Category: Events
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Board Member Dr. Sjoerd Kluiving is VU’s first Distinguished Fellow of the Anthropocene
Category: UncategorizedDr. Sjoerd Kluiving, EHC founder and board member, is VU’s first Distinguished Fellow of the Anthropocene, which has been set up by the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities. Kluiving is Associate Professor in Geoarchaeology and Anthropocene Studies and works in the Faculties of Humanities and…
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EHC Lecture Series Environmental Justice: Emily Eliza Scott on Tracking Inequity
Category: UncategorizedIn this EHC lecture on 19 September (18.30hrs, VU Amsterdam), Emily Eliza Scott will share from her book-in-progress on art that traces, and thereby actively attempts to resist, various forms of environmental violence as writ into land, air, and water.
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“Who Drinks Which Water” wins Poster Prize at ESEH Conference
Category: UncategorizedAt the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference in Bern, The White Horse Press awarded their Poster Prize to the “Coping With Drought” project.
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CFP The Aesthetics of Geopower – University of Amsterdam
Category: UncategorizedCall for Papers for “The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies” at University of Amsterdam in April 2024. Deadline CFP: 15 October 2023.
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EHC Lecture: Tracking Inequity with Emily Eliza Scott
Category: UncategorizedTags: environmental humanitiesWe hope you can join us for a lecture with Emily Eliza Scott, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. Title: Tracking Inequity: Contemporary Art and Environmental Justice Place: VU Amsterdam Date: September 19 Time: 18:30 More information and registration here.
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Job Posting: Post-doc Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa
Category: UncategorizedWe would like to share the following job opportunity at the University of Groningen. Job description Specialty areas: literary analysis, ethnomusicology, contemporary history, African history, environmental history Applications are invited for a 2.5 years (30 months) postdoctoral research position within the AFREXTRACT project Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction in Africa:…
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International Workshop on Rice Cultivation and Culture
Category: UncategorizedWe would like to share this opportunity. International Workshop Rice: Cultivation and Culture in Europe and the Mediterranean Venice, Italy 30 May 2023 Università Ca’Foscari Venezia More details are available here: https://pric.unive.it/projects/water-cultures/home
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Kathryn Yusoff Lecture: Inhuman Memory
Category: UncategorizedResearch Institute CLUE+, the Environmental Humanities Center and the Graduate School of Humanities, in cooperation with the Research Center for Material Culture present Lecture by Kathryn Yusoff (Professor of Inhuman Geography) Inhuman Memory If the earth remembers more than it forgets—as a billion blackened Anthropocenes of colonial earth suggest—what is…
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Environmental Media Symposium
Category: UncategorizedTags: data, ecological thinking, environmental media, more-than-human infrastructures, perception, sensor, sensor literacy, sensory interactionCLUE+ in collaboration with Waag Futurelab invites you to join an interdisciplinary symposium on sensing practices, environmental media and more-than-human infrastructures on 22 April at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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Hybrid Workshop Learning from Aliens: New Directions in Environmental Humanities Research and Practice
Category: UncategorizedTags: environmental humanitiesThe Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam would like to share this hybrid workshop organized by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS). The world’s flora and fauna are often classified as native and non-native, indigenous and alien. These simple binaries mark biological life and, in doing so, define what…