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  • CfA: Internships at the RCC

    The RCC is a joint project of the LMU and the Deutsches Museum. An internship here provides students with the opportunity to gain experience in working in an academic institution, as well as gaining valuable skills in the following fields: €¢ organizing conferences and events €¢ researching for our digital portal €¢ working on our publications…

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  • Fundraising Appeal: Catastrophic Fires around Lake Baikal, Siberia

    by David Moon, Lead Investigator, Leverhulme International Network, Exploring Russia’s Environmental History and Natural Resources The pristine taiga forests surrounding Lake Baikal in Siberia—the world’s largest freshwater lake—have been hit by catastrophic fires during a heatwave this summer. The fires are now getting out of control and emergency services are struggling to cope. The ecological consequences are…

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  • Job: Editor/Communications Associate

    The RCC is looking for a recent graduate and/or doctoral student to join its communications team. The position will start ideally on 15 November 2015, or as soon as possible thereafter. Editing and communications staff work part time (19h/week) as a member of a team, editing outreach materials, scholarly manuscripts, and working on the RCC’s…

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  • CfP: The Anthropocene in Museums: Reflections, Projections and Imaginings

    Date and Location: 3-4 December 2015, Deutsches Museum, Munich Convenors: Kirsten Wehner (National Museum of Australia), Libby Robin (Australian National University) Jenny Newell (American Museum of Natural History), Helmuth Trischler, Rachel Carson Center/Deutsches Museum Sponsors: Deutsches Museum, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Museums and Climate Change Network.

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  • CfA: Environmental Studies Certificate Program

    We are currently accepting applications for the Environmental Studies Certificate Program starting in the winter semester 2015/16. Applications received before 1 October 2015 will be considered. More information on the application process can be found here. Learn more about the program on the website (in German and English).

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  • Job: Research Associate for Environment & Society Portal

    The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is seeking a Research Associate to join our small team working on the Environment & Society Portal, the Rachel Carson Center’s gateway to openly accessible resources on the human-environment relationship. This is a part-time (19h/week) position suitable for PhD candidates. The position starts 15 November 2015 or…

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  • Thoughts of a Lapsed Catholic Environmentalist on Pope Francis’s Encyclical Letter “Laudato Si€˜ of the Holy Father Francis on Care for Our Common Home”

    by John Barry The encyclical should be read as being connected to previous encyclicals and statements; for example, Pope Benedict’s “If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation,” for the celebration of the World Day of Peace 2010. It’s the latest link in a long chain of Christian stewardship thinking about human relations to and…

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  • CfP: Foreign Bodies, Intimate Ecologies: Transformations in Environmental History

    Conveners: Dr Emily O’Gorman (Macquarie University), Dr Ruth Morgan (Monash University), Prof. Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center), Dr Cameron Muir (The Australian National University), Dr Alessandro Antonello (University of Oregon) Sponsors: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU, Munich, Germany; Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, Australia; Centre for Environmental History, The Australian National…

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  • Snapshot: Animals in Transdisciplinary Environmental History Summer School, Estonia

    By Robert Emmett I took this photograph of one of our Environmental Studies Certificate Program students, Julie Weissmann, walking at the head of the group of participants in the Animals in Transdisciplinary Environmental History summer school near Haapsalu, Estonia. Biosemiotician Kalevi Kull had just described the mixture of birdsong in the spring forest as the “Estonian symphony” when…

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