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Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) AIHR

Climate Change

Climate Change researchers are developing a platform that connects collaborators in the environmental humanities field, makes their work visible and encourages new collaborations. This platform integrates research, teaching and collaboration initiatives with organisations outside academia.
The history of meatless eating

According to historian Peter van Dam, it is essential to ‘ground ourselves in the past’ precisely in this climate crisis. ‘From a critical connection with our environment, we can investigate what people did and did not want to do with a view to sustainability, who they took into account, why they took action.'

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Environmental Humanities

To promote interdisciplinary research, a series of public lectures and research seminars will be organised with UvA researchers and guest speakers. The group is part of Seven: UvA's new Climate Initiative and is involved in setting up a national infrastructure for environmental humanities.

Education

Its teaching emphasises the crucial role of the Humanities in tackling the climate crisis and introduces innovative teaching methods, such as experimental fieldwork, interdisciplinary collaboration and public-oriented teaching. It works with various social partners to address the practical and philosophical challenges of a sustainable future. 

Impact
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Faculty lead

Peter van Dam is professor of Dutch History at the UvA. He researches the history of social initiative and activism and the history of historiography. His research focuses on how people tried to make the world more sustainable: What problems did they see? How did they translate their concerns and desires into social commitment? He explores these questions through the history of initiatives such as the labour movement, religious reform movements, fair trade, environmental and climate activism and sustainable consumption.

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