Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society

We are excited to announce the release of a special issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, titled “Imagining Environmental Futures.” Read the issue for free at springs-rcc.org. #envhum #envhist #publications #RCCSprings #specialissue #future

It’s true. @nichecanada.bsky.social is now offering memberships. Sign up to support a great organization and help keep NiCHE going strong. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2026/10/27/b...

On 15 Dec, RCC alumna Anne-Sophie Balzer will be reading from her first book of literary nonfiction, 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘎𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘻𝘦𝘯, 𝘸𝘢̈𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘯 (Glaciers melting while we fall in love). Please note that the reading will be in German. RSVP is required: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter...

Tomorrow, 28 October, we are co-organizing this event together with ASEH! Sign up here: aseh.org/event-6823081 . Join Mu Cao, Mark Madison, Matthias Schumann, Teresa Joshy, and Roberta Biasillo in their discussion on "More-Than-Human Habitats." #envhum #envhist Photo: Faheem Ahmed

Our Environment & Society Portal is still down due to the recent PHP issue. We hope to have it back online later this week. Read more about the PHP issue here: www.bbc.com/news/article...

We are glad to see RCC alumni collaborating across continents!

Next week, Jonas Stuck from the Andrea von Braun Stiftung will join us for the Tuesday Discussion. The Andrea von Braun Stiftung is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and nature-based environmental protection. More info: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter...

On 2 November, Carol Upadhya will be in Munich to present on the planned new capital city of Andhra Pradesh, India. The talk draws on her recently published book, 𝘜𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦: 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter... #envhum #envhist #cities

Tomorrow, Sonja Dümpelmann, chair of environmental humanities, will speak in the lecture series “Thinking, Imagining, Building Future Environments.” Sonja will present on “Spiraling Diversity and Blank Spots in a Nineteenth-Century Utopian Botanic Garden”: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter...

Former Landhaus Fellow Zimu Zhang just published “A Frog’s Anthropocene Story,” offering an ecofeminist reading of Lin Zhao’s novel 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘰 𝘟𝘪 𝘛𝘶. The article is available open access in 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 or on the Environment & Society Portal: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/frogs-an...

Our postponed zine workshop will take place on 2 November! Join us for a workshop that explores the potential + value of zines as an alternative method of research + publication for the environmental humanities. #EnvHum #EnvHist #zines Sign up for free via the link below. And please share!

As the semester gets underway, we’re back with our Tuesday Discussions series. Next Tuesday, we will be joined by Inés Davila and Morena Murillo, who will discuss the state of El Salvador under Nayib Bukele and prospects for resistance: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter...

DEADLINE today (15 October)! Submit your proposal by 23:58 CET. Individual submissions are also considered, and we also offer experimental formats: posters, transdisciplinary workshops, "Teaching Environmental History", "Meet a Scientist", and more! #EnvHist #EnvHum

𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺 kindly shared the editor’s note from the latest 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 issue in both English and German. English: www.forum-csr.net/News/26024/I... German: www.forum-csr.net/News/26025/U... #envhum #envhist #RCCSprings #future #imaginings

Montana State University is looking for an assistant professor of American studies, broadly defined to include environmental historians and humanists, among other fields. They are looking for scholars who engage the topics of “space and place”— regional focus is open: jobs.montana.edu/postings/53036

The Asian Association for Environmental History (AAEH) is now inviting proposals for panel sessions, individual papers, posters, and roundtables for its upcoming conference. The conference will be held in Beijing, China, from 22 to 25 September 2027. Submit your proposals via www.asianeh.com/en

Former RCC Landhaus Fellow Anupama Mohan has just published an article that assesses two global ocean agreements and explores the use of the commons and the Marxian concept of the usufruct as analytical categories to better understand the ecological crisis of the ocean: muse.jhu.edu/pub/248/arti...

