Category: Events
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Wybren Verstegen on Cultured Natures – podcast
Category: NewsOne of the early attempts to create protected conservation areas came in 1928 with the Natuurschoonwet, freely translated as Nature Scenery Act. This Act was mostly about protecting country houses set in park like settings. Wybren Verstegen, Senior Lecturer in economic, social and environmental history at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam…
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Launch
Category: NewsFriday 4 November 2016, 15.30-17hrs Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam At the launch of the Environmental Humanities Center at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, you are very welcome to attend Libby Robin’s lecture on Environmental Humanities in Practice. The Environmental Humanities (EH) is a focus for collaborative projects between the humanities…
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Course guide 2017-2018
Category: UncategorizedTags: course guide, dystopian fiction, early modern literature, ecocriticism, environmental history, landscape, natural disasters, speculative fiction, vrije universiteit amsterdam, waterIn this course guide, we aim to provide an overview of courses that focus on topics related to the environmental humanities. The guide is a work in progress: would you like to include your course here, please contact k.steenbergh@vu.nl. We also warmly welcome course descriptions from other Dutch universities. Courses…