Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Material Matters: A Report on the 8th Biennial ASLE-UKI Conference
By Nicole Seymour Thanks to the Rachel Carson Center, I was able to attend the ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland chapter) conference last month at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England. As a regular attendee of the main ASLE conference—which brings hordes of fleece-and-sandal-wearing professors to US…
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New Design for Seeing the Woods
We’ve updated our blog design to link it more closely with our other social media platforms. We hope you like the new look! If you have any thoughts, please let us know in the comments.
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After The Fire, The Flowers Bloom
Reposted from Wild Mountain Echoes by kind permission of Christine Hass. Christine is a professional ecologist interested in mammal social behavior, including the role of sound in social communication. She also enjoys recording natural soundscapes, many of which feature in her blog posts. *** It seems as if every mountain range in the southwest has…
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Anthropocene: New Temporalities, New Spatialities
Post by Helen Pallett It is perhaps self-evident that the advent of the Anthropocene, or at least its announcement, urges us to think deeply about time. Thinking the Anthropocene is simultaneously to situate human society in the context of deep geological time, to draw attention to the rapid changes wrought on earth processes in the…
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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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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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Potatoes and the Foods of the Poor
Reposted with kind permission of Marion Elizabeth Diamond from Historians are Past Caring. © Marion Elizabeth Diamond and Historians are Past Caring, 2012. I bought two kilograms of potatoes last weekend. Four days later, I took out the bag to peel some for dinner, and found that every single potato in the bag had shoots…
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CfP: “From Fossil to Renewable Energies?”
Submissions are invited for a one-day workshop entitled “From Fossil to Renewable Energies? Energy Regimes, the Environment and International Relations, 1970s to Today”. The Workshop will take place in Bologna in May 2014 (exact date and location to be confirmed), and will be divided in two panels, one focused on the impact of energy issues…
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“Very Old Stone With Fire Inside”: Kindergarten Explorers Visit the RCC
Post by Katie Ritson (Managing Editor, RCC) I am used to explaining what exactly the Rachel Carson Center is, and what my work there involves, but I don’t usually have to do it to a room full of five and six-year-olds. However, I was pleasantly surprised to realize that it’s actually much easier to explain…