Tag: climate change
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RMeS Masterclass: “Mediating Water and Memory: Towards Hydro-citizenship” with Jo Garde-Hansen – Dr. Linda Kopitz & Dr. Carolyn Birdsall (10 September 2026)
Category: EventsTags: climate change, drought, environmental humanities, flooding, vrije universiteit amsterdam, waterLiving with or without water depends on what we choose to remember or forget, and how we use archival knowledge and living memories to adapt. On Thursday, 10 September 2026, Jo Garde-Hansen (University of Leeds) will join us for an RMeS Masterclass on “Mediating Water and Memory”. See our website…
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Last call: media/environment – Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis (26+27 August 2026)
Category: EventsTags: aesthetics, artificial intelligence, climate change, colonialism, conference, digital culture, film, film screening, sustainability, symposiumThe symposium “media/environment: Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis” at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam explores media’s entanglements with the environment through talks and discussions with global experts. Topics include the ecological impact of AI, colonial materialities of film, and many others. Read more on our website.
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Lecture: ‘On How Emotions Matter in Climate Transitions’ – Anne Jesuina Tobias de Andrade (26 June 2026)
Category: EventsTags: climate change, climate justice, colonialism, emotions, environmental humanities, lecture, natureIn the lecture ‘On How Emotions Matter in Climate Transitions: Emotional Dynamics and Decision-Making in Zoöps Through an Embodied and Politicized Lens’, Anne Jesuina will explore how the systemic denial of the embodied dimension hinders moving into constructive and meaningful climate transitions and how challenging emotions often end up reinforcing…
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Full programme announced: media/environment – Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis (26+27 August 2026)
Category: EventsTags: aesthetics, artificial intelligence, climate change, colonialism, conference, digital culture, film, film screening, sustainability, symposiumThe symposium “media/environment: Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis” at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam explores media’s entanglements with the environment through talks and discussions with global experts. Topics include the ecological impact of AI, colonial materialities of film, and many others. Read more on our website.
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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.