Category: Events
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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: EventsWe 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…
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Save the date: 24 May Kathryn Yusoff at Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam
Category: UncategorizedOn Wednesday 24 May 2023, 17:30hrs, Kathryn Yusoff, the author of A Billion Black Anthropocenes will give a public lecture at the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam. Yusoff’s current work focuses on Inhuman Memory. She will be joined by members of Planetary Portals, a creative research group that uses imperial archives to create critical cartographies…
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Symposium on the history of water landscapes (in Dutch)
Category: UncategorizedDutch symposium on the history of water landscapes at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on 30 March: “Grenzen en grienden. Sociaal-ecologische en andere aspecten van de geschiedenis van rivieren- en kanalenlandschappen.”
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Crawly Creatures at Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, with former student-board member Julia Kantelberg
Category: UncategorizedTags: animal studies, environmental humanities, Jan de Hond, Julia Kantelberg, museum, Rijksmuseum, spidersThis week, the board members of the Environmental Humanities Center got a special guided tour through the exhibition on ‘crawly creatures’, co-curated by our former student board member Julia Kantelberg, who is now junior curator at the history department of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum (congratulations, Julia!).