Category: Events
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EHC Lecture “Seeing Soil Live” by Dr. Vasilis Kokkoris and Annabel Howland – Thursday November 13 2025
Category: EventsImage: Annabel Howland, Arbuscule-No14, pen-and-ink drawing, 2023. Soil, and the fungi that inhabit it, have become key topics in Environmental Humanities’ engagements with concepts like symbiosis or multispecies entanglements. Why is that so? The Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam is looking forward to welcoming artist Annabel Howland and systems ecologist Vasilis…
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“De stroom van verandering: waterkwaliteit als maatschappelijke uitdaging” – Anniversary Symposium Schilthuisfonds & Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis
Category: EventsWe would like to point your attention to the Schilthuisfonds and Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis’ upcoming anniversary symposium, titled “De stroom van verandering: waterkwaliteit als maatschappelijke uitdaging.” Among the speakers is EHC Board Member prof. dr. Petra van Dam, who will talk about her research into the environmental history of drinking…
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Theme Table: “Energy, Environment & Progress”
Category: EventsWe are excited to announce that you can now visit the first Environmental Humanities theme table, centered around the topic of Energy, Environment & Progress. This theme table was created alongside a new reading group for master’s students in the Environmental Humanities program. The first session focused on energy and…
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Hydropoetics: Surfacing with Haunted Waters – Guest Lecture by Joanne Peers
Category: EventsDr. Joanne Peers inviting students to a water ritual, picture by Kristine Steenbergh Last week, we had the honor of welcoming Dr. Joanne Peers (Researcher at the Origins Centre at The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) for a lecture to our Research Master Students and colleagues. She was in Amsterdam…
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Public Symposium “Protestantse milieugeschiedenis” – Wednesday 8 October 2025 at VU Amsterdam
Category: EventsWe would like to point your attention to the HDC Center for Religious History’s forthcoming event “Protestantse Milieugeschiedenis”, held in conjunction with the 2025 Month of History and its central theme “Natuurlijk” (“Natural”). During the event, prof. dr. Peter van Dam (University of Amsterdam) and prof. dr. David Onnekink (Utrecht…
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Lunch Lecture on “Reforming the Herd” by Dr. Wesley Mwatwara – Thursday June 26 2025
Image: Mahsona cattle in Zimbabwe. Photograph by Dr. Wesley Mwatwara We would like to hereby extend the invitation to the final lunch lecture in this year’s Environmental Humanities Center lunch lecture series!In this lecture socio-environmental historian Dr. Wesley Mwatwara will explore how colonial authorities attempted to reshape African livestock regimes by…
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Symposium “Water Pasts & Futures: (In)securing water in times of drought” September 30th 2025 at VU Amsterdam
Category: EventsWe would like to hereby point your attention to the conference on the histories and futures of water and drought, organised by the VU projects Dealing with Drought and PerfectSTORM, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI) and the Drought in the Anthropocene network (DitA) set to take place at VU…
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Lunch Lecture on “Heritage in Environmental Activism and Landscape Stewardship” by Dr. Marilena Mela – Thursday 22 May 2025
We want to hereby warmly welcome you to the fourth lunch lecture in the Environmental Humanities Center’s lunch lecture series! In this lecture Dr. Marilena Mela will discuss the roles heritage can play in the environmental humanities through case-studies pertaining to environmental activism and landscape stewardship in which heritage is…
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Hybrid Symposium “More-than-Human Worlds in Artistic Research” with the universities of Bristol and Stavanger – Wednesday 14 May 2025
Category: EventsThis hybrid, synchronous symposium focuses on the place of the arts within the environmental humanities, and how creative work helps us become attuned to more-than-human forms of intelligence, agency and sentience, and is held on May 14th, 2025. It brings together three artistic research practitioners based in Norway, the Netherlands, and the…
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Events Spring 2025
Category: EventsLunch lectures in the VU Library LoungeApril 10th 12:00-13:00 Dr. Maria-Kyveli: Crafting with Radiotoxicity – Feminist Approaches to Nuclear Materials in Art during the Cold War May 22nd 12:00-13:00 Dr. Marilena Mela: Heritage in Environmental Activism and Landscape StewardshipJune – To be announced Reading group sessions in the Environmental Humanities…