Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Watch and Act, Summer
By Susan Ballard At first, there are only a couple of photos. The usual places: the Guardian, Instagram, Facebook. I trace the fire as it creeps down and across the Southern Highlands, through the deep gullies of the Blue Mountains, and suddenly flares across the South Coast. I keep half an eye on the glistening…
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Matter of Degrees
*Featured image: Australian bushfires from space, 2019 (CC BY SA 3.0) By Anna Pilz and Kate Wright In early January 2020, we began discussing the possibility of curating a collection of creative and intellectual work about the bushfire crisis devastating unceded Aboriginal countries in the continent that is now commonly called “Australia”. Now, only three…
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Uses of Environmental History: Tom Griffiths
This is the fifth in a series of posts exploring the uses of environmental history. The series has been adapted from contributions to a roundtable forum published in the first issue of the new Journal for Ecological History, edited by Renmin University’s Center for Ecological History. By Tom Griffiths Photos courtesy of author A few years ago, when I was writing…
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Making Tracks: Tom Griffiths
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. “Meditations of a Sputnik†by Tom Griffiths I am a “Sputnik,†born in the year the Soviet satellite launched the Cold War into…
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Making Tracks: Anitra Nelson
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. “Goolengook and Guernica†By Anitra Nelson In the Guernica of today’s universal threat from future climate change, environmental campaigners fight for light-bulb suns,…
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Making Tracks: Andrea Gaynor
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. “The Long Path to the Ever-present” by Andrea Gaynor In a more romantic life, my love of nature would have begun in early…
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Making Tracks: Ruth Morgan
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. “Undertaking Doctoral Studies in Environmental History Led Me to People, Places, and Subjects That I Had Never Imagined” by Ruth Morgan I’m probably the…
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Lunchtime Colloquia, Summer 2015
Watch fantastic presentations from the summer semester.Â
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Making Tracks: Cameron Muir
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. “A Place Where All But Man Is Vile, and Every Prospect Displeases†by Cameron Muir Reading the other Making Tracks posts I am struck…