Tag: environmental humanities
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Registration open: life stream conference ‘Cultural perceptions of Safety’
Category: UncategorizedThis two-day conference will bring together scholars from eight different countries and various humanities disciplines to pursue fluctuations in conceptualizations, expressions and feelings of safety over time as well as in cultures of surveillance and safety practices. Speakers will address a variety of topics, ranging from narratives and visual discourses…
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EHVenice 2020 Virtual Dialogues
Category: UncategorizedTo mark the launch of their Master’s degree in Environmental Humanities, the Ca’Foscari University of Venice has an amazing line-up of online conversations with environmental humanities scholars and authors from all over the world, to be streamed on their website.
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Fractured Ecologies
Category: UncategorizedThe edited book of one of our Dutch Environmental Humanities colleagues Chad Weidner is out now. Fractured Ecologies is a collection of papers, bent essays and poems.
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Bat Subjectivity, Viral Contagions, and Zoonotic Poiesis
Category: UncategorizedTags: bats, coronavirus, covid 19, envhum, environmental humanities, human-animal studies, human-animal-relationsAn essay by guest author Alex Ventimilla (MA student English & Film at the University of Alberta and research assistant at SpokenWeb)
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De natuur: een cultuurwetenschappelijke blik. Symposium Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs
Category: UncategorizedEnvironmental historian Raf de Bont has been rewarded with the Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs 2019. This symposium on the 12th of December will include talks by among others founding EHC board member Kristine Steenbergh!
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ASI Symposium Water in Times of Climate Change
Category: UncategorizedThe Amsterdam Sustainability Institute presents the Water Symposium on 6 and 7 November.
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Workshop Transitions in Water-/Energy-/Food-Infrastructures
Tags: conference, energy, environmental humanities, food, lecture, transitions, transitions workshop, waterEHC and ASI invite you to the Transitions Workshop on November 1st! The keynote lecture will be given by Derk Loorbach, followed by paper presentations by young researchers along the themes of perceptions, policy, and practice of transitions. Registration via the link this post! NOTE changed location: Internationaal Instituut voor…
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Lecture and Masterclass Allan Stoekl – Sustainability: Technocracy and Meditation
Category: UncategorizedTags: Allan Stoekl, Buddhist Economics, environmental humanities, Georges Bataille, sustainability, technocracyPlease note a change of room for the Masterclass: VU Medical Building, room D-565. In his public lecture on 20 September, Allan Stoekl draws on the work of Georges Bataille and E. F. Schumacher’s Buddhist economics to imagine a theory of sustainability that will avoid the pitfalls of the technocratic…
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CfP Aarhus University: Governing Urban Natures: Infrastructure, Citizenship and Municipal Ecologies
Category: UncategorizedTags: aarhus university, call for papers, cfp, denmark, environmental history, environmental humanities, urban natureA call for papers from our colleagues in Denmark! The submission deadline is the 8th of September. The seminar will be held at Aarhus University from 4-5 December 2019 as a cooperative effort among the Ecological Globalizations Research Group, Urban Orders Research Center, and the Center for Environmental Humanities, all…
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Environmental Humanities Reading Group: Let’s Talk Petroculture (with Jeff Diamanti)
Category: UncategorizedJoin us on June 27th for the last session of the environmental humanities reading group before the summer on Petrocultures. In this session we will familiarize ourselves with concepts like ‘petroculture,’ ‘petromelancholia,’ and ‘the energy unconscious.’ Dr Jeff Diamanti (UvA) will lead the session.