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The Strong Who Inspire: A Poem in Memory of Rachel Carson
This short guest post by award-winning nature writer Ellery Akers commemorates one of the worlds greatest conservationists and our intitute’s namesake, Rachel Carson. Carson died on 14 April 1964 at the age of 56. The poem, taken from Ellery’s new book Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism,… Continue Reading “The Strong Who Inspire: A Poem in Memory of Rachel Carson”
Sourdough Cultures
By: Matthew Morse Booker Introduction: An Embodied Multispecies Environmental Humanities Experience As one of the first Alumni Fellows at the Rachel Carson Center (RCC), I wanted to return something to the remarkable community of RCC staff, students, and fellows. In North Carolina I am… Continue Reading “Sourdough Cultures”
On Environmental Grief and the Rights of Nature
Guest post by Kriss Kevorkian *Featured image: Jill Hein Twenty years ago, when I first coined the term environmental grief—the grief reaction stemming from the environmental loss of ecosystems caused by either natural or human-made events—I thought I was the only one grieving the… Continue Reading “On Environmental Grief and the Rights of Nature”
The RCC Goes Bavarian!
With its wealth of alpine environments and cultural traditions, Bavaria calls to diverse audiences that are as rich as its own natural heritage. Through a host of new projects rooted in sharing and comparing Munich, Bavaria, and the Alpine region, the RCC is celebrating… Continue Reading “The RCC Goes Bavarian!”
The Case to Go to Mars—And the Hope for the Earth
By David Munns *Featured image: Mars Rover. Image: Idaho National Laboratory, [CC-BY 2.0], via Flicker. We need a “hardy, soiled kind of wisdom,” Donna Haraway wrote in her recent book Staying With the Trouble, if we are to avert disaster from climate change even… Continue Reading “The Case to Go to Mars—And the Hope for the Earth”
CfA: RCC Fellowships 2019–2020
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society invites applications for its 2019–20 cohort of postdoctoral and senior fellows. The RCC’s fellowship program is designed to bring together excellent scholars from a variety of countries and disciplines who are working in the fields of… Continue Reading “CfA: RCC Fellowships 2019–2020”
CfP: Irregular Ecologies: The Environmental Impact of Unconventional Warfare
Workshop, 20.07.2019 – 21.07.2019 Location: Florianopolis, Brazil Conveners: Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich) and Javier Puente (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Warfare seldom affects humans alone. While inflicting devastating effects on societies, armed conflicts also shape economic, cultural, sociopolitical, and ecological transformations. As… Continue Reading “CfP: Irregular Ecologies: The Environmental Impact of Unconventional Warfare”
CfP: The Nature of Health, the Health of Nature: Perspectives from History and the Humanities
Conference – Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, 30.05.2019–01.06.2018 Location: Renmin University of China, Beijing, China Sponsors: Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Since Rachel Carson’s path-breaking book Silent Spring (1962), many experts and citizens have been trying… Continue Reading “CfP: The Nature of Health, the Health of Nature: Perspectives from History and the Humanities”
CfA: Early Stage (Doctoral) Researcher
Early Stage Researcher (Doctoral Researcher) Position: Transforming the Bavarian Forest: Socio-ecological Crises, Community Resilience, and Sustainability from a Historical Perspective The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is seeking a highly motivated Early Stage Researcher (ESR) to undertake doctoral studies and participate in… Continue Reading “CfA: Early Stage (Doctoral) Researcher”
Job Opening: Director of Graduate Programs
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (LMU Munich) is looking for a Director of Graduate Programs in Environment and Society. The RCC has two structured graduate programs: a Master’s level certificate program in Environmental Studies… Continue Reading “Job Opening: Director of Graduate Programs”
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