Elizabeth Povinelli – Geontologies: Story and Stories of a Concept

Elizabeth Povinelli – Geontologies: Story and Stories of a Concept 724 1024 Barbara Del Mercato

We are happy to announce the beginning of a new Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series with a special lecture: Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University Geontologies: story and stories of a…

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The economy and life in pandemic times. A dialogue on a painful opportunity for thinking

The economy and life in pandemic times. A dialogue on a painful opportunity for thinking 724 1024 Barbara Del Mercato

29 September, 6 pm (Rome time) on Google meet (Click here to join) Bill Mauer (School of Social Sciences and Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, University of California,…

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Humanities, Ecocriticism and Multispecies Relationships – international conference

Humanities, Ecocriticism and Multispecies Relationships – international conference 724 1024 Barbara Del Mercato

September 28-29, 2020 (full program below) Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin – Dorsoduro 3825/e Venice The conference, organised by the Department of Asian and African Studies in collaboration with…

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Environmental Humanities: A View from Venice – Virtual Dialogues

Environmental Humanities: A View from Venice – Virtual Dialogues 1024 890 Barbara Del Mercato

From July 7 until July 31  the Center for the Humanities and Social Change (HSCVenice) posted every day a dialogue around the environmental humanities, across time, space, themes, and cultures.…

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Anna Antonova: The Maritime Anthropocene: Social, Environmental and Political Change on the Coast

Anna Antonova: The Maritime Anthropocene: Social, Environmental and Political Change on the Coast 1024 1024 Barbara Del Mercato

June 18, 2020 at 5 p.m. CEST on GoogleMeet If you would like to participate, please email hsc@unive.it to receive the access link. The seminar is in English/Seminario in inglese…

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Gabriella Giannachi: Performing Nature: Redefining Ecological Practice in the Era of Climate Change

Gabriella Giannachi: Performing Nature: Redefining Ecological Practice in the Era of Climate Change 1024 1024 Barbara Del Mercato

June 11, 2020 at 5 p.m. CEST on GoogleMeet If you would like to participate, please email hsc@unive.it to receive the access link. The seminar is in English/Seminario in inglese…

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HSC Venice issues 5 Post-doc positions in Environmental Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with ECLT

HSC Venice issues 5 Post-doc positions in Environmental Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with ECLT 367 131 Barbara Del Mercato

The Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with ECLT, issues  5 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities. The call opened on May…

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“Water, water every where”: Interdisciplinary online seminar series (calendar)

“Water, water every where”: Interdisciplinary online seminar series (calendar) 755 358 Barbara Del Mercato

Gilda Zazzara: Operai anfibi, acque nocive: appunti sul rapporto tra lavoratori e acque a Porto Marghera

Gilda Zazzara: Operai anfibi, acque nocive: appunti sul rapporto tra lavoratori e acque a Porto Marghera 1024 1024 Barbara Del Mercato

June 4, 2020 at 5 p.m. CEST on GoogleMeet If you would like to participate, please email hsc@unive.it to receive the access link. The seminar is in Italian/Seminario in italiano…

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The Venice flooding of 29 October 2018 and 12 November 2019: physics, future and predictability

The Venice flooding of 29 October 2018 and 12 November 2019: physics, future and predictability 1024 1024 Barbara Del Mercato

May 28, 2020 at 5 p.m. CEST on GoogleMeet If you would like to participate, please email hsc@unive.it to receive the access link. The seminar is in English/Seminario in inglese…

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Francesco Vallerani: Water, heritage and sustainable development: a new Unesco Chair at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Francesco Vallerani: Water, heritage and sustainable development: a new Unesco Chair at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 1024 1024 Barbara Del Mercato

May 21, 2020 at 5 p.m. CEST on GoogleMeet/21 maggio ore 17 If you would like to participate, please email hsc@unive.it to receive the access code to the online seminar.…

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Jason Kelly (IUPUI): Public Scholarship, Environmental Humanities, and Oral History in the Wake of Covid-19

Jason Kelly (IUPUI): Public Scholarship, Environmental Humanities, and Oral History in the Wake of Covid-19 1024 1024 Barbara Del Mercato

May 14, 2020 at 5 p.m. CEST on GoogleMeet If you would like to participate, please email hsc@unive.it to receive the access code to the online seminar. Jason Kelly is…

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Major changes in our Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series (II)

Major changes in our Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series (II) 1024 576 Barbara Del Mercato

Please note the following important changes in our calendar of events: 2 March – seminar with Chiara Mengozzi : CANCELLED 13 March – seminar with Elisabeth Kowaleski-Wallace: POSTPONED – This…

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Online seminar with Pablo Mukherjee: Fossil Imprints: Energy Justice, Colonial Writing, Post-Colonial Theory

Online seminar with Pablo Mukherjee: Fossil Imprints: Energy Justice, Colonial Writing, Post-Colonial Theory 1024 1024 Barbara Del Mercato

April 16, 2020 at 5 p.m. on GoogleMeet If you would like to participate, please email hsc@unive.it to receive the access code to the online seminar and/or a preview copy…

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Call for expressions of interest for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities

Call for expressions of interest for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities 367 131 Barbara Del Mercato

Venice, March 3rd 2020 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 candidates…

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Online seminar with Jasenka Gudelj (University of Zagreb): La cultura architettonica dell’Adriatico orientale tra il Quattrocento e il Settecento

Online seminar with Jasenka Gudelj (University of Zagreb): La cultura architettonica dell’Adriatico orientale tra il Quattrocento e il Settecento 1024 484 Barbara Del Mercato

April 9, 2020 at 5 p.m. on GoogleMeet If you would like to participate, please email hsc@unive.it to receive the access code to the online seminar Jasenka Gudelj is Associate…

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Online seminar with Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace: Reconsidering the Human in the Age of Coronavirus: A Humanist/New Materialist Perspective

Online seminar with Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace: Reconsidering the Human in the Age of Coronavirus: A Humanist/New Materialist Perspective 1024 540 Barbara Del Mercato

April 1, 2020 at 3 p.m. on GoogleMeet If you would like to participate, please email hsc@unive.it to receive the access code to the online seminar and/or a preview copy…

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Interactive online seminar with David Gentilcore: L’acqua come risorsa e come minaccia nel Regno di Napoli: la ‘Statistica’ murattiana del 1811

Interactive online seminar with David Gentilcore: L’acqua come risorsa e come minaccia nel Regno di Napoli: la ‘Statistica’ murattiana del 1811 1024 483 Barbara Del Mercato

March 26, 2020 at 5 p.m. on GoogleMeet If you would like to participate, please email hsc@unive.it or grandi@unive.it to receive the access code to the online seminar David Gentilcore…

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Interactive online seminar with Pietro Omodeo: Hydrogeological Politics in Renaissance Venice

Interactive online seminar with Pietro Omodeo: Hydrogeological Politics in Renaissance Venice 1024 484 Barbara Del Mercato

March 19, 2020 at 11 a.m. on GoogleMeet If you would like to participate, please email hsc@unive.it or grandi@unive.it : you will receive a code to join the online seminar…

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This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom 1024 766 Tom Carlson

Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 2 p.m. Friday, March 13, 2020 at 10 a.m. Friday, March 13, 2020 at 2 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A In these three seminar sessions, we…

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