Category: Events
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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 The Nuclear Waste Weeks are a four-part series of events, jointly organised by the EHC, VU, Anna Volkmar (PhD candidate at LUCAS, Leiden University) and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (PhD candidate at CRAL, EHESS), taking place during the months of October and November 2017 in Amsterdam. Nuclear waste is one…
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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…
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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…