Category: Events
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EHC Environmental Justice Series: Ola Hassanain on Waters. Watching Temporalities
Category: UncategorizedPerformance and Panel Discussion (co-sponsored by Greenhouse Stavanger) Monday 11 December, 18.00hrs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, Church Hall (HG-16A00) Ola Hassanain’s “Tell The Water What The Clay Kept Secret” is ongoing visual research that grapples extensively with the ‘spatial’ implications of catastrophe. The work, conceptualized from an ongoing poetics…
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Info session on Environmental Humanities Research Master track
Category: UncategorizedOn Tuesday 14 November, join the online VU Master’s Event to find out more about the track Environmental Humanities in our Research Master programme. Lecturer Kristine Steenbergh and student Sarah Foster will tell you more about the track and answer all your questions in a live Zoom session at 17.30-18.15hrs…
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EHC Environmental Justice Series: Samia Henni on Colonial Toxicity
Category: UncategorizedTags: Algeria, colonialism, environmental humanities, environmental justice, nuclear colonialism, Samia Henni, toxicityIn the context of her exhibition Performing Colonial Toxicity, which sheds light on the redacted history of French nuclear colonialism in the Algerian Sahara, Samia Henni discusses colonial toxicity and its on-going forms of publicness.
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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: EventsIn 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: 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