Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Videos: Carson Fellow Interviews
Several new Carson Fellow interviews are now online! See these and more on our YouTube page. Dr. Massimo Moraglio on “Mobility and Space” Dr.ir. Maurits Ertsen on “Colonialism and Irrigation: The Gezira Plain, Sudan” Dr. John Agbonifo on “Nigeria: Green Movements and Environmental Governance” Prof. Mei Xueqin on “Dirty Father Thames”
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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: Â “‘And What was there Accepted Us’: Landscape, Stimmung, and Heimat“ Thomas Princen:…
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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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Videos: RCC Lunchtime Colloquia, November
We have had four great presentations this month by fellows and guests at the weekly RCC lunchtime colloquium. Here are the videos – we hope they are of interest! John Agbonifo (Osun State University, Nigeria): “Environmental Governance and Civil Society in Nigeria” Klaus Gestwa (Tübingen University, Germany): “(Post) Soviet Contemporary Environmental History: Ecological Globalization and…
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Video: “Incoming Technology and African Innovation”
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He works on the history of science, technology, and society in Africa. He was a Carson Fellow from July until December 2011. This video is part of a series of RCC Profiles. To view more videos from the series, please visit…
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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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Conversations on a Boat: ESEH 2013
To mark the opening day of the European Society of Environmental History (ESEH) Conference 2013, here are some short conversations about the conference with former and current Carson Fellows. These videos were recorded yesterday during a field trip to Chiemsee, a lake in Bavaria. We hope they give you a flavour of what will be…
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Colloquia Videos Roundup
The RCC Lunchtime Colloquium series allows fellows of the Rachel Carson Center to present their research to other fellows, to staff, and to the general public. Over the last month we have been trialling a livestream of the talks to make them available to a wider audience. The videos are subsequently uploaded to our youtube…