Kate Huber (she/her)

Kate Huber (she/her)

@ecocritickate.bsky.social

PhD, Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, Irish, British, African and Caribbean anglophone literatures

222 Followers 210 Following 13 Posts Joined Jan 2025
6 days ago

Such an honor to host @nafissn.bsky.social @tilburguniversity.bsky.social last November! Her keynote lecture is now online. Check it out in the link below. Nafiss Nia offers an inspirational overview of her artistic practice and the making of her powerful 2023 film Die Middag (That Afternoon).

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From Paper to Screen: The Making of That Afternoon The cold and dark of a Dutch winter day is palpable in the film's depictions of the politics of language, migration, identity, and belonging today. Die Middag (That Afternoon) conveys the intense stru...

In November 2025, filmmaker and writer Nafiss Nia visited @tilburg-university.bsky.social to talk about her 2023 film Die Middag (That Afternoon). This lecture explores how she became a filmmaker, and how she created this highly acclaimed and poignant film.

www.diggitmagazine.com/paper-screen...

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Light pollution in the Anthropocene: the environmental cost of illumination What do you see, when you look up at the night sky? I grew up in a larger Dutch city and thinking back to early childhood memories, I could just point out the North Star and the Big Dipper in a clear ...

What do the effects of light pollution on non-human life reveal about the way anthropocentric dualism separates humans from the #environment? This analysis explores a mutualistic posthumanist perspective to find a more connected way of living with nature.

www.diggitmagazine.com/light-pollut...

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Colonial Legacies and Digital Heritage with Kate Simpson Whose heritage matters? What gets preserved, and why do we identify with certain items, places, or histories more than others? Listen to the first episode of the podcast Living Culture, Making Heritag...

Really enjoyed the first episode of new podcast 'Living Culture, Making Heritage.' It made me think about what open access really means (or doesn't mean!) in terms of information. Kudos to @kilmun.bsky.social @ecocritickate.bsky.social @scopeland.bsky.social www.diggitmagazine.com/colonial-leg...

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1 week ago

Thank you so much! 🙏🙏🙏

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2 weeks ago

Check out the first episode of our new podcast! Kate Simpson has so many interesting things to say!

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1 month ago
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Living Culture, Making Heritage Trailer Whose heritage matters? What gets preserved? And why do we identify with certain items, places, or histories more than others? Welcome to Living Culture, Making Heritage, a podcast that explores the d...

Whose #heritage matters? What gets preserved, and why do we identify with certain items, places, or histories more than others? The podcast Living Culture, Making Heritage aims to answer these types of questions. This is its trailer.

www.diggitmagazine.com/living-cultu... @ecocritickate.bsky.social

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1 month ago
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Living Culture Making Heritage | Podcast on RSS.com Living Culture, Making Heritage: Critical Conversations on Cultural Heritage and Identity. Whose heritage matters? What gets preserved? And why do we identify with certain items, places, or histories ...

Looking forward to sharing the first episode of the Living Culture, Making Heritage podcast with the world very soon! Here is a teaser to give you a glimpse of what is to come: rss.com/podcasts/liv...

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1 month ago

Thank you so much! 🙏😊

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1 month ago

Read an interview with the author! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

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Happy #pubday to "Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland" by @ecocritickate.bsky.social!

The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/

#readUP #booksky

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Irish Ecomedia <p><b>The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future</b></p><p>Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—

@ecocritickate.bsky.social's @uvapress.bsky.social book is out! 30% off paper: 10VABOOKS
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/

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1 month ago

Thank you so much for sharing, Mary!! 🙏😊

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4 months ago

I am looking forward to hosting this @asle-us.bsky.social event on December 5th!! Please join as we hear from five amazing speakers and discuss solidarity strategies for independent and contingent scholars. And please share widely! @easlce.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/asle...

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5 months ago
Climate Change Mitigation and Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Planetary Health The climate crisis poses a dual challenge, undermining the integrity of both natural and social ecosystems, while simultaneously threatening public health, ...

