Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Transformations in Environment and Society
by Arielle Helmick In February 2018, a group of Carson fellows and staff headed to Abu Dhabi—not for a mid-winter beach trip, but rather for the inaugural collaborative workshop between the RCC and the newly founded Earth Humanities Research Initiative at New York University Abu Dhabi. This exchange was the brainchild of Carson alumna Sophia…
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CfP: Workshop on Human Niche Construction
Date: 16–17 October 2015 Location: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich Conveners: Maurits Ertsen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands; Edmund Russell, University of Kansas, USA; Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Germany In changing their environment, organisms change themselves as well. So goes the niche construction theory, which originated…
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Environmentalism from Below
Appraising the Efficacy of Small-Scale and Subaltern Environmentalist Organizations By Marianna Dudley As the recent World Congress of Environmental History in Guimaraes (Portugal) confirmed, our discipline is a truly international endeavour. But while conferences provide opportunities to present work, discuss ideas and make new friends, busy schedules make it hard to consolidate these experiences into…
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CfP: “From Fossil to Renewable Energies?”
Submissions are invited for a one-day workshop entitled “From Fossil to Renewable Energies? Energy Regimes, the Environment and International Relations, 1970s to Today”. The Workshop will take place in Bologna in May 2014 (exact date and location to be confirmed), and will be divided in two panels, one focused on the impact of energy issues…