Category: Events
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New book: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
Category: NewsAmsterdam University Press has started a book series devoted to Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures. The first book in the series is just out: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination by Heide Estes. “Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of…
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Thin Ice: opening of academic year
Category: NewsThe opening of the academic year at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam focused on the question ‘Thin ice! What can science do to help?’, and explored what the arts can teach the sciences in the case of climate change – a topic we also explored last year at the Environmental Humanities Center.…
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On the Roof Film Festival – Sustainable edition
Category: NewsThe annual On the Roof Film Festival, held on the roof of the main building of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam this week, is devoted to the theme of Sustainability. Together with the Green Office, the organizers put together a programme of four films, talks, food, and drinks. For four evenings the…
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New publication: Environmental History and Water Management
Category: NewsDrought, flooding. Water is the main environmental problem of the near future, already the cause of wars. How did we deal with water in the past? This summer, the results of a large research project into the history of water were published in a special issue of the journal Environment…
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New issue Metropolis M: Degrowth
Category: NewsThe latest issue of the Dutch Journal Metropolis M focuses on the notion of degrowth in the art world (in Dutch). Degrowth is een begrip afkomstig uit de late jaren zestig, toen door een forum van economen, wetenschappers en politici een wereld werd bepleit die niet in het teken van…
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Pinar Yoldas // Carboniferous
Category: NewsStill on view until coming Sunday at the Glazen Huis in Amsterdam’s Amstelpark: Turkish artist Pinar Yoldas presents two new works based on Speculative Biology, in which she imagines new life forms which might develop on our man made planet. Part of it are imagined animals who have managed to…
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Nuclear Waste Weeks
Category: NewsOctober/November 2017 Nuclear Waste Event, 6 October – report by Ankie Petersen Film Screening, Trace Evidence, 20 October Nuclear Waste Excursion Hades (Mol) and exhibition Perpetual Uncertainty (Hasselt), 27 October – report by Anna Volkmar Film screening and first meeting Deep Time and Nuclear Waste study group, 3 November The…
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Holland Festival: Democracy in the Anthropocene
Category: NewsThe arts festival Holland Festival in Amsterdam has installed a Parliament of Things (after Bruno Latour) to explore questions of democracy in the Anthropocene. One of the speakers at the Parliament is Eva Meijer, who will also speak at our non-human animals event on 23 June. The events (this month)…
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CFP: Science for Sustainability Journal
Category: NewsAttention all students interested in the environmental humanities: our Green Office has launched a peer-reviewed student journal on sustainability. The journal’s editors are looking for contributions from the Humanities. Please take a look at their call for papers and consider this opportunity to publish your research paper. Submit your papers…
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Non-human Animal Event – 23 June
Category: NewsTags: animal language, animal studies, animal subjectivity, environmental humanities, heron, human-animal-relations, photographyFriday 23 June 15.30-17.00hrs – drinks after (please register below) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building Room 15A-33 Our final event of this academic year focuses on non-human animals. Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that explores relations between humans and other animals now and in the past. Our…