Tag: environmental humanities
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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.
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EVENT 17 May: Technology in Human-Animal Relations
Category: UncategorizedTags: animals, birdhouses, design, environmental humanities, event, human-animal-relations, lecture, non-human animals, stavanger, technologyFinn Arne and Dolly Jørgensen from the University of Stavanger will visit the VU on the 17th of May. The theme of their lectures is technology in human-animal relations, specifically concerning bird houses and dogs with antennas. Save the date!
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Environmental Humanities Reading Group
Category: NewsTags: ecoambiguity, ecocriticism, environmental art criticism, environmental history, environmental humanities, reading groupOne of the initiatives pitched at our Birthday Event last year is a new Environmental Humanities Reading Group. Their next meeting, focused on ecoambiguity, is on 21 February on the VU Campus.
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Interview with T. J. Demos
Category: UncategorizedTags: Center for Creative Ecologies, contemporary art, ecology, environmental humanities, interview, T. J. Demos, visual cultureArt historian T.J. Demos was at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam to present his most recent book publication Against the Anthropocene (2017) on December 12th 2017. We had the opportunity to interview him on behalf of the Environmental Humanities Center. Just before he started his book presentation we met and…
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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…