Category: Events
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More than the Human Past. Historians, Eco-history and Environmental Humanities
Category: UncategorizedThis is an evaluation of the EHC-KNHG congres on November 19th, including the YouTube links to the lectures and an environmental humanities reading list.
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Rosemary Joyce on Nuclear Landscapes
Category: UncategorizedTags: environmental art, landscape archaeology, nuclear aesthetics, nuclear storage, nuclear waste, Rosemary JoyceThe global nuclear industry has for decades used sites like Stonehenge to justify designs for long-term markers to be placed over nuclear waste repositories to ensure they are not violated in distant, imagined futures. Alternative proposals propose a variety of aesthetic installations as alternative ways of marking the contaminated landscapes…
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Cara Daggett on Petro-masculinity
Category: UncategorizedFar-right movements are on the rise worldwide, and many have embraced both misogynistic and anti-climate action positions. While these resentments are often treated separately, in this webinar, Cara Daggett will discuss their interconnections through the concept of petro-masculinity.
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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.