Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Transitions in Energy Landscapes and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
27–29 April 2017, Munich, Germany A report on the workshop sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), Rachel Carson Center, and the Deutsches Museum (Germany), convened by Heather Chappells (University of British Columbia), Vanessa Taylor (University of Greenwich), Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck College), Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum), and Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center). By Vanessa Taylor…
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“Key Debates in Environmental Anthropologyâ€â€”A Report on the Inaugural Conference of the Environmental Anthropology Working Group
by Oliver Liebig On 26th and 27th September 2016, the Environmental Anthropology Working Group (a subgroup of the German Anthropological Association) met at the Rachel Carson Center for their inaugural conference. The meeting was convened to discuss the key debates and standpoints in environmental anthropology, as well as its diverse engagements with current environmental problems,…
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Making Tracks: Salma Monani
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. “70mm is Big!†Rethinking Cinema, Otherness, and Ecological Relations by Salma Monani Going to the movies during my childhood in the mid-1970s and…
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Snapshot: RCC Celebrates New Funding Phase
By Stephanie Hood Last week, staff, students, and Fellows at the Rachel Carson Center celebrated the center receiving grant approval for its second funding phase, which begins today and is to last six years.
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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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CfP: Religion in the Anthropocene: Challenges, Idolatries, Transformations
Fifth International Conference of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment, 14–17 May 2015. The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is collaborating with the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment (EFSRE) to bring you a conference on “Religion in the Anthropocene.”
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RCC Awarded Funding by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Grant will allow RCC to apply the aggregation and publication tool PressForward to the Ant Spider Bee: Exploring Digital Environmental Humanities blog