Category: Events
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Video: Erle Ellis on the Anthropocene
Category: NewsOn 2 May, Erle Ellis gave a lecture on the Anthropocene at the Environmental Humanities Center, in cooperation with the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. If you missed the event, you can now listen to the lecture here, thanks to Erle Ellis’ generosity and Tim…
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CLIMATE WEEKS
Category: NewsTags: anthropocene, climate, climate change, erle ellis, everyday life, experience, perception, philosophy, sylvia de bianchi, tom buurman, young adultsIn April and May, the Environmental Humanities Center organizes a series of events about climate change. Do spread the word – we hope to see you at these events! 30 March: Tom Buurman, ‘Climate Change and Everyday Life in Stockholm’ 21 April: Climate Change Event 2 May: Erle Ellis, ‘From…
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EHC Podcast: Waste
Category: NewsTags: Alice Twemlow, architecture, design, Jeroen Dagevos, marine litter, Media, plastic, Tiwanee van der Horst, waste, water qualityThis podcast by student board members Julia Kantelberg and Germaine van der Sanden explores the topic of waste from the perspective of a scientist, a design critic and an architect. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/311185160″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Alice Twemlow: ————————————————————————————————- Alice Twemlow is a design curator, educator, event organiser and…
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The Anthropocene in “Tegenlicht”
Category: NewsThe latest episode of the Dutch TV programme “Tegenlicht” (VPRO) was entirely devoted to the Anthropocene. The documentary (in Dutch/interviews in English) featured contributions by Bruno Latour, Andrea Wulf, Jan Zalasiewicz, and Phil Gibbard. Watch the programme on “Uitzending Gemist”:
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Symposium: Watermanagement before 1800 (in Dutch)
Category: NewsStudiemiddag: veenontginningen en waterbeheer voor 1800 Nederland is ontstaan uit het moeras, althans Laag-Nederland. We zijn begonnen als ontginners van de grote venen in de kustvlakte, en de eeuwen daarna zakten we er langzaam in weg. Daarom moesten we dijken gaan bouwen en polderbesturen oprichten. Deze studiemiddag presenteert nieuwe onderzoeksresultaten over de…
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Environmental Humanities & Waste event + Excursion
Category: NewsTags: consumerism, design, excursion, literature, plastic, re-use, recycling, smart cities, waste, waste managementWith Alice Twemlow, Rachele Dini, and Dave Hakkens Friday 10 February, 2017 At this event, we invite you to confront and ponder an object that we usually wish dispose of quickly. To examine waste in all its materiality, we invite 15 people to join us on a morning excursion to…
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EHC Special Event: Christopher Preston on Climate Engineering
Category: NewsEHC Special Event in cooperation with the Faculty of Theology Friday 13 January, 13.15 – 14.45h Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building, room 10A20 Christopher Preston Climate Engineering: When Humans Enter the Domain of God(s) Proposals to engineer the climate in order to push back against warming global temperatures are gaining…
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Landscape Event: Report by Tim Renders
Category: NewsTags: agriculture, eco-museum, environmental humanities center, heritage, landscape, landscape studies, romanticism, vrije universiteit amsterdamWhat is a landscape? For our second event we chose three guest speakers to deal with this broad topic. But first we acknowledged that the landscape is a natural phenomenon but heavily influenced by culture and thus mankind. So how do we deal with landscapes and how do we make…
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CFP: Agents in the Anthropocene
Category: NewsTags: Alistair Fuad-Luke, anthropocene, art, design, education, environmental humanities, Piet Zwart Institute, symposium, T. J. DemosAgents in the Anthropocene: Trans/disciplinary Practices in Art and Design Education Today symposium—call for presentations Piet Zwart Institute Master Education in ArtJanuary 26–28, 2017 Proposal deadline: December 16, 2016 The Master of Education in Arts, Piet Zwart Institute is pleased to announce an open call for presentations for the two-day…
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Regarding Nature in Huis Marseille
Category: NewsChrystel Lebas, Regarding Nature Huis Marseille, 10 December 2016- 5 March 2017 Chrystel Lebas revisits negatives of the British Landscape from the early twentieth century made by botanist and ecologist Sir Edward James Salisbury (1886-1978). Since Huis Marseille does not allow reproduction of text or images from their site, please…