Category: Events
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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 to this…
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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…
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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 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…