Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Videos: Lunchtime Colloquia, April
We have had some more exciting talks in our lunchtime colloquium series this month! Check out the videos below. For more videos, including a series of short interviews with fellows about their research at the RCC, please visit our YouTube channel. Angelika Krebs: “‘And What was there Accepted Us’: Landscape, Stimmung, and Heimat“ Thomas Princen:…
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CfP: Turning Protest Into Policy
The ASEH invites proposals for its 2015 conference that will convene March 18-22 in Washington, DC. The conference theme is “Turning Protest into Policy: Environmental Values and Governance in Changing Societies.” The program committee particularly encourages panel and roundtable proposals that engage the theme in creative ways: environmental justice movements around the world, international or…
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CfP: North Atlantic Fisheries History Association 14th International Conference
Between the Commons and the Market: New Cultural, Social and Economic Perspectives on Fisheries History and Coastal Heritage Historians, social scientists, museum professionals and other scholars working in the field of fishery and coastal heritage are cordially invited to the 14th NAFHA Conference, which will take place at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT…
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Photo of the Week: Annka Liepold
Kuta Beach, Bali, during “Trash Season.” On top of the regular daily trash left behind at the beaches, this is a phenomenon that occurs annually between the end of December and the end of February. Because of strong winds, plastic discarded in the ocean in Java is washed ashore on the beaches of Bali’s southwestern…
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Car Parks and Edgelands: An Interview with Artist Edward Chell
For your most recent project, Eclipse, you’ve painted sixty plant silhouettes on gesso panels. These are common woodland plants that are also found in less conventional landscape spaces, such as motorway verges. Collisions between the natural world and car travel are an underlying theme in your work. Could you expand on the thinking behind the…
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Scenarios: Using Science Fiction to Think About the Future
Post by Jenny Seifert. Reposted with kind permission of Adam Hinterthuer at UW-Madison Center for Limnology. Change is constant and inevitable—in jobs, in relationships, in business, and in nature. It can make us feel downright powerless to realize that nothing is certain. So why even bother trying to plan ahead? Well, when it comes to…
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Outsmarting Technology: Elephants as Non-Human-Actors in Wildlife Conflicts
By Ursula Münster What differentiates humans from other animals is a question that has long occupied scholars in the life sciences and humanities alike. For the conservation biologists, farmers, and indigenous Adivasis I met during my ethnographic fieldwork at a wildlife sanctuary in South India, it is precisely the resemblance of certain animal species to…
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An Interview with Verena Winiwarter, Austrian Academic of the Year
This interview was conducted by Klaus Taschwer for derstandard.at. To view the German text, please click here. Thank you to Rachel Shindelar for helping to translate the interview. Austria’s environmental journalists have selected you as academic of the year. Surprised? Yes, I was completely surprised. Most of the previous recipients have a profile that is…
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Making Tracks: Karen Oslund
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. Imagining the Global Arctic By Karen Oslund In his What W. H. Auden Can Do for You, Alexander McCall Smith calls Auden “a…