Tag: environmental humanities
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EHC Welcomes Three New PhD Candidates
Category: NewsThe Environmental Humanities Center welcomes three new PhDs who have started as of this September. Aldo Esparza Ramos and Leon Lapa Pereira in the project JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research, and Karmen Samson in the project Synthetic Adventures: (un)sustainability and (dis)comfort in the design,…
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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: Too Close! The Pleasures and Perils of an Entangled Existence
Category: EventsTags: aesthetics, contemporary art, entanglement, environmental humanities, human-non-human interrelationsWhat does it mean to say that everything is relational and everything is connected? What possibilities and perils emerge when we understand entanglement to be a fundamental condition of life? These are some of the questions guiding the symposium ‘Too Close! The Pleasures and Perils of an Engtangled Existence’, happening…
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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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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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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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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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Workshop: ‘Weathering Together’ – Astrida Neimanis (2 July 2026)
Category: EventsWhat does it mean to weather, together? Climate change bears down on us not only as an atmospheric event but as a political, social, and embodied reality, one that is felt unevenly across different bodies, communities, and landscapes. In this workshop, feminist environmental scholar Astrida Neimanis guides participants through the concept…
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Introducing Plato’s Garden: an educators’ movement for nature-based learning
Category: NewsPlato’s Garden is a bottom-up, cross-faculty educators’ movement aimed at promoting nature-based pedagogy (NBP). It unites academics interested in learning with nature, instead of only learning about it. Interested in learning more or collaborating? Read the full article on our website.
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Call for Papers: Supply Chain Criticism symposium (closes 3 August 2026)
Category: NewsIn the rush to fulfil the twinned promises of green and digital transition, state actors across the globe are rapidly mobilising and expanding extractive infrastructures to procure and secure the flow of rare earth elements and critical minerals. The Supply Chain Criticism symposium invites contributions from researchers and practitioners interested…