Category: Events
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Leonie Cornips on Dairy Cow Relations
Category: UncategorizedLeonie Cornips will present her research on how the dairy cow makes social meaning in her barn within the power dynamics of industrial farming.
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ENTANGLEMENTS, a new online event series by the Environmental Humanities Center
Category: UncategorizedTags: entanglement, environment and society, environmental history, environmental humanities, environmental humanities center, environmental studies, history, online events, webinar, webinar seriesBeginning in December 2020 and running until summer 2021, the Environmental Humanities Center presents a series of webinars with scholars from environmental humanities and beyond. Click to learn more!
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Registration open: life stream conference ‘Cultural perceptions of Safety’
Category: UncategorizedThis two-day conference will bring together scholars from eight different countries and various humanities disciplines to pursue fluctuations in conceptualizations, expressions and feelings of safety over time as well as in cultures of surveillance and safety practices. Speakers will address a variety of topics, ranging from narratives and visual discourses…
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CfP: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency – International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability (online)
Category: UncategorizedThe 17th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability invites submissions. It will will take place on 24-26 February 2021. This year’s special focus will be on Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency. Plenary speakers: Diederik Samsom, Marjan Minnesma, Christian Felber and Ilona Otto. …
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Climate fiction: online event
Category: UncategorizedEHC Board member Kristine Steenbergh will take part in an online event on climate fiction at SPUI25, organized with de Nederlandse Boekengids and Armada on 5 November (20-21.30hrs). The event is in Dutch.
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How the poor treatment of factory-farmed chickens makes pandemics more likely
Category: UncategorizedTags: agriculture, anthropocene, coronavirus, covid19, entanglement, factory farming, farming, pandemicsIn a blog post for the Rachel Carson Center, student board member Sadie E. Hale asks us to consider what the miserable lives of intensively-reared broiler chickens can add to our understanding of global entanglements and pandemics like COVID-19.
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Digitaal Jaarcongres 2020 ‘Meer dan Menselijk Verleden: Historici, Eco-geschiedenis en Environmental Humanities’
Category: UncategorizedOn the 19th of november, the KNHG and EHC will host a digital congres on eco-history and the environmental humanities. This event – and this post – will be in Dutch.
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Call for applications: PhD position at the University of Twente (deadline 18 September)
Category: UncategorizedTags: Dutch PhD, environmental studies, phd, phd positions, researcher, science technology, twente universityAs part of its Synergia project, the Science, Technology and Policy Studies department at the University of Twente is seeking a (4 year) PhD candidate to study expectations and imaginaries and explore possible transition pathways related to the new concept of ‘Technology-4-Ecology-based farming’ (T4E).
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Online Symposium: Investigating and Rethinking Single Use Plastics
Category: UncategorizedFor those interested: there is a Vrije Universiteit (online) event about single use plastics taking place on the 18th of September.
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Join the EHC Student Initiative
Category: UncategorizedAre you interested in the Environmental Humanities? Do you have great ideas for a (series of) events to do with sustainability, art, literature, history, or more? Would you like some board experience next to your studies? Consider joining the EHC Student Initiative!