Tag: anthropocene
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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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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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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…
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Entanglements: Dr. Kristian Mennen, “How to oppose the reclamation of ‘waste land’? Political strategies of the Dutch nature conservation movement in the 1930s”
Category: UncategorizedDr Mennen will be addressing the politics of the early Dutch conservation movement. Date: 19 May 2022, 15:00hrs CEST Time: To be announced Please register to receive a zoom link.
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Entanglements: Dr Bram Büscher, “The Conservation Revolution – moving beyond foundational contradictions in biodiversity protection”
Category: UncategorizedTags: anthropocene, biodiversity, climate change, environmental history, environmental humanities, Radical HumanitiesIn his lecture he will focus on his recent co-authored book with Robert Fletcher: The Conservation Revolution. Radical ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene (Verso, 2020). Büscher and Fletcher argue that the Anthropocene challenges contemporary conservation models and exposes their deep contradictions.
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Earth Beings at the Commodity Frontier: Federico Luisetti at University of Amsterdam
Category: UncategorizedIn this lecture at the University of Amsterdam on 25 February, the Italian philosopher Federico Luisetti focuses on the concept of ‘earth beings’. For Quechua speakers, these are other-than-human subjects that frighten and preannounce, protect and punish, deceive and heal, sharing emotions, feelings and expressions with the people (runakuna).
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The World as We Don’t Know It – @Droog
Category: UncategorizedTags: anthropocene, art, climate crisis, human-non-human interrelations, interrelating in the anthropocene, nonhuman rights, posthumanismVU professor by special appointment Maarten Doorman made three short films with the title “Omdenken” for this exhibition at Droog. The programme includes an exhibition, films and talks.
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Invitation to join Sound Ecologies Lab
Category: UncategorizedFiber is looking for researchers who are interested in joining their Lab and Field Trip to Borssele between 25 and 30 October.
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Iva Peša, “Understanding Environmentalism in Africa”
Category: UncategorizedThe Anthropocene presents itself as a turning point in human history: if current fossil fuel dependency is not reversed and if economic thought is not reconceptualised to question the logic of growth models, the earth’s future will be imperiled. Viewing the Anthropocene from the perspective of sub-Saharan Africa shows the…
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How the poor treatment of factory-farmed chickens makes pandemics more likely
Category: UncategorizedTags: agriculture, anthropocene, coronavirus, covid19, entanglement, factory farming, farming, pandemicsIn a blog post for the Rachel Carson Center, student board member Sadie E. Hale asks us to consider what the miserable lives of intensively-reared broiler chickens can add to our understanding of global entanglements and pandemics like COVID-19.