News Archive
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2015 News
- African Network of Environmental Humanities Featured in the African Historical Review
- RCC Special Issue of Global Environment Journal "Small Islands and Natural Hazards" Published
- The 2015-16 Fellowship Cohort
- Call for Candidates: RCC Doctoral Program "Environment and Society"
- RCC Graduates and Students Receive Awards
- Job Announcement: Research Associate for Environment & Society Portal
- Sigurd Bergmann Announces New Publication
- Siddhartha Krishnan Publishes New Article
- RCC Director Christof Mauch Awarded International Planetary Award
- African Network for Environmental Humanities Holds Kick-Off Event
- New Perspectives Issue on Local Food Systems
- Alumnus John Agbonifo Organizes Panel for ASAA Conference
- Responses to Recent Conference 'Toxic Legacies - Agent Orange as a Challenge'
- Alumna Kieko Matteson Publishes New Book, "Forests in Revolutionary France: Conservation, Community, and Conflict, 1669–1848"
- Alumni Publish Book on the Organization of Transport
- Angela Kreutz's Book "Children and the Environment in an Australian Indigenous Community: A Psychological Approach" Published
- Ant Spider Bee Blog Relaunched as PressForward Partner
- New Publication "Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred: Transdisciplinary Perspectives" Co-Edited by Sigurd Bergmann
- New Book by Alumna Emily Brock
- International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture Announces Details Regarding "Religion, Science, and the Future" Conference
- Bron Taylor Interviewed on Planetary Boundaries by RT.com
- Call for Doctoral Fellows in Environmental Humanities: ENHANCE ITN
- Call for Papers: Human Niche Construction
- Call for Proposals: The Anthropocene in Museums: Reflections, Projections and Imaginings
- Call for Papers: Consuming the World: Eating and Drinking in Culture, History, and Environment
- Call for Papers: Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change
- Call for Papers: "Religion, Science and the Future"
- New Book Edited by Peter Cox Looks at Cycling Cultures
- 2015 Turku Prize Awarded to Gregory Cushman
- Job Announcement: Graduate Editor/Communications Associate
- Edmund P. Russell appointed Vice President of the American Historical Association, Research Division
- Ruth Morgan and Emily O'Gorman Awarded Major Research Grant by Australian Research Council
- Eunice Blavascunas Appointed Assistant Professor
- RCC Alumnus Fei Sheng Becomes Tenured Professor
- Call for Fellows, 2016-17
- Franziska Torma Has New Position Coordinating BMBF Project
- Hanna Schösler Publishes Article in "Appetite"
- RCC Alumnus Mike Hulme Announces Major Publication
- John Meyer's Book "Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma" Published
- Libby Robin, Kirsten Wehner, and Gregg Mitman Awarded Major Research Grant by Australian Research Council
- Alumna Marianna Dudley Appointed Lecturer at University of Bristol
- Doctoral Student Martin Meiske Awarded Prize for Best Poster
- Winners of the 2014/2015 Nachhaltigkeitspreis Have been Announced
- New Book by Alumnus Maurits W. Ertsen
- New Book by Alumnus John Sandlos and Colleague Arn Keeling
- Nicole Seymour's Book "Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination" Wins ASLE Ecocriticism Book Award
- Carson Fellow Alumna Cindy Ott Appointed Alumni President
- Letters of Hope: New Perspectives Issue Tackles the Environment beyond Doom and Gloom
- New Perspectives Issue Explores Ideas of Scarcity
- New Perspectives Issue Published
- RCC Phase II Funding Secured
- RCC to Run Erasmus Program in Environmental Studies with Institute of Social Ecology (SEC) Vienna, Austria
- Alumna Shiho Satsuka Announces New Publication "Nature in Translation"
- Alumna Simone Müller Receives the Maria Gräfin von Linden Preis
- RCC Awarded Funding by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Shortlist for 2015 Turku Prize Has Been Announced
- New Perspectives Issue Explores Unruly Environments
- Prominent Visitors to the "Welcome to the Anthropocene" Exhibition
- New Position for Alumnus Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
- "Geschichte Unserer Umwelt" Named Environmental Book of the Year
- Coauthored Book by Verena Winiwarter Named Austrian "Science Book of the Year"
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2014 News
- New RCC Perspectives Volume Available Online in English and Spanish
- Upcoming Workshop: The Anthropocene, Cabinet of Curiosities Slam
- Job Announcement: RCC Information Technology Assistant / IT Help Desk
- RCC Director Christof Mauch to Give Keynote Speech
- Frank Zelko's Book on Greenpeace Published in German
- Alexa Weik von Mossner Edits New Collection
- Angela Kreutz Awarded DAAD Postdoctoral Exchange Grant
- Green Visions Film Series Schedule Announced
- Verena Winiwarter To Lecture in Vienna
- "Umweltgeschichte(n)" Reviewed in Sehepunkte Journal
- RCC Special Issue of Global Environment Journal on Hazardous Substances Published
- Verena Winiwarter Named 2013 Austrian Academic of the Year
- Filipa Soares to begin PhD Project at Oxford University
- New RCC Perspectives Volume Reflects on Crossing Disciplines
- RCC Fellows Speak at Zurich Symposium on Environmental Humanities
- Jan-Henrik Meyer Announces Series of Talks
- John Sandlos Receives Research Award
- Nicole Seymour Gives Plenary Lecture
- Sigurd Bergmann Publishes New Book
- John Agbonifo To Help Found African Network of Environmental Humanities
- New Perspectives Volume Honors Professor Jane Carruthers
