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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…
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Photo of the Week: Annka Liepold
Annka’s photos come from her July 2014 research trip to Olivia, Minnesota in the United States. The town is known as the “Corn Capital of the World,” and is home to nine seed research sites.
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Environmental Leaders of the Future: RCC Students and Scholars at GESA 2014
by Yolanda Lopez Maldonado Where have all our environmental leaders gone? What does it take for a person to take action? What do we need to do for an improved life and a better environment? These were just a few of the questions that were discussed during the 2014 Global Environments Summer Academy (GESA), which RCC Doctoral…
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CfP: Religion in the Anthropocene: Challenges, Idolatries, Transformations
Fifth International Conference of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment, 14–17 May 2015. The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is collaborating with the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment (EFSRE) to bring you a conference on “Religion in the Anthropocene.”
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RCC Awarded Funding by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Grant will allow RCC to apply the aggregation and publication tool PressForward to the Ant Spider Bee: Exploring Digital Environmental Humanities blog