Category: Events
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TAKING CARE: Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum
Category: UncategorizedAs part of the international collaborative research project TAKING CARE – Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care, the Research Center for Material Culture is hosting a conference titled “TAKING CARE: Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum in Europe.” The project involves a set of speculative inquiries into the ways in…
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Sonic Acts Biennale
Category: UncategorizedThe biennial international festival celebrating electronic and digital art forms returns to Amsterdam this October, bringing together the environmental humanities and contemporary art to ask how we can care for what we cannot see or understand.
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Masterclass eco-literature
Category: UncategorizedOne of our board members, Kristine Steenbergh, will be teaching a masterclass on the role of literature in reshaping human-nature relations. The masterclass is in De Nieuwe Liefde on Sunday 30 October, and is in Dutch.
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Fashion and the Anthropocene: towards a sustainable fashion future
Category: UncategorizedThursday 27th October 2022 14.00-17.00 incl. reception NU Building, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Today the fashion industry forcefully promotes its sustainability credentials. From branding and promotion strategies to recycling, resale, rental and reuse, fashion companies are keen to demonstrate awareness of the climate crisis. But are these responses adequate? As the…
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Water Heritage for Sustainable Cities Course
Category: UncategorizedTags: course, education, environmental humanities, graduate students, Netherlands, sustainability, sustainable cities, Turkey, water, water heritageIn the autumn of 2022, The Netherlands Institute in Turkey offers a course that addresses past experiences and current and future challenges of urban water supply.
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Excursion: guided tour exhibition Still Waters Run Deep
Category: UncategorizedExcursion opportunity prior to the symposium ‘Sink or Swim. Searching for a sustainable relationship with water’.
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EHC Entanglements Lecture Report: Dr Kristian Mennen – “How to oppose the reclamation of ‘waste land’? Political strategies of the Dutch nature conservation movement in the 1930s”
Category: UncategorizedOn the 19th of May, Dr Kristian Mennen delivered a lecture on the political strategies of the Dutch conservation movement in the 1930s, as a part of the EHC Entanglements Lecture Series. Dr Mennen addressed an online audience. The political historian with an interest in environmental history discussed aspects of…
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Video Entanglements Lecture Dr Kristian Mennen
Category: UncategorizedTags: Conservation, Conservation Movement, environmental history, environmental humanities, environmental policy, MediaThe recording of Dr Mennen’s lecture “How to oppose the reclamation of waste land’? Political strategies of the Dutch nature conservation movement in the 1930s” is now available on our YouTube channel.
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Art Science dialogues: Natural Technologies
Category: UncategorizedEHC and VU art science gallery present: Art Science dialogues: Natural Technologies exhibition.
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Symposium: Sink or Swim. Searching for a sustainable relationship with water.
Category: Uncategorized‘Sink or Swim’ is an interdisciplinary symposium establishing an encounter between visual art, history, philosophy, ecology and governance, seeking to provide current insights and creative inspiration for building a sustainable relationship with water. Still Waters Run Deep is an interdisciplinary programme curated by Marlies Augustijn, taking place from 26 June…