Category: Events
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Theory and Practice in the Lukemeerpolder: reflecting on participatory research
Author: Lucía Gennari This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. In one of our class sessions, we had a thought-provoking discussion with an expert on transdisciplinary and participatory research.…
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Discovering the Lutkemeerpolder Area: A Journey Through Multispecies Relationships
Category: EventsAuthor: Lucia Gennari In April, our group decided to take a more comprehensive tour around the surroundings of Lutkemeer, visiting nearby parks, gardens, and cycling paths. This exploration allowed us to immerse ourselves in the natural beauty of the polder and meet both human and nonhuman beings that inhabit or…
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The Lutkemeerpolder as a place of slow growth in ever-accelerating temporalities
This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. Author: Hannah Heath My first impression of the Lutkemeerpolder is that of a place of slow growth, manifested in its eco-farming and…
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Learning to See Differently and Opening up to Deep Time
Note: This post is part of our series of blog entries based on our RMA students’ engagements with the Lutkemeerpolder. For a more general introduction to the series, click here. Author: Emrys Karlas Since I grew up near the city’s western border, my familiarity with the Lutkemeerpolder began long before…
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Symposium “Multatuli and the Animal Kingdom” at VU Amsterdam on June 13
Category: EventsImage: Raden Saleh, Boschbrand. 1849, National Gallery Singapore. On 13 June, prof. dr. Jacqueline Bel (VU) organizes a symposium on the Dutch author Multatuli and the animal kingdom. EHC board member Kristine Steenbergh will present on “the worms in the sago palm.” The symposium is in Dutch. Please sign up…
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Student Assistant Vacancy at EHC
Category: UncategorizedPlease send your application (CV and motivation letter) to k.steenbergh@vu.nl before June 15 The Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam is looking for a student assistant (0,1fte, that is 4 hours per week) from 1 September 2024 to 30 June 2025. The candidate needs to be enrolled at VU Amsterdam during that entire period. Payment…
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EHC Lunch Lecture on May 28
Our next lunch lecture event will feature two PhD researchers. Lisa Ausic, Phd Candidate in anthropology, VU Amsterdam: Vegetalizing the body, vegetalizing the self: Shipibo-Konibo herbalism, “people-making” and interspecies sameness in the Peruvian Amazon Luca Filaci, PhD Candidate in philosophy, University of Cagliari: Intrinsic animality and relational immanence: Possible paths…
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CLUE+ Workshop on Storytelling: From Socio-Ecological Peril to Safeguarding Futures
Category: UncategorizedCLUE+, VU’s Interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage, is hosting its annual meeting on May 23. In the morning there will be a workshop on storytelling at 3D. Your participation is welcome! Description: Stories are leverage points for change. The stories we currently live by are proving…
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RMA transdisciplinary course to focus on Lutkemeerpolder in Amsterdam-West
Lutkemeer Reflections With the students of our ‘Environmental Humanities’ Master’s Program, the Environmental Humanities Center is engaging with the pressing case of the Amsterdam Lutkemeerpolder. Situated at the western border of Amsterdam, the polder holds the last agricultural ground of the city. However, the municipality has decided to transform it…
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Environmental Humanities Job Opportunity: Two postdoctoral positions at KNAW
Category: UncategorizedWe would like to share the following vacancies for postdoctoral positions a KNAW. See the links below for more information. Postdoctoral Researcher Political Ecology at KITLV – KNAW – Leiden: https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Leiden-Postdoctoral-Researcher-Political-Ecology-at-KITLV-KNAW-Leiden/975132355/ Postdoctoral Researcher Ecological History at KITLV-KNAW – Leiden: https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Leiden-Postdoctoral-Researcher-Ecological-History-at-KITLV-KNAW-Leiden/975132655/