Tag: environmental humanities center
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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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Landscape Event: Report by Tim Renders
Category: NewsTags: agriculture, eco-museum, environmental humanities center, heritage, landscape, landscape studies, romanticism, vrije universiteit amsterdamWhat is a landscape? For our second event we chose three guest speakers to deal with this broad topic. But first we acknowledged that the landscape is a natural phenomenon but heavily influenced by culture and thus mankind. So how do we deal with landscapes and how do we make…
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Follow us on Facebook!
Category: NewsThe Environmental Humanities Center now also has a Facebook page. All events that the EHC organizes will be announced on our Facebook page, on a newsfeed, as well as here on our website. A place where everyone is welcome to share their ideas, our Facebook…
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The Center in the Press
Category: NewsThis weekend, an article on our Center appeared on a two-page spread in Elsevier. Science journalist Theo Toebosch interviewed Sjoerd Kluiving and Kristine Steenbergh about the center and its aims. We’re pleasantly surprised with our first appearance in the national press, since we hope to make connections with as many…
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Launch Environmental Humanities Center
Category: NewsTags: CLUE+, environmental humanities center, Libby Robin, museum, Oostvaardersplassen, rewilding, vrije universiteit amsterdamOn Friday 4 November, the Environmental Humanities Center was officially launched at a festive opening event. Gert-Jan Burgers, director of the interdisciplinary research institute CLUE+, opened the Center by tying a ceremonious knot. The act of tying together rather than cutting through a ribbon symbolizes the Environmental Humanities Centers’ commitment…