8217;s forthcoming event &#8220;Protestantse Milieugeschiedenis&#8221;, held in conjunction with the 2025 Month of History and its central theme &#8220;Natuurlijk&#8221; (&#8220;Natural&#8221;). During the event, prof. dr. Peter van Dam (University of Amsterdam) and prof. dr. David Onnekink (Utrecht Theological University) will present the contents of the HDC&#8217;s latest annual book release. This year&#8217;s publication focuses on the topic of Protestantism and Environmental History. They will be joined by Marianne Thieme and EHC Board member prof. dr. Petra van Dam, who will offer their reflections on the book&#8217;s themes. Please [&hellip;]
- [Symposium "Water Pasts &amp; Futures: (In)securing water in times of drought" September 30th 2025 at VU Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-water-pasts-futures-insecuring-water-in-times-of-drought-september-30th-2025-at-vu-amsterdam/): We would like to hereby point your attention to the conference on the histories and futures of water and drought, organised by the VU projects Dealing with Drought and PerfectSTORM, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI) and the Drought in the Anthropocene network (DitA) set to take place at VU Amsterdam in September. Please be invited to the half-day symposium:  &#8220;Water Pasts &amp; Futures: (In)securing water in times of drought&#8221; 📅&nbsp;When:&nbsp;Tuesday, 30 September 2025📍&nbsp;Where:&nbsp;VU Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam🔗&nbsp;More info:&nbsp;www.perfect-storm.org&nbsp;|&nbsp;copingwithdrought.com ✉️&nbsp;Questions?&nbsp;Feel free to get in touch — you can send an email to&nbsp;h.m.metselaar@student.vu.nl &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;  &nbsp; What to ExpectThis half-day symposium [&hellip;]
- [Lunch Lecture: 'Reforming the Herd' - Dr. Wesley Mwatwara (26 June 2025)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lunch-lecture-on-reforming-the-herd-by-dr-wesley-mwatwara-thursday-june-26-2025/): Image: Mahsona cattle in Zimbabwe. Photograph by Dr. Wesley Mwatwara We would like to hereby extend the invitation to the final lunch lecture in this year&#8217;s Environmental Humanities Center lunch lecture series!In this lecture socio-environmental historian Dr. Wesley Mwatwara will&nbsp;explore how colonial authorities attempted to reshape African livestock regimes by introducing what they considered &#8220;better&#8221; cattle breeds during the early 20th century (for full abstract, see below). Dr. Mwatwara&#8217;s work focuses on African livestock regimes, particularly in colonial Zimbabwe. The lecture takes place on Thursday the 26th of June from 12:45 until 13:30 in the Library Lounge, which is located in [&hellip;]
- [Lunch Lecture: 'Heritage in Environmental Activism and Landscape Stewardship' - Dr. Marilena Mela (22 May 2025)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lunch-lecture-on-heritage-in-environmental-activism-and-landscape-stewardship-by-dr-marilena-mela-thursday-22-may-2025/): We want to hereby warmly welcome you to the fourth lunch lecture in the Environmental Humanities Center&#8217;s lunch lecture series! In this lecture Dr. Marilena Mela will discuss the roles heritage can play in the environmental humanities through case-studies pertaining to environmental activism and landscape stewardship in which heritage is present or conspicuously absent. The lecture takes place on Thursday the 22nd of May from 12:00 until 13:00 in the Library Lounge, which is located in the VU main building at the far-end of the library space on the first floor. To provide enough sandwiches this lunch lecture, please sign up [&hellip;]
- [Hybrid Symposium "More-than-Human Worlds in Artistic Research" with the universities of Bristol and Stavanger - Wednesday 14 May 2025](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/hybrid-symposium-more-than-human-worlds-in-artistic-research-with-the-universities-of-bristol-and-stavanger-wednesday-14-may-2025/): This hybrid, synchronous symposium&nbsp;focuses on the place&nbsp; of the arts within the environmental humanities, and how creative work helps us become attuned to more-than-human forms of intelligence, agency and sentience, and is held on May 14th, 2025.&nbsp;It brings together three artistic research practitioners based in Norway, the Netherlands, and the UK for three talks on the theme of more-than-human worlds in artistic research. In the morning, presentations taking place at three of Europe’s leading centres for the Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the University of Bristol. The talks can be attended in-situ and will be [&hellip;]
- [Events Spring 2025](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/events-spring-2025/): Lunch lectures in the VU Library LoungeApril 10th 12:00-13:00 Dr. Maria-Kyveli: Crafting with Radiotoxicity &#8211; Feminist Approaches to Nuclear Materials in Art during the Cold War May 22nd 12:00-13:00 Dr. Marilena Mela: Heritage in Environmental Activism and Landscape StewardshipJune &#8211; To be announced Reading group sessions in the Environmental Humanities Library RoomApril 10th 10:00-12:00 Gender, Toxicity, and Climate ChangeMay &#8211; To be announced Other eventsApril 10th 15:30-17:00 Anthropocene Navigators: Theory, Rethinking, Co-Creation and Education in the AnthropoceneApril 17th Climate Justice Reading MarathonMay 8th 15:30-17:00 Anthropocene Navigators: Companies, Education and SustainabilityMay 15th &#8211; To be announcedJune 19th 15:30-17:00 Anthropocene Navigators: Inequality and [&hellip;]
- [Lunch Lecture on "Crafting with Radiotoxicity" by Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou - Thursday 10 April 2025](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lunch-lecture-on-crafting-with-radiotoxicity-by-dr-kyveli-mavrokordopoulou-thursday-10-april-2025/): We invite you to join the third lunch lecture of our lunch lecture series to learn more about Cold War art through a feminist lens. In this lunch lecture, historian of modern and contemporary art Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou will discuss radiotoxic approaches to art by female artists during times of severe nuclear threat (see the full title and abstract below).&nbsp; The lecture takes place on Thursday the 10th of April from 12:00 until 13:00 in the Library Lounge, which is located in the VU main building at the far-end of the library space on the first floor. To make sure there [&hellip;]
- [Lecture: 'Blue Diversity: Drinking water in the Netherlands, 1500-1850' - Prof. Dr. Petra van Dam (8 April 2025)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lecture-on-blue-diversity-drinking-water-in-the-netherlands-1500-1850-by-prof-dr-petra-van-dam-tuesday-8-april-2025/): Image: A water seller in Naples offers a glass of water as refreshment to a woman who is carrying a large bundle under her arm, 1800-1899. London. The Wellcome Collection. We would like to draw your attention to a lunch lecture by to environmental historian prof. dr. Petra van Dam. During this lunch lecture, professor Van Dam will delve into the history of drinking water &#8211; perhaps the most valuable liquid known to humans (see the full title and abstract below).&nbsp;The lecture takes place on Tuesday the 8th of April from 12:00 until 13:00 in the VU main building in HG-5B-43. [&hellip;]
