Tag: climate change
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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.…
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Video: Erle Ellis on the Anthropocene
Category: NewsOn 2 May, Erle Ellis gave a lecture on the Anthropocene at the Environmental Humanities Center, in cooperation with the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. If you missed the event, you can now listen to the lecture here, thanks to Erle Ellis’ generosity and Tim…
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CLIMATE WEEKS
Category: NewsTags: anthropocene, climate, climate change, erle ellis, everyday life, experience, perception, philosophy, sylvia de bianchi, tom buurman, young adultsIn April and May, the Environmental Humanities Center organizes a series of events about climate change. Do spread the word – we hope to see you at these events! 30 March: Tom Buurman, ‘Climate Change and Everyday Life in Stockholm’ 21 April: Climate Change Event 2 May: Erle Ellis, ‘From…
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EHC Special Event: Christopher Preston on Climate Engineering
Category: NewsEHC Special Event in cooperation with the Faculty of Theology Friday 13 January, 13.15 – 14.45h Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building, room 10A20 Christopher Preston Climate Engineering: When Humans Enter the Domain of God(s) Proposals to engineer the climate in order to push back against warming global temperatures are gaining…
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Lecture on the law and climate activism
Category: NewsJaap Spier will be interviewed in Spui25 (in Dutch) on his work in legal climate activism. Spier is one of the authors of the Oslo Principles, a set of Principles that comprise the essential obligations States and enterprises have to avert the critical level of global warming. Jaap Thielbeeke interviews…