Category: Events
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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/
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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…