Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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2020 Visions for Environmental History: Making Environmental History as Global as Possible
This is the fourth 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 developed alongside a session of the same name at the World Congress for Environmental History in late July.…
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Making Tracks: Vimbai Kwashirai
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. “Seeing the Hyenas for the Calves!†By Vimbai Kwashirai One pitch dark night, it was storming heavily when my grandma, Grace Rungutai Kamutero,…
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Lunchtime Colloquia, Winter Semester 2015/2016
Lise Sedrez on “A Man, a Woman and an Island in Guanabara Bay: How Two Scientists Turned a Hydrobiology Station into a Pollution Monitoring Center in 1950s Rio de Janeiro” Kirsten Wehner on “Towards an Ecological Museology: Integrating ‘Nature’ and ‘Culture’ at the National Museum of Australia” Filippo Bertoni on “Extracting Life: Open…