Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
New Virtual Exhibition: “Wetland Times”
The Environment & Society Portal team is excited to announce the release of the second virtual exhibition of 2025: “Wetland Times,” by Enaiê Mairê Azambuja, Blake Ewing, and Nicola Thomas.
The exhibition explores the dynamic temporalities of wetlands and their complex relationships—the temporal imaginaries, narratives, structures, flows, (a)synchronicities, and ruptures they contain—framed by a conceptual vocabulary that reveals the role of language in understanding wetland times and temporalities. Explore it here.
(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.
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.”
