Network for Environmental Humanities

The Network for Environmental Humanities explores the entanglement of nature and culture from various perspectives, taking questions and approaches that lie at the core of the Humanities as the starting point. With open cooperation between the over 50 scholars affiliated with our Network, we engage with questions of meaning, value, ethics, (climate and racial) justice, environmental politics, and the politics of knowledge production in the environmental domain. It is our aim to stimulate interdisciplinary research and teaching, and to engage with the world beyond academia to better understand how we can navigate and understand the Anthropocene. 

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    Can professors protest fossil subsidies in official gowns? Liesbeth van de Grift thinks so

    Opinion

    28 September 2023

    DUB spoke to Liesbeth van de Grift, who was one of the professors who wore their official gown at the Extinction Rebellion climate protest on the A12.
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    Magical technology and the colonialism vanish trick

    Background

    20 September 2023

    Many have long marvelled at humans’ capacity for technological innovation. Especially now, amid cascading environmental crises, technology seems to take on a magical quality. We acknowledge the many great things technological innovation has achieved. But holding faith with technological innovation alone is not only high risk: it ignores the exploitation of people and planet on which it depends.
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    The Balearic Islands have a new climate law. “There are, however, foundational challenges”

    In the media

    18 August 2023

    In The Conversation, lecturer Morten Byskov, Assistant Professor Jeroen Hopster and Júlia Isern Bennassar write about the recently passed climate law on the Balearic Islands.

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• Events

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    Lecture Joost de Bloois: Cultural Analysis as Memory Work and Reportage

    5 October 2023 from 17:15 to 19:00

    In this talk, Joost de Bloois argues that a ‘history of the present’ can take the form of ‘scholarly reportage’ (Andrew Ross), or ‘reportage’ tout court.
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    Critical Pathways Lecture: The Making of a Climate Frontier

    11 October 2023 from 15:00 to 18:00

    Public lecture by Critical Pathways Fellow Alejandro Camaro, in the context of the Critical Pathways Fellowship 2023, held at University Hall
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    Lecture Debjani Bhattacharyya: Atmospheric Politics in the Indian Ocean

    2 November 2023 from 15:30 to 17:00

    In this special Network for Environmental Humanities talk, Professor Debjani Bhattacharyya shows how the parameters of meteorology were shaped in the early 19th century.

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