Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Photo of the Week: Helmuth Trischler
Honghe Hani Rice Terraces—a famous UNESCO world cultural heritage site in southwest China’s Yunnan province. Hani people have cultivated the land into terraced rice paddies for at least 1,300 years, creating a unique manufactured landscape.
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CfP: Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change
Date: 26–28 February 2016 Location: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany Conveners: Sherilyn MacGregor (Keele University, UK) and Nicole Seymour (California State University, Fullerton, USA) “Gender,” in the environmental humanities and social sciences, has long been synonymous with “women.” Feminist and ecofeminist scholars have produced a great deal of work on…
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Photo of the Week: Annka Liepold
RCC Communications Associate and PhD candidate Annka Liepold recently witnessed the hatching of seventeen-year periodical cicadas on her six-month PhD research exchange at the University of Kansas: “The cycle of their reproduction doesn’t match up with that of their predators . . . Pretty cool . . . I don’t know how they know it’s time, but it definitely…
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CfA: Doctoral Program “Environment and Society” at LMU Munich, Germany
The doctoral program “Environment and Society” invites applications from graduates in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences who wish to research the complex relationships between environment and society on an interdisciplinary basis. The program is based at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum.…
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CfP: Consuming the World: Eating and Drinking in Culture, History, and Environment
Location: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich Conveners: Michelle Mart (Penn State University, Berks Campus), Daniel Philippon (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Hanna Schösler (University of Bayreuth) The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum in Munich, invites paper proposals for a conference…
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Announcing the RCC Fellowship Cohort 2015-16!
The RCC is pleased to announce the 31 recipients of fellowships for the 2015-16 cohort. In our most competitive round to date, a committee of five members from both the RCC and LMU evaluated the applications to choose the new fellows, who will also be the first fellows of Phase II of the Carson Center.…
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Connecting Ideas, Widening Perspectives: Kochel am See Graduate Retreat 2015
“Welcome to the first annual graduate retreat! [Although] . . . it’s not confirmed as an annual event yet . . .” The humorous welcoming words of Sonja Weinbuch, coordinator of the Environmental Studies Certificate Program, set the tone for our weekend: an atmosphere of open creativity, productive discussion, and social engagement. Two dozen master’s students…
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Videos: Lunchtime Colloquia, Winter Semester 2014/15
Carson Fellows and guests gave some more great talks in our lunchtime colloquium series last semester! Check out the winter semester 2014/15 videos on our YouTube channel. Harriet Ritvo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) presents on “At the Edge of the Wild”
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CfA: Zusatzstudium Environmental Studies/Environmental Studies Certificate Program Coordinator
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is accepting applications for its Environmental Studies Certificate Program Coordinator position. The contract is for 24 hours per week, and runs from 1 July 2015 until 31 August 2018. Candidates must be fluent in both German and English. Application deadline is 31 May 2015. More information can be…