Which fish can you recognize in paintings? The project "Fishing in the Past" aims to collect as much data as possible about fish in the period from 1500 to 1850.
Help identify historical fish in paintings
Call for symposium on the Anthropocene
The British Academy and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW) are inviting applications for early career researchers (max. 7 yrs post PhD) in the humanities and social sciences to attend a research collaboration symposium on the broad theme of the Anthropocene.
Lecture Heritage and Climate Change Relations: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity
The Faculty of Humanities and CLUE+ cordially invite you to this Art and Culture Trending Topics lecture by David C. Harvey
Date: 30 January 2020
Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, KC-07
Time: 18:30-20:30hrs
Book Symposium: Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature
CLUE+ invites you to a symposium celebrating the publication of Angela Roothaan's book Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature (Routledge, 2019).
Date: 22 January 2020
Time: 15:00-17:00
Location: HG-11A33
A Blue-Green Roof for Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
This Friday, 6 December, a team of the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute will present their closing colloquium about the blue-green roof of the Aula of the VU. A water carrying roof like this is meant as a measure for climate adaptation and the improvement of the biodiversity.
De natuur: een cultuurwetenschappelijke blik. Symposium Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs
Environmental historian Raf de Bont has been rewarded with the Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs 2019. This symposium on the 12th of December will include talks by among others founding EHC board member Kristine Steenbergh!
Invitation: mid-winter reception of the EHC on December 4th
After the Nuclear Heritage Event on December 4th, we are happy to invite you for a mid-winter borrel, to chat, exchange ideas, and celebrate the Environmental Humanities.
How To Care For Our Nuclear Heritage?
Artists Grit Ruhland and Agnès Villette will present their versions of nuclear waste markers, provoking us to think about how we want to relate to our nuclear heritage both in the present and in the future.
Are We Plastic? Art and Thinking After Plastic – Lecture by Ingrid Halland
Save the date! On the 18th of November, Ingrid Halland (NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology) will give a lecture on art and thinking after plastic.
Tapestries and Radiation: the EHC visits COVRA
On the 9th of October, the Environmental Humanities Center visited COVRA, a nuclear waste management facility. Ruby de Vos, PhD Candidate at the University of Groningen tells us all about her experience of this unique excursion.
Swimming in the Anthropocene: Embassy of the North Sea at Het HEM
On the 16th of November, The Embassy of the North Sea presents 'Swimming in the Anthropocene' in het HEM, Zaandam.
Crossing Border X Border Sessions: Nature
A recommendation from EHC: On the 31st of October, Crossing Border and Border Sessions present an evening programme about nature writing.
ASI Symposium Water in Times of Climate Change
The Amsterdam Sustainability Institute presents the Water Symposium on 6 and 7 November.
We were at the #ClimateStrike in The Hague
On Friday the 27th of September, an estimated 30,000 people marched the streets of our political capital The Hague to demand climate justice. We were there to join the protest and share a feeling of community and collective action with green-minded people of all ages.
Workshop Transitions in Water-/Energy-/Food-Infrastructures
EHC and ASI invite you to the Transitions Workshop on November 1st! The keynote lecture will be given by Derk Loorbach, followed by paper presentations by young researchers along the themes of perceptions, policy, and practice of transitions. Registration via the link this post! NOTE changed location: Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam.
