A one-day networking meeting on “The More-than-Human” will take place in our new Faculty, bringing together staff and students interested in human-nature relations from across the Schools of Religion and Theology, Social Sciences, and Humanities.
The aim of the meeting is to get to know each other, find common ground, and shape a faculty-wide network. Come and listen to the pitches of members of the three schools and find out if you would like to become part of this network. The meeting will be closed by Jeroen de Ridder, Research Portfolio Holder in the Faculty Board.
If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to Lisa Ausic, l.ausic@vu.nl.
Program, Monday 30 June, room HG02A-37 (Main Building)
10:45-11:00 Doors open
11:00-11:30 Opening
11:30-12.30 Brief pitches + discussion
12:30-13:00 Shaping a Faculty-wide network
13:00-14:00 LUNCH BREAK (in the Botanische Tuin Zuidas, bring your own and share!)
14:00-15:00 Brief pitches + discussion
15:00-15:30 Naming the network
15:30-16:00 Closing with Jeroen de Ridder, Research portfolio holder, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
16:00 Drinks at Grand Café Living
Brief Pitches by
School of Religion and Theology
Gijsbert van den Brink – Towards a Theology of the Anthropocene
Lisa Doeland – Uncanny Planetary Health
Evanne Novak – Ecological Grief (Lab Landschapspijn Veluwe)
Lenneke Post – Ecocentric Voices in Mysticism
School of Social Sciences
Lisa Ausic – Human-Plant Relations and Political Ontology in the Amazon
Aniko Horvath – Engaged Scholarship and Climate Change
Jop Koopman – More-than-Human Labour and Submerged Methodologies
Antonella Sciancalepore – Preomodern Animal Studies and Ecocriticism
Christine Teelken – Wellbeing in Academia
Özlem Terzi – Project REPAIR (Arctic Region, Raw Materials)
Harry Wels – Intuitive Interspecies Communication
School of Humanities
Sjoerd Kluiving – Plant-Animal-Human Relationships in the Anthropocene
Katja Kwastek – Nature-Cultures in Ecological Art
Wesley Mwatwara – Animal-Sensitive History and African Livestock Regimes
Younes Saramifar – Beyond Human Approach to Understanding Political Violence
Kristine Steenbergh - Research Master Track Environmental Humanities