- [Zonnebloemprotest, Reclaim the Seeds, and Environmental Humanities Center event](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/zonnebloemprotest-reclaim-the-seeds-and-environmental-humanities-center-event/): By Lucienne Walstra On February 18 2025, the Environmental Humanities Center and VU Green Office hosted Voedselpark Amsterdam&#8217;s Zonnebloemprotest and Reclaim the Seeds for a seed-sorting session at the VU&#8217;s main entrance. Stationed at a large table covered with flyers and banners about local food justice movements, lessons on sunflower seed sorting were learned and shared with the goal to gather the attention of the many students and visitors passing by and to engage them in a conversation about food justice, seed sovereignty, and protection of the Lutkemeerpolder. Reclaim the Seeds x Zonnebloemprotest x Environmental Humanities (Center) Reclaim the Seeds is [&hellip;]
- [Conference "Navigating the Anthropocene" January 30th 2025 at VU Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/conference-navigating-the-anthropocene-january-30th-2025-at-vu-amsterdam/): We would like to hereby direct your attention to the VU Conference &#8220;Shared Pathways to a Sustainable and Just Future: Navigating the Anthropocene&#8221; which will take place on location in Amsterdam on Thursday January 30th 2025 between 9:00 and 17:00. The conference includes keynote lectures, workshops, debates and experiential experiments to explore collaborative solutions to the complex challenges of the Anthropocene, and can be attended free of charge. Across twenty-five sessions discussions and experiments are held to discuss planetary boundaries and anthropological shifts as well as convivial citizenship and resilient education. Some examples of the scheduled seminars are &#8220;Post-Anthropocene Futures,&#8221; &#8220;Climate [&hellip;]
- [Lunch Lecture: 'Thinking about Drinking - Water Consciousness and Blue Diversity in the History of the Republic' - Prof. Dr. Petra van Dam (12 December 2024)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lunch-lecture-on-thinking-about-drinking-water-consciousness-and-blue-diveristy-ion-the-history-of-the-republic-by-prof-dr-petra-van-dam-thursday-12-december-2024/): Image: A water seller in Naples offers a glass of water as refreshment to a woman who is carrying a large bundle under her arm, 1800-1899. London. The Wellcome Collection. We would like to welcome you to the third Environmental Humanities Center lunch lecture to learn more about Dutch water culture from environmental historian prof. dr. Petra van Dam. During this third lunch lecture, professor Van Dam will delve into the history of drinking water &#8211; perhaps the most valuable liquid known to humans (see the full title and abstract below).&nbsp;The lecture takes place on Thursday the 12th of December from [&hellip;]
- [Uitnodiging Studiedag "Water en Veranderingen in het Geschiedbeeld" - Woensdag 11 december](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/uitnodiging-studiedag-water-en-veranderingen-in-het-geschiedbeeld-woensdag-11-december/): Afbeelding: Nicolaes Cruquius, Het eylandt West-Voorn of Goedereedemet de dieptens en de droogtens ronds-omme, tot aan den Hoek van Holland. 1734.Universiteitsbibliotheek, Utrecht. [This event is run in Dutch] De Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis en het Environmental Humanities Center van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam nodigen u van harte uit om de studiedag Water en veranderingen in het geschiedbeeld bij te wonen.Deze studiedag zal plaatsvinden op woensdag 11 december 2024 van 13:00 tot 16:00 in de zaal HG-06A32 in het Hoofdgebouw van de VU (De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam) en bestaat uit twee lezingen. De eerste lezing zal worden gegeven door Mathijs Boom en is [&hellip;]
- [Artist Talk Susanne Kriemann "Lupin, fougère, genêt" at Framer Framed on 26 November](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/artist-talk-susanne-kriemann-lupin-fougere-genet-at-framer-framed-on-26-november/): Image: Susanne Kriemann, Lupin, fougère, genêt. 2024. L&#8217;Age Atomique, Musée d&#8217;Art Moderne de Paris. Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam is delighted to welcome artist and lecturer Susanne Kriemann for an artist talk at Framer Framed on November 26th from 18:00 to 20:00. Susanne Kriemann will discuss the photographic project Lupin, fougère, genêt taking plants in/as the nuclear landscape after uranium mine closure in the French Limousin as its focal point. The former uranium extraction centre of France is now speckled with decommissioned mining pits filled with water to create artificial lakes. The surrounding landscape still holds the memories of radioactive extraction in [&hellip;]
- [Online Seminar KU Leuven- Exploring Living Heritage for a Sustainable Future: Insights from the International 'Water &amp; Land' Project - 14 November 2024](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/online-seminar-ku-leuven-exploring-living-heritage-for-a-sustainable-future-insights-from-the-international-water-land-project-14-november-2024/): We would like to hereby point your attention to the following online seminar of KU Leuven&#8217;s Interfaculty Centre for Agrarian History (ICAG) that is set to take place on the 14th of November 2024, 14:00-15:30. &#8220;Exploring Living Heritage for a Sustainable Future – Insights from the International &#8216;Water &amp; Land&#8217; Project&#8221; is designed for a diverse audience, including experts, researchers, heritage professionals, and individuals interested in intangible cultural heritage, agricultural and environmental history, sustainable development, and climate change. The webinar will explore how traditional knowledge and practices can be leveraged to address modern environmental challenges, emphasizing the positive role of living [&hellip;]
- [Call for Papers: ASLE-UKI Conference on Erosion](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-papers-asle-uki-conference-on-erosion/): Erosion &#8211; Creimeadh 9th August (Online Day) &amp; 12th-14th August 2025 (University of Galway) Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, Biennial Conference 2025 Submission deadline: 19 December 2024 via links on the conference website Confirmed keynote speakers: Nessa Cronin (University of Galway), John Brannigan (University College Dublin), Malcolm Sen (University of Massachusettes Amherst) The 2025 conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the University of Galway, Ireland.&nbsp;ASLE-UKI&nbsp;welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, environments and cultures – [&hellip;]