This month I feature @sprucehen.bsky.social, @placesjournal.bsky.social, @sayandey1989.bsky.social, @carsoncenter.bsky.social, @michaelchilders.bsky.social, @brendenwrensink.bsky.social, @writingwestward.bsky.social, and more! #envhist

We just added James Fleming’s “Excuse Us, While We Fix the Weather” to our 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 archive–now with a new foreword! Originally published in 𝘙𝘊𝘊 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴, the piece highlights the male-dominated culture surrounding proposals for weather and climate interventions: springs-rcc.org/excuse-us-wh...

We look forward to welcoming our new students this Friday. The event will be followed by a farewell ceremony, where select students who have graduated will present their MA theses. #envhum #students #degree #programs #winterterm

Claire Weill recently interviewed Jawad Daheur about 𝘏𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴. The book came out in 2025 as part of our joint series 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 (@berghahnbooks.bsky.social). Listen to it here: frequenceprotestante.com/events/lhist...

We are thrilled to announce that 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now inviting submissions for a thematic issue on nonhuman animals and more-than-human worlds, guest-edited by Dr. Mieke Roscher. More info on springs-rcc.org/about/. #CallforSubmissions #envhum #animals #morethanhumans #RCCSprings

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿: 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽 Led by Supriya, the workshop invited participants to think beyond water as a natural resource and instead consider its connections to memory, place, stories, justice, language, and the body.

Call for Writing Support Program! Are you an early-career scholar working on a manuscript? Apply for this great opportunity with Andrea Gaynor and Mona Bieling. #envhist #envhum

We’d like to highlight the essay “’The End is the Beginning’: Dispatches from the Farewell to Christof Mauch” by RCC alumna Kate Rigby! Read Kate’s piece here: www.iceho.org/news/2026/8/...

We look forward to going to Toronto in 2030!

After a short hiatus, we are now accepting applications to our visiting scholar program. More info to be found on this page: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter... #envhum #envhist #researchstay #RCC

Great study opportunity in Munich at the Rachel Carson Center! #envhist

Jonatan Palmblad’s seminal 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 essay, “The Inhuman Condition,” is now available as an audio recording. You can listen to it for free at springs-rcc.org/the-inhuman-... or on Spotify. #envhum #envhist #RCCSprings #publications #anthropocentrism @palmblad.bsky.social

Five more days to apply for the Environmental Studies Certificate Program for the 2026–27 winter semester! More info: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter... #envhum #envhist #graduatestudies #certificate #CfA

Join us tomorrow for the launch event of the special issue, “Imagining Planetary Health, Well-Being and Habitability.” A tour of the 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 exhibition at the Deutsches Museum will be followed by a panel discussion. RSVP for guided tour—more info: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter...

New open-access book: Marco Armiero's Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster. This is a translation of Armiero's 2023 book in Italian, finally available in English. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal! Courtesy of MIT Press. #envhist #envhum @mitpress.bsky.social

It was a joy to be part of the celebrations, and an honour to have worked for so many years with Christof at @carsoncenter.bsky.social. Thanks to @kateelizrigby.bsky.social for writing up this shared and treasured memory!

Our dear alumna Kate Rigby, now Humboldt Professor in Cologne, has written an excellent piece on the celebrations of Christof Mauch in Tutzing in July. #EnvHist #EnvHum

Today, we’re highlighting the essay “Ignoring Religion is Not an Option” by Kate Rigby, featured in the recently published tenth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴! Read the essay online on 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: springs-rcc.org/ignoring-rel... #rccpublications #RCCSprings #envhum #essay #envhis #religion

The Rachel Carson Center is proud participate in this winter school in Argentina. Christof Mauch, Karla Garcia, and Jonatan Palmblad will give talks on ecological justice, together with colleagues from @uam.es, @uc3m.es, UPO, EcoCastulum and the National University of the Littoral #envhum #envjust

We have a writing workshop with visiting scholar and writer Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal scheduled for 22 September! More info on how to register here: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter...