Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Exploring the Po River Delta: An Experiment in Digital Multimedia Storytelling
By Giacomo Parrinello (Link to multimedia map) One of the most important things I have learnt over these years of research is that the “archives of the feet†is as vital to history as it is to geography. Historians, and especially environmental historians, should not write of a place they have not seen in person.…
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Making Tracks: Giacomo Parrinello
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. An Initiation Into Environmental History By Giacomo Parrinello I first heard of something called “environmental history†as a new MA graduate in history.…
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Photo of the Week: Giacomo Parrinello
This photo depicts a detail of the Cretto, a massive and contested land-art piece conceived by Italian artist Alberto Burri and realized between 1984 and 1988. The piece is located in Western Sicily, Italy, in an area struck by a major seismic disaster in 1968. The Cretto – meaning crack, rift – consists of a…
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Research Roundup #2
Welcome to the second installment of the Research Roundup, Seeing the Woods’ quarterly listing of recent publications in the environmental humanities by staff and fellows at the Rachel Carson Center. (For the first installment, please click here.) Please use the following links to jump between the five sections. Academic Journal Articles Edited Special Journal Issues…