- [26 October 2024- Environmental Historian Richard C. Hoffmann at Leiden University](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/26-october-2024-environmental-historian-richard-c-hoffmann-at-leiden-university/): Image: Medieval Eel Rents in England, Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th Century. Lampreys. Folio 84r On Saturday the 26th of October from 13:30 to 14:30, Leiden University will welcome Richard C. Hoffmann for a presentation on his latest work on fish and fisheries in mediaeval Europe: The Catch (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The professor emeritus of York University is a renowned environmental historian of pre-modern Europe, whose major contributions to the field include his book An Environmental History of Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2014). The lecture is organised by both the Graduate School of Medieval Studies (Onderzoeksschool Mediëvistiek) and Environmental Humanities LU, and will [&hellip;]
- [Lunch Lecture: 'The State of Matter: Gas in the 19th Century Urban Environment' - Dr. Iris Burgers (17 October 2024)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lunch-lecture-on-the-state-of-matter-gas-in-the-19th-century-urban-environment-by-dr-iris-burgers-thursday-17-october-2024/): Image: Jacobus Pelgrom, De gasfabriek van de Amsterdamsche Pijp-gaz Compagnie aan de Schans, 1840 &#8211; 1850. Amsterdam. Depot Amsterdam Museum. Please be welcome at the second lunch lecture of our lunch lecture series to learn more about the spatial dimension of the urban transition from coal to gas in the 19th century! In this meeting, expert in architectural history and theory of the twentieth century Dr. Iris Burgers will lecture on the spatial component of an impactful energy transition in Dutch history. The lecture takes place on Thursday the 17th of October from 12:45 until 13:30 in the Environmental Humanities Library [&hellip;]
- [Info session on Environmental Humanities Research Master track](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/info-session-on-environmental-humanities-research-master-track-2/): On Thursday 10 October 2024, join the online&nbsp;VU Master’s Event&nbsp;to find out more about the track Environmental Humanities in our Research Master programme. Explore the different programmes in the dedicated online rooms. You can use the live chat to learn more about studying the Environmental Humanities Research Master track. During a Zoom session, lecturer Kristine Steenbergh and a current student will tell you more about the track and answer all your questions from 15:15-16:00. Click here for more information about the event:&nbsp;https://vu.nl/en/education/more-about/vu-master-s-event This transdisciplinary research master track focuses on the entanglements of nature and culture. In our international classroom, we interrelate [&hellip;]
- [Symposium “What Wolves Want – Animal-Human-Connections in the Anthropocene” at VU Amsterdam on November 1](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-what-wolves-want-animal-human-connections-in-the-anthropocene-at-vu-amsterdam-on-november-1/): Image: “The Lone Wolf” by Alfred von Wierusz On November 1st 2024, CLUE+, ASI Biodiversity and Resources Cluster and the Environmental Humanities Center organise the symposium “What Wolves Want – Animal-Human-Connections in the Anthropocene” at VU Amsterdam. The symposium deals with the relationships between wolves and humans, and the wolves&#8217; ecosystem-wide impact. The role of the wolf and wolf-human relationships are evolving with the return of the wolf to the Netherlands and the European Commission’s proposal to change the protection status of the wolf in the EU. During the afternoon-filling programme, an ecologist, an environmental philosopher, an anthropologist, a writer, a [&hellip;]
- [Call for International PhD Seminar Environmental History Spring 2025](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-international-phd-seminar-environmental-history-spring-2025/): We would like to bring your attention to this call for a PhD seminar on environmental history that is set to take place in Middelburg coming June. Roosevelt Institute &#8211; Call for Papers Environmental History PhD Seminar in Middelburg Opportunities for pursuing research in environmental history are expanding in the Netherlands and beyond. In the wake of accelerating climate change, many environmental historians are reflecting on how the environment changes their research practices and the implications of doing environmental historical research while inhabiting the era of climate change.To further promote and facilitate dialogue within this growing field of research, the RIAS [&hellip;]
- [Invitation to RE:Nature Festival for Art &amp; Nature at Ruigoord](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/invitation-to-renature-festival-for-art-nature-at-ruigoord/): Join us in attending this year’s RE:Nature Festival, which takes place at Ruigoord in Amsterdam! On September 21 &amp; 22 at Ruigoord (Amsterdam), you can enjoy a weekend full of green inspiration. The festival offers a diverse program with workshops, talks, walks, ceremonies, art projects, dinners, market stalls, concerts, films and theater. With contributions from Snowapple, Jessica den Outer, Collective Walden, ZID Theater, De Voedselboss (food forest expert), Embassy of the North Sea, Atelier Van Lieshout, Emanuele Coccia and many more. Ruigoord also hosts the ecological exhibition ‘Oasis of Wonder’ . We will be attending September 21st – if you want [&hellip;]
- [Lunch Lecture: 'The Raw Nature of Cinema' - Dr. Marek Jancovic (19 September 2024)](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/lunch-lecture-on-the-raw-nature-of-cinema-by-dr-marek-jancovic-thursday-19-september-2024/): Join us for the inaugural Environmental Humanities Center lunch lecture of the 2024/2025 academic year to learn more about the organic material components of film production history from Dr. Marek Jancovic. This lunch lecture takes place on Thursday the 19th of September 2024 from 12:45 until 13:30 in the Environmental Humanities Library Room (HG-13B-04) at VU Amsterdam.  For more information regarding what the lecture will cover, see the abstract below. Please sign up for this in-person event through this form:&nbsp;https://forms.office.com/e/YE71ixky3c The “raw nature” of cinema: Rethinking technological histories of film through plant and animal materials Historically, celluloid film stock – the first [&hellip;]
