Tag: sustainability
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Board Member Dr. Sjoerd Kluiving is VU’s first Distinguished Fellow of the Anthropocene
Category: UncategorizedDr. Sjoerd Kluiving, EHC founder and board member, is VU’s first Distinguished Fellow of the Anthropocene, which has been set up by the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities. Kluiving is Associate Professor in Geoarchaeology and Anthropocene Studies and works in the Faculties of Humanities and…
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Vacancies | SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene
Category: UncategorizedTags: Athena Institute, critical plant studies, environmental humanities, food, soy, sustainability, transdisciplinaryThe Athena Institute (VU Amsterdam) has announced two PhD and one postdoc position on a new project SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene.
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Fashion and the Anthropocene: towards a sustainable fashion future
Category: UncategorizedThursday 27th October 2022 14.00-17.00 incl. reception NU Building, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Today the fashion industry forcefully promotes its sustainability credentials. From branding and promotion strategies to recycling, resale, rental and reuse, fashion companies are keen to demonstrate awareness of the climate crisis. But are these responses adequate? As the…
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Water Heritage for Sustainable Cities Course
Category: UncategorizedTags: course, education, environmental humanities, graduate students, Netherlands, sustainability, sustainable cities, Turkey, water, water heritageIn the autumn of 2022, The Netherlands Institute in Turkey offers a course that addresses past experiences and current and future challenges of urban water supply.
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Symposium: Sink or Swim. Searching for a sustainable relationship with water.
Category: Uncategorized‘Sink or Swim’ is an interdisciplinary symposium establishing an encounter between visual art, history, philosophy, ecology and governance, seeking to provide current insights and creative inspiration for building a sustainable relationship with water. Still Waters Run Deep is an interdisciplinary programme curated by Marlies Augustijn, taking place from 26 June…
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Symposium report: Urban Past, Urban Future? Sustainable Drinking Water in Dutch Cities, 1500-1900
Category: UncategorizedOn Thursday the 17th of March 2022, the project team Omgaan met droogte or Coping with Drought which includes EHC Board members Petra van Dam and Dániel Moerman, hosted their first Symposium as an EHC special event. In a hybrid format, with more than 30 attendants combined in person and on…
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CfP: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency – International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability (online)
Category: UncategorizedThe 17th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability invites submissions. It will will take place on 24-26 February 2021. This year’s special focus will be on Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency. Plenary speakers: Diederik Samsom, Marjan Minnesma, Christian Felber and Ilona Otto. …
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Online Symposium: Investigating and Rethinking Single Use Plastics
Category: UncategorizedFor those interested: there is a Vrije Universiteit (online) event about single use plastics taking place on the 18th of September.
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Help the Green Office make our campus greener
Category: UncategorizedThe Green Office invites you to help make our campus greener.
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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…