Category: Events
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Workshop: Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature
Category: NewsIn honour of World Water Day 2019, the Society for Water History and the Environmental Humanities Center organize a workshop on the theme of Water Safety and Unsafety and concepts of nature, on Thursday March 21 at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam.
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EHC Special Event: Kenny Cupers, The Earth that Modernism Built
Category: NewsProfessor Cuper’s lecture at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (15 april) explores the roots of the modernist project – both heroic and tragic – to design the human by reshaping the environment, from the domestic sphere to the earth at large.
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Environmental Humanities Reading Group
Category: NewsTags: ecoambiguity, ecocriticism, environmental art criticism, environmental history, environmental humanities, reading groupOne of the initiatives pitched at our Birthday Event last year is a new Environmental Humanities Reading Group. Their next meeting, focused on ecoambiguity, is on 21 February on the VU Campus.
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Board member Sjoerd Kluiving at Dutch Design Week
Category: NewsOur board member Sjoerd Kluiving took part in a panel on design in the Anthropocene during Dutch Design Week. A video of the discussion is now available.
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Pitch, Team Up, and Make It Happen!
Category: UncategorizedThis month, the Environmental Humanities Center is turning two years old (already…). Next to celebrating with drinks and snacks, a brief review and outlook, and chance for conversation, we invite our members to propose activities, research, events, reading groups, interventions (from tiny to large), which you could imagine to organize…
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Interview with T. J. Demos
Category: UncategorizedTags: Center for Creative Ecologies, contemporary art, ecology, environmental humanities, interview, T. J. Demos, visual cultureArt historian T.J. Demos was at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam to present his most recent book publication Against the Anthropocene (2017) on December 12th 2017. We had the opportunity to interview him on behalf of the Environmental Humanities Center. Just before he started his book presentation we met and…
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A Lake’s Life: Lecture by Eva Jakobsson (EHC Special Event)
Category: UncategorizedIn honour of Dr. Eva Jakobsson’s Research Fellowship with CLUE+, the Environmental Humanities Center organizes a Special Event on the biographies of lakes.
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Earthbound: Restorying Ecology at Perdu
Category: UncategorizedOn 30 November, Perdu organizes an evening address the relations between social and climate justice through the lens of storytelling and imaginative practices.
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Excursion – EuroMoonMars: Science, Space and Humanities
Category: UncategorizedFor those attending the Outer Space Event on 15 November or the VU Space Day on 14 November, we offer the opportunity to visit the European Space Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk the next day. Please register before 13 November.