Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Photo of the Week: Gijs Mom
“A bit embarrassed I sit here on a hand-pulled rickshaw in Kolkata, just after having visited a rickshaw repair workshop. It takes some time to get used to be pulled by a human being, not only morally, but also physically: the seat is surprisingly high-up, and very shaky.”
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Notes From the Field
By Jessica DeWitt Originally published for the University of Kentucky Political Ecology Group Outsider. Insider. My academic journey thus far often seems like a tightrope act between these two desires. My background and passion for state parks and nature has led me to become an environmental historian who focuses on parks. My dissertation is a comparative…
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Making Tracks: Shane McCorristine
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. New Places By Shane McCorristine On my first day in Munich I got lost looking for the Rachel Carson Center. But I was…
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Photo of the Week: Ingo K. Heidbrink
Ny Herrnhut or Herrnhuthuset. The building was constructed in 1747 as the center of the Moravian Brethren Mission to Greenland. The timber for the construction was imported from the Netherlands due to the lack of local building supplies in Greenland. Herrnhuthuset is located on the outskirts of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, and was up to 2009 the…
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CfP: Framing Nature
“Framing Nature: Signs, Stories, and Ecologies of Meaning” The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) biennial conference and the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) IX conference. Hosted by the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu. Tartu, Estonia, 29 April – 3 May 2014. Confirmed keynote…
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Video: Nacht der Nachhaltigkeit (in German)
On 21 June 2013, the Rachel Carson Center (together with BenE München and the Verein für Nachhaltigkeit) hosted a “Nacht der Nachhaltigkeit” (Night of Sustainability) to raise awareness of and explore the concept of sustainability. The theme of the event was “Rethinking Mobility and Energy”. It included panel discussions, presentations, music, competitions and demonstrations, bringing…
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Making Tracks: Ellen Arnold
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. Academic Platypus, or “How I Became a Medieval Historian in Six Easy Steps” By Ellen Arnold The project that I am pursuing at…
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Making Tracks: Claudia Leal
Far Away, So Close By Claudia Leal When I was a child, my family would get into the car every vacation and drive seven hours from Bogotá to Bucaramanga through the Colombian Andes. We bought biscuits in Arcabuco and bocadillo (guava paste) in Vélez before driving down into the terrifying Chicamocha Canyon. My dad invariably…