- [Online work-in-progress seminar "Bodies of Water" on September 13](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/online-work-in-progress-seminar-bodies-of-water-on-september-13/): Image: George K. Gillespie Rua, On the River Shannon, Corbally, County Limerick. Eaking Gallery, Belfast. We would like to draw your attention to the following event, set to take place online on September 13th 2024. The OSL Sustainable Humanities research group will be hosting an online work-in-progress seminar on “bodies of water” on September 13, 2024, 15-16:30 CEST. The presentations will engage various dimensions and approaches to the Blue Humanities across different contexts and periods. These include late antique river poems (Formisano &amp; Williamson), the environmental history of the River Shannon (Huber), reflections on the notion of the ‘cascade’ (Al-Bayaty de [&hellip;]
- [8,000-year-old marine clay drilled up! Interdisciplinary Summer Field Visit to Lutkemeerpolder](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/8000-year-old-marine-clay-drilled-upinterdisciplinary-summer-field-visit-to-lutkemeerpolder/): By Sjoerd Kluiving On Monday, July 15, during an Environmental Humanities Center field trip to organic farm De Boterbloem in the Lutkemeerpolder, a core was taken (and then returned to the borehole) with the aim of learning something of the (deep) history of the subsurface. For a start, the farm sits some 4½ to 5 metres below NAP, as does the entire Lutkemeerpolder. This is because a large layer of peat, which at its maximum extent two to three thousand years ago reached as high as 3 metres above NAP, has disappeared through oxidation due to drainage for agriculture and peat [&hellip;]
- [Nourishing Connection: Activism, Friendship, and Care](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nourishing-connection-activism-friendship-and-care/): This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series,&nbsp;click here. Author: Lucienne Walstra My original plan for this blog post was to discuss care on the Luktemeerpolder with a dear friend of mine who has volunteered at PLUK for over a year. Knowing a little bit about their experience and connections to the land and people there already, I wanted to delve deeper into their experiences with friendship on Luktemeerpolder and explore connection with others as a byproduct of the land. This would [&hellip;]
- [More-than-human worlds of Lutkemeer polder: Slug encounters and the limits of curiosity](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/more-than-human-worlds-of-lutkemeer-polder-slug-encounters-and-the-limits-of-curiosity/): This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. Author: Sarah On one visit to the polder, we had a leisurely walk around the surroundings, exploring roads and walking paths. The following is a reflection on a creature that we encountered on our walk. I was tapping at the screen of my iPhone as I tried to take a close-up of a slug. Crouched on the edge of the sidewalk, I zoomed in and out and moved my phone around the animal [&hellip;]
- [Theory and Practice in the Lukemeerpolder: reflecting on participatory research](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/theory-and-practice-in-the-lukemeerpolder-reflecting-on-participatory-research/): Author: Lucía Gennari This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. In one of our class sessions, we had a thought-provoking discussion with an expert on transdisciplinary and participatory research. This conversation opened my eyes to the potential of such research in driving transformative change. We explored the idea that the traditional academic bias of valuing theory over practice needs to be rethought. Instead, research and writing should embrace being in the midst of change, highlighting the dynamic relationship between knowledge-theory [&hellip;]
- [Discovering the Lutkemeerpolder Area: A Journey Through Multispecies Relationships](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/discovering-the-lutkemeerpolder-area-a-journey-through-multispecies-relationships/): Author: Lucia Gennari In April, our group decided to take a more comprehensive tour around the surroundings of Lutkemeer, visiting nearby parks, gardens, and cycling paths. This exploration allowed us to immerse ourselves in the natural beauty of the polder and meet both human and nonhuman beings that inhabit or pass through it. The experience heightened our awareness of how this area serves as a melting pot of multispecies relationships. Encountering Nature&#8217;s Inhabitants and The Impact of Development One of the first things I noticed was the abundance of slugs emerging from the grass and crawling across the path. The previous [&hellip;]
- [The Lutkemeerpolder as a place of slow growth in ever-accelerating temporalities](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-lutkemeerpolder-as-a-place-of-slow-growth-in-ever-accelerating-temporalities/): This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. Author: Hannah Heath My first impression of the Lutkemeerpolder is that of a place of slow growth, manifested in its eco-farming and community-supported agriculture. The one thing constantly disrupting the polder&#8217;s tranquility is the recurring noise of commercial aircrafts landing on Schiphol&#8217;s runway, serving as a reminder that the threat of acceleration looms around the corner. The municipality’s bestemmingsplan would repurpose the area for the construction of logistics centers to facilitate rapid economic [&hellip;]
- [Learning to See Differently and Opening up to Deep Time](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/learning-to-see-differently-and-opening-up-to-deep-time/): Note: This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students&#8217; engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. Author: Emrys Karlas Since I grew up near the city’s western border, my familiarity with the Lutkemeerpolder began long before I consciously encountered the space. Traveling through the polder to a teammate’s house, or crossing it on the way to visit Gemaal Lynden, I had very little awareness of the polder or its context. My reintroduction with the Lutkemeerpolder came on long runs that took me to all the outskirts of [&hellip;]
- [Symposium “Multatuli and the Animal Kingdom” at VU Amsterdam on June 13](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/symposium-multatuli-and-the-animal-kingdom-at-vu-amsterdam-on-june-13/): Image: Raden Saleh, Boschbrand. 1849, National Gallery Singapore. On 13 June, prof. dr. Jacqueline Bel (VU) organizes a symposium on the Dutch author Multatuli and the animal kingdom. EHC board member Kristine Steenbergh will present on “the worms in the sago palm.” The symposium is in Dutch. Please sign up using this link: https://forms.office.com/e/1QRWMx9U6b For more information and the full schedule, download the symposium program below:
