Tag: environmental humanities center
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Film Night at Cinema De Vlugt: Soil, Water and Climate Justice
Category: EventsVoedselpark Amsterdam, a partner in our JUST ART project, invites you to a film night exploring soil, water and climate justice. Aldo Ramos, PhD candidate at VU, will be part of the concluding panel. Join artists, researchers and activists for a conversation, followed by drinks and snacks from the Lutkemeerpolder.…
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Lunch Lecture: ‘More Than Material: Living Plants as Artistic Collaborators’ – Dr. Minna Valjakka (27 October 2026)
On Tuesday, 27 October 2026, Dr. Minna Valjakka will deliver a lunch lecture at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, discussing the increasing attention to working with living plants among East and Southeast Asian artists. Building on her ongoing study Plants, Knowledge, and Contemporary Arts in East and Southeast Asia, she will discuss…
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Film screening: “Singing’ in the Rain” with introduction by Judith Keilbach
Category: EventsOn the 14th of October, Rialto VU Griffioen will host a special screening of Singin’ in the Rain as part of the Fiction & Science series. EHC board member Dr. Judith Keilbach will provide an introduction to offer an eco-materialist reading of this classic musical film. See our website for…
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JUST ART Roundtable: What Can Art Do For Climate Justice?
Category: EventsOur JUST ART consortium is organizing an evening roundtable discussion on “What can art do for climate justice?” on Thursday 17 September at 19.00 – 20.30 CEST. You are very welcome to join the event in Groningen or follow the discussion online! See our website for more details.
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Symposium: Living Heritage in and beyond Amstelpark
Category: EventsTags: environmental humanities, environmental humanities center, human-animal-relations, symposium, vrije universiteit amsterdamOn the 1st of October 2026, Zone2Source, the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam and UvA Critical Heritage Ecologies invite various speakers to mark the occasion of 1 year Zoöp Amstelpark, which was launched on 4th of October 2025. Together, we will explore if the Amstelpark heritage as a site of a…
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VENI grant for EHC board member Marilena Mela
Category: NewsTags: energy transitions, environmental humanities, environmental humanities center, heritage, landscape, researchStudying how people relate to their environments through history, culture, and place can provide essential knowledge amidst the climate crisis. Unearth, Re-earth researches how heritage is mobilised to resist environmental damage and imagine more sustainable futures. It examines three landscapes shaped by mining and energy extraction in the Netherlands, Greece,…
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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…