The graphic shows a close-up of parrot feathers (credit: Mike Jones via Canva). The text reads, "Call for Applications: RCC Alumni Fellowships in Ecological Justice. Deadline: 31 August 2025. Application portal open now!"

This is the full call. You can read it also on our website under "News" > "Call for Applications: RCC Alumni Fellowships in Ecological Justice."

We invite #applications for #alumni #fellowships for a 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿-𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽, from April to July 2026, or a 𝘁𝘄𝗼-𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽, from June to July 2026.

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝟯𝟭 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

Full call: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#rccnews #envjust #envhum #opencall

Gregg Mitman Awarded Liberia’s Civilian Honor - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

Big #RCCNews: The RCC is proud to announce that Prof. em. Gregg Mitman, ERC Principal Investigator, and RCC fellow, has received the award of Knight Commander, Humane Order of African Redemption by the President of the Republic of Liberia as part of Liberia’s 178th Independence Day celebrations.

The text on this slide reads, "Animals-as-food: The term draws attention to the in-between, the rupture between the live subjects of animals and the dead matter of meat through the act of slaughter. By Nora Katharina Faltmann, Landhaus Fellow."

It reads, "The term “animals-as-food” (Staples and Klein 2017) makes visible the connection between animals as living subjects and their discursive and material treatment as food. Animals-as-food further functions as a reminder that the human consumption of animals is neither universal nor unchangeable but rather socially constructed and subject to societal negotiations and changes. The term also draws attention to the in-between, the rupture between the live subjects of animals and the dead matter of meat through the act of slaughter. By Nora Faltmann. Full reference: Staples, James, and Jacob A. Klein. 2016. “Consumer and Consumed.” Ethnos 82 (2): 193–212."

In this #CriticalConcept, Landhaus fellow Nora Faltmann discusses the term "animals-as-food" and why it could be employed more in the #envhum and #foodstudies.

#rccnews #rcccriticalconcepts #rccsocialmedia #concept #food #academia #animals #animalstudies #consumption #rcc #munich #research

Anna Barcz on the Historigraphy of Rivers

🎧 Our latest news piece highlights the recent podcast episode “Anna Barcz on the Historiography of Rivers” shared by the Blue History Network featuring RCC alumna Anna Barcz.

Read more on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#rccnews #envhum #envhist #podcast

Before the background image of a peatland in the evening sun (by Ray Bilcliff from Pexels. Via Canva.), is the following text, "Former Landhaus Fellows Nye Merrill-Glover and Nick Earhart take up new postdoc positions at Bristol and Caltech."

#RCCNews: Two of our former Landhaus fellows, Nye Merrill-Glover and Nick Earhart have recently landed new postdoc positions; Nye as a research associate at the University of Bristol and Nick as a postdoc at Caltech.

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#research #fellowship #rcc

The text reads, "Extraplanetary Envirotechnical Regime. 'The regions beyond Earth’s atmosphere are home to natural ecosystems with lively histories that mutually shape and are shaped by histories on the planet below.' by Lisa Ruth Rand, Landhaus Fellow. Rachel Carson Center Critical Concepts."

The text reads, "'Far from an empty void as popularly imagined, the regions beyond Earth’s atmosphere are home to natural ecosystems with lively histories that mutually shape and are shaped by histories on the planet below. From the very start of the satellite age, physical, material, and discursive exchange across porously defined terrestrial boundaries influenced the construction of a messy extraplanetary envirotechnical regime—one in which sometimes conflicting ideologies and technological practices entangled with natural forces in Earth orbit to create a hybrid system sustained by norms of waste and disposability.' by Lisa Ruth Rand, Landhaus Fellow."

Here comes a new #CriticalConcept by Lisa Ruth Rand!

Lisa, currently an RCC Landhaus Fellow, originally discussed this concept in her Lunchtime Colloqium “(Re)Scaling the Planetary.”

#rccnews #rcccriticalconcepts #concept #envhum #space #worlds #academia #munich #research

“Between History and Cultural Representations: A Different Reading of American Environmental History” - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

#RCCNews A new interview between former Visiting Scholar Alessandro Agosta and RCC Director Christof Mauch has been published in the February 2025 issue of Global Environment.

Read the full interview via the link below.

#interview #rcc #americanhistory #envhist #envhum #usa #culture

The graphic shows the event previously published event post of our degrowth workshop with Anitra Nelson as news item and with a speech bubble saying "A report on the workshop is now online!"

#RCCNews 📢
We have uploaded a report on the recent degrowth workshop with Anitra Nelson, including some visual impressions of the workshop.

Go over to the "News" section on our website to read it: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#degrowth #routledgehandbook #editor #workshop

Director of Garden and Landscape Studies

We are happy to share a job posting at Dumbarton Oaks. This could be interesting to some members of our community:

📑 Director of Garden and Landscape Studies
📍Washington, DC, USA
⏱️ open now

You can read the full call here: www.doaks.org/about/employ...

