Tag: nuclear art
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Tapestries and Radiation: the EHC visits COVRA
Category: UncategorizedTags: blog post, covra, excursion, nuclear aesthetics, nuclear art, nuclear storage, nuclear waste, radioactivityOn the 9th of October, the Environmental Humanities Center visited COVRA, a nuclear waste management facility. Ruby de Vos, PhD Candidate at the University of Groningen tells us all about her experience of this unique excursion.
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After Hiroshima: Cultural Responses to the Atomic Bomb
Category: UncategorizedHow did artists, writers, film makers, and activists respond to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their aftermath, and how do they relate to nuclear issues today? After Hiroshima highlights some of the different responses to these questions by bringing together film screenings, performances, lectures, visual art, and even…
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Nuclear Waste and Future Heritage: Excursion to COVRA
Category: UncategorizedOn 9 October 2019, the Environmental Humanities Centre will pay a visit to COVRA, the only nuclear waste facility in the Netherlands. In addition to learning more about the complex practices of safe storage, we also want to explore the relations between nuclear waste and art on site. Sign up…
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Launch Kunstlicht journal on Nuclear Aesthetics
Category: NewsOn April 16th, at FramerFramed (Amsterdam) the Environmental Humanities Center will join forces with the Kunstlicht journal to launch the journal issue on „Nuclear Aesthetics“.
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Nuclear Waste Event: report
Category: NewsTags: Jantine Schröder, nuclear art, nuclear culture, nuclear storage, nuclear waste, Sven Lütticken, underground storageOur Nuclear Waste Weeks have come to a close. Student board member Ankie Petersen reports on the Nuclear Waste Event: Nuclear Waste Event During our Nuclear Waste Weeks, local and global news outlets talked about the extent of the pollution of sea water after the Fukushima disaster of 2011, an…
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Nuclear Waste Weeks
Category: NewsOctober/November 2017 Nuclear Waste Event, 6 October – report by Ankie Petersen Film Screening, Trace Evidence, 20 October Nuclear Waste Excursion Hades (Mol) and exhibition Perpetual Uncertainty (Hasselt), 27 October – report by Anna Volkmar Film screening and first meeting Deep Time and Nuclear Waste study group, 3 November The…