Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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@TrapperBud and the History of Northern Canada
By Tina Adcock “Friday. Left Peace River Aug 30 1929 ran on sand bar, had to stay all night, rained to beat heck.” With this tweet, Derryl Murphy began to narrate a family history that would soon gain a much larger audience than tales of this kind usually do. This past November, Derryl, an author…
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The Grasslands of Mongolia
The vastness of Mongolia’s sky and grasslands cannot be overstated; they present an expansive landscape of complexity, evolution, and history. During a research trip to Mongolia in the summer of 2013, I traveled from the northern forest steppe to the edge of the desert steppe of the Gobi Desert. I became fascinated by the myriad…
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Sensing Latency: Ruins as Sites of Imagination
Post by Diana Limbach Lempel There are two abandoned houses in my neighborhood. I walk by one most days, a small four-family with asphalt shingles slowly littering the ground around its foundation. The sides are a greenish color that I think comes from moss. It smells moldy even from the outside. For a long time,…
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A Conversation on Scholarship, Storytelling, and the Public Humanities
This edited email exchange developed from an informal discussion at the RCC on the role of the writer in communicating environmental issues. Many points of interest and contention emerged – so many, in fact, that RCC fellows are looking at how to discuss them in more detail. We hope that these initial contributions from Don,…
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Research Roundup #3
Welcome to the third installment of the Research Roundup, Seeing the Woods’ quarterly listing of recent publications in the environmental humanities by staff and fellows at the Rachel Carson Center. (For the two previous installments, please click here.) 2013 has been a busy and exciting year for Carson fellows and alumni! Please use the following…
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CfP: Co-evolving Socioeconomic Arrangements and Landscapes
RCC alumnus Maurits Ertsen announces the following call for papers. In order to build understanding on and provide empirical evidence for co-evolving social/economic arrangements and landscapes as environmental systems, two sessions are organized at two different venues. A session on Co-evolution of water systems and societies, to be held at the European Geosciences Union –…
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Making Tracks: Robert Gioielli
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. “We are also environmentalists” By Robert Gioielli One day in the spring of 2001 I received a call from Emory Campbell. At the…
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Connected
Post by Elin Kelsey There is widespread concern that children are increasingly disconnected from nature. I have been exploring this issue in my academic work and in my capacity as a children’s book writer. Last year, I decided to write a picture book that celebrates the fact that we simply are nature and the result was…
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Making Tracks: Giacomo Parrinello
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. An Initiation Into Environmental History By Giacomo Parrinello I first heard of something called “environmental history” as a new MA graduate in history.…