Category: Events
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Newsletter European Society for Environmental History in the Benelux
Category: NewsThe Autumn newsletter of the Benelux section of the European Society for Environmental History
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Plastic Diet – our experiences
Category: NewsTags: containers, experiences, glass, microplastics, plastic, plastic diet, recycling, waste, wrappingOur board members share their experiences with trying to reduce our plastic use during the #PlasticDiet last month.
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Symposium Producers-Parasites-Hosts (VU, 4 October)
Category: NewsAnnabel Howland’s artistic research weaves a speculative web connecting art, science and finance. In her ongoing project P r o d u c e r s -P a r a s i t e s – H o s t s, such themes as cheating and cooperation, transparency and instability,…
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Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation
Category: NewsTags: human-animal-relationsOn April 4th and 5th, 2019, Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) will be hosting a Graduate Conference on “Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation.” This conference aims to rethink the relationships between humans and animals, in order to examine the ways in which these relationships are defined.
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After rain comes beer
Category: NewsContinuing the conversation started during the Water and the City Event, Petra van Dam sees new possibilities for the VU Green Roof.
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Board member Julia Kantelberg at Embassy of the North Sea
Category: UncategorizedTags: anthropocene, diplomacy, Embassy of the North Sea, Julia Kantelberg, listening, parliament of thingsOur board member Julia Kantelberg got involved with the Embassy of the North Sea – a project of The Parliament of Things that started last spring. The Embassy of the North Sea discovers possibilities to start a conversation between all Things, Plants, Animals and Humans. Read Julia’s reports on the…
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We’re on a Plastic Diet
Category: NewsFrom 1 September, the Environmental Humanities Center will participate in the Plastic Diet, an international action to garner attention to the role of single-use plastic in environmental problems.
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EVENT 15 November 2018: Environmental Humanities & Outer Space
Category: NewsTags: biocentricity, biodiversity, interdisciplinarity, Mars, Moon, outer space, South Pole, space colonization, space travelOn 15 November 2018, the Environmental Humanities Center organizes an interdisciplinary event on the role of the humanities and social sciences in space exploration.
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PhD Candidate ‘Imagining the Rural in Contemporary British Culture’
Category: NewsA PhD position in an Environmental Humanities subject is available at the University of Amsterdam in Esther Peeren’s ERC Consolidator project Imagining the Rural in a Globalizing World/RURALIMAGINATIONS.
