Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
(Extended Deadline) Call for Submissions: “The Past and Future of the Environmental Humanities”
The 2026 conference “Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds” and Young Scholars Forum “Repressed Pasts, Crossed Borders, Just Futures: Environmental, Social, and Political Perspectives” are now calling for submissions.
The deadline has been extended! Submissions may now be sent until 31 October 2025.
View the full calls here.
Tell the Untold! Winners of the Environmental Writing Competition
The RCC is thrilled to announce the winners of the writing competition Tell the Untold!, organized as part of the project “Strengthening the Environmental Humanities.”
We would like to congratulate Rachel Desiree Felix (“The Mangrove Doesn’t Forget,” short fiction), Michaela Vieser (“Whalefall,” creative nonfiction), and Zana Fraillon (“Time After the Hero – Or, in Proposing the Age of the Anthropoiescene,” reflective essay) for their remarkable submissions.
You can find the jury’s verdict and the honorable mentions here.
New Virtual Exhibition: “Once Upon a Dune: Coastal (Hi)Stories”
The Environment & Society Portal team is excited to announce the release of a new virtual exhibition, “Once Upon a Dune: Coastal (Hi)Stories,” by Joana Gaspar de Freitas et al.
The exhibition collects a multitude of views on coastal issues and the importance of taking this diversity into account when managing for the future—because beaches are made up of sea and sand, but also of people’s expectations and choices. Explore the exhibition here.
Seventh Issue of Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review
The RCC is delighted to announce the release of the seventh issue of Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review.
This edition ponders on emplacement and visibility, takes us through the centuries, and echoes an urgent call to attend to nonhuman sentience.
Join us as we travel to Venice, explore farming in Thailand, and “walk a Sicilian river.”