- [Student Assistant Vacancy at EHC](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/student-assistant-vacancy-at-ehc/): Please send your application (CV and motivation letter) to&nbsp;k.steenbergh@vu.nl&nbsp;before June 15 The Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam is looking for a student assistant (0,1fte, that is 4 hours per week) from 1 September 2024 to 30 June&nbsp;2025. The candidate needs to be enrolled at VU Amsterdam during that entire period. Payment ranges between 2618 and 2846 euros gross per month for a full-time position (that is 262-285 euros gross per month for a 0,1fte position) according to the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities. Qualifications Tasks For more information on the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, please see our website:&nbsp;https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ For questions, please [&hellip;]
- [EHC Lunch Lecture on May 28](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-lunch-lecture-on-may-28/): Our next lunch lecture event will feature two PhD researchers. Lisa Ausic, Phd Candidate in anthropology, VU Amsterdam: Vegetalizing the body, vegetalizing the self: Shipibo-Konibo herbalism, “people-making” and interspecies sameness in the Peruvian Amazon Luca Filaci, PhD Candidate in philosophy, University of Cagliari: Intrinsic animality and relational immanence: Possible paths towards a new ecological posture Tuesday, 28 May, 12:30 &#8211; 1:45 pm Environmental Humanities Library Room, VU Main Building, 13B-04 Sign up here: https://forms.gle/RpS3s8NuHzaBWsfs6
- [CLUE+ Workshop on Storytelling: From Socio-Ecological Peril to Safeguarding Futures](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/clue-workshop-on-storytelling-from-socio-ecological-peril-to-safeguarding-futures/): CLUE+, VU&#8217;s Interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage, is hosting its annual meeting on May 23. In the morning there will be a workshop on storytelling at 3D. Your participation is welcome! Description: Stories are leverage points for change. The stories we currently live by are proving to be destructive. We need more sustainable and just stories-to-live-by. Our approach to changing hearts, minds and systems is to: 1.)  develop greater reflexivity about how stories operate; 2.) point to problems in old stories and mindsets; 3.) highlight the power of new stories and mindsets; and 4.) forge solidarities among [&hellip;]
- [RMA transdisciplinary course to focus on Lutkemeerpolder in Amsterdam-West](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/rma-transdisciplinary-course-to-focus-on-lutkemeerpolder-in-amsterdam-west/): Lutkemeer Reflections With the students of our ‘Environmental Humanities’ Master’s Program, the Environmental Humanities Center is engaging with the pressing case of the Amsterdam Lutkemeerpolder. Situated at the western border of Amsterdam, the polder holds the last agricultural ground of the city. However, the municipality has decided to transform it into a business park. Local stakeholders, amongst them an ecological farm sited on the polder, together with various citizen initiatives, are fighting this decision. They have developed a plan to instead convert the area into a food park, “Voedselpark Amsterdam” in which citizen initiatives can grow their own food. We are [&hellip;]
- [Environmental Humanities Job Opportunity: Two postdoctoral positions at KNAW](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/environmental-humanities-job-opportunity-two-postdoctoral-positions-at-knaw/): We would like to share the following vacancies for postdoctoral positions a KNAW. See the links below for more information. Postdoctoral Researcher Political Ecology at KITLV &#8211; KNAW &#8211; Leiden: https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Leiden-Postdoctoral-Researcher-Political-Ecology-at-KITLV-KNAW-Leiden/975132355/ Postdoctoral Researcher Ecological History at KITLV-KNAW &#8211; Leiden: https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Leiden-Postdoctoral-Researcher-Ecological-History-at-KITLV-KNAW-Leiden/975132655/
- [Petra van Dam featured on episode of water podcast "De Toekomst van ons Water"](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/petra-van-dam-featured-on-episode-of-water-podcast-de-toekomst-van-ons-water/): EHC Board Member Petra van Dam has cooperated in making a podcast for the journal H2O, journal for professional water specialists in a series of podcasts on water made by journalist Wim Eikelboom. In this edition she sketches the main preliminary conclusions of the group research project Coping with drought and drinking water.  You can read more about the collaboration here: https://www.h2owaternetwerk.nl/h2o-actueel/h2o-podcast/waterkelders-werpen-nieuw-licht-op-geschiedenis-van-ons-drinkwater The episode is available for free on Spotify in the series ‘De toekomst van ons water’, episode title ‘Nieuw licht op de geschiedenis van ons drinkwater’, 6 March 2024, 31 minutes: Petra van Dam heeft voor het vaktijdschrift voor [&hellip;]
- [EHC Lunch Lecture Series: Next Event April 9](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-lunch-lecture-series-next-event-april-9/): Join us for our series of Lunch Lectures hosted by the Environmental Humanities Center. In this session on April 9, Dr. Madhura Rao from the Athena Institute will be discussing her research on food systems with the lecture &#8220;Eating in an Era of Radical Food Innovation: Reflections on the Changing Meanings of Risk and Food Safety.&#8221; Please sign up here to let us know you&#8217;ll be attending: https://forms.gle/oNmipcXmtSj8j1zC9  In our first Lunch Lecture on March 19, Environmental Humanities RMA students and VU researchers conversed with Prof. Dr. Peter van Dam on“Reimaging Sustainability: The History of Fair Trade Activism.&#8221;
- [The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/the-aesthetics-of-geopower-imagining-planetary-histories-and-hegemonies/): We would like to share information about an upcoming conference: The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies 4 &amp; 5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam &amp; livestreamed on Zoom | Conference organized by Simon Ferdinand, Katarina Nesic, and Colin Sterling In this two-day conference, scholars will take up the burgeoning critical discourse of &#8220;geopower&#8221; to explore how the human and nonhuman forces shaping and emerging from the earth are articulated in art and cultural practice. Keynote SpeakersMacarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University, author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Duke University Press, 2017) Federio Luisetti (University of St. [&hellip;]
- [ART SCIENCE dialogue: Technology and Plants](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/art-science-dialogue-technology-and-plants/): We envision a world where both natural and artificial environments, not only coexist but thrive in harmony. Can this be a possible reality or will it remain just a vision? EHC board member Petra van Dam will moderate the final ART SCIENCE dialogue related to Life of Plants: Špela Petrič and Marije Martijn discuss the impact of altering our impression of what plants are. Špela Petrič created PL’AI, a work that presents an AI robot and a number of cucumber plants playfully interacting, challenging our view of plants as mere resources with play acting as a means for living beings to [&hellip;]
