Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Student Research: Gardeners
By Veronika Degmayr (Environmental Studies Certificate Program) Whether you’re an academic in the environmental field, an environmental activist, or just a person concerned about the state of our environment, you might at times wonder what good all that science, research, and activism is really doing. How far do published papers actually reach? Do we get to…
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CfA: Environmental Studies Certificate Program
We are currently accepting applications for the Environmental Studies Certificate Program starting in the winter semester 2015/16. Applications received before 30 September 2015 will be considered. The Environmental Studies Certificate Program provides LMU students from all disciplines with the opportunity to gain an additional interdisciplinary qualification in environmental studies. The certificate course runs in parallel to…
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Making Tracks: Maurits Ertsen
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. “When Not a Tree Hugger, Is One a Tree Hater?” (paraphrasing Doug Coupland) by Maurits Ertsen I am not an environmentalist. Don’t get…
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Videos: Lunchtime Colloquia, April
We have had some more exciting talks in our lunchtime colloquium series this month! Check out the videos below. For more videos, including a series of short interviews with fellows about their research at the RCC, please visit our YouTube channel. Angelika Krebs: Â “‘And What was there Accepted Us’: Landscape, Stimmung, and Heimat“ Thomas Princen:…
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The Battle To Define “Avatar Spirituality”
RCC alumnus Bron Taylor has been interviewed by RD10Q on his most recent book, Avatar and Nature Spirituality. Taylor’s book contains essays from leading scholars on the environmental dimensions of James Cameron’s hugely popular film. Asked about the “take-home” message, Taylor comments: In my own wrap up to the book I argue that, despite the…