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18.5.2021

Society & economy

Closing Keynote: Peter Wynn Kirby, University of Oxford, Waste Now, Forever Waste: Nuclear Residues in Japan and Beyond

Waste Now! Histories and Contemporalities of Discards Online Conference, 10 June 2021 (Thursday), 11 PM- 1 AM (June 11), Shanghai / 5...

12.5.2021

Language & culture

Opening Keynote: Carl A. Zimring, Pratt Institute, An Urban History Perspective on Discard Studies

Waste Now! Histories and Contemporalities of Discards Online Conference, 4 June 2021 (Friday), 10 PM-11.30 PM, Shanghai / 4 PM - 5.30...

6.5.2021

Society & economy

Waste Now! Histories and Contemporalities of Discards Online Conference Program

Keynote Talks by Carl A. Zimring, Pratt Institute, USA and Peter Wynn Kirby, University of Oxford, UK

13.4.2021

Society & economy

Birgitte Beck Pristed, Aarhus University, Denmark "Point of no return: Soviet paper reuses and waste recovery 1932-1945"

Helsinki University Humanities Programme, Helsinki Environmental Humanities Forum, April 20, 2021 (Tuesday), at 14.00- 15.30 (Helsinki time) via...

2.3.2021

Society & economy

Minna Valjakka, University of Helsinki “Shades of Green: Environmentally Engaged Art in East and Southeast Asia”

Helsinki University Humanities Programme, Helsinki Environmental Humanities Forum, March 16, 2021 (Tuesday), at 14.00- 15.30 (Helsinki time) via...

2.3.2021

Society & economy

Anna Varga, University of Pécs “Applied environmental history: re-introduction of forest grazing into policy, conservation and practices”

Helsinki University Humanities Programme, Helsinki Environmental Humanities Forum, March 9, 2021 (Tuesday), at 14.00- 15.30 (Helsinki time) via...

2.2.2021

Society & economy

EXTENDED DEADLINE UNTIL 15 APRIL 2021 : CfP “Waste Now! Histories and Contemporalities of Discards ” Workshop and Edited Volume Publication Project

Co-organized by the Center for the History of Global Development, Shanghai University, China and the University of Helsinki Environmental...

19.1.2021

Language & culture

Mariia Koskina, State University of New York in Binghamton “A Boy Meets a Girl, and They Build a Dam: Transformation of Siberia in Late-Soviet Industrial Cinema”

Helsinki University Humanities Programme, Helsinki Environmental Humanities Forum, February 9, 2021 (Tuesday), at 14.00- 15.30 (Helsinki time)...

15.12.2020

Sustainability news

New Grant Awarded by the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS)

The Helsinki Environmental Humanities Hub has received a 15000 euro "Social Impact Funding" granted by the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability...

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