Category: Events
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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.
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Lecture: Climate Phantasms and the Image of Ice
Category: NewsThis lecture by Dr. Amanda Boetzkes at ASCA will consider how images of ice are activated by the phantasms of climate change. It will address aesthetic renderings of ice in the blind spot between scientific and Inuit knowledge of climate change.
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Report: Water and the City Event 2018
Category: UncategorizedRead up on the Water and the City event organized by the Environmental Humanities Center in spring 2018.
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Microplastics Event: Invisible Invaders, 14 June
Category: NewsMicroplastics are everywhere. Particles of plastic less than five millimeters in length (about the size of a sesame seed) find their way into the environment from many sources. These plastics are essentially indestructible; they do not biodegrade but break down into ever smaller pieces. At this interdisciplinary event, we explore…
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ARIAS: Arts & Ecology
Category: NewsHow do the arts and artistic research contribute to planetary-scale questions of ecological transformation and disaster? This evening will feature three examples of special ways in which the arts trace the cultural, political and social implications of local and global moving resources, showing the shifting contexts and social ecologies of…
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Lecture: The Life of Plants by Emanuele Coccia
Category: NewsThis Stevin Seminar (CLUE+) addresses the life of plants from philosophical, biological and artistic perspectives.
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Lecture: Na het neoliberalisme – Klimaatverandering, sociale bewegingen en politiek
Category: NewsOn Thursday 31 May, Hein-Anton van der Heijden will visit the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) to present his most recently written book: Na het neoliberalisme – Klimaatverandering, sociale bewegingen en politiek (2017).
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Media: Petra van Dam on the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum
Category: NewsThe publication of our board member Petra van Dam’s new book on the 200-year history of the the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum Van Amsterdams peil naar Europees Referentievlak: De Geschiedenis van het NAP tot 2018 drew a lot of attention from newspapers and radio.