Tag: anthropocene
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Student Blogs VI: Human-Nature Relationships
Category: UncategorizedTags: anthropocene, coronavirus, covid 19, human-nature relationships, student blogs, the new normalThis contribution belongs to a series of student blogs written as part of a seminar offered by EHC staff as part of our Research Master’s Environmental Humanities specialization. This year, this seminar was devoted to the Corona pandemic.
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CANCELLED Anthropocene Book Club – ABC@ABC: Weather by Jenny Offill
Category: Uncategorized*This event has been cancelled*
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Swimming in the Anthropocene: Embassy of the North Sea at Het HEM
Category: UncategorizedOn the 16th of November, The Embassy of the North Sea presents ‘Swimming in the Anthropocene’ in het HEM, Zaandam.
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BURN-OUT: Call for Fellows Het Nieuwe Instituut
Category: NewsThrough its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Department acknowledges and gives visibility to research projects offering departures from established modes of thinking and practice. For this iteration of the Call for Fellows, the Research Department has selected the theme of BURN-OUT. Exhaustion on a Planetary Scale.
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Board member Sjoerd Kluiving at Dutch Design Week
Category: NewsOur board member Sjoerd Kluiving took part in a panel on design in the Anthropocene during Dutch Design Week. A video of the discussion is now available.
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Board member Julia Kantelberg at Embassy of the North Sea
Category: UncategorizedTags: anthropocene, diplomacy, Embassy of the North Sea, Julia Kantelberg, listening, parliament of thingsOur board member Julia Kantelberg got involved with the Embassy of the North Sea – a project of The Parliament of Things that started last spring. The Embassy of the North Sea discovers possibilities to start a conversation between all Things, Plants, Animals and Humans. Read Julia’s reports on the…
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ARIAS: Arts & Ecology
Category: NewsHow do the arts and artistic research contribute to planetary-scale questions of ecological transformation and disaster? This evening will feature three examples of special ways in which the arts trace the cultural, political and social implications of local and global moving resources, showing the shifting contexts and social ecologies of…
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Interview with René ten Bos: Life in the Anthropocene
Category: NewsOn Friday, 16th February a group of students, academics and other inquisitive attendants came together to listen to a lecture by ‘Thinker Laureate’ René ten Bos, Professor of Philosophy at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. He was granted the title of ‘Thinker Laureate’ in the Spring of 2017, and will…
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Lecture René ten Bos: Leven in het Antropoceen
Category: News16 February 2018, 15.30hrs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building Room 10A-00 Please register below. The Dutch ‘Thinker Laureate’ (Denker des Vaderlands) René ten Bos will visit the Environmental Humanities Center to talk about his new book Dwalen in het Antropoceen. Please note that this lecture will be in Dutch. Leven…
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Lecture T.J. Demos: Against the Anthropocene
Category: NewsTags: anthropocene, eco-sexual economies, mutispecies ontologies, pedagogies, T. J. Demos, visual cultureTuesday December 12 17.30-19.00 uur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Lecture Hall 0B-60 Initium Building, ground floor De Boelelaan 1077 Behind Main Building, across from stop De Boelelaan/VU (tram 5/metro 51) Admission free; please register below. NB: Because of overwhelming interest, we are moving to a bigger lecture hall: 0B-60 in the…