Tag: environmental history
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Video Lecture in Entanglements Series by Dr. Dagomar Degroot
Category: UncategorizedDr. Dagomar Degroot’s lecture “Finding ET (for the first time): The Nineteenth-Century “Discovery” of Life on Mars”, which took place in our online Entanglements Series on 1 February 2022, was recorded. The video is now available on the Environmental Humanities Center’s YouTube channel.
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There’s No Such Thing as Waste! Circular Economy in the Early Modern Netherlands
Category: UncategorizedDe Nederlandse en Vlaamse overheden willen naar een circulaire economie in 2050. Dat voornemen vormt een goede aanleiding om te onderzoeken hoe circulair de steden en de landbouw eigenlijk waren vóór de industrialisatie. Hoe was het hergebruik van afval en restproducten geregeld?
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Georg Stöger on Urban Environmental History
Category: UncategorizedTags: Austria, eighteenth century, environmental history, everyday practice, Georg Stöger, Linz, nineteenth century, urban history, urban metabolismGeorg Stöger analyzes change and persistence in the town Linz in a long-term perspective. He is explicitly interested in the collective and individual practices in everyday life that shaped (and were shaped by) the urban environment.
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ENTANGLEMENTS, a new online event series by the Environmental Humanities Center
Category: UncategorizedTags: entanglement, environment and society, environmental history, environmental humanities, environmental humanities center, environmental studies, history, online events, webinar, webinar seriesBeginning in December 2020 and running until summer 2021, the Environmental Humanities Center presents a series of webinars with scholars from environmental humanities and beyond. Click to learn more!
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De natuur: een cultuurwetenschappelijke blik. Symposium Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs
Category: UncategorizedEnvironmental historian Raf de Bont has been rewarded with the Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs 2019. This symposium on the 12th of December will include talks by among others founding EHC board member Kristine Steenbergh!
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CfP Aarhus University: Governing Urban Natures: Infrastructure, Citizenship and Municipal Ecologies
Category: UncategorizedTags: aarhus university, call for papers, cfp, denmark, environmental history, environmental humanities, urban natureA call for papers from our colleagues in Denmark! The submission deadline is the 8th of September. The seminar will be held at Aarhus University from 4-5 December 2019 as a cooperative effort among the Ecological Globalizations Research Group, Urban Orders Research Center, and the Center for Environmental Humanities, all…
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Environmental Humanities Reading Group
Category: NewsTags: ecoambiguity, ecocriticism, environmental art criticism, environmental history, environmental humanities, reading groupOne of the initiatives pitched at our Birthday Event last year is a new Environmental Humanities Reading Group. Their next meeting, focused on ecoambiguity, is on 21 February on the VU Campus.
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Newsletter European Society for Environmental History in the Benelux
Category: NewsThe Autumn newsletter of the Benelux section of the European Society for Environmental History
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Presidential Academic Fellowship in Environmental History (Manchester)
Category: NewsThe History department of the University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Presidential Fellow specialising in environmental history. Environmental history is a growing area of research that seeks to understand how people have understood, shaped and been shaped by their world. Applications are welcome from researchers working on any historical…
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AUP launches new series on environmental humanities
Category: NewsTags: amsterdam university press, animal studies, blue humanities, ecofeminism, environmental history, environmental humanities, landscape studies, pre-modern culture, queer ecologiesAmsterdam University Press is launching a new book series on environmental humanities and pre-modern cultures. This series in environmental humanities offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global pre-industrial cultures from interdisciplinary environmental perspectives. They invite submissions (both monographs and edited collections) in the fields of ecocriticism, specifically ecofeminism and…