The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is looking for a student assistant to join its editorial and communications team. The position will start on 1 February 2025 or shortly thereafter.

Please submit applications to jobs@rcc.lmu.de. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and interviews will begin in early November 2024.

For more information, please see the full call.

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and Herrmannsdorfer Landwerkstätten are pleased to invite applications for our fellowship program based at the Herrmannsdorfer Landwerkstätten. 

Fellowships will be granted for a period of four months starting 1 April 2025.

Applications may be made in the online portal which is now open.

Please apply by 15 October 2024. The full call can be found here. 

We are thrilled to announce the relaunch of the Rachel Carson Center's blog, Seeing the Woods. It serves as a venue for RCC fellows, staff, students, and affiliates to contribute their voices to the ever-evolving conversation within the environmental humanities. 

In the newest article—the third entry of Vita Lacis’ series on Russian environmental politics—the author reads between the lines of Russia’s new Climate Doctrine and describes the federation’s approach to climate change as “martket-driven, opportunistic compliance with international goals on climate action.” 

The RCC is thrilled to share with you the fifth issue of Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review.

Join us as we journey from the cold depths of a northern German lake to the warm dunes of southern Portugal.

Find out more about this issue here.

The Environment & Society Portal team is excited to announce the release of the virtual exhibition “Petra Kelly: Life and Legacy of a Transnational Green Activist,” curated by Stephen Milder and Andreas Jünger.

The exhibition follows the life story of Petra Kelly—social activist, cofounder of the West German Green Party, and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award—considering her transnationalism and the way her visions and ideas have informed green politics. Explore the exhibition here.