#rccnews #jobcall #usa #landscapestudies

The text on the graphic reads: "aestheticized dispossession. Aestheticized dispossession captures how contemporary lake rejuvenation projects in Bengaluru often result in the exclusion of marginal communities and the erasure of their everyday practices. Akash Jash, Landhaus Fellow. Rachel Carson Center. Critical Concepts. Image by Irenè Lazarova from Pexels."

“Aestheticized dispossession captures how contemporary lake rejuvenation projects in Bengaluru, framed through discourses of beautification and sustainability, often result in the exclusion of marginal communities and the erasure of their everyday practices. It highlights how environmental restoration becomes aligned with elite urban aesthetics and speculative capital that transforms lakes from socio-ecological commons into commodified, curated public spaces. Rather than reversing degradation, these interventions reproduce new forms of dispossession where the visual promise of ecological care conceals deeper inequalities in access, governance, and urban belonging. Akash Jash, Landhaus Fellow.”

With our new #CriticalConcept, Landhaus Fellow Akash Jash gives a short introduction to 𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.

#rcccriticalconcepts #rccnews #dispossession #bengaluru #aesthetics

At the center of the graphic is a profile picture of Catherine Bush, above the tag "RCC News," below information about the book "Skin by Catherine Bush, new publication." The four background images are inspired by the book cover: two close-ups, one of fish skin (Napat_Polchoke/Getty Images), one of butterfly wings (PanuRuangjan/Getty Images), a visualization of data streams (kanawatTH/Canva), and a coral reef with two orange butterflyfish at the center (Francesco Ungaro/Pexels).

We would like to direct your attention to a new publication out of the #RCCLandhaus: Former writer-in-residence Catherine Bush published her new book 𝘚𝘬𝘪𝘯.

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#rccnews #publication #fiction #shortfiction #human #nonhuman #relationships #envhum

The background of the graphic is a transition from salmon pink to turquoise, mimicking the official book cover. In the foreground, a figure clad in yellow holds a plastic-wrapped globe in their gloved hands. The text below reads: "The recent Routledge book Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change was co-edited by Dr. Simone M. Mueller, PI of our project 'Hazardous Travels.'" with the date (7 April 2025) and the tag "RCC News" on the central image. The copyright for that image lies with Mikhail Nilov from Pexels. Via Canva.

Update on the #RCCNews side of things:

Project director and PI of our research project “Hazardous Travels,” Dr. Simone M. Müller, published a new Routledge Environmental Humanities book.

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#rccnews #ecological #envhum #routledgebooks

The graphic shows a colorful painted forest in the background (the image is by Juan Ruiz via Canva). The Text reads "Tell the Untold: An Environmental Writing Competition of the Rachel Carson Center. Then the blurb that is also in the description. Submission Deadline: 6 June 2025. Project: Strengthening the Environmental Humanities. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation."

Big #RCCNews!

The RCC is excited to announce our environmental writing competition "Tell the Untold!"

Find out more here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

We are looking forward to your submissions! 🌱

#rccwritingcompetition #writing #envhum #creative #shortfiction

The graphic is mostly kept in pinks and lights blues. It says: "One Book - Many Worlds, Munich reads Gun Island by Amitav Gosh. RCC News. New News Item: "Highlights from a Six-Month Interdisciplinary Project." October 2024 - April 2025." The graphic also includes the official book cover of Gun Island, which has a golden cobra winding itself on a black background. The motive repeats itself in the graphic.

🎉News: We have just uploaded a recap of our project “One Book – Many Worlds,” which is centered around Amitav Gosh's novel 𝘎𝘶𝘯 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥.

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#rccnews #news #academia #rcc #munich #lmu #amitavgosh #gunisland #research #literature

The graphic consists of an off-white background lined with a table cloth and grain. In the foreground, a watercolor bison stands on a white plate and stares at the viewer (It's cute. But ignore that as it might defeat the point that it is accusingly staring at the viewer). The text behind the bison is the book title, Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada. The main message is in the lower half of the picture: "New Book published by ProEnviron alumna and former RCC Editorial Director L. Sasha Gora" with a tiny signature of the RCC News marker in the lower right corner. Finally, in an even smaller font below, you can find the image credits for the picture: "Background: Tanatpong apirakkawananon from Getty Images. Bison: baddesigner from baddesigner. Plates: (1) Vectorfair J and (2) Max Reyes from Trendify."

🎉Great news: ProEnviron alumna and former RCC Editorial Director L. Sasha Gora has just published her first monograph, 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘴: 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘢.

Read more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#rccnews #foodstudies #envhum

The graphic shows an image of Jake Goetz and the cover of his successful poetry band Holocene Pointbreaks. It also categorizes it as an RCC news item.

