Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Lunchtime Colloquia, Winter Semester 2015/2016
Lise Sedrez on “A Man, a Woman and an Island in Guanabara Bay: How Two Scientists Turned a Hydrobiology Station into a Pollution Monitoring Center in 1950s Rio de Janeiro” Kirsten Wehner on “Towards an Ecological Museology: Integrating ‘Nature’ and ‘Culture’ at the National Museum of Australia” Filippo Bertoni on “Extracting Life: Open…
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Making Tracks: Nicole Seymour
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 Great Indoors: Notes on a Perverse Path to the Environmental Humanities by Nicole Seymour One of my colleagues once posted an image…
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Material Matters: A Report on the 8th Biennial ASLE-UKI Conference
By Nicole Seymour Thanks to the Rachel Carson Center, I was able to attend the ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland chapter) conference last month at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England. As a regular attendee of the main ASLE conference—which brings hordes of fleece-and-sandal-wearing professors to US…
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“Nature, Red in Tooth and Clawâ€: Jiang Rong’s “Wolf Totem”
Post by Brenda Black Jiang Rong’s autobiographical novel Wolf Totem was one of the group reads for the Global Environment Summer Academy held at the Rachel Carson Center last August. It recounts the experiences of a Chinese college student, Chen Zhen (the author’s alter ego), sent to live among the nomadic herders of Inner Mongolia…