Category: Events
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Entanglements: Dr. Kristian Mennen, “How to oppose the reclamation of ‘waste land’? Political strategies of the Dutch nature conservation movement in the 1930s”
Category: UncategorizedDr 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.
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Symposium report: Urban Past, Urban Future? Sustainable Drinking Water in Dutch Cities, 1500-1900
Category: UncategorizedOn 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…
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Entanglements: Dr Bram Büscher, “The Conservation Revolution – moving beyond foundational contradictions in biodiversity protection”
Category: UncategorizedTags: anthropocene, biodiversity, climate change, environmental history, environmental humanities, Radical HumanitiesIn 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.
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EHC Special Event: Symposium, “Urban Past, Urban Future? Sustainable Drinking Water in Dutch Cities, 1500-1900”
Category: UncategorizedDuring 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.
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Call for Candidates – University of Cork: “Radical Humanities Laboratory
Category: UncategorizedThe 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…
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Sadie Hale wins Deborah Bird Rose Prize
Category: UncategorizedFormer 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…
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Earth Beings at the Commodity Frontier: Federico Luisetti at University of Amsterdam
Category: UncategorizedIn 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).
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Video Lecture in Entanglements Series by Dr. Dagomar Degroot
Category: UncategorizedDr. Dagomar Degroot’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.
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Kick-off ASI Cluster Biodiversity and Landscape Change
Category: Uncategorized27th of January 2022. 15.00-16.00 live via Zoom from The Global Room 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…
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Workshop: “Speaking about the humans. Animal perspectives on the multispecies world”
Category: UncategorizedOnline 17 & 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…