Category: Events
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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…
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Digital Colloquium – “The Impact of Climate and Weather on the Premodern Provision of Food and Water: New Historical Perspectives on Resilience and Vulnerability”
Category: Uncategorized16 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…
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Entanglements: Dr. Dagomar Degroot, “Finding ET (for the first time): The Nineteenth Century “Discovery” of Life on Mars”
Category: UncategorizedThe 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…
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Externalities of Value: NICA Lecture and masterclass by prof. Amanda Boetzkes
Category: UncategorizedNICA lecture and masterclass by Amanda Boetzkes in the ‘Externalities of Value’ series on 10 December 2021.
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(Post) Anthropocene Museologies Symposium
Category: UncategorizedOn 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…
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Workshop series on Ecocritical methods in Art History
Category: UncategorizedWorkshop 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…
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Ryosuke Ohashi, “The Deep Layers of Responsibility, or Anti-Nature in Nature”(CLUE+)
Category: UncategorizedTags: being-in-the-world, Japanese philosophy, Kyoto school, phenomenology, responsibility, ryosuke ohashiWhat 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.
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Cinema Ecologica at EYE Film museum Amsterdam
Category: EventsOur board member Kristine Steenbergh participates in Cinema Ecologica at EYE Film Museum Amsterdam.