Tag: Media
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Lecture on “Blue Diversity: Drinking water in the Netherlands, 1500-1850” by prof. dr. Petra van Dam – Tuesday 8 April 2025
Category: EventsTags: MediaImage: A water seller in Naples offers a glass of water as refreshment to a woman who is carrying a large bundle under her arm, 1800-1899. London. The Wellcome Collection. We would like to draw your attention to a lunch lecture by to environmental historian prof. dr. Petra van Dam.…
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Video Entanglements Lecture Dr Kristian Mennen
Category: UncategorizedTags: Conservation, Conservation Movement, environmental history, environmental humanities, environmental policy, MediaThe recording of Dr Mennen’s lecture “How to oppose the reclamation of waste land’? Political strategies of the Dutch nature conservation movement in the 1930s” is now available on our YouTube channel.
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Video Lecture in Entanglements Series by Dr. Dagomar Degroot
Category: UncategorizedDr. Dagomar Degroot’s lecture “Finding ET (for the first time): The Nineteenth-Century “Discovery” of Life on Mars”, which took place in our online Entanglements Series on 1 February 2022, was recorded. The video is now available on the Environmental Humanities Center’s YouTube channel.
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Video Entanglements Lecture Catriona Sandilands
Category: UncategorizedThe recording of Cate Sandilands’ lecture “Mulberries: A Biopolitical Love Story” is now available on your YouTube channel.
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The Amphibious Culture: A History of Coping with Disastrous Floods
Category: UncategorizedWith climate change and rising sea levels the threat of flooding increases in low-lying areas all over the world. The Netherlands are famous for their long history of surviving floods. How did people cope with floods in the past? Watch this video lecture by Petra van Dam to find out.
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Review: Drawdown – The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
Category: UncategorizedPaul Hawken’s book Drawdown is a revelation for anyone who cares about our environment and wants to feel responsible about the fate and future of ‘our’ planet earth. Curious? Read Sjoerd Kluiving’s review here.
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Report: Workshop Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature
Category: UncategorizedOn the 21st of March, the workshop: Water (un)Safety and Concepts of Nature was held at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. This report reflects on this day as an opportunity for scholars of many different experience levels to exchange their knowledge about the (un)safety of water.
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Report: Water and the City Event 2018
Category: UncategorizedRead up on the Water and the City event organized by the Environmental Humanities Center in spring 2018.
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Media: Petra van Dam on the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum
Category: NewsThe publication of our board member Petra van Dam’s new book on the 200-year history of the the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum Van Amsterdams peil naar Europees Referentievlak: De Geschiedenis van het NAP tot 2018 drew a lot of attention from newspapers and radio.
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Video: Erle Ellis on the Anthropocene
Category: NewsOn 2 May, Erle Ellis gave a lecture on the Anthropocene at the Environmental Humanities Center, in cooperation with the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. If you missed the event, you can now listen to the lecture here, thanks to Erle Ellis’ generosity and Tim…