An overview of upcoming lectures in our online "Entanglements" series, with an archive of past lectures.
ENTANGLEMENTS: Online lecture series
Travelling concepts: the long life of the Anthropocene
We briefly explore the term 'Anthropocene', in honour of the late Paul Crutzen, who sadly passed away in January this year.
Nuclear landscapes: your reading recommendations
In our meeting with Rosemary Joyce, we asked participants for their reading tips connected to the lecture on nuclear landscapes, sourcing the wisdom of our community via the Zoom chat function. In addition to Rosemary's book, The Future of Nuclear Waste (2020), we've gathered your recommendations below. If you would like to add more reading tips... Continue Reading →
Vacancy: Assistant Professor in History of Art, Architecture, and Landscape at University of Groningen
Candidates with expertise in art and ecology / art and environmental humanities are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline: 29 April
Environmental History Today! New online seminar series from European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)
New online seminar series from ESEH. Register now!
This Friday: The Promise of Future Foods
In his public lecture "Unsoiled: The Promise of Future Foods" organized by the Political Ecologies Seminar (UvA), Rhys Williams explores the narratives and aesthetics mobilised by radical developments in food production technologies, and asks what new formal relations between human and non-human nature they might bring into being. The accompanying Graduate Masterclass studies solarity and agriculture.
ENTANGLEMENTS: Jane Bennett, “Out for a Walk in the Middle Voice”
We are thrilled to welcome professor Jane Bennett into our Entanglements lecture series! In her lecture, she will explore the radical entanglement of human and nonhuman activities, and ask what lexicon is able to acknowledge a trans-specied kind of agency.
PhD Workshop and Keynote: Austrian Environmental History
The American Society for Environmental History invites you to join the "environmental" part of its annual PhD workshop on economic, social and environmental history on 20 April. Sign up now!
New book on Fukushima disaster published, with contribution from VU’s Sven Lütticken
On the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Sternberg Press has published a volume on Don't Follow the Wind (eds. Nikolaus Hirsch and Jason Waite), the acclaimed collaborative project situated in Fukushima's radioactive exclusion zone. The book explores the long-term environmental crisis in the coastal Japanese region through this ongoing, inaccessible exhibition, which maintains traces of... Continue Reading →
Vacancy: Tutor in MA Ecology Futures
Avans Hogeschool (Den Bosch) is looking for a Theory Tutor in their MA Ecology Futures (0,2 fte; starting 1 May 2021).
ENTANGLEMENTS Book Club
The third edition of our online book club accompanying our Entanglements lecture series is on 8 April. All welcome!
Snippets (BASCE)
The Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment is proud to introduce a monthly online discussion series called Snippets. Join them in close-reading snippets of text from influential works in ecocriticism and green media studies on the first Friday of each month.
Symposium on Future Landscapes, 24 February: complete programme live & registration open!
The TERRANOVA and HERILAND Symposium on Future Landscapes, 24 February: complete programme now available!
Het Coronavirus, klimaat en droogte: hebben ze met elkaar te maken? – New blog post from our PhD student
Our PhD student Dániel Moerman has written a new blog post for the Coping With Drought project website. Read (in Dutch) now!
ENTANGLEMENTS: Georg Stöger on Urban Environmental History
Georg Stöger analyzes change and persistence in the town Linz in a long-term perspective. He is explicitly interested in the collective and individual practices in everyday life that shaped (and were shaped by) the urban environment.