We are launching a new #CFP at the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine on Climate Change and Planetary Health. More details here link.springer.com/collections/...

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5 months ago
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“We Can’t Save Everything”: Art Historian Sanneke Huisman on the Dynamic World of Digital Art “What do you need to play a GIF in a thousand years?” This question kicked off the keynote lecture by art historian and curator Sanneke Huisman at Tilburg University. While GIFs (first introduced as “...

What’s new about #digitalart? Who can make it? How do curators and conservationists keep #digitalheritage for the future? These questions and more were addressed by curator and art historian Sanneke Huisman in her keynote lecture at Tilburg University.

www.diggitmagazine.com/we-cant-save...

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6 months ago
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Irish Ecomedia <p><b>The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future</b></p><p>Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—

My book is available to pre-order! upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/ I am so grateful to all the folks who have listened to me talk about this project over the last ten years at conferences, seminars, & beyond 🙏 @asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

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7 months ago
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So exciting and a bit surreal to see my book on a flyer at ASLE! #asle25 It has been such a wonderfully inspiring week hearing about amazing projects and (re)connecting with so many great people! 😊

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8 months ago
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Environmental Justice through Art What happens when art meets environmental justice? In the spring of 2025, scholars and students explored this question together with Irish artist Michele Horrigan, whose work grapples with the ongoing...

Big highlight of the semester was getting to host Michele Horrigan at Tilburg University! We captured some highlights here: www.diggitmagazine.com/environmenta... I look forward to talking about this collaboration and Michele's work at summer conferences! @asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social

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11 months ago
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What a fabulous week we had with artist Michele Horrigan on campus! Michele gave a lecture and workshop and set up an art exhibit on her arts-based environmental justice project Stigma Damages. The exhibit is open to the public till mid-June. Come check it out! @tilburguniversity.bsky.social

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Lecture: When Art meets Environmental Justice | Tilburg University Can art inspire environmental justice? Artist Michele Horrigan shares how arts-based research can expose pollution and biodiversity loss, while encouraging solutions for a more sustainable, fair and h...

www.tilburguniversity.edu/campus/studi...

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11 months ago

I am thrilled that Michele Horrigan will visit Tilburg University this week to share her arts-based research on environmental injustices on the Shannon Estuary. Register below! @efacis.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social #IrishStudies #environmentalhumanities

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11 months ago

We need two people to step up into this editorial role. It has been incredibly fulfilling for me to have been co-editor for 5+ years, but now it’s time for us to let another team shape the field.

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1 year ago
IASIL 2025: PG Conference Travel Scholarship – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures IASIL is pleased to invite applications for a postgraduate scholarship to attend the 2025 conference in Galway.

Applications are still open for the postgraduate scholarship to attend the 2025 IASIL conference in Galway

⏰ Closing date March 1

Full details here:

www.iasil.org/conference-2...

#IrishStudies #AcademicChatter #PhDchat

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1 year ago
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Register now for this episode of ASLE Spotlight on the theme REPRODUCING ANIMALITY
Friday, Feb 21, 1pm EST on Zoom
forms.gle/GZgZ4GFuEMmA...
#envhum #academicsky

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1 year ago
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Postdoctoral Associate - Humanities Research Center The Humanities Research Center (HRC) at Rice University seeks to appoint one Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental Humanities, with an affiliation with the Center for Environmental Studies (CES).

Job posting: Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental Humanities, Humanities Research Center at Rice University. Apply by February 24, 2025, 11:59 PM CST at emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #AcademicSky

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ASLE Spotlight on the #envhum this Friday
CLIMATE JUSTICE
Friday, January 17, 2025
1:00pm EST
Register: forms.gle/AwUA6H46gizt...

Featuring:
Jane Robbins Mize, Evacuation Plan
Parisa Rinaldi, Coastal Community Resilience
Leanne Dunic, Wet
Kamala Platt, Environmental Justice Poetics

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