Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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CfA: Two Student Assistant Positions
The RCC is looking for two students in any humanities subject to assist the work of the center on a part-time basis. Research assistants work between 8–12 hours per week as part of a small team. Duties include library service (supporting our international visiting fellows with library access, photocopying, etc.); assisting at conferences, workshops, and…
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Photo of the Week: Helmuth Trischler
Honghe Hani Rice Terraces—a famous UNESCO world cultural heritage site in southwest China’s Yunnan province. Hani people have cultivated the land into terraced rice paddies for at least 1,300 years, creating a unique manufactured landscape.
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CfP: Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change
Date: 26–28 February 2016 Location: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany Conveners: Sherilyn MacGregor (Keele University, UK) and Nicole Seymour (California State University, Fullerton, USA) “Gender,†in the environmental humanities and social sciences, has long been synonymous with “women.†Feminist and ecofeminist scholars have produced a great deal of work on…
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Photo of the Week: Annka Liepold
RCC Communications Associate and PhD candidate Annka Liepold recently witnessed the hatching of seventeen-year periodical cicadas on her six-month PhD research exchange at the University of Kansas: “The cycle of their reproduction doesn’t match up with that of their predators . . . Pretty cool . . . I don’t know how they know it’s time, but it definitely…
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CfA: Doctoral Program “Environment and Society†at LMU Munich, Germany
The doctoral program “Environment and Society†invites applications from graduates in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences who wish to research the complex relationships between environment and society on an interdisciplinary basis. The program is based at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum.…
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Worldview: Environmental Conflicts and Interdisciplinarity in Argentina
by MarÃa Valeria Berros Environmental issues are highly debated in today’s Argentina, and are researched across a range of disciplines—political science, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, literature, and law—as problems linking nature protection, development, and poverty. Analysis has begun to focus on disciplines where the ecological question is fundamentally relevant, such as public debate, risk, and social…
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CfP: Consuming the World: Eating and Drinking in Culture, History, and Environment
Location: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich Conveners: Michelle Mart (Penn State University, Berks Campus), Daniel Philippon (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Hanna Schösler (University of Bayreuth) The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum in Munich, invites paper proposals for a conference…
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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…