Category: Events
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EHC event: Andreas Malm at Spui25
Category: Uncategorized**This event has been cancelled ** Skin and Fuel: Two episodes in the history of fossilized whiteness What links between whiteness and fossil fuels does history display? Renowned environmental scholar Andreas Malm suggests that the ongoing surge of an anti-climate, pro-fossil-fuel far right is bringing deep historical forces to the…
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Call for papers: International Conference Cultural perceptions of safety
Category: UncategorizedOn Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January 2021 the Humanities Department of the Open University of the Netherlands organizes the international conference ‘Cultural perceptions of safety’. This is their call for papers
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Other Futures: Open Call
Category: UncategorizedWhat is it like to be a plant, and to communicate through your roots? Join Other Futures Lab to share and to explore collectively new ways of imagining alternative futures that affect the present positively.
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Help the Green Office make our campus greener
Category: UncategorizedThe Green Office invites you to help make our campus greener.
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Help identify historical fish in paintings
Category: UncategorizedWhich fish can you recognize in paintings? The project “Fishing in the Past” aims to collect as much data as possible about fish in the period from 1500 to 1850.
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Call for symposium on the Anthropocene
Category: UncategorizedThe British Academy and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW) are inviting applications for early career researchers (max. 7 yrs post PhD) in the humanities and social sciences to attend a research collaboration symposium on the broad theme of the Anthropocene.
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Lecture Heritage and Climate Change Relations: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity
Category: UncategorizedThe Faculty of Humanities and CLUE+ cordially invite you to this Art and Culture Trending Topics lecture by David C. Harvey Date: 30 January 2020 Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, KC-07 Time: 18:30-20:30hrs
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Book Symposium: Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature
Category: UncategorizedCLUE+ invites you to a symposium celebrating the publication of Angela Roothaan’s book Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature (Routledge, 2019). Date: 22 January 2020 Time: 15:00-17:00 Location: HG-11A33
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A Blue-Green Roof for Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Category: UncategorizedThis Friday, 6 December, a team of the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute will present their closing colloquium about the blue-green roof of the Aula of the VU. A water carrying roof like this is meant as a measure for climate adaptation and the improvement of the biodiversity.
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De natuur: een cultuurwetenschappelijke blik. Symposium Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs
Category: UncategorizedEnvironmental historian Raf de Bont has been rewarded with the Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs 2019. This symposium on the 12th of December will include talks by among others founding EHC board member Kristine Steenbergh!