Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Worldview: Transient Lifestyle, Everlasting Environmental Impacts: Reflections from my Time in Munich
by Laurianne Posch Standing in my grandparents’ kitchen at a family gathering on a sunny winter’s day in Iowa I overheard my uncle ask my cousin, who was around my age, the seemingly simple question: “So where are you living right now?†I cringed, grateful that I wouldn’t be the one to have to muster…
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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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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…
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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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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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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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Making Tracks: Sai Suryanarayanan
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Relations between Scientists and Animals in Experimental Systems” by Sai Suryanarayanan Late one warm and starry July 2007 night in Madison, Wisconsin, I sneaked…