Category: Events
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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!
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Invitation: mid-winter reception of the EHC on December 4th
Category: UncategorizedAfter the Nuclear Heritage Event on December 4th, we are happy to invite you for a mid-winter borrel, to chat, exchange ideas, and celebrate the Environmental Humanities.
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How To Care For Our Nuclear Heritage?
Category: UncategorizedArtists Grit Ruhland and Agnès Villette will present their versions of nuclear waste markers, provoking us to think about how we want to relate to our nuclear heritage both in the present and in the future.
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Are We Plastic? Art and Thinking After Plastic – Lecture by Ingrid Halland
Category: UncategorizedSave the date! On the 18th of November, Ingrid Halland (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology) will give a lecture on art and thinking after plastic.
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Tapestries and Radiation: the EHC visits COVRA
Category: UncategorizedTags: blog post, covra, excursion, nuclear aesthetics, nuclear art, nuclear storage, nuclear waste, radioactivityOn the 9th of October, the Environmental Humanities Center visited COVRA, a nuclear waste management facility. Ruby de Vos, PhD Candidate at the University of Groningen tells us all about her experience of this unique excursion.
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Swimming in the Anthropocene: Embassy of the North Sea at Het HEM
Category: UncategorizedOn the 16th of November, The Embassy of the North Sea presents ‘Swimming in the Anthropocene’ in het HEM, Zaandam.
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Crossing Border X Border Sessions: Nature
Category: UncategorizedA recommendation from EHC: On the 31st of October, Crossing Border and Border Sessions present an evening programme about nature writing.
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ASI Symposium Water in Times of Climate Change
Category: UncategorizedThe Amsterdam Sustainability Institute presents the Water Symposium on 6 and 7 November.