Category: Events
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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/
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Petra van Dam featured on episode of water podcast “De Toekomst van ons Water”
Category: UncategorizedEHC Board Member Petra van Dam has cooperated in making a podcast for the journal H2O, journal for professional water specialists in a series of podcasts on water made by journalist Wim Eikelboom. In this edition she sketches the main preliminary conclusions of the group research project Coping with drought…
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EHC Lunch Lecture Series: Next Event April 9
Join us for our series of Lunch Lectures hosted by the Environmental Humanities Center. In this session on April 9, Dr. Madhura Rao from the Athena Institute will be discussing her research on food systems with the lecture “Eating in an Era of Radical Food Innovation: Reflections on the Changing Meanings of…
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The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies
Category: UncategorizedWe would like to share information about an upcoming conference: The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies 4 & 5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam & livestreamed on Zoom | Conference organized by Simon Ferdinand, Katarina Nesic, and Colin Sterling In this two-day conference, scholars will take up…
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ART SCIENCE dialogue: Technology and Plants
Category: UncategorizedWe envision a world where both natural and artificial environments, not only coexist but thrive in harmony. Can this be a possible reality or will it remain just a vision? EHC board member Petra van Dam will moderate the final ART SCIENCE dialogue related to Life of Plants: Špela Petrič…
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Archives of Space, Sound & Material: A Roundtable on Pioneering Directions in Humanities Research
Category: UncategorizedWe would like to invite you to a roundtable discussion featuring three Environmental Humanities Center board members. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Marek Jancovic, and Iris Burgers, alongside UvA’s Emily Clark will mark the launch of their pioneering research projects at an upcoming event. Where: Perdu Bookstore, Kloveniersburgwal 86, Amsterdam When: 16 April…
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ART SCIENCE dialogue Plant effect on Humans
Category: UncategorizedIn collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, the VU ART SCIENCE gallery has invited scientists to take part in a moderated dialogue with the artists exhibited in Life of Plants. The ART SCIENCE dialogues explore the multifaceted relationship between humans and plants. In the third ART SCIENCE dialogue…
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ART SCIENCE Dialogue: Life of Plants with Oscar Santillán
Category: UncategorizedYou are invited to join the upcoming ART SCIENCE dialogue, moderated by EHC board member Katja Kwastek. The dispossession of land and botanical practices are part of the colonial legacy, but how are they connected? In this ART SCIENCE dialogue Oscar Santillán, Lisa Ausic and Pepijn Brandon will examine the…