Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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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
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CfP: Trans-Environmental Dynamics: Understanding and Debating Ontologies, Politics, and History in Latin America
29–31 October 2015, LMU Munich Sponsored by LMU Munich, in cooperation with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Conveners: Eveline Dürr (LMU Munich), Ernst Halbmayer (University of Marburg), and Karoline Noack (University of Bonn) This upcoming conference on Latin America links into current debates among diverse conceptualizations of the environment and thus of various ways…
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Photo of the Week: Eliza Encheva and Stephanie Hood
Art bicycle by Netherlands-based artist Victor Sonna on display at the Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands exhibition at the Deutsches Museum. Sonna produces these disordered but functional bicycles from objects that would otherwise be destroyed, highlighting how the society of the anthropocene “will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we…
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Schneefernerhaus: The 15th Anniversary of the Environmental Research Station at Zugspitze
By Sibylle Zavala, RCC Environmental Studies Certificate Program candidate. Built into the rocks of the Zugspitze´s southern slope, 2,650 meters above sea level, is Germany’s highest research station. The Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus (in German “Umweltforschungsstation Schneefernerhaus, UFS”) acquired its name from the nearby glacier and comprises research station, observatory, and communication facility.
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CfP: Manufacturing Landscapes—Nature and Technology in Environmental History
28–31 May 2015, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China Co-sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, and the Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China Nuclear power plants, bullet trains, factory farms, and ancient rice paddies are all forms of landscapes transformed by technology. They express a relationship between…
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A Forest of Signs: Mindful Communication in Human-Nature Relations among an Indigenous Community in the Brazilian Rainforest
By Wolfgang Kapfhammer During my fieldwork among the Sateré-Mawé, an Amerindian community in the Brazilian rainforest, I tried to find an adequate term to characterize the disposition of human agents when dealing with their non-human environment. I kept thinking about something like “attentive” or “mindful” as apt expressions, the latter already being somewhat familiar to…