Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Interview: Lise Sedrez on the Samarco Tailings Dam Spill, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Part Three)
The mine tailing dam break in Bento Rodrigues, Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on 5 November 2015 has been described by the Brazilian government as the country’s worst environmental catastrophe. Robert Emmett and Claire Lagier sat down with Brazilian environmental historian Lise Sedrez at the RCC in Munich on 19 November and recorded the following interview. CL:…
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Interview: Lise Sedrez on the Samarco Tailings Dam Spill, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Part Two)
The mine tailing dam break in Bento Rodrigues, Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on 5 November 2015 has been described by the Brazilian government as the country’s worst environmental catastrophe. Robert Emmett and Claire Lagier sat down with Brazilian environmental historian Lise Sedrez at the RCC in Munich on 19 November and recorded the following interview. RE:…
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Lecture Notes: “Toxic Legacies—Agent Orange as a Challenge”
by Christian Lahnstein In 2013, the Korean Supreme Court confirmed the liability of US manufacturers for damage caused by the defoliant Agent Orange in the 1965–72 Vietnam War. The 300,000 South Korean soldiers and their descendants constitute the third-largest group of Agent Orange victims, after the Vietnamese population and US veterans and their descendants. In…
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Interview: Lise Sedrez on the Samarco Tailings Dam Spill, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Part One)
The mine tailing dam break in Bento Rodrigues, Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on 5 November 2015 has been described by the Brazilian government as the country’s worst environmental catastrophe. Robert Emmett and Claire Lagier sat down with Brazilian environmental historian Lise Sedrez at the RCC in Munich on 19 November and recorded the following interview. RE:…
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Making Tracks: Dan Lewis
In the “Making Tracks” series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. Slow Down and Smell the Birds by Dan Lewis Rarely do things crash in on me like thunder and change my life in…
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Snapshot: Climate March München
Carson Fellows gathered on Sunday 29 November for the Munich Climate March. The biggest climate demonstration in Munich, organized by Fossil Free München and partners (including Bürgerlobby Klimaschutz, BenE München, Clean Energy Project, LBV München, Plant for the Planet, sneep e.V., and WissenLeben e.V.) was held ahead of the COP21 climate conference to take place in Paris, 7–8 December…
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Snapshot: Student Film Screening
Environmental Studies Certificate Program students Stefanie Schlosser and Katharina Bochter had the exciting opportunity to screen their film on invasive plant species in the Alps—made for their final project—at the Park Kino cinema in Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria.
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Worldview: Antarctica
by Ingo Heidbrink Antarctica is the only continent with a permanent population of zero, and it has a strong international regulation system governing human activities from research to tourism. One might question whether an environmental history of Antarctica, beyond natural history, could therefore even be possible. While I am no native or citizen of Antarctica—these…
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Making Tracks: Joana Gaspar de Freitas
In the “Making Tracks” series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. The Sea and the Sand: Building a Path in Environmental History by Joana Gaspar de Freitas The path that we take is never…