Welcome to Environmental Humanities Leiden University, EHLU for short. This site contains announcements of our ongoing lecture series as well as blog posts discussing the research and teaching activities of our members. More information about the university activities of our members can be found here.

Metamorphoses in the Anthropocene

In recent years, posthuman studies has established transdisciplinary bridges with the Earth system sciences to account for a new...

Mar 613 min read

Collaborative Writing Project – Delta Voices at the Island of Brienenoord

Rosanne van der Voet and Joep Christenhusz are working on a collaborative writing project that explores the voices of the Dutch delta.

Feb 52 min read

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Metamorphoses in the Anthropocene

In recent years, posthuman studies has established transdisciplinary bridges with the Earth system sciences to account for a new...

Mar 613 min read

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Collaborative Writing Project – Delta Voices at the Island of Brienenoord

Rosanne van der Voet and Joep Christenhusz are working on a collaborative writing project that explores the voices of the Dutch delta.

Feb 52 min read

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Struggling for Entropy: Reading Boltzmann in times of planetary crisis

What can Ludwig Boltzmann’s ideas about evolution tell us about life in a world of scarcity and abundance?

Dec 3, 20246 min read

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Lecture Marc Argeloo: "Birds of God. The journey of the birds of paradise"

Birds of paradise were a popular trade item, especially between 1880 and 1930. The most important market was the fashion world in cities...

Oct 29, 20241 min read

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Lecture Robin Hartanto Honggare: "Architecture, Labor, and the Commoditization of Sumatran Tobacco"

On Tuesday 08 October EHLU hosted a talk and workshop where Robin Hartanto Honggare discussed his research on “Architecture, Labor, and...

Oct 29, 20241 min read

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ABOUT US

EHLU is a research group at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Researchers in the group come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, but are united in their interest in the role that knowledge and methods from the Humanities can play in studying the environment.