Category: Events
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We were at the #ClimateStrike in The Hague
Category: UncategorizedTags: climate change, climate justice, climate protests, climate strike, den haag, klimaatstaking, the hagueOn Friday the 27th of September, an estimated 30,000 people marched the streets of our political capital The Hague to demand climate justice. We were there to join the protest and share a feeling of community and collective action with green-minded people of all ages.
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Workshop Transitions in Water-/Energy-/Food-Infrastructures
Tags: conference, energy, environmental humanities, food, lecture, transitions, transitions workshop, waterEHC and ASI invite you to the Transitions Workshop on November 1st! The keynote lecture will be given by Derk Loorbach, followed by paper presentations by young researchers along the themes of perceptions, policy, and practice of transitions. Registration via the link this post! NOTE changed location: Internationaal Instituut voor…
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Climate Duties, Freedom and Well-being: Lecture by Ingrid Robeyns
Category: Uncategorized“We all have individual climate duties, that is, duties not to emit more than our fair share of net emissions, and then analyses the question what the implications are for our freedoms and quality of life.” CLUE+ invites you to Prof. Ingrid Robeyns’ lecture on September 18th!
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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.