NICHE-Venice
THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (NICHE) is an interdisciplinary platform challenging the humanities to respond to global challenges, with a focus on the environment.
The Tears of Justice: Contemporary Art and Environmental Violence
Our Visiting Scholar Nicole Vitellone
NewBooks | Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern Africa and Americas, Cristina Brito
NewBooks | Cutting the Mass Line: Water Politics and Climate in Southwest China, Andrea E. Pia
NewBooks | Ocean Waves, Ocean Science, Ocean Media, Stefan Helmreich
DIRITTI UMANI E CRISI ECOSISTEMICHE: Temi, fatti, testimonianze dall’Italia e oltre
NICHE Annual Lecture 2025 | The Water Cultures of Italy: A Historical Perspective
Ina Lou / Dear Mother Earth Sea Soil and Solidarity
The Climate Crisis and Human Responsibility: Navigating the Anthropocene
Lo ‘stato che affonda’. Crisi ecologica e infrastrutture della sovranità a Tuvalu
NICHE Annual Lecture 2024 | Practices of Being-With Animals – Janet Gyatso
WATERSCAPES The Submersion of the Hero: A Blue Humanities Paradigm | Prof. Steve Mentz
Scienza, politica e società: l’approccio post-normale in teoria e nelle pratiche
Rooted in Water
Stories come to Matter: Water, Food, and other Entanglements
The Anthropology of Wonder: Exploring Human Responses to Water and Light
Zoopolitics of Life and Death. Critical Animal Studies - Graduate Conference
New Books in Environmental Humanities | Multispecies Politics in the Anthropocene
Il Buddhismo e il Mare nell’Antropocene
LECTURE Nicola Di Cosmo - Climate Nomads and Steppe Empires
NICHE Annual Lecture 2023 | Prof. Elizabeth Povinelli
Personhood and Water Bodies: Cosmological and Legal Frameworks - Veronica Strang
Human-river relationships. Karl Matthias Wantzen and Yixin Cao
Liquid Capabilities: Participatory Water Cultures in the History of the Low Countries. Tim Soens
Agua y H2O Lopez Taks Calvijo
The Heritage of Water in Morocco and Maghreb.
Agua, Cultura y Sostenibilità. Javier Taks and Francesco Vallerani
Valuing Ancient Water Cultures – Aninspiring source of innovations for Sustainable Water Management.
Donna Haraway and Adele Clarke: Making Kin. Reproductive Justice is Eco-Justice
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Dimitris Papadopoulos: Reactivating Elements