Category: Events
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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…
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Video Entanglements Lecture Dr Kristian Mennen
Category: UncategorizedTags: Conservation, Conservation Movement, environmental history, environmental humanities, environmental policy, MediaThe 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.
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Art Science dialogues: Natural Technologies
Category: UncategorizedEHC and VU art science gallery present: Art Science dialogues: Natural Technologies exhibition.
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Symposium: Sink or Swim. Searching for a sustainable relationship with water.
Category: Uncategorized‘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…
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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.