Category: Events
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Lecture and Masterclass Allan Stoekl – Sustainability: Technocracy and Meditation
Category: UncategorizedTags: Allan Stoekl, Buddhist Economics, environmental humanities, Georges Bataille, sustainability, technocracyPlease note a change of room for the Masterclass: VU Medical Building, room D-565. In his public lecture on 20 September, Allan Stoekl draws on the work of Georges Bataille and E. F. Schumacher’s Buddhist economics to imagine a theory of sustainability that will avoid the pitfalls of the technocratic…
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CfP Aarhus University: Governing Urban Natures: Infrastructure, Citizenship and Municipal Ecologies
Category: UncategorizedTags: aarhus university, call for papers, cfp, denmark, environmental history, environmental humanities, urban natureA call for papers from our colleagues in Denmark! The submission deadline is the 8th of September. The seminar will be held at Aarhus University from 4-5 December 2019 as a cooperative effort among the Ecological Globalizations Research Group, Urban Orders Research Center, and the Center for Environmental Humanities, all…
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After Hiroshima: Cultural Responses to the Atomic Bomb
Category: UncategorizedHow did artists, writers, film makers, and activists respond to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their aftermath, and how do they relate to nuclear issues today? After Hiroshima highlights some of the different responses to these questions by bringing together film screenings, performances, lectures, visual art, and even…
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Should we follow the Wizard or the Prophet? – Discussing diverging paths for sustainable food system transformation
Category: UncategorizedTags: event, food, food system, sustainability, sustainable food, transitions, vrije universiteit amsterdam, vuThis food system symposium will include keynote talks by international food system experts from within and outside academia. It is held at Vrije Universiteit on Friday, September 13, 9:00-13:00.
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ASI Call for Integrative Project Proposals
Category: UncategorizedAmsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI) now calls for integrative project proposals. ASI aims to invite you to submit proposals that would encourage and strengthen ‘Science for Sustainability’ at Vrije Universiteit
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Environmental Humanities Reading Group: Let’s Talk Petroculture (with Jeff Diamanti)
Category: UncategorizedJoin us on June 27th for the last session of the environmental humanities reading group before the summer on Petrocultures. In this session we will familiarize ourselves with concepts like ‘petroculture,’ ‘petromelancholia,’ and ‘the energy unconscious.’ Dr Jeff Diamanti (UvA) will lead the session.
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Izzy f.d. Block: Organic Couture Fashion Show
Category: UncategorizedOn the 1st of June, the Hybrid Forms artscience Lab at Vrije Universiteit invites you to an upcoming fashion show in the Hortus of the VU, straight out of the lab, based on artscience research from master chemistry student Iza Awad.
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Symposium: Climate Realism – Aesthetics and Politics of Climate
Category: UncategorizedThe Goethe-Institut Amsterdam is organizing a symposium on Friday the 10th of May. Climate Realism is an occasion to rethink the aesthetics and politics of climate in its myriad forms; to capture climates capacity to express embedded histories; to map the formal strategies of representation that have turned climate into…
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Nuclear Waste and Future Heritage: Excursion to COVRA
Category: UncategorizedOn 9 October 2019, the Environmental Humanities Centre will pay a visit to COVRA, the only nuclear waste facility in the Netherlands. In addition to learning more about the complex practices of safe storage, we also want to explore the relations between nuclear waste and art on site. Sign up…
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CLUE+ event: The Imagination of Animals
Category: UncategorizedDr. Annabelle Dufourcq (Radboud University) will give a lecture on animal imagination at the Vrije Universiteit on June 12.