- [Archives of Space, Sound &amp; Material: A Roundtable on Pioneering Directions in Humanities Research](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/archives-of-space-sound-material-a-roundtable-on-pioneering-directions-in-humanities-research/): We would like to invite you to a roundtable discussion featuring three Environmental Humanities Center board members. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Marek Jancovic, and Iris Burgers, alongside UvA&#8217;s Emily Clark will mark the launch of their pioneering research projects at an upcoming event. Where: Perdu Bookstore, Kloveniersburgwal 86, Amsterdam When: 16 April 2024, 15:30-17:00 Attending the event is free, but please sign up using this link: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/archives-of-space-sound-material-tickets-867271842427 For more information, see the flyer below!
- [ART SCIENCE dialogue Plant effect on Humans](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/art-science-dialogue-plant-effect-on-humans/): In collaboration with the&nbsp;Amsterdam Sustainability Institute&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, the VU ART SCIENCE gallery has invited scientists to take part in a moderated dialogue with the artists exhibited in&nbsp;Life of Plants. The ART SCIENCE dialogues explore the multifaceted relationship between humans and plants.&nbsp; In the third ART SCIENCE dialogue in the series, artist Elspeth Diederix and academics Bep Schrammeijer and Jolanda Maas will explore the importance of plant effect on humans. The discussion will be moderated by dr. Iris Burgers and will take place in the VU ART SCIENCE gallery. DATE: MARCH 7, 4-6 pm More info Image: Elspeth Diederix, Flowerfields, 2019/ photo: Gert Jan van [&hellip;]
- [ART SCIENCE Dialogue: Life of Plants with Oscar Santillán](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/art-science-dialogue-life-of-plants-with-oscar-santillan/): 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 complexities of colonialism in relation to our experience of nature, through Oscar Santillán’s work, Forecast, that symbolizes the link between colonial botany and modern environmental destruction.  Details: February 28th, 4-6PM, taking place at the VU ART SCIENCE gallery. Find more information&nbsp;here.
- [Online Event: Book Presentation with Elena Kochetkova](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/online-event-book-presentation-with-elena-kochetkova/): We would like to share this event from ESEH Environmental History Today.  Date: 29 February, 3 &#8211; 5pm Book presentation:&nbsp;The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press 2024)Presenter:&nbsp;Elena Kochetkova, University of Bergen, NorwayDiscussant:&nbsp;Laurent Coumel, Europes-Eurasia Research Center (CREE), INALCO, Paris, FranceChair:&nbsp;Anastasia Fedotova, Russian Academy of Sciences, RussiaZoom:&nbsp;https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-qhqT8iH9C3UOKpkSmCuTbDWyD8ng0A The webinar series is convened by Anna Olenenko, Nina Vieira and Kati Lindström and organized by the different regions represented within ESEH between the physical conferences. For an overview of future talks, please visit&nbsp;http://eseh.org/envhistoday-webinars/environmental-history-today-webinars-2023/
- [Sustainability of Dutch Drinking Water: Lecture by Petra van Dam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/sustainability-of-dutch-drinking-water-lecture-by-petra-van-dam/): 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 &#8211; 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 Dam
- [Call for Abstracts Open for EASST-4S Conference: Making and Doing Transformations](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/call-for-abstracts-open-for-easst-4s-conference-making-and-doing-transformations/): 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 &amp; doing contributions, and other events that explore the role of STS in making and doing contributions to transformations in an era of grand societal challenges. The event is hosted by the Athena Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and will take place 16-19 July 2024. STS scholars are invited to submit to the call for abstracts until 12 February. Visit the website for more information: https://www.easst4s2024.net/callforabstracts/
- [Online Environmental Humanities Reading Group: un-earthed](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/online-environmental-humanities-reading-group-un-earthed/): 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&#8217;s Wild Blue Media alongside textile artist Otobong Nkanga&#8217;s work &#8220; Tied to the Other Side.&#8220; For more information and links to the readings, click here: https://un-earthed.group/2024/01/30/wild-blue-media/ Read more about past and future reading group events here: https://un-earthed.group/
- [Life of Plants: Dialogue Sessions at VU ART SCIENCE Gallery](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/life-of-plants-dialogue-sessions-at-vu-art-science-gallery/): 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 to take part in a moderated dialogue with the artists exhibited in Life of Plants. The ART SCIENCE Dialogues explore the multifaceted relationship between humans and plants. The talks will encompass various dimensions such as the therapeutic aspects of plants, their role in shaping landscapes and identities, the impact of categorization and [&hellip;]
- [Opportunity for VU Community: CLUE+ meets the eScience Center](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/opportunity-for-vu-community-clue-meets-the-escience-center/): 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 digital tools in all academic disciplines.&nbsp; Thursday, February 8 · 2 &#8211; 4:30pm CET, Aurora Click here for more information and to sign up: Eventbrite
- [VU Community Members Participate in COP Storytelling Initiative](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/vu-community-members-participate-in-cop-storytelling-initiative/): 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 to get our message across &#8211; a way that touches their hearts instead of their rational brains. We have to wrap our message in a compelling story instead of in a scientific article full of jargon. We have to make it vivid, personal and close-by instead of abstract and distant. Leading up [&hellip;]
- [EHC Environmental Justice Series: Ola Hassanain on Waters. Watching Temporalities](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-environmental-justice-series-ola-hassanain-on-waters-watching-temporalities/): 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 of ‘space making’ interrogates sculptural abstraction and various ecologies of inhabiting. 
