Tag: environmental humanities
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“Who Drinks Which Water” wins Poster Prize at ESEH Conference
Category: UncategorizedAt the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference in Bern, The White Horse Press awarded their Poster Prize to the “Coping With Drought” project.
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Hybrid Workshop Learning from Aliens: New Directions in Environmental Humanities Research and Practice
Category: UncategorizedTags: environmental humanitiesThe Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam would like to share this hybrid workshop organized by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS). The world’s flora and fauna are often classified as native and non-native, indigenous and alien. These simple binaries mark biological life and, in doing so, define what…
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Crawly Creatures at Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, with former student-board member Julia Kantelberg
Category: UncategorizedTags: animal studies, environmental humanities, Jan de Hond, Julia Kantelberg, museum, Rijksmuseum, spidersThis week, the board members of the Environmental Humanities Center got a special guided tour through the exhibition on ‘crawly creatures’, co-curated by our former student board member Julia Kantelberg, who is now junior curator at the history department of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum (congratulations, Julia!).
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Two PhD vacancies at Radboud University Nijmegen (closes 9 January 2023)
Category: UncategorizedTags: affect studies, critical plant studies, decoloniality, environmental humanities, phd position, posthumanismThe NWO VIDI project Poison, Medicine, or Magic Potion: Shifting Perspectives on Drugs in Latin America (1820-2020) has two vacancies for PhD students.
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Summer Course: Icelandic Field Stations 2023
Category: UncategorizedThe Svartárkot Culture-Nature Project in collaboration with The Wright Ingraham Institute offer an interdisciplinary, immersive, place-based course intended for scholars, emerging professionals, researchers, post-graduates, master’s and doctoral students.
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Vacancy Doctoral Candidate Environmental Humanities
Category: UncategorizedThe Rachel Carson Center invites applications for a doctoral candidate who will explore and critically analyze visual representations of planetary health within and across the domains of art, science, popular culture, and activism.
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Artistic performance about basking shark hunting
Category: UncategorizedTags: animal studies, archive, art, baking shark, endangered species, environmental humanities, sadie haleThis Saturday, 29 October, former EHC board member Sadie Hale and former UvA student and artist Miriam Sentler will collaborate in a performance at Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam. The performance takes as its subject the elusive basking shark, a large shark that migrates to the waters around the Hebrides in Scotland…
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Vacancies | SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene
Category: UncategorizedTags: Athena Institute, critical plant studies, environmental humanities, food, soy, sustainability, transdisciplinaryThe Athena Institute (VU Amsterdam) has announced two PhD and one postdoc position on a new project SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene.
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Talkshow Wild at Heart | Tolhuistuin
Category: UncategorizedOn Thursday 27 October, one of our board members, Kristine Steenbergh, will participate in the Talkshow Wild at Heart at Tolhuistuin. The fourth and last edition in the series focuses on “Eco Love”.
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Sonic Acts Biennale
Category: UncategorizedThe biennial international festival celebrating electronic and digital art forms returns to Amsterdam this October, bringing together the environmental humanities and contemporary art to ask how we can care for what we cannot see or understand.