International Colloquium with Desirée Valadares and Luísa Reis-Castro
International Colloquium “Environment, Society, and Justice—Global Perspectives”
28.07.2026 12:15 – 14:15
Location: Rachel Carson Center, fourth floor, Conference Room, Leopoldstr. 11a, 80802 Munich, Germany
Series Convener: Christof Mauch
In this international brown bag colloquium (feel free to bring your lunch), we will discuss recent and groundbreaking research on environmental justice and related topics with doctoral students, visiting scholars, and fellows from different parts of the world and from different disciplines.
Join us for this works-in-progress session with architectural historian and cultural landscape scholar Desiree Valadares and anthropologist and science studies scholar Luísa Reis-Castro, who will present and discuss their current research.
Desirée Valadares (University of British Columbia) on “Unlikely Antiquities: Pacific War Sites as Public Lands” (chapter)
Luísa Reis-Castro (University of Southern California Dornsife) on “How to Survive the Mosquito: Vectorial Politics in Brazil and Beyond” (chapter)
The seminar is open to all members of the RCC as well as the wider public—everyone interested is warmly invited.