Tag: environmental humanities
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Microplastics Event: Invisible Invaders, 14 June
Category: NewsMicroplastics are everywhere. Particles of plastic less than five millimeters in length (about the size of a sesame seed) find their way into the environment from many sources. These plastics are essentially indestructible; they do not biodegrade but break down into ever smaller pieces. At this interdisciplinary event, we explore…
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New book: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
Category: NewsAmsterdam University Press has started a book series devoted to Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures. The first book in the series is just out: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination by Heide Estes. “Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of…
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Non-human Animal Event – 23 June
Category: NewsTags: animal language, animal studies, animal subjectivity, environmental humanities, heron, human-animal-relations, photographyFriday 23 June 15.30-17.00hrs – drinks after (please register below) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building Room 15A-33 Our final event of this academic year focuses on non-human animals. Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that explores relations between humans and other animals now and in the past. Our…
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CFP: Agents in the Anthropocene
Category: NewsTags: Alistair Fuad-Luke, anthropocene, art, design, education, environmental humanities, Piet Zwart Institute, symposium, T. J. DemosAgents in the Anthropocene: Trans/disciplinary Practices in Art and Design Education Today symposium—call for presentations Piet Zwart Institute Master Education in ArtJanuary 26–28, 2017 Proposal deadline: December 16, 2016 The Master of Education in Arts, Piet Zwart Institute is pleased to announce an open call for presentations for the two-day…
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Video: Libby Robin on Environmental Humanities in Practice
Category: NewsLibby Robin’s inspiring keynote at the launch of the Environmental Humanities Center on 4 November is now available online on our YouTube Channel. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVkue9YyjrI] Libby Robin is Professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, and affiliated professor at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,…
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CFP: Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms
Category: NewsTags: conference, environmental humanities, environmental posthumanities, new materialisms, posthumanismEnvironmental Humanities and New Materialisms The Ethics of Decolonizing Nature and Culture 8th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms 7-9 June 2017, Paris Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms share an ethic of decolonizing nature and culture, as they depart from anthropocentric and constructivist positions. Our call is to consider ourselves…
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AUP launches new series on environmental humanities
Category: NewsTags: amsterdam university press, animal studies, blue humanities, ecofeminism, environmental history, environmental humanities, landscape studies, pre-modern culture, queer ecologiesAmsterdam University Press is launching a new book series on environmental humanities and pre-modern cultures. This series in environmental humanities offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global pre-industrial cultures from interdisciplinary environmental perspectives. They invite submissions (both monographs and edited collections) in the fields of ecocriticism, specifically ecofeminism and…
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An Amphibious Culture
Category: NewsTags: amphibious culture, environmental history, environmental humanities, flooding, resilient societiesSince one of the effects of climate change in our current era is an increase in flooding, Professor Petra van Dam has analyzed how the Dutch dealt with floods in the past. She reached the surprising conclusion that even though risk of flooding is on the increase today, our society…
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Historical Climatology
Category: NewsWe warmly (no pun intended) recommend a visit to the blog Historical Climatology, which focuses on climate change scholarship in disciplines other than the sciences, including history, economics, political science, and law. The blog was founded by Dr. Dagomar Degroot, now a professor of environmental history at Georgetown University. In…
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Launch
Category: NewsFriday 4 November 2016, 15.30-17hrs Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam At the launch of the Environmental Humanities Center at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, you are very welcome to attend Libby Robin’s lecture on Environmental Humanities in Practice. The Environmental Humanities (EH) is a focus for collaborative projects between the humanities…