Category: Events
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Water & the City Symposium, 23 March
Category: NewsTags: Amsterdam Rainproof, Amsterdam Water Science, city, cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage Agency, Daniël Goedbloed, Ellen Vreenegoor, hydrocitizenship, NAP, Petra van Dam, Polderdak, Resilient cities, rising sea levels, water, water managementEnvironmental Humanities Center Symposium Friday 23 March 2018, 14.00 – 17.00u Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building, room 12A-00 For catering reasons, please register using the form below. Climate change, increasing rainfall, sea level rise, and flood risk pose significant challenges for low-lying countries such as The Netherlands. Historically, Amsterdam has…
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Presidential Academic Fellowship in Environmental History (Manchester)
Category: NewsThe History department of the University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Presidential Fellow specialising in environmental history. Environmental history is a growing area of research that seeks to understand how people have understood, shaped and been shaped by their world. Applications are welcome from researchers working on any historical…
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Lecture René ten Bos: Leven in het Antropoceen
Category: News16 February 2018, 15.30hrs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building Room 10A-00 Please register below. The Dutch ‘Thinker Laureate’ (Denker des Vaderlands) René ten Bos will visit the Environmental Humanities Center to talk about his new book Dwalen in het Antropoceen. Please note that this lecture will be in Dutch. Leven…
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Missed our Nuclear Waste Events?
Category: NewsIn October and November 2017, the Environmental Humanities Center organised the Nuclear Waste Weeks in cooperation with Anna Volkmar (Leiden University) and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (CRAL, EHESS). Nuclear waste is one of the major unsolved challenges of our time, raising an array of questions, from the possibilities and politics of storage…
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Lecture T.J. Demos: Against the Anthropocene
Category: NewsTags: anthropocene, eco-sexual economies, mutispecies ontologies, pedagogies, T. J. Demos, visual cultureTuesday December 12 17.30-19.00 uur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Lecture Hall 0B-60 Initium Building, ground floor De Boelelaan 1077 Behind Main Building, across from stop De Boelelaan/VU (tram 5/metro 51) Admission free; please register below. NB: Because of overwhelming interest, we are moving to a bigger lecture hall: 0B-60 in the…
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On Demons, Clay and Greek Mythology: A Visit to Nuclear Belgium
Category: NewsThis blog post shares some impressions from an excursion with the Environmental Humanities Center to an underground research laboratory for the storage of nuclear waste and an art exhibition on nuclear culture. By Anna Volkmar (Leiden University) On October 27, I went underground. Together with thirteen volunteers I descended into…
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Nuclear Waste Event: report
Category: NewsTags: Jantine Schröder, nuclear art, nuclear culture, nuclear storage, nuclear waste, Sven Lütticken, underground storageOur Nuclear Waste Weeks have come to a close. Student board member Ankie Petersen reports on the Nuclear Waste Event: Nuclear Waste Event During our Nuclear Waste Weeks, local and global news outlets talked about the extent of the pollution of sea water after the Fukushima disaster of 2011, an…
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Nuclear Waste Weeks: film screening this Friday
Category: UncategorizedIn the context of our Nuclear Waste Weeks, Anna Volkmar and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou invite you to a film screening this Friday 15-16hrs. They will show two recent short films that focus on the issue of nuclear waste: Julian Charrière’s Somewhere (2014) and Myroslav Slaboshpitskyy’s Nuclear Waste (2012). Everyone is welcome…
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Workshop: Earth Matters in the Museum
Category: NewsTags: anthropocene, ethnographic collections, Katja Kwastek, material culture, museum, planetary entanglement, sense of planet, Wayne ModestOn Thursday 28 September, 14-17hrs, the Research Center for Material Culture organises the workshop Earth Matters in the Museum: Planetary Entanglements and Precarities. The workshop is organised by Wayne Modest, professor (by special appointment) of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies in the faculty of humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.…
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Call for Papers
Category: NewsTags: call for papers, de-sensing, isa conference, senses, senses and society, sensory interaction, urban sensescapesPlease find below the call for abstracts for the International Sociological Association World Congress, July 2018 in Toronto, where our thematic group TG07 Senses & Society is organizing 9 panels and a business meeting. The deadline for abstract submission is 30th September 2017. Abstract submission – https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium436.html Panels organized by…