Tag: climate change
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Symposium report: Urban Past, Urban Future? Sustainable Drinking Water in Dutch Cities, 1500-1900
Category: UncategorizedOn Thursday the 17th of March 2022, the project team Omgaan met droogte or Coping with Drought which includes EHC Board members Petra van Dam and Dániel Moerman, hosted their first Symposium as an EHC special event. In a hybrid format, with more than 30 attendants combined in person and on…
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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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EHC event: Andreas Malm at Spui25
Category: Uncategorized**This event has been cancelled ** Skin and Fuel: Two episodes in the history of fossilized whiteness What links between whiteness and fossil fuels does history display? Renowned environmental scholar Andreas Malm suggests that the ongoing surge of an anti-climate, pro-fossil-fuel far right is bringing deep historical forces to the…
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Call for papers: International Conference Cultural perceptions of safety
Category: UncategorizedOn Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January 2021 the Humanities Department of the Open University of the Netherlands organizes the international conference ‘Cultural perceptions of safety’. This is their call for papers
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Lecture Heritage and Climate Change Relations: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity
Category: UncategorizedThe Faculty of Humanities and CLUE+ cordially invite you to this Art and Culture Trending Topics lecture by David C. Harvey Date: 30 January 2020 Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, KC-07 Time: 18:30-20:30hrs
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We were at the #ClimateStrike in The Hague
Category: UncategorizedTags: climate change, climate justice, climate protests, climate strike, den haag, klimaatstaking, the hagueOn Friday the 27th of September, an estimated 30,000 people marched the streets of our political capital The Hague to demand climate justice. We were there to join the protest and share a feeling of community and collective action with green-minded people of all ages.
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Climate Duties, Freedom and Well-being: Lecture by Ingrid Robeyns
Category: Uncategorized“We all have individual climate duties, that is, duties not to emit more than our fair share of net emissions, and then analyses the question what the implications are for our freedoms and quality of life.” CLUE+ invites you to Prof. Ingrid Robeyns’ lecture on September 18th!
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Lecture: Climate Phantasms and the Image of Ice
Category: NewsThis lecture by Dr. Amanda Boetzkes at ASCA will consider how images of ice are activated by the phantasms of climate change. It will address aesthetic renderings of ice in the blind spot between scientific and Inuit knowledge of climate change.
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Lecture: Na het neoliberalisme – Klimaatverandering, sociale bewegingen en politiek
Category: NewsOn Thursday 31 May, Hein-Anton van der Heijden will visit the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) to present his most recently written book: Na het neoliberalisme – Klimaatverandering, sociale bewegingen en politiek (2017).
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Thin Ice: opening of academic year
Category: NewsThe opening of the academic year at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam focused on the question ‘Thin ice! What can science do to help?’, and explored what the arts can teach the sciences in the case of climate change – a topic we also explored last year at the Environmental Humanities Center.…