Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Photo of the Week: Ingo Heidbrink
Antarctica When thinking about the seventh continent, the first thought likely to come to mind is that this frozen region is one of the few places on the globe where humans have not instigated major environmental issues, and where forces of nature are more relevant than human activity. Any Internet search related to Antarctica will…
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Videos: Carson Fellow Interviews
Several new Carson Fellow interviews are now online! See these and more on our YouTube page. Dr. Massimo Moraglio on “Mobility and Space” Dr.ir. Maurits Ertsen on “Colonialism and Irrigation: The Gezira Plain, Sudan” Dr. John Agbonifo on “Nigeria: Green Movements and Environmental Governance” Prof. Mei Xueqin on “Dirty Father Thames”
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CfA: Erasmus Exchange between RCC Environmental Studies Certificate Program and Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU), Austria
The RCC is excited to announce a new Erasmus+ exchange program, to take place between our environmental studies certificate program at LMU and the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Further Education (Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung, IFF) at the Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) in Klagenfurt, Austria. Those participating at the AAU need German at B2 level according to…
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Photo of the Week: Tobias Schiefer
A Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, rests on a plant at the tropical butterfly house at Munich’s botanical gardens. Monarch butterflies have been the focus of many environmental campaigns on account of their dwindling numbers. Their demise has been linked to human activity, most recently in relation to the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
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CfA: PhD/Doctoral Researchers in Collaboration with ENHANCE ITN
The Rachel Carson Center is participating in a new European graduate training network, the Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe (ENHANCE) Innovative Training Network (ITN). ENHANCE ITN is now seeking outstanding applicants for 12 PhD/doctoral researchers. Please see the program website for information about eligibility, stipends, and the research partners. Three doctoral fellows will be hosted at the…
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CfP: Workshop on Human Niche Construction
Date: 16–17 October 2015 Location: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich Conveners: Maurits Ertsen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands; Edmund Russell, University of Kansas, USA; Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Germany In changing their environment, organisms change themselves as well. So goes the niche construction theory, which originated…
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Photo of the Week: Anna Rühl
With over 250 days of sunshine a year, Mongolians call their country the Land of the Blue Sky. Except sometimes it’s not. On a winter’s day in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar—home to approximately half of the country’s population of three million—air pollution can be so bad that the weather forecast reads “smoke,” and it…
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CfA: Internships at the Rachel Carson Center
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is accepting applications for its internship program! We offer two types of internships for enrolled students: one for students enrolled in BA studies at LMU Munich and one for those from other institutions. The RCC is a flagship institution for international humanities research in Germany and gives interns…
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CfP: Global Deserts: Environmental History in the Arid Lands
Location: University of Arizona Sponsors: The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany; Temple University, Philadelphia, USA; the University of Arizona, Tuscon; and the University of California, Davis. The goal of this conference is to examine and discuss, in a comparative and transnational context, a wide variety of topics including (but not…