
Living with or without water depends on what we choose to remember or forget, and how we use archival knowledge and living memories to adapt. On Thursday, 10 September 2026, Jo Garde-Hansen (University of Leeds) will join us for an RMeS Masterclass on “Mediating Water and Memory”. See our website…

In the latest episode of the Blue History Network podcast, Amelie Homp interviews Petra van Dam about her research on climate adaptation and drinking water management in the Netherlands. They explore historical droughts and floods, the inequalities in coping mechanisms, and lessons for current policies and individual actions regarding climate…
Image: 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 welcome you to the third Environmental Humanities Center lunch lecture to learn more about Dutch water…

Performance and Panel Discussion (co-sponsored by Greenhouse Stavanger) Monday 11 December, 18.00hrs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, Church Hall (HG-16A00) Ola Hassanain’s “Tell The Water What The Clay Kept Secret” is ongoing visual research that grapples extensively with the ‘spatial’ implications of catastrophe. The work, conceptualized from an ongoing poetics…

At the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference in Bern, The White Horse Press awarded their Poster Prize to the “Coping With Drought” project.

In 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.

Excursion opportunity prior to the symposium ‘Sink or Swim. Searching for a sustainable relationship with water’.

‘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…

The Amsterdam Sustainability Institute presents the Water Symposium on 6 and 7 November.