Category: Events
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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…
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Jane Bennett, “Out for a Walk in the Middle Voice”
Category: UncategorizedTags: agency, entanglement, grammar, henry thoreau, jane bennett, nonhuman, syntax, vegetal, walt whitmanWe are thrilled to welcome professor Jane Bennett into our Entanglements lecture series! In her lecture, she will explore the radical entanglement of human and nonhuman activities, and ask what lexicon is able to acknowledge a trans-specied kind of agency.
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Online lecture series
Category: UncategorizedAn overview of upcoming lectures in our online “Entanglements” series, with an archive of past lectures.
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PhD Workshop and Keynote: Austrian Environmental History
Category: UncategorizedThe American Society for Environmental History invites you to join the “environmental” part of its annual PhD workshop on economic, social and environmental history on 20 April. Sign up now!
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New book on Fukushima disaster published, with contribution from VU’s Sven Lütticken
Category: UncategorizedOn the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Sternberg Press has published a volume on Don’t Follow the Wind (eds. Nikolaus Hirsch and Jason Waite), the acclaimed collaborative project situated in Fukushima’s radioactive exclusion zone. The book explores the long-term environmental crisis in the coastal Japanese region through this ongoing, inaccessible…
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Vacancy: Tutor in MA Ecology Futures
Category: UncategorizedAvans Hogeschool (Den Bosch) is looking for a Theory Tutor in their MA Ecology Futures (0,2 fte; starting 1 May 2021).
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ENTANGLEMENTS Book Club
Category: UncategorizedThe third edition of our online book club accompanying our Entanglements lecture series is on 8 April. All welcome!