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Dear our Vital Elements network,

Please save the date for the third edition of the Vital Elements Seminar Series.

Date: March 24, 2025 Location: UvA REC, Anthropology Common Room (B5.12) Time: 15.00-17.00 Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/83333263586

We are excited to announce that Mariana Rios Sandoval from Wageningen University and Research will be our speaker for the third edition. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Embodied Ecologies Project, she will present her work on the topic of Research on Toxic Worlds. This seminar will explore the ethical and methodological challenges of researching toxicity in urban environments. In this session, our UvA colleague, Jorge O. Nuñez Vega, will serve as the discussant for Mariana’s talk. More information about her research is available in the attached flyers.

The Vital Elements Seminar Series is part of the ERC-Advanced research project, Vital Elements. The series addresses global challenges such as migration, environmental crises, and colonial relations by exploring vital materialities like water, seeds, phosphate, salt and oil that are essential for life or can spur death in their absence.

Warm regards,

The Vital Elements Team.