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 →
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 →
On Tuesday 14 November, join the online 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 a live Zoom session at 17.30-18.15hrs Amsterdam time.
In the context of her exhibition Performing Colonial Toxicity, which sheds light on the redacted history of French nuclear colonialism in the Algerian Sahara, Samia Henni discusses colonial toxicity and its on-going forms of publicness.
Dr. Sjoerd Kluiving, EHC founder and board member, is VU’s first Distinguished Fellow of the Anthropocene, which has been set up by the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities. Kluiving is Associate Professor in Geoarchaeology and Anthropocene Studies and works in the Faculties of Humanities and Science. In the autumn 2023,... Continue Reading →
In this EHC lecture on 19 September (18.30hrs, VU Amsterdam), Emily Eliza Scott will share from her book-in-progress on art that traces, and thereby actively attempts to resist, various forms of environmental violence as writ into land, air, and water.
At the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference in Bern, The White Horse Press awarded their Poster Prize to the "Coping With Drought" project.
We hope you can join us for a lecture with Emily Eliza Scott, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. Title: Tracking Inequity: Contemporary Art and Environmental Justice Place: VU Amsterdam Date: September 19 Time: 18:30 More information and registration here.
The Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam would like to share this hybrid workshop organized by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS). The world’s flora and fauna are often classified as native and non-native, indigenous and alien. These simple binaries mark biological life and, in doing so, define what belongs where and why. But... Continue Reading →
This week, the board members of the Environmental Humanities Center got a special guided tour through the exhibition on ‘crawly creatures’, co-curated by our former student board member Julia Kantelberg, who is now junior curator at the history department of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum (congratulations, Julia!).
The NWO VIDI project Poison, Medicine, or Magic Potion: Shifting Perspectives on Drugs in Latin America (1820-2020) has two vacancies for PhD students.
The Svartárkot Culture-Nature Project in collaboration with The Wright Ingraham Institute offer an interdisciplinary, immersive, place-based course intended for scholars, emerging professionals, researchers, post-graduates, master’s and doctoral students.
The Rachel Carson Center invites applications for a doctoral candidate who will explore and critically analyze visual representations of planetary health within and across the domains of art, science, popular culture, and activism.
This Saturday, 29 October, former EHC board member Sadie Hale and former UvA student and artist Miriam Sentler will collaborate in a performance at Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam. The performance takes as its subject the elusive basking shark, a large shark that migrates to the waters around the Hebrides in Scotland each summer.
The Athena Institute (VU Amsterdam) has announced two PhD and one postdoc position on a new project SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene.
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