- [Info session on Environmental Humanities Research Master track](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/info-session-on-environmental-humanities-research-master-track/): 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 Amsterdam time. 
- [EHC Environmental Justice Series: Samia Henni on Colonial Toxicity](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-environmental-justice-series-samia-henni-on-colonial-toxicity/): In 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.
- [Board Member Dr. Sjoerd Kluiving is VU’s first Distinguished Fellow of the Anthropocene](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/board-member-dr-sjoerd-kluiving-is-vus-first-distinguished-fellow-of-the-anthropocene/): Dr. 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 Science. In the autumn 2023, following the instalment of the Distinguished Fellow, a lecture series with expert speakers covering the Anthropocene is programmed and two interactive workshops leading up to the COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/sjoerd-kluiving Lecture Series &#8211; Anthropocene: Overarching Disciplines Collaborating for Sustainable Change As VU’s first [&hellip;]
- [EHC Lecture Series Environmental Justice: Emily Eliza Scott on Tracking Inequity](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-lecture-series-environmental-justice-emily-eliza-scott-on-tracking-inequity/): In this EHC lecture on 19 September (18.30hrs, VU Amsterdam), Emily Eliza Scott will share from her book-in-progress on art that traces, and thereby actively attempts to resist, various forms of environmental violence as writ into land, air, and water.
- ["Who Drinks Which Water" wins Poster Prize at ESEH Conference](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/who-drinks-which-water-wins-poster-prize-at-eseh-conference/): At the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference in Bern, The White Horse Press awarded their Poster Prize to the "Coping With Drought" project. 
- [CFP The Aesthetics of Geopower - University of Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/cfp-the-aesthetics-of-geopower-university-of-amsterdam/): Call for Papers for "The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies" at University of Amsterdam in April 2024.  Deadline CFP: 15 October 2023.
- [EHC Lecture: Tracking Inequity with Emily Eliza Scott](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-lecture-tracking-inequity-with-emily-eliza-scott/): We hope you can join us for a lecture with Emily Eliza Scott, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. Title: Tracking Inequity:&nbsp;Contemporary Art and Environmental Justice Place: VU&nbsp;Amsterdam Date: September 19 Time: 18:30 More information and registration here.
- [Job Posting: Post-doc Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/job-posting-post-doc-environmental-humanities-of-extraction-in-africa/): We 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: Understanding Cultural and Political Responses to Environmental Transformation, financed by the European Research Council (ERC) and led by dr Iva Peša (see: www.rug.nl/let/AFREXTRACT). Through a comparative study of three African localities of resource extraction (oil drilling in Nigeria; copper mining in Zambia; gold mining in South Africa), focusing on the period [&hellip;]

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- [Our research: Publications and conference talks](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/our-research/): This is an overview of publications and conference talks authored by current members of the Environmental Humanities Center since 2016.
- [Reading group](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/ehc-reading-group/): In the academic year of 2024-2025, the students in the Research Master&#8217;s track Environmental Humanities initiated a reading group around specific themes. The goal is to read a broad range of texts that relate to environmental humanities, being academic or literary works, and to critically examine these together. The group was started for&nbsp;students of the research master&#8217;s track Environmental Humanities, but is also open to students of related master&#8217;s programmes at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. If you are interested in joining, please send an email via the contact form. The first session of the academic year was on Energy, Environment &amp; Progress. [&hellip;]
- [Environmental Humanities Research Groups and Projects in the Netherlands and Belgium](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/benelux-ehcs/): Below is an overview of environmental humanities research groups within our larger network in The Netherlands and Belgium. If you work in the Netherlands and would like to join the Dutch Environmental Humanities mail-list, please contact Dr. Kristine Steenbergh. The Netherlands The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)&nbsp; The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Humanities Cluster&nbsp; NIOD&nbsp;Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Protestant Theological University (Protestantse Theologische Universiteit)&nbsp; Radboud University University of Groningen (RUG)&nbsp; Tilburg University&nbsp; Leiden University&nbsp; Maastricht&nbsp;University Utrecht University&nbsp; University of Amsterdam Wageningen University &amp; Research&nbsp; Belgium University of Antwerp&nbsp; KU [&hellip;]
- [Thank you for registering!](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/thank-you-for-registering/): Your registration for Cate Sandilands lecture has been processed. We look forward to welcoming you online! You will receive an e-mail with the Zoom link a week before the event. Should you have any questions, please contact dr. Kristine Steenbergh (k.steenbergh@vu.nl).
