An overview of upcoming lectures in our online "Entanglements" series, with an archive of past lectures.
ENTANGLEMENTS: Online lecture series
Kick-off ASI Cluster Biodiversity and Landscape Change
27th of January 2022. 15.00-16.00 live via Zoom from The Global Room HG 1A 36 (Main Building VU). Our typical landscapes are intensely used, resulting in a myriad of ecological, social and economic problems. Especially biodiversity is declining rapidly as well as ecosystem health. How to stop this decline and make our landscapes sustainable in the future? If these... Continue Reading →
Workshop: “Speaking about the humans. Animal perspectives on the multispecies world”
Online 17 & 18 March 2022 This one-day interdisciplinary workshop aims to get a better understanding of other animals’ perspectives on humans and the implications of these perspectives for developing better relations. Prairie dogs discuss humans in detail. Elephants have a word for humans. Sperm whales warn each other about human attacks. Many if not... Continue Reading →
Digital Colloquium – “The Impact of Climate and Weather on the Premodern Provision of Food and Water: New Historical Perspectives on Resilience and Vulnerability”
16 February 2022, 13:00-17:00 Register for Zoom access (no attendance fee required Food and water are essential goods for human and animal life. The provision of these goods to society has always been prone to climatic and environmental shocks, such as drought, floods, and extreme weather circumstances. Recent studies have made clear that premodern societies... Continue Reading →
Entanglements: Dr. Dagomar Degroot, “Finding ET (for the first time): The Nineteenth Century “Discovery” of Life on Mars”
The previous date for the event has been updated. Please refer to the information below. It is accurate. Date: Tuesday, 1 February 2022 Time: 15:30hrs CET Venue: Online, Zoom Please register below to receive a zoom link shortly. We are excited to announce our second lecture in the series with Dr. Dagomar Degroot. The launch... Continue Reading →
Externalities of Value: NICA Lecture and masterclass by prof. Amanda Boetzkes
NICA lecture and masterclass by Amanda Boetzkes in the 'Externalities of Value' series on 10 December 2021.
(Post) Anthropocene Museologies Symposium
On 30 November, Framed Framed will host a hybrid symposium, co-organised by Colin Sterling (University of Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture) and Blake Ewing (University of Oxford). The event aims to ‘take stock’ of Anthropocene related projects in the museum sector over the past decade and begin to sketch out the contribution museums might make to a post-Anthropocene world.
Workshop series on Ecocritical methods in Art History
Workshop 1: 3-4 December, 20221 ; Workshop 2: 31 March -1 April, 2022 ; Workshop 3: 1-2 July, 2022 Andrew Patrizio (University of Edinburgh) and Olga Smith (University of Vienna), are looking for participants to join a series of workshops in the environmental humanities with a focus on methods and practices in ecocritical art history. Their main... Continue Reading →
Ryosuke Ohashi, “The Deep Layers of Responsibility, or Anti-Nature in Nature”(CLUE+)
What does it mean to be responsible in the context of the crises confronting the world today? In this CLUE+ lecture, Ryosuke Ohashi reflects on responsibility as a problem of philosophical as well as linguistic dimensions.
Cinema Ecologica at EYE Film museum Amsterdam
Our board member Kristine Steenbergh participates in Cinema Ecologica at EYE Film Museum Amsterdam.
The World as We Don’t Know It – @Droog
VU professor by special appointment Maarten Doorman made three short films with the title "Omdenken" for this exhibition at Droog. The programme includes an exhibition, films and talks.
365 Plants at CASCO
This project at the Travelling Farm Museum in Leidsche Rijn (Utrecht) is of interest to the EHC community: 365 PLANTS by Dutch artist Mariëlle Videler is an artwork that is part of an ongoing project that consists of 365 BIRDS / 365 PLANTS / 365 INSECTS.
Invitation to join Sound Ecologies Lab
Fiber is looking for researchers who are interested in joining their Lab and Field Trip to Borssele between 25 and 30 October.
Video Entanglements Lecture Catriona Sandilands
The recording of Cate Sandilands' lecture "Mulberries: A Biopolitical Love Story" is now available on your YouTube channel.
Over the summer the EHC has had a joint project with the stories-on–floods project of TMY in India. On Monday Petra van Dam talks with participants of the project about their stories which have been published recently.
There’s No Such Thing as Waste! Circular Economy in the Early Modern Netherlands
De Nederlandse en Vlaamse overheden willen naar een circulaire economie in 2050. Dat voornemen vormt een goede aanleiding om te onderzoeken hoe circulair de steden en de landbouw eigenlijk waren vóór de industrialisatie. Hoe was het hergebruik van afval en restproducten geregeld?
Environmental Humanities Center 