Category: Events
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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“.
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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.