Category: Events
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Video Entanglements Lecture Catriona Sandilands
Category: UncategorizedThe recording of Cate Sandilands’ lecture “Mulberries: A Biopolitical Love Story” is now available on your YouTube channel.
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Category: UncategorizedOver 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.
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There’s No Such Thing as Waste! Circular Economy in the Early Modern Netherlands
Category: UncategorizedDe 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?
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CFP: ‘Sentimental Extraction’ Virtual Workshop, Friedrich-Alexander-University
Category: UncategorizedTags: addiction, afect, cara daggett, emotions, extraction, extractivism, petrocultures, petromasculinity, petromelancholia, sentimentalityOf 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.
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Sonic Acts: OVEREXPOSED residency
Category: UncategorizedTags: Amsterdam, art, artistic research, environmental humanities, pollution, research, residency, sonic actsSonic 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.
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The Amphibious Culture: A History of Coping with Disastrous Floods
Category: UncategorizedWith 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.
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Cate Sandilands, “Mulberries: A Biopolitical Love Story”
Category: UncategorizedTags: Cate Sandilands, critical plant studies, ecofeminism, environmental humanities, mulberries, multispecies studies, plant intimacies, queer ecologiesApologies 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…
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Call for Rachel Carson – Simone Veil Fellows 2022
Category: UncategorizedThe 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. Project House Europe (PHE) promotes cutting-edge research from around the world on the history of…
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The green side of history: An interview with the EHC’s Petra van Dam
Category: UncategorizedThe 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. Environmental history, she says, demonstrates how important environment and climate are in the…
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Call for Research Interns (MA-level, humanities & social science; 4 months, fall 2021)
Category: UncategorizedAre 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,…