Silent Spring Essay Competition
Submissions Due 15 March 2012
01.02.2012
Fifty years ago, the world was rocked by the publication of a quiet tirade against the chemical industry. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring exposed the dangers and risks of everyday chemicals and commonplace practices; it launched the modern American environmental movements and also influenced similar movements all over the globe.
In commemoration of fifty years of Silent Spring, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is soliciting essays from junior and senior scholars which analyze the impact and reception of Silent Spring as well as the legacy of Rachel Carson.
Submissions are due via email (perspectives (at) carsoncenter.lmu.de) by 15 March 2012. The contest is sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in collaboration with the British Council, International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations, and the Consulate General of the United States, Munich, Germany.
For more information, please visit the contest webpage or download the Call for Essays (pdf, 99KB).