Category: Events
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Special event, 17 June: Jeff Diamanti on his new book Climate and Capital
Category: UncategorizedWe are looking forward to a special online book launch event with our dear colleague in Amsterdam, Dr Jeff Diamanti. In Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum, Jeff Diamanti describes the destructive relationship between climate and capital through the exponential growth of the petroleum industry over the last 40 years.
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Iva Peša, “Understanding Environmentalism in Africa”
Category: UncategorizedThe Anthropocene presents itself as a turning point in human history: if current fossil fuel dependency is not reversed and if economic thought is not reconceptualised to question the logic of growth models, the earth’s future will be imperiled. Viewing the Anthropocene from the perspective of sub-Saharan Africa shows the…
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Online book launch: “Environmental Humanities: a Rethinking of Landscape Archaeology?”
Category: UncategorizedThe “environment” cannot be regarded as a blank space that landscape meaning is projected onto. Humans reinforce the environmental challenges in the past, today and in the future. What cultural factors drive human action, what role is played by ethics and how is landscape experienced emotionally? This new book asks:…
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Elmas Deniz on investigating human-nature relations in art
Category: UncategorizedTags: art, capitalism, economics, elmas deniz, entanglement, human-nature relationships, landscape, visual artWe are excited to welcome Turkish visual artist Elmas Deniz to our Entanglements Series on 20 May. Deniz’ concept-driven works investigate the points of entanglement between economics and nature, focusing on the human-nature relationship, the idea of nature throughout history, and ecological concerns.
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Art in the age of pollution: Sonic Acts announces new event, magazine, installation
Category: UncategorizedSonic Acts has announced an exciting new upcoming event and magazine. For those in Amsterdam, the installation the Plastic Hypersea soundwalk can be visited on the NDSM site from April 23.
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Travelling concepts: the long life of the Anthropocene
Category: UncategorizedWe briefly explore the term ‘Anthropocene’, in honour of the late Paul Crutzen, who sadly passed away in January this year.
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Nuclear landscapes: your reading recommendations
Category: UncategorizedIn our meeting with Rosemary Joyce, we asked participants for their reading tips connected to the lecture on nuclear landscapes, sourcing the wisdom of our community via the Zoom chat function. In addition to Rosemary’s book, The Future of Nuclear Waste (2020), we’ve gathered your recommendations below. If you would like…
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Vacancy: Assistant Professor in History of Art, Architecture, and Landscape at University of Groningen
Category: UncategorizedCandidates with expertise in art and ecology / art and environmental humanities are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline: 29 April
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Environmental History Today! New online seminar series from European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)
Category: UncategorizedNew online seminar series from ESEH. Register now!
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This Friday: The Promise of Future Foods
Category: UncategorizedTags: aesthetics, agriculture, fermentation, food production, human-nonhuman relations, narrative, technologyIn his public lecture “Unsoiled: The Promise of Future Foods” organized by the Political Ecologies Seminar (UvA), Rhys Williams explores the narratives and aesthetics mobilised by radical developments in food production technologies, and asks what new formal relations between human and non-human nature they might bring into being. The accompanying Graduate…