• Contested Ecologies: Munich

    Contested Ecologies: Munich

    By: Clemens Hufeld Munich is a beautiful city that has much to offer. It has the Oktoberfest, one of the world’s largest urban fairs, surfers in the middle of the city, beautiful landscapes in its vicinity, and a long tradition of urban life. The city is shrouded in such a wonderful air of beauty that

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  • Sourdough Cultures

    Sourdough Cultures

    By: Matthew Morse Booker Introduction: An Embodied Multispecies Environmental Humanities Experience As one of the first Alumni Fellows at the Rachel Carson Center (RCC), I wanted to return something to the remarkable community of RCC staff, students, and fellows. In North Carolina I am part of the Sourdough Project, a global public science experiment using

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  • 2020 Visions for Environmental History: Well-Grounded

    2020 Visions for Environmental History: Well-Grounded

    This is the second post in a series on “2020 Visions for Environmental History” being published jointly by NiCHE’s blog The Otter ~ La loutre and Rachel Carson Center’s blog Seeing the Woods, with posts by Lisa Mighetto, Alan MacEachern, Arielle Helmick, and Claudia Leal. The series is intended to promote discussion at a session of the same name at the World Congress

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  • Changing Landscapes of Indigeneity: CHE Place-Based Workshop

    Changing Landscapes of Indigeneity: CHE Place-Based Workshop

    Workshop Report (13–16 May 2019, Madison–Wisconsin, USA) Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Center for Culture, History, and Environment By Daniel Dumas  In May 2019, a group of staff, doctoral candidates, and Environmental Studies Certificate Program students from the Rachel Carson Center traveled to Wisconsin in order to take part in a place-based

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  • USES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES: SULE EMMANUEL EGYA

    USES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES: SULE EMMANUEL EGYA

    The Uses of Environmental Humanities series explores diverse and creative ways of thinking with the Environmental Humanities in responding to socio-environmental challenges. Contributors address the influence of the Environmental Humanities and ways in which we might use this field of study, offering insights into the interactions between societies, science, politics, and culture. The series is

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  • Uses of Environmental Humanities: Nicole Seymour

    Uses of Environmental Humanities: Nicole Seymour

    The Uses of Environmental Humanities series explores diverse and creative ways of thinking with the Environmental Humanities in responding to socio-environmental challenges. Contributors address the influence of the Environmental Humanities and ways in which we might use this field of study, offering insights into the interactions between societies, science, politics, and culture. The series is

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  • Uses of Environmental Humanities: Salma Monani

    Uses of Environmental Humanities: Salma Monani

    The Uses of Environmental Humanities series explores diverse and creative ways of thinking with the Environmental Humanities in responding to socio-environmental challenges. Contributors address the influence of the Environmental Humanities and ways in which we might use this field of study, offering insights into the interactions between societies, science, politics, and culture. The series is

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  • City Environments around the Globe: Past Challenges, Future Visions

    City Environments around the Globe: Past Challenges, Future Visions

    Conference Report (10–12 February 2019, New York University, Abu Dhabi) The new collaboration between Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU Munich) and New York University (NYU) focuses on understanding urban environments over time and aims to explore urban issues and challenges via a comparative, transnational, and global framework. The second installment took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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  • The Uses of Environmental Humanities

    The Uses of Environmental Humanities

    By Samantha Rothbart *Featured image: “Leaving the opera in the year 2000,” a futuristic depiction of Paris. Hand-colored lithograph by Albert Robida (late 19th century). Years ago, when I began the daunting task of deciding what to study university, it seemed that everyone around me was warning against the frivolity of a humanities degree. If

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