Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society
@carsoncenter
International center for environmental humanities research in Munich, Germany. Website: Portal: Seeing the Woods: Springs:
On Thursday, 2 July, Christof Mauch delivered the final lecture of his teaching career at LMU ahead of his retirement. Congratulations to Christof on his expansive teaching career at LMU, and thank you for the generosity as teacher and mentor.
We are pleased to announce the next installment of our “Thinking, Imagining, Building Future Environments” lecture series! Tomorrow's talk will feature Maan Barua (Human Geography, University of Cambridge), who will discuss “The Metropolis and Metabolic Life.” #rccevents #lectureseries #envhist
Tomorrow, 16 July, our @speak4nature.bsky.social fellows at the RCC will present on research conducted in Europe and Latin America exploring different dimensions of socioecological justice. Join us in person or on Zoom! The event will be conducted in Spanish. More info here: tinyurl.com/396a6muj
Join us tomorrow for our screening and discussion of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦: 𝘈 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵! More info: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
Few copies remain of The Lexicon of Mauch Studies, written by friends and colleagues of our director Christof Mauch and published by the White Horse Press. Get a copy now! #EnvHum
We have a writing workshop with visiting scholar and writer Esther Rutter scheduled for 27 July. Join this workshop to explore writing techniques and develop your research into engaging and creative narratives for nonspecialist audiences! #envhum #writing #research #publishing #workshops
Tomorrow afternoon, Sebastian Brandis, spokesman of the executive board of Mensch für Mensch Foundation (MFM), and Habtamu Yismaw, monitoring and evaluation manager of MFM will join the Tuesday Discussion. #rccevents #Ethiopia #sustainabledevelopment #rcc #munich #live #discussion #envhum
Join us on Monday (6 July) for the next installment of our lecture series “On Environment”, featuring Simon Richter and his talk, “Putting the Environmental Humanities to Work: Visual Storytelling for Climate Policy.” #lectureseries #rccevents #envhum #envhist #animation #visualstorytelling
Join us today for Talitta Reitz's doctoral dissertation defense! Discover the story behind “How Portland Became a Bicycle-Friendly City” and celebrate this exciting academic milestone with us. #RCCEvents #envhum #PhDDefense #DissertationDefense #Portland #bikefriendlycity #bicycle
Congratulations to Moussa Douno, John Soleemulo Fayiah, and Shadrach Kerwillain for successfully defending their doctoral dissertations last Friday! Learn about their research here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... #envhum
🎉 New in the Springs Archive! We’re pleased to add Poul Holm’s article, “Can Environmental Humanities Help Make a Better World?,” originally published in RCC Perspectives, to the Springs archive. #SpringsArchive #EnvHist #FutureThinking #RCC
Join us tomorrow for a special day of dissertation defenses hosted by the Fragments of the Forest team! #RCCEvents #envhum #PhDDefense #DissertationDefense #GlobalHealth #EnvironmentalHistory #Liberia #WestAfrica
Yesterday, RCC alumna Dr. Katie Ritson presented her Habilitation thesis. New horizons await Katie as an assistant professor in the Scandinavian Department at the University of California, Berkeley, on 1 July. Congrats Katie! www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
The ReWet project has been featured in the latest issue of a wetlands-focused newsletter published by FACTA.EU. The feature is written in Italian. Read the newsletter: paludi.ghost.io/13-antropolo... #ReWet #Wetlands #NatureBasedSolutions #ClimateAdaptation #ResearchCommunication
Join us tomorrow for our international brown bag colloquium. This week, anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas, medical doctor, anthropologist, and bioethicist Lydie Stokes Fialová, and environmental policy researcher Carolina Yacaman will present and discuss their current research. #rccevents #munich
Join leading voices from urban planning, landscape architecture, civic initiatives, and research for a public discussion on the future of the inner-city Isar. 📅 June 30, 2026 | 19:00 📍 Kulturstrand / Architekturgalerie (weather-dependent) #envhum #panediscussion #munich #isar #publicdiscussion
We are excited to share a new article by former Fellow Dr. Irus Braverman: “The New Jewish Shepherd: Land Grabbing and Redemption in the Occupied West Bank.” Read the full article at: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #envhum #research #environment #WestBank #fieldwork
Monika Griefahn, founding member of Greenpeace Germany and currently with Cradle to Cradle NGO, will virtually lead our Tuesday Discussion on June 16. Contact Annika Stanitzok (annika.stanitzok@rcc.lmu.de) to receive a Zoom link, or come attend in person in our conference room. #envhum #envhist
Tomorrow (June 11), Dr. Gordon Winder, Professor of Economic Geography and Sustainability Research at LMU (@lmu.de), will present on “Marine Spatial Planning, Blue Economy, and Just Transitions.” The event is free and open to the public. Info: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #envhum
The newest issue of 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 (@globalenvironment.bsky.social) is guest edited by PhD candidate Lijuan Klassen & RCC Director Christof Mauch! It brings an environmental humanities perspective to planetary health: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/current #envhist #envhum
Join us for today's international colloquium. www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... The seminar is open to all members of the RCC as well as the wider public—everyone interested is warmly invited. #rccevents #munich #seminar #free #open #envhum #environment #society #justice