Fellowships 2027/28 at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect (LMU Munich)
6–10 month fellowships for postdocs & senior scholars working on globalisation & dis:connections.
📅 Deadline: 26 July 2026
👉 www.globaldisconnect.org
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Unfortunately, Urte Stobbe cannot join us today for the colloquium. Instead, Esther Jiménez will present her research on aquatic ecodisasters in postcolonial Indian Ocean narratives. Join us today for these exciting talks!
Tomorrow’s Tuesday Discussion is with Davide Orsini who will present his research project “(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites.”
What happens to nuclear power plants and facilities when their productive life comes to an end?
Free and open to the public.
Tomorrow’s International Colloquium is with environmental historian Lucia Tedesco and German literary critic Urte Stobbe.
Some food will be available, and you’re welcome to bring your own as well. The seminar is open to everybody.
More info online: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
Poster introducing lecture series "Thinking, Imagining, Building Future Environments," which takes place every Thursday from 12:15 until 13:30 in Munich at Leopoldstraße 11a on the first floor.
Our lecture series “Thinking, Imagining, Building Future Environments” kicks off today—with historian Roland Wenzlhuemer, who will present on “Salvage in/and Global History.”
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
#envhum #envhist
“Zoometrics and the Dogs of Gaza: Species, Race, and Settler-Colonial Violence,” a new article by RCC Alumni Fellow Irus Braverman published in the April 2026 issue of 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 & 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵
🔗 read it here: dx.doi.org/10.1353/tae....
✍️ Telling Factual Stories Through Text & Video
a writing workshop with video journalist and producer Mara Van Ells
📆 13 May 2026
👉 How often do you get your news from Instagram, TikTok, X, or YouTube? In this workshop, learn to write scripts for news and feature videos published on social media.
The graphic shows a snippet of the film poster of Welt an der Würm. It also contains detail about the event, most of which you can also find in the description. See you tomorrow!
Tomorrow afternoon at 16:30 is ourfirst Tuesday Discussion with film maker Friedrich Klütsch, who introduces us not only to his latest documentary but also to the river Würm itself.
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
#rccevents #documentary #ecology #local #munich #envhum
The graphic summarizes the key details of the event tomorrow. Additional info to the description that the graphic contains is, date: 14 April 2026, 12:45-13:45, Location: fourth floor conference room at RCC. The background is a blur of colors with off-white, red, blue, green.
Our new lunchtime seminar series: Environment, Society, and Justice series with Anna Mazanik (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe) and Mónica Bru (University of Valencia).
Bring your lunch and join us! The seminar is open to everybody.
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
Rachel Carson would have concurred: "This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits." (Silent Spring)
This introduction to Minakata Kumagusu's non-teleological notion of "kokoro"--learned from slime moulds and esoteric Buddhism is astounding. So worth your time.
New Arcadia article by Eiko Honda: learn how the Japanese naturalist-polymath Minakata Kumagusu’s (1867–1941) fascination with slime mold shaped a multispecies onto-epistemology—and a fierce campaign to protect shrines and sacred forests.
www.environmentandsociety.org/node/10086/
#envhum #envhist
New report from ASEH 2026 by our own Kathy Brosnan! Read about the latest conference in Kansas City:
www.iceho.org/news/2026/4/...
#EnvHist @aseh.bsky.social @asehearlycareer.bsky.social
🎙️New #audiorecording online on 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴
🦅Poet and researcher Jake Goetz reads his poem “Der Bartgeier”—an homage to the bone-eating Alpine bird, who was hunted to extinction in the early twentieth century and reintroduced to the Alps in the 1980s.
Listen to it here: springs-rcc.org/der-bartgeie...
New open-access book: Olfactory Worldmaking by Hsuan L. Hsu. Read the whole book for free on our Environment & Society Portal! #envhum
Finishing a PhD can feel anticlimactic. A year on, I am all the happier to share that my dissertation received the Munich Sustainability Award for its contribution to sustainability research. I am honoured by the recognition and grateful for the opportunity to share my results with a wider audience.
This is so beautiful. Please read it.
Marco Armiero's ERC project welcomes PhD candidates and Postdocs! A PDF in English is available at the bottom of the page. The project is called "CATCH: The Catholic Church and the Environment"
#envhist #envhum
🚨 New 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 #audiorecording online now.
Writer and cultural historian L. Sasha Gora reads her insightful essay “Stew of the Earth” from the sixth issue.
🍲 The Azorean archipelago is a lesson not only in geography and geology but also in cooking stew.
listen here: springs-rcc.org/stew-of-the-...
Each year, whale sharks gather at Ningaloo Reef in Australia, and their seasonal appearance may remind us that the story of the ocean is also our own story. Learn more in our latest Arcadia article by Laura-Marie Dehne, illustrated by her beautiful photograps. #envhum #envhist
In cooperation with @dokfest.bsky.social and Münchner Volkshochschule.
📽️ The Gleaners and I (dir. Agnès Varda, F 2000)
🎞️ Green Visions Film Series, summer 2026
🗓️ 7 April 2026, 18:30–21:00
🎤 Followed by a discussion with Dominique Bluher (Film Studies Center, University of Chicago)
👉 more info: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
What is an environment, really? I reflect upon this in my latest essay, in which I write about my own path toward #EnvHist and the #EnvHum. This is also a commentary on Sverker Sörlin's great piece in the latest Global Environment. Turns out we have had similar but different environments!
Exhibition poster of the virtual exhibition titled "Amitav Ghosh in Munich: Inspirations, Insights, and Storytelling." The exhibition was curated by Hanna Straß-Senol, Franziska Bax, and Anna Antonova and includes contributions by Franziska Bax, Rachel Desiree Felix, Nakul Heroor, Tathagat Bhatia, Markus Vogt, Zana Fraillon, Vera Krause, Laura Otto, Michaela Vieser, Isaac Yuen, Julia Ludewif, Sonji Shah, Abi Andrews, Sabina Magagnoli, Wan Yin Kimberly Fung, and Hanna Straß-Senol.
New multimedia online exhibition! Using Amitav Ghosh’s novel 𝘎𝘶𝘯 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 as a vantage point, it draws on storylines and narrative elements to allow a multifocal engagement with the multiple social and ecological repercussions of climate change: www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/...
@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social's reading list features an article by @palmblad.bsky.social, published in our latest issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, along with other exciting texts. #envhum #envhist
Another @riffreporter.bsky.social podcast is now available on the Portal. Ulrike Prinz presents the research of Niède Guidon and its implications for understanding the first humans in the Americas: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/when-did....
#envhum #envhist #rockpaintings #archaeology
This #callforsubmissions for a #workshop on German-Jewish literature of the long nineteenth century might be of interest.
📆 Workshop: 26–26 November 2026
✍️ Deadline: 15 April 2026
We've just added a podcast by @riffreporter.bsky.social to the Environment & Society Portal; it discusses linalool extraction from rosewood in the Amazon rainforest.
Listen to it for free: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/can-fore...
#trees #fragrance #envhum #envhist #gardens #IndigenousPeoples