- [Study Environmental Humanities in Amsterdam](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/study-environmental-humanities-amsterdam/): Within the Research Master&#8217;s programme in Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, we have launched a new, transdisciplinary two-year full-time track in Environmental Humanities. This programme is unique in The Netherlands and exceptional in its transdisciplinary and problem-based approach. I chose to study at&nbsp;VU Amsterdam because I wanted a degree in&nbsp;this particular&nbsp;specialisation.&nbsp;VU is the first place in the Netherlands to have its own Environmental Humanities Center, and it&nbsp;has a really&nbsp;active programme with professors from multiple disciplines who are passionate about the field. In my first semester, I went on a field trip to a nuclear waste site and attended a fantastic [&hellip;]
- [Course guide 2020-2021](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/course-guide-2019-2020/): In this course guide, we aim to provide an overview of courses that focus on topics related to the environmental humanities. In case you are interested in following one of the courses, but are not enrolled in the respective study programme, please contact the lecturer to inquire if you are eligible to take the course as an elective. The guide is a work in progress: would you like to include your course here, please contact Sadie (student assistant) at s.e.hale@student.vu.nl. We welcome course descriptions from other Dutch universities. Bachelor&#8217;s courses Courses at the Faculty of Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam History [&hellip;]
- [Board members](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/board-members/): The board members of the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam are Iris Burgers, Petra van Dam, Jeff Diamanti, Marek Jancovic, Judith Keilbach, Sjoerd Kluiving, Katja Kwastek, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Marilena Mela, Wesley Mwatwara, and Kristine Steenbergh. Interested in our research? Browse the board members&#8217; publications here. Scroll down for the profiles of former board members. Iris Burgers Iris Burgers is assistant professor of Architectural History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the way in which the imagination of our everyday surroundings influences both the thinking about and the design of these spaces. In 2021, she defended her thesis entitled &#8220;Imagination, Visualization [&hellip;]
- [Who we are](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/about/): When thinking of pollution or climate change, you may not immediately see the relevance of the Humanities to these problems. You may wonder what literature, history, or art have to do with the melting of the ice caps or the destruction of rainforests. And yet, the question of how we interact with our natural environment is as much a problem of the imagination as it is of rising CO2-levels. Our cultural modes of imagining the relations between humans and the environment impact our ways of interacting with planet earth. Scholars in the Humanities possess key tools to explore past and present [&hellip;]
- [Contact](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/contact/): PhD inquiries In The Netherlands, most PhD positions are paid research positions rather than studentships. This means that there generally must be a vacancy in order to apply for a PhD position. You can find an overview of current vacancies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (including those at the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam) here: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies. Questions We welcome your questions, comments, suggestions for collaboration on events, projects, and more. Drop us a line using the form below.
- [Short film screening + Deep time and nuclear waste workshop](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/deep-time-and-nuclear-waste-workshop/): Friday 3 November 2017, 15:00-17:00hrs Main Building, Bellevue 1H-50 The Bellevue Building is a low-rise building just behind the main building (next to Doppio&#8217;s coffee) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam This workshop aims to bring together PhD students from various disciplines who share a common interest in discussions on deep time and/or nuclear waste. While the term ‘deep time’ has been introduced by John McPhee as recently as 1981, the concept was developed more than two centuries ago in early modern British and Scottish and has undergone several transformations since (see for example Paolo Rossi 1984 and Martin J.S. Rudwick 1995, 2002). Back [&hellip;]
- [Film Screening: Susan Schuppli, Trace Evidence](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/film-screening-susan-schuppli-trace-evidence/): Trace Evidence Susan Schuppli, 2016, 53 minutes Friday 20 October 2017, 17:00 hrs Auditorium, O2 Building, Boelelaan 1108 (next to ACTA and VUMC) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The “Trace Evidence” video trilogy explores the geological, meteorological, and hydrological appearance of nuclear evidence secreted within the molecular arrangement of matter. It focuses upon three events: the unearthing of ancient nuclear reactors at the uranium mine site in Oklo, Gabon in 1972, the discovery of Chernobyl’s airborne contaminates at the Forsmark power plant in Sweden in April 1986 and the 7,600 kilometre five year journey of Caesium-137 from Fukushima-Daiichi through the waters of the [&hellip;]
- [Nuclear Waste Event](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/nuclear-waste-event/): The Nuclear Waste Weeks are a four-part series of events, jointly organised by the EHC, VU, Anna Volkmar (PhD candidate at LUCAS, Leiden University) and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (PhD candidate at CRAL, EHESS), taking place during the months of October and November 2017 in Amsterdam. Nuclear waste is one of the major unsolved challenges of our time, raising an array of questions, from the possibilities and politics of storage and disposal, over deep time, to toxic sovereignty. In this series, we will grapple with the environmental, aesthetico-political and ethical dilemmas that emerge from the out-of-scale temporalities induced by radioactive matter that haunt [&hellip;]
- [Course guide 2016-2017](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/course-guide-2016-2017/): Courses at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculty of Humanities Ecocriticism: Early Modern Literature and Visual Culture (Literature and Society)MA, period 1, 6 ECTS In this course we explore the changing relation between humans and their natural environment in the early modern period (1550-1700). Even if we associate topics like climate change, overpopulation, air pollution and the exploitation of natural resources more readily with our current time frame, many of these environmental issues first emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We will be reading early modern literature and analyzing visual sources from the perspective of ecocriticism, exploring together how early modern texts [&hellip;]
- [Registration lecture Erle Ellis, 2 May](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/registration-lecture-erle-ellis-2-may/)
- [Registration Climate Change Event 21 April](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/registration-climate-change-event-21-april/)
- [Registration lecture Tom Buurman 30 March](https://ehc-amsterdam.nl/registration-lecture-tom-buurman-30-march/): &nbsp;
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