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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society
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International center for environmental humanities research in Munich, Germany.
Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
Portal: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/
Seeing the Woods: https://seeingthewoods.org/
Springs: https://springs-rcc.org/
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We are excited to share that the newest issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now live! Three essays, a visual narrative, a short story, and an interview join forces to uncover missing pieces in our quest to understand human–environment interactions: springs-rcc.org

#publications #envhum #envhist #RCCSprings #issue8
This Tuesday, Yola Krämer and Bastian Lösch of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's environmental office will present their projects, ideas, and contributions to creating a more sustainable university life: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

#environment #practice #academia #sustainability
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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"In the lecture hall instruments perch atop bookshelves, old snowshoes and sledges hang from hooks, large pieces of numbered rock dot the surfaces, and [photos] of the different glaciers through history adorn the walls."
springs-rcc.org/portrait-of-...

Flora Mary Barlett:
www.floramarybartlett.com
Today, we would like to highlight a photo essay from the recently-published eighth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.

In 2020, visual and #environmental #anthropologist Flora Mary Bartlett travelled to the #Tarfala Research Station in northern Sweden to explore how scientists engage with #glacial landscapes.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today, we would like to highlight a photo essay from the recently-published eighth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.

In 2020, visual and #environmental #anthropologist Flora Mary Bartlett travelled to the #Tarfala Research Station in northern Sweden to explore how scientists engage with #glacial landscapes.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
📆 The fourth Environmental Humanities Talk at the University in Pécs, Hungary. Today, online or in person! 🖥️
Today!!!
Please join online, in-person in Pécs! :)

Paolo Gruppuso and Judith Bopp will give a lecture! Co-organzied with the @carsoncenter.bsky.social

20.11.2025 - 2 pm CET
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Online link: lnkd.in/dVh_ddYa
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This week with Jörg Niewöhner, professor of #anthropology of science and technology at Technical University of Munich.

The #LunchtimeColloquium is free and open to the public. The talk starts at 12:30, but feel free to come at 12, bring a lunch, and socialize.
This semester’s #LunchtimeColloquia are centered around “Thinking, Imagining, Building #FutureEnvironments.”

This interdisciplinary lecture series presents a range of topics related to human-environment relationships and consists of lectures by faculty from various disciplines.
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
We just added the newest issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 to the Portal Multimedia Library: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/collecti...

#envhum #envhist #openaccess #conservation #comics #nucleardecommissioning #precarity #erosion #photography #glaciers #Indigenousknowledge
Periodicals
www.environmentandsociety.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Planetary health contributions often assume a single universal reality, but Indigenous movements and scholars propose many realities.

In my latest blog post, I explore why embracing multiple ontologies in planetary health could transform how we respond to climate and health crises.

Read here 👇
In the newest contribution to the #planetaryhealth series on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴, author @pimientac.bsky.social examines a theory of planetary health that acknowledges a “world of many worlds.” Might acknowledging relational and communication issues provide solutions for #ecologicalproblems?
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Was passiert, wenn #Kernkraftwerke stillgelegt werden? Die Auswirkungen auf die #Umwelt untersuchen Change!-Fellow Davide Orsini und seine Forschungspartner:innen am @carsoncenter.bsky.social der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social.

#Atomkraft #Kernenergie #nuclear
Today, we are happy to highlight an interview recently published in the eighth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.

Anthropologist Davide Orsini and historian Uwe Lübken shed light on #nucleardecommissioning in their conversation about Davide’s Volkswagen Foundation Change! project “(Dis)Empowered Communities.”
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November 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Today, we are happy to highlight an interview recently published in the eighth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.

Anthropologist Davide Orsini and historian Uwe Lübken shed light on #nucleardecommissioning in their conversation about Davide’s Volkswagen Foundation Change! project “(Dis)Empowered Communities.”
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November 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In the newest contribution to the #planetaryhealth series on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴, author @pimientac.bsky.social examines a theory of planetary health that acknowledges a “world of many worlds.” Might acknowledging relational and communication issues provide solutions for #ecologicalproblems?
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In a few hours, Michael Vitzthum and Heidemarie Isele, co-authors of a public transport travel guide for mountain tours, will join us for the #TuesdayDiscussion.

Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

#rccevents #envhum @deutschebahn.com #authortalk #free #opentopublic
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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We have update our interactive map for 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝! It is still a work in progress, so please help us expand and diversify the map by suggesting more institutions, hubs, and associations. Browse the map here: www.iceho.org/eh-map
#EnvHist
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We are very pleased to highlight each of the articles in the recently-published eighth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 individually over the next few weeks.

Today, we would like to introduce “Ecocomics: Vivid Worlds in Images and Text” by literary scholar Julia Ludewig.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Join us for tomorrow's Lunchtime Colloquium with Udo Weilacher, professor of landscape architecture and transformation at the Technical University of Munich: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

#rccevents #lectureseries #envhum #environmentalfuture #architecture
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The short film 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘢 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥: 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘦𝘴, directed by former Carson Fellow Kata Beilin and Avi Paul Weinstein, is now available on the Portal: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/maya-lan....

#bees #IndigenousPeople #agriculture #envhum #beekeepers #soy #Maya
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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We have new members! Sebastian Lundsteen, Mona Bieling, and Jonatan Palmblad remain from the old team, and we welcome Nike Stolpe Wikström, Aofie O'Leary McNeice, and Gilberto Mazzoli! Updates on what we are doing and planning will follow. Nextgate supports early-career scholars in #EnvHist
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Ghassan Hage is here in Munich this week and will give guest lectures tomorrow and on Friday.

#envhum #envhist @anthroprofhage.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Our colleagues Pilar Peralta and Jonte Palmblad are currently in Argentina for our international project Speak4Nature. Through secondments with parners in Italy, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, we work towards an international framework for ecological justice! @speak4nature.bsky.social #EnvHum
This weekend Speak4Nature secondees from different countries joined our partner institution UNL on an ecological-justice survey of the countryside of Santa Fe, Argentina.

@palmblad.bsky.social #envhum
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In tomorrow's Tuesday Discussion, Chair of BENG eg Katharina Habersbrunner will present on energy communities as key drivers of decentralized, citizen-led energy futures.

More info: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_....

#energytransition #solarenergy #windenergy #prosumer
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Join us fo this exciting workshop with writer, performance artist, and literary scholar Ofir Ashery, and explore different modes of nonlinear writing: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_....

#writing #workshop #rhizomes #creativewriting #fiction #nonfiction
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Nordic scholars. Join us at NESS, Submit your abstracts on climate obstruction here

@cssn.org
@carsoncenter.bsky.social
@environmentalpol.bsky.social
Next year, Tero Toivanen and I are organizing a workshop for the Nordic Environmental Social Science conference on questions of how we understand climate obstruction / opposition! Submit your idea to the workshop 14 over here:
Workshops - Uppsala University
www.uu.se
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
To what extent did the unveiling of gas leaks “scale up” a Romanian technical problem into an EU environmental issue? Read the latest 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article by Ariane Desroches-Touchain to find out! #envhum #envhist
Making Methane Visible: From Local Leaks to EU Regulation
To what extent did the unveiling of gas leaks “scale up” a Romanian technical problem into an EU environmental issue?
www.environmentandsociety.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Today's Lunchtime Colloquium is with historian Ruth Gamble (La Trobe University).

Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

#rccevents #lectureseries #envhum #environmentalfuture @ruthgamble.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Wrote a piece for Springs @carsoncenter.bsky.social Marmots, eagles, Finland, Canada, two wildlife biologists

springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo...

#envhist #envhum
#animalhist #histsci
#goldeneagles
#vancouverisland
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Three days left to apply for an internship with us, starting on 15 January or 1 February and running for three months.

Full call: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

#rccjobs #internship #callforapplications #envhum #envhist #editing #socialmedia #library #books #cataloguing
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM