Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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CfA: Environmental Studies Certificate Program
We are currently accepting applications for the Environmental Studies Certificate Program starting in the winter semester 2015/16. Applications received before 1 October 2015 will be considered. More information on the application process can be found here. Learn more about the program on the website (in German and English).
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Job: Research Associate for Environment & Society Portal
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is seeking a Research Associate to join our small team working on the Environment & Society Portal, the Rachel Carson Center’s gateway to openly accessible resources on the human-environment relationship. This is a part-time (19h/week) position suitable for PhD candidates. The position starts 15 November 2015 or…
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Snapshot: RCC Celebrates New Funding Phase
By Stephanie Hood Last week, staff, students, and Fellows at the Rachel Carson Center celebrated the center receiving grant approval for its second funding phase, which begins today and is to last six years.
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CfP: Foreign Bodies, Intimate Ecologies: Transformations in Environmental History
Conveners: Dr Emily O’Gorman (Macquarie University), Dr Ruth Morgan (Monash University), Prof. Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center), Dr Cameron Muir (The Australian National University), Dr Alessandro Antonello (University of Oregon) Sponsors: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU, Munich, Germany; Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, Australia; Centre for Environmental History, The Australian National…
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Student Project: The Birth of Geoengineering
by Martin Meiske Congratulations to RCC doctoral program member Martin Meiske, who received the prize for the best poster at the 2015 ESEH conference in Versailles. In his poster he presented his dissertation project on “The Birth of Geoengineering: Large-scale Engineering Projects in the Early Stage of the Anthropocene (1850–1950)”—here, he tells us more about his…
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Lunchtime Colloquia, Summer 2015
Watch fantastic presentations from the summer semester.
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Greening of LMU: How Sustainable Do We Want to Be?
By Robert Emmett Date and Location: 9 July 2015, LMU, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Munich. Technological fixes are not going to solve the capitalism-climate collision in any transcendental, universal sense. We’re not greening ourselves out of the social-environmental challenges ahead with clever gadgets. Instead, as the authors of the Nature paper “Changing the Intellectual Climate” suggest, deep…
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Snapshot: Animals in Transdisciplinary Environmental History Summer School, Estonia
By Robert Emmett I took this photograph of one of our Environmental Studies Certificate Program students, Julie Weissmann, walking at the head of the group of participants in the Animals in Transdisciplinary Environmental History summer school near Haapsalu, Estonia. Biosemiotician Kalevi Kull had just described the mixture of birdsong in the spring forest as the “Estonian symphony” when…