Category: Events

  • Archives of Space, Sound & Material: A Roundtable on Pioneering Directions in Humanities Research

    Archives of Space, Sound & Material: A Roundtable on Pioneering Directions in Humanities Research
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    We 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

    ART SCIENCE dialogue Plant effect on Humans
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    In 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

    ART SCIENCE Dialogue: Life of Plants with Oscar Santillán
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    You 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…

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  • Online Event: Book Presentation with Elena Kochetkova

    Online Event: Book Presentation with Elena Kochetkova
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    We would like to share this event from ESEH Environmental History Today.  Date: 29 February, 3 – 5pm Book presentation: The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press 2024)Presenter: Elena Kochetkova, University of Bergen, NorwayDiscussant: Laurent Coumel, Europes-Eurasia Research Center (CREE), INALCO, Paris, FranceChair: Anastasia…

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  • Sustainability of Dutch Drinking Water: Lecture by Petra van Dam

    Sustainability of Dutch Drinking Water: Lecture by Petra van Dam
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    EHC board member Petra van Dam will give a lecture about sustainability in the history of the Dutch water supply. Where: Zuiderzeemuseum (Binnenmuseum), Enkhuizen When: Saturday, February 17, 2024     14:00 – 16:30 For more information (in Dutch), click here: https://www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl/nl/page/6123/lezing-duurzaam-stadswater-in-de-republiek To register, click here: https://zuiderzeemuseum.smarteventmanager.nl/online-reservation/ZZM#/ Image credit: Petra van…

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  • Call for Abstracts Open for EASST-4S Conference: Making and Doing Transformations

    Call for Abstracts Open for EASST-4S Conference: Making and Doing Transformations
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    The 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) invites panels, presentations, making & doing contributions, and other events that explore the role of STS in making and doing contributions to transformations in…

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  • Online Environmental Humanities Reading Group: un-earthed

    Online Environmental Humanities Reading Group: un-earthed
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    When: Friday 23 February 11:00-12:00 CET Where: Zoom https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82389432678 // Meeting ID: 823 8943 2678 The un-earthed reading group is teaming up with the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network to discuss selections from Melody Jue’s Wild Blue Media alongside textile artist Otobong Nkanga’s work “ Tied to the Other Side.“ For more information…

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  • Life of Plants: Dialogue Sessions at VU ART SCIENCE Gallery

    Life of Plants: Dialogue Sessions at VU ART SCIENCE Gallery
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    Please join us for a series of dialogue sessions at the VU ART SCIENCE gallery on the exhibition Life of Plants. These sessions will be moderated by our EHC board members. In collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and Environmental Humanities Center, the VU ART SCIENCE gallery has invited scientists…

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  • Opportunity for VU Community: CLUE+ meets the eScience Center

    Opportunity for VU Community: CLUE+ meets the eScience Center
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    Match with your digital research expert: CLUE+ meets the eScience Center Are you working with digital methodologies or would you like to apply digital solutions in your research? Find out what’s possible with experts from the eScience Center! The eScience Center’s Research Software Engineers are specialised in developing high quality…

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  • VU Community Members Participate in COP Storytelling Initiative

    VU Community Members Participate in COP Storytelling Initiative
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    EHC board Member Sjoerd Kluiving organised climate storytelling workshops with members of the VU community, and now the results are out! Leaders know that our planet is heating up dangerously. They also know how to cool it down. But they do not do it. So we need a better way…

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