EHC Board Member Petra van Dam has cooperated in making a podcast for the journal H2O, journal for professional water specialists in a series of podcasts on water made by journalist Wim Eikelboom. In this edition she sketches the main preliminary conclusions of the group research project Coping with drought and drinking water. You can... Continue Reading →
Join us for our series of Lunch Lectures hosted by the Environmental Humanities Center. In this session on April 9, Dr. Madhura Rao from the Athena Institute will be discussing her research on food systems with the lecture "Eating in an Era of Radical Food Innovation: Reflections on the Changing Meanings of Risk and Food Safety." Please... Continue Reading →
We would like to share information about an upcoming conference: The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies 4 & 5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam & livestreamed on Zoom | Conference organized by Simon Ferdinand, Katarina Nesic, and Colin Sterling In this two-day conference, scholars will take up the burgeoning critical discourse of... Continue Reading →
We envision a world where both natural and artificial environments, not only coexist but thrive in harmony. Can this be a possible reality or will it remain just a vision? EHC board member Petra van Dam will moderate the final ART SCIENCE dialogue related to Life of Plants: Špela Petrič and Marije Martijn discuss the... Continue Reading →
We would like to invite you to a roundtable discussion featuring three Environmental Humanities Center board members. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Marek Jancovic, and Iris Burgers, alongside UvA's Emily Clark will mark the launch of their pioneering research projects at an upcoming event. Where: Perdu Bookstore, Kloveniersburgwal 86, Amsterdam When: 16 April 2024, 15:30-17:00 Attending the event... Continue Reading →
On Saturday 9 March, join the VU Master’s Event to find out more about the track Environmental Humanities in our Research Master programme. Lecturer Kristine Steenbergh and student Sarah Foster will tell you more about the track and answer all your questions in an in-person session from 14:00-15:00 hrs. Click here for more information about the event: https://vu.nl/en/education/more-about/vu-master-s-event... Continue Reading →
In collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, the VU ART SCIENCE gallery has invited scientists to take part in a moderated dialogue with the artists exhibited in Life of Plants. The ART SCIENCE dialogues explore the multifaceted relationship between humans and plants. In the third ART SCIENCE dialogue in the series, artist Elspeth... Continue Reading →
You are invited to join the upcoming ART SCIENCE dialogue, moderated by EHC board member Katja Kwastek. The dispossession of land and botanical practices are part of the colonial legacy, but how are they connected? In this ART SCIENCE dialogue Oscar Santillán, Lisa Ausic and Pepijn Brandon will examine the complexities of colonialism in relation... Continue Reading →
We would like to share this event from ESEH Environmental History Today. Date: 29 February, 3 - 5pm Book presentation: The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press 2024)Presenter: Elena Kochetkova, University of Bergen, NorwayDiscussant: Laurent Coumel, Europes-Eurasia Research Center (CREE), INALCO, Paris, FranceChair: Anastasia Fedotova, Russian Academy of Sciences,... Continue Reading →
EHC board member Petra van Dam will give a lecture about sustainability in the history of the Dutch water supply. Where: Zuiderzeemuseum (Binnenmuseum), Enkhuizen When: Saturday, February 17, 2024 14:00 - 16:30 For more information (in Dutch), click here: https://www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl/nl/page/6123/lezing-duurzaam-stadswater-in-de-republiek To register, click here: https://zuiderzeemuseum.smarteventmanager.nl/online-reservation/ZZM#/ Image credit: Petra van Dam
The 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) invites panels, presentations, making & doing contributions, and other events that explore the role of STS in making and doing contributions to transformations in an era of grand societal... Continue Reading →
When: Friday 23 February 11:00-12:00 CET Where: Zoom https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82389432678 // Meeting ID: 823 8943 2678 The un-earthed reading group is teaming up with the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network to discuss selections from Melody Jue's Wild Blue Media alongside textile artist Otobong Nkanga's work " Tied to the Other Side." For more information and links to the readings,... Continue Reading →
Please join us for a series of dialogue sessions at the VU ART SCIENCE gallery on the exhibition Life of Plants. These sessions will be moderated by our EHC board members. In collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and Environmental Humanities Center, the VU ART SCIENCE gallery has invited scientists to take part in a... Continue Reading →
Match with your digital research expert: CLUE+ meets the eScience Center Are you working with digital methodologies or would you like to apply digital solutions in your research? Find out what’s possible with experts from the eScience Center! The eScience Center’s Research Software Engineers are specialised in developing high quality digital tools in all academic... Continue Reading →
EHC board Member Sjoerd Kluiving organised climate storytelling workshops with members of the VU community, and now the results are out! Leaders know that our planet is heating up dangerously. They also know how to cool it down. But they do not do it. So we need a better way to get our message across... Continue Reading →
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