Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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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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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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@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,…