Candidates with expertise in art and ecology / art and environmental humanities are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline: 29 April
Vacancy: Assistant Professor in History of Art, Architecture, and Landscape at University of Groningen
ENTANGLEMENTS: Online lecture series
An overview of upcoming lectures in our online "Entanglements" series, with an archive of past lectures.
ENTANGLEMENTS Book Club
We are launching an online book club accompanying our Entanglements lecture series. With low-key and accessible meetings, we hope to bring some intellectual companionship to these challenging times.
ENTANGLEMENTS, a new online event series by the Environmental Humanities Center
Beginning in December 2020 and running until summer 2021, the Environmental Humanities Center presents a series of webinars with scholars from environmental humanities and beyond. Click to learn more!
Registration open: life stream conference ‘Cultural perceptions of Safety’
This two-day conference will bring together scholars from eight different countries and various humanities disciplines to pursue fluctuations in conceptualizations, expressions and feelings of safety over time as well as in cultures of surveillance and safety practices. Speakers will address a variety of topics, ranging from narratives and visual discourses of (un)safety, to representations and imaginations of places and spaces of safety and regulations to ensure safety.
EHVenice 2020 Virtual Dialogues
To mark the launch of their Master's degree in Environmental Humanities, the Ca'Foscari University of Venice has an amazing line-up of online conversations with environmental humanities scholars and authors from all over the world, to be streamed on their website.
Fractured Ecologies
The edited book of one of our Dutch Environmental Humanities colleagues Chad Weidner is out now. Fractured Ecologies is a collection of papers, bent essays and poems.
Bat Subjectivity, Viral Contagions, and Zoonotic Poiesis
An essay by guest author Alex Ventimilla (MA student English & Film at the University of Alberta and research assistant at SpokenWeb)
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!
