RCC Research Forum

Location: Kleine Aula (Room A 120), LMU Main Building

Conveners: Christof Mauch and Arielle Helmick

The RCC Research Forum brings together scholars and students from a variety of projects. Among the scheduled presenters are scholars who are working on transnational parks; on Covid-19 in Munich; and on hot zones and disease ecologies in West Africa. Also several doctoral students will present their work. The event will include a couple of award ceremonies (including for the Proenviron doctoral prize) and for the Selbach Environmental Prizes.

Schedule

14:15 Welcome by Christof Mauch and Arielle Helmick

14:30 RCC Research Projects I: Landscapes and Restoration
Moderator: Lena Engel

• Eveline de Smalen and Pavla Šimková: “Corridor Talk: Conservation Humanities and the Future of Europe's National Parks”
• Carolin Maertens: “A Sooty Past, but the Present Is Spotless: Narratives of Transformation in a Former Coal Mining Town in East Germany”

15:15 RCC Research Projects II: Medical Humanities
Moderator: Arielle Helmick

• Zeliha Öcek: “Lessons from an EU Project Addressing Vulnerability Mechanisms in the Context of COVID-19”
• Emmanuelle Roth: “Bloodborne: Hot Zones, Disease Ecologies, and the Changing Landscape of Environment and Health in West Africa”

15:45 An Introduction to Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review
L. Sasha Gora and Pauline Kargruber

16:00 Coffee Break

16:40 Visiting Scholars at the RCC
Moderator: Christof Mauch

• Can Boyacıoğlu: “Architecture: About Environments and Objects”
• Johanna Conterio: “Urban Greening and the Territorial Turn in Theories of Urban Planning in the Soviet Union, 1931–1932”
• Rebecca Jordan: “The Cyborg Animal: Entanglements of Biology and Technology in Contemporary American and German Literature”
• Anne Rademacher: “Afterworlds of Extinction: A Vulture Story”
• Teresa Spezio: “Containment: A Solution to Environmental Pollution?”

17:30 ProEnviron Slam
Moderator: Gesa Lüdecke

• Teja Šosterič: “Neoliberalism Against the Environment: The Influence of Ideology on Climate Fiction”
• Danielle Schmitz: “How Economists ‘See’ the Environment”
• Floris Winckel: “Making Snowflake Knowledge: A Longue-Durée History of Science”

18:00 Awards Ceremony
Moderators: Gesa Lüdecke, Christof Mauch, and Markus Vogt

• ProEnviron Award
• Selbach Umweltpreis
• BNE Sonderpreis

18:45 Dinner