Christof Mauch, Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, will talk about Planetary Blues, American Environments and Slow Hope for the Future. He will be introduced…

The UNESCO Chair “Water, Heritage and Sustainable Development” based at the Centre for the Humanities and Social Change organises a number of training courses (in cooperation with the Global Network…

with Ruth Mostern, Pittsburgh University The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History, Online lecture More information here

We are thrilled to take part in a large international event taking place in Venice and online on October 11-16, 2021: the Anthropocene Campus Venice (ACV), a one-week forum with…

Venice, 10 June 2021 Call for expressions of interest for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities The Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’Foscari University of Venice is seeking…

Ciacoe in tocio: conversazioni e sughi per mangiare con la Laguna In collaborazione con Ocean Space Domenica 20 giugno, ore 15.00-18.00 presso Ocean Space, Campo San Lorenzo, Venezia PRENOTAZIONE: L’evento…

The Center for the Humanities and Social Change continues its series of seminars and lectures revolving around the Environmental Humanities from a wide array of perspectives and through a rich…

Call for Papers: Postcolonial publics: art and citizen media in Europe We are delighted to invite contributions to a conference paper  on the topic of postcolonial publics expressed and engaged…

Donne sem terra e la lotta contro l’agrobusiness (scroll down for English abstract) Modera: Valentina Bonifacio, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia 15 June 2021, 5.00 p.m. CEST, on Zoom (https://unive.zoom.us/j/84861746457) Lo…

11th June 2021, 3.00 PM (CEST) A ECLT / HSC Joint Seminar: the European Centre for Living Technology and the  Center for the Humanities and Social Change present: Exploring Sonic…

4th June 2021, 3.00 PM (CEST) A ECLT / HSC Joint Seminar. The European Centre for Living Technology and the Center for the Humanities and Social Change present: Contemplating Borders: From…

May 28, at 3.00 p.m. CEST, online (email hsc@unive.it to receive link) A seminar with L. Sasha Gora, Post-doc Fellow at the Center for the Humanities and Social Change Happy as…

From April 12th to May 27th the Center for the Humanities and Social Change is going to release an important series of dialogues marking the third edition of Afropean Bridges.…

Ursula Clayton, ‘Base Tick, call’st thou me host?’: An Introduction to Shakespeare’s Parasites, In collaborazione con/In collaboration with ECLS Seminars of Warwick University (ENG) 18 May 2021, 5.00 p.m. CEST, please email hsc@unive.it…

(scroll down for English) Martedì 11 maggio alle ore 17.00 si terrà, sulla piattaforma Zoom, la presentazione del libro di Stefano Liberti Terra bruciata. Come la crisi ambientale sta cambiando…

Anthropocene Campus Venice, Venice, October 11-16, 2021 Join a one-week educational event around the theme of Water Politics in the Age of the Anthropocene, organized by Ca’ Foscari University, the…

May 4th 2021, 2.00 p.m. CEST Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim in conversation with T.H. Barrett and Francesca Tarocco on: ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads In collaboration with MaP…

19 April 2021, 2.00 p.m. CEST Yifei Li, Judith Shapiro, Can China Go Green? Environmental Governance in China With Francesca Tarocco (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Center for the Humanities…

April 9th, 3.00 p.m. Corey Lee Wrenn, University of Kent What is Vegan Sociology? Discussant: Federica Timeto, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Dep. of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage) LINK: https://unive.zoom.us/j/82246472000…

The Center for the Humanities and Social Change continues its series of seminars and lectures revolving around the Environmental Humanities from a wide array of perspectives and through a rich…