An essay by guest author Alex Ventimilla (MA student English & Film at the University of Alberta and research assistant at SpokenWeb)
Bat Subjectivity, Viral Contagions, and Zoonotic Poiesis
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!
ASI Symposium Water in Times of Climate Change
The Amsterdam Sustainability Institute presents the Water Symposium on 6 and 7 November.
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.
Lecture and Masterclass Allan Stoekl – Sustainability: Technocracy and Meditation
Please note a change of room for the Masterclass: VU Medical Building, room D-565.
In his public lecture on 20 September, Allan Stoekl draws on the work of Georges Bataille and E. F. Schumacher's Buddhist economics to imagine a theory of sustainability that will avoid the pitfalls of the technocratic approach. In the morning, (R)MA and PhD students are welcome to participate in a Masterclass on this topic.
CfP Aarhus University: Governing Urban Natures: Infrastructure, Citizenship and Municipal Ecologies
A call for papers from our colleagues in Denmark! The submission deadline is the 8th of September. The seminar will be held at Aarhus University from 4-5 December 2019 as a cooperative effort among the Ecological Globalizations Research Group, Urban Orders Research Center, and the Center for Environmental Humanities, all based at Aarhus University.
Environmental Humanities Reading Group: Let’s Talk Petroculture (with Jeff Diamanti)
Join us on June 27th for the last session of the environmental humanities reading group before the summer on Petrocultures. In this session we will familiarize ourselves with concepts like ‘petroculture,’ ‘petromelancholia,’ and ‘the energy unconscious.’ Dr Jeff Diamanti (UvA) will lead the session.
EVENT 17 May: Technology in Human-Animal Relations
Finn Arne and Dolly Jørgensen from the University of Stavanger will visit the VU on the 17th of May. The theme of their lectures is technology in human-animal relations, specifically concerning bird houses and dogs with antennas. Save the date!
Environmental Humanities Reading Group
One of the initiatives pitched at our Birthday Event last year is a new Environmental Humanities Reading Group. Their next meeting, focused on ecoambiguity, is on 21 February on the VU Campus.
