Posts Tagged ‘Health Environment’
KULeuven Lecture Series: Thinking with Microbes by Kristien Hens
Thinking with Microbes What can we learn from thinking with microbes about ourselves, about life, health, sex and death? Microbial life, vast, diverse and largely invisible unsettles familiar concepts such…
Read MoreKU Lecture Series: What Makes Nature Restorative? Evidence, Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward by Yannick Joye
What Makes Nature Restorative? Evidence, Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward Over the past three decades, psychological research on the health benefits of contact with nature has grown rapidly, documenting positive…
Read MoreKULeuven Lecture Series: “Anyone, regardless of birth or social status, can become a Scout. There are already some deaf Scouts” – Nature and Disability through the Lens of the Scout Camp in 1950s Sweden by Jonathan Schlunck
“Anyone, regardless of birth or social status, can become a Scout. There are already some deaf Scouts” – Nature and Disability through the lens of the scout camp in 1950s…
Read MoreKULeuven Lecture Series: Everyone Needs Beauty by Samantha Walton
Everyone Needs Beauty TBA Samantha Walton Samantha Walton is Director of the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University, where she leads interdisciplinary collaborations across the social and…
Read MoreKULeuven Lecture Series: Anthrax Management at the Cattle Frontier: Local Knowledge, Imperial Technopolitics and Transimperial Exchanges in Colonial Madagascar by Samuël Coghe
Anthrax Management at the Cattle Frontier: Local Knowledge, Imperial Technopolitics and Transimperial Exchanges in Colonial Madagascar In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Madagascar became an important exporter of…
Read More