Tag: environmental humanities
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EHC Environmental Justice Series: Samia Henni on Colonial Toxicity
Category: UncategorizedTags: Algeria, colonialism, environmental humanities, environmental justice, nuclear colonialism, Samia Henni, toxicityIn the context of her exhibition Performing Colonial Toxicity, which sheds light on the redacted history of French nuclear colonialism in the Algerian Sahara, Samia Henni discusses colonial toxicity and its on-going forms of publicness.
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Board Member Dr. Sjoerd Kluiving is VU’s first Distinguished Fellow of the Anthropocene
Category: UncategorizedDr. Sjoerd Kluiving, EHC founder and board member, is VU’s first Distinguished Fellow of the Anthropocene, which has been set up by the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities. Kluiving is Associate Professor in Geoarchaeology and Anthropocene Studies and works in the Faculties of Humanities and…
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EHC Lecture Series Environmental Justice: Emily Eliza Scott on Tracking Inequity
Category: EventsIn this EHC lecture on 19 September (18.30hrs, VU Amsterdam), Emily Eliza Scott will share from her book-in-progress on art that traces, and thereby actively attempts to resist, various forms of environmental violence as writ into land, air, and water.
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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…