The VU Anthropocene Fellowship is an annual ‘residency’ of 4 months that allows a selected researcher to study a topic related to the Anthropocene from the planet/nature, behaviour/society or ethics/religion perspective and to establish the concept at VU Amsterdam. Collaboration with VU and external researchers of other disciplines as well as external stakeholders is encouraged. Outreach activities form an important part of the fellowship and can take the form of a lecture series or workshops, for example.
Since 2020, we have welcomed various scholars who
Due to the complexity of the challenges, the fellowship examines them from different perspectives: the planet/nature, behaviour/society and ethics/religion perspective. These alternate with every term, with the next edition focused on planet/nature starting in September 2026. The current fellowship was awarded to Dr. Hilda P. Koster.
Find annual ‘residency’ of 4 months that allows a selected researcher to study a topic related to the Anthropocene from the planet/nature, behaviour/society or ethics/religion perspective.
Junior fellow Iris Verbeek produced 3 publications, among which the book chapter Let’s Get Wild: Connecting the Human and More-Than-Human World which discusses the use of ‘wild pedagogies’ in teaching. She also prepared a PhD proposal to investigate the potential of religious stories for imagining alternative futures in the context of primary education.
“Animals are running away from us” documentary, in which fellow prof dr Pim Martens discusses past patterns and future pathways with representatives of various indigenous cultures and religious beliefs.
'What is the Anthropocene? - Exploring transdisciplinary collaboration for sustainable change' lecture series aimed to understand and address one of the pressing issues and debates of our time
Two storytelling workshops that resulted in a digital storybook that were brought to COP28 by one of the authors who presented them on stage at the IUCN Pavilion.