End-of-the-week #rccnews: We have uploaded a news item on current Landhaus Fellow Jake Goetz's poetry success. He has been shortlisted for the Australian Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry.

Read more about Jake Goetz's entry here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#poetry #envhum

The graphic mainly contains further information about the conference and the call for proposals in blue and green script. Please go over to the event page (marked in description) to find out all the details. Here is a very brief summary of the corner dates: Title: "Green(ing) War: Military Build-Up, Warfare, and Socio-Environmental Wounds;" Organizer: EISA 2025; Location: University of Bologna, Italy; Conference dates: 25-29 August 2025; Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025, submit via EISA.

We have been asked to spread the word about the upcoming Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA PEC) in Bologna: "Green(ing) War: Military Build-Up, Warfare, and Socio-Environmental Wounds."

Event page: eisa-net.org/pec-2025/

#rccnews #conference #green #war #military #envhum

The split graphic shows a group of children in traditional south Asian clothing playing outside with bubbles (on the right side) and a sunset behind a nuclear site (on the left). The text reads: "New Article by Dr. Francesca Mezzenzana | New RCC Research Project by Dr. Davide Orsini" + a link to the website + the photo credit line: quang nguyen vinh, unsplash, and johannes plenio, pexels/canva.

🎉We have two exciting news items from the RCC: A new research article and a new RCC-hosted project!

Go over to our webite to find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#rccnews #research #childrearing #childhood #project #nuclear #nucleardecommissioning #rccprojects

We've been kindly asked to share news about this summit over in the US:

"Calling all Climate Storytellers! Submit your work (by 1 March) for the Climate Storytelling Summit. Visit the event portal for more: environment.princeton.edu/climate-stor... "

#rccnews #climatestory

The graphic shows an image of an old-fashioned, broken car mirror covered in frost and fallen leaves. Beneath it is a photo of Alison Pouliot. The text says (top-down, lef-right): RCC Environmental Writing Studio, Visual Narratives: Finding Words Through Images, A Report. RCC News. Now online with images! A Writing Workshop with Alison Pouliot.

If you are in the mood for a little recap, we have uploaded a report (with images) on our last writing studio workshop, "Visual Narratives."

You can read it here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#rccnews #writingstudio #visual #narratives #writing #environmental #sensory #report

The text on this graphic reads: Environmental Humanities Summer School, 6 to 26 July 2025. Explore why stories about our wild world matter and how we can build hope in the face of environmental crisis. Early-bird application ends: 1 March 2025, Closing date for all applications: 25 May 2025, Program fee: £3595. We offer a single 10% fee discount to applicants who meet at least one of the following criteria: apply before our early-bird deadline, apply for two summer school programs, attend one of our International Partnership or Study Abroad partner universities, apply as a group of 10+ students from one university. Find out more: bristol.ac.uk/environmental-humanities-summer-school, University of Bristol. On the right half of the graphic is also an image of the University of Bristol and a QR code linking directly to the application website.

The University of Bristol's Center for Environmental Humanities is organizing an Environmental Humanities Summer School in July 2025 and they have asked us if we could share the information with our students.

#rccnews #share #bristol #summerschool #envhum

The graphic shows a crowdfunding call with the planned cover for the zine, which depicts a caricature of a suited-up white man sitting on a heavy pile of money bags on one side of a small boat. On the other side of the boat is a black four-person family, who are likely to represent refugees. The boat tilts heavily to the side with the man and the money bags but he is shouting at the family: "You are sinking this boat!". The graphic is also tagged as an RCC news item and has its own background behind the crowdfunding call of a visual side-by-side of different weather phenomenons.

📢RCC News: Former Environmental Studies Certificate Program student Lisa Poettinger is about to publish her final project, an illustrated climate justice zine, with
@oekomverlag and they have started a #crowdfunding for this project: www.oekom-crowd.de/projekte/kli...
(1/2) #rccnews

Our partners at the LMU have asked us to share this exciting humanities conference with UCB, which takes place in Munich next week.

The full conference schedule is attached below.

Enjoy the conference!

#rccnews #lmu #conference #humanities #future #berkeley #munich

Former Landhaus Fellow Diego Molina has published anew book, 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘴, with Routledge.

You can read more about the book on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#rccnews #newbook #urbanization #greencity #biodiversity

The RCC is happy to announce that @whitehorsepress.bsky.social has published the 2024 RCC special issue of 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 with the title “Silent Springs. Global Histories of Pesticides and our Toxic World(s)” as #openaccess.

More info: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#rccnews

The poster shows that the call for papers is for the conference Imagining Planetary Health, Well-Being, and Habitability: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities and the deadline for proposals is 15 May 2024. The abstract art in the background is by USGS on Unsplash.

The RCC is organizing a workshop on "Imagining #Planetary #Health, Well-Being, and #Habitalibilty: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities" in October 2024.
The deadline closes soon!

Read the full call here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#rccnews #envhum #cfp