Category: Events
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the Workshop Transitions in Water-/Energy-/Food-Infrastructures
Category: UncategorizedTags: amsterdam sustainability institute, call for abstracts, call for papers, conference, conference calls, energy, food, transitions workshop, water, water food energyThe Environmental Humanities Center and Amsterdam Sustainability Institute are organising a graduate conference on the 1st of November. This is a call for presentation abstracts on the topic of transitions. Submission deadline: 1st of July.
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EVENT 17 May: Technology in Human-Animal Relations
Category: UncategorizedTags: animals, birdhouses, design, environmental humanities, event, human-animal-relations, lecture, non-human animals, stavanger, technologyFinn Arne and Dolly Jørgensen from the University of Stavanger will visit the VU on the 17th of May. The theme of their lectures is technology in human-animal relations, specifically concerning bird houses and dogs with antennas. Save the date!
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Environmental Humanities Reading Group: Nature Poetry Revisited
Category: UncategorizedOn the 28th of April, The Environmental Humanities Reading Group will be reading sections from Alice Oswald’s book-length poem Dart, which maps the flow of the river Dart in Devon and the lives it touches.
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Review: Drawdown – The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
Category: UncategorizedPaul Hawken’s book Drawdown is a revelation for anyone who cares about our environment and wants to feel responsible about the fate and future of ‘our’ planet earth. Curious? Read Sjoerd Kluiving’s review here.
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Postdoctoral Position “Moving Animals” at Maastricht University
Category: UncategorizedMaastricht University invites applicants for a 5 year postdoctoral position in the project “Moving Animals: A History of Science, Media and Policy in the Twentieth Century”
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Report: Workshop Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature
Category: UncategorizedOn the 21st of March, the workshop: Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature was held at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. This report reflects on this day as an opportunity for scholars of many different experience levels to exchange their knowledge about the (un)safety of water.
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BURN-OUT: Call for Fellows Het Nieuwe Instituut
Category: NewsThrough its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Department acknowledges and gives visibility to research projects offering departures from established modes of thinking and practice. For this iteration of the Call for Fellows, the Research Department has selected the theme of BURN-OUT. Exhaustion on a Planetary Scale.
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LUCAS 2019 Graduate Conference – Animals: Theory, Practice, Representation
Category: NewsOn April 4th and 5th, 2019, Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) will be hosting a conference called, Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation. This graduate conference is an international and interdisciplinary platform where PhD and master students can present, exchange, and discuss research results and innovative theoretical insights…
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TERRANOVA call for PhDS
Category: News15 PhD vacancies within the TERRANOVA International Training Network
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Launch Kunstlicht journal on Nuclear Aesthetics
Category: NewsOn April 16th, at FramerFramed (Amsterdam) the Environmental Humanities Center will join forces with the Kunstlicht journal to launch the journal issue on „Nuclear Aesthetics“.