Category: Events
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Programme update Fashion in the Anthropocene
Category: UncategorizedProgramme and registration for our event on Fashion and Sustainability on Thursday 27 October.
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Vacancies | SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene
Category: UncategorizedTags: Athena Institute, critical plant studies, environmental humanities, food, soy, sustainability, transdisciplinaryThe Athena Institute (VU Amsterdam) has announced two PhD and one postdoc position on a new project SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene.
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Talkshow Wild at Heart | Tolhuistuin
Category: UncategorizedOn Thursday 27 October, one of our board members, Kristine Steenbergh, will participate in the Talkshow Wild at Heart at Tolhuistuin. The fourth and last edition in the series focuses on “Eco Love”.
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TAKING CARE: Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum
Category: UncategorizedAs part of the international collaborative research project TAKING CARE – Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care, the Research Center for Material Culture is hosting a conference titled “TAKING CARE: Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum in Europe.” The project involves a set of speculative inquiries into the ways in…
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Sonic Acts Biennale
Category: UncategorizedThe 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.
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Masterclass eco-literature
Category: UncategorizedOne 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.
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Fashion and the Anthropocene: towards a sustainable fashion future
Category: EventsThursday 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…
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Water Heritage for Sustainable Cities Course
Category: UncategorizedTags: course, education, environmental humanities, graduate students, Netherlands, sustainability, sustainable cities, Turkey, water, water heritageIn 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.
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Excursion: guided tour exhibition Still Waters Run Deep
Category: UncategorizedExcursion opportunity prior to the symposium ‘Sink or Swim. Searching for a sustainable relationship with water’.
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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”
Category: UncategorizedOn 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…