- New Perspectives Issue Connects Asian Environments
- Luke Keogh Awarded Postdoctoral Funding By the Gerda Henkel Foundation
- Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization
- Robert Gioielli Awarded Grant by Rockefeller Archive Center
- The RCC in the Future: The Next Six Years
- RCC Strengthens Ties With Renmin University in Beijing
- Ingo Heidbrink Elected to Committee and Editorial Board
- First Cohort of Environment and Society Doctoral Students Awarded Final Certificates
- The RCC at the Second World Congress of Environmental History
- The Growth of Trees: Christof Mauch on Sustainability in History
- Patrick Kupper Becomes Full Professor at Innsbruck University
- RCC Fellows to Attend GESA Summer Academy 2014
- New Book Collects Articles from RCC Workshop
- Helmuth Trischler: Book Series Receives Freeman Award
- Stefan Dorondel to Deliver Keynote Speech at the Seventh InASEA Conference
- Anthropocene Milestones: Illustrating the Path to the Age of Humans
- New Publication by Alumni Fellow Eunice Blavascunas
- Manuel Arias-Maldonado Receives Book Prize
- Call for Fellows, 2015-16
- LMU Advisory Senate Approves Environmental Studies Certificate Program
- Call for Papers: Manufacturing Landscapes - Nature and Technology in Environmental History
- Chris Pastore Accepts New Position
- Volume Four of Environment In History: International Perspectives Series Published
- Daisy Onyige Selected as an Expert for the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- RCC Partner, Estonian Center of Environmental History (KAJAK), Features on National Television
- Brazilian and German Environmental Scholars in Dialogue at FAPESP Week Munich
- Stefan Dorondel to Convene "Floods, State, Dams and Dykes in Modern Times: Ecological and Socio-economic Transformations of the Rural World" Workshop
- Robert Gioielli Publishes New Book and Awarded Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant
- Over 1400 People Attend Jane Goodall Lecture
- Hochschultage Event "Planet Trash—Our Legacy" Announced for November 2014
- Ingo Heidbrink Announces New Publications
- José Augusto Pádua to Give a Lecture at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
- Alumni Fellow Martin Knoll Appointed Full Professor
- Alumni Fellow Angelika Krebs Publishes Article in "Land"
- Mike Hulme Featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung
- RCC Welcomes Two New Members of Staff
- New Book Edited by Maurits Ertsen Published
- RCC Alumni Eunice Blavascunas and Seth Stein Propose New Public Outreach Project
- New Book by Alumni Fellow Chris Pastore Published
- Environment & Society Portal Reaches 100,000 Unique Visitors
- Volume 12 of RCC “Umwelt and Gesellschaft” Book Series, "Projektion Natur: Grüne Gentechnik im Fokus der Wissenschaften," Released
- Managing Editor Katie Ritson Receives Research Grant
- Stefan Dorondel to Talk on "Floods, Power and Environmental Justice along the Danube Floodplains in Postsocialist Romania" in Vienna
- Vipul Singh Accepts New Position at University of Delhi
- Alumni Fellow Thomas Zeller Edits Special Issue of Transport History
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2013 News
- Martin Bemmann’s Monograph Named “Umweltbuch des Monats”
- First Title in The Environment in History: International Perpsectives Series Released
- Conference Presentations and Lectures
- Carmel Finley Named to ICES Board
- News from Martin Knoll
- Update from Christof Mauch
- New Positions
- New Publications from Carson Fellows
- Bavarian Green Party Visit Rachel Carson Center
- Future Carson Fellow Jan-Henrik Meyer Announces Series of Talks
- Sustainability Prize for Best Student Essay
- New Perspectives Issue Offers an Interdisciplinary Discussion of Mining
- First E-book Version of RCC Perspectives Now Available
- Call for Candidates: RCC Doctoral Program "Environment and Society"
- Katie Ritson's Translation of Franz Hohler Published in Mad Hatters Review
- Anthony Carrigan Accepts Position at University of Leeds
- Two Competitions for the Nacht der Nachhaltigkeit
- Job Announcement: Two Student Assistant Positions
- Ellen Arnold Edits Special Issue of Water History
- Nicole Seymour Publishes Book on "Queer Environmentalism" in Literature and Film
- WBGU "Great Transformation" Comic Nominated for Science Book Award
- Job Announcement: Research Associate
- Special Issue of Nova Acta Leopoldina Journal Published
- Over 600 People Attend ESEH Conference 2013 in Munich
- Video: Marion Nestle Plenary Lecture ESEH 2013
- Climates of Migration Team Presents Results at FONA
- Patrick Kupper Wins Turku Book Prize
- Verena Winiwarter Nominated for "Austrian of the Year"
- Science Europe Group Profiles Humanities Research Projects
- Jan-Henrik Meyer Announces Upcoming Series of Talks on Environmental History in Berlin
- Job Announcement: Office Manager
- Call for Candidates: RCC Doctoral Program "Environment and Society"
- "Pioneers of Change" Symposium Brings Together Academics and Activists
- Videos of RCC Lunchtime Colloquium Talks Now Available
- New Perspectives Issue Introduces Environmental History
- RCC Fellow Elin Kelsey to talk at PsyCris Conference
- New Fellows' Film Portraits
- Bron Taylor Publishes New Article
- Deutsches Museum Competition: Anthropocene Scenarios
- New Perspectives Issue Focuses on Eco-Images
- Ellen Arnold to Speak in Vienna
- Robert Emmett joins Rachel Carson Center
- New Perspectives Issue Considers Energy Transitions in History
- RCC Sponsors Films at Munich Documentary Film Festival
- Special Issue of Global Environment by Rachel Carson Center
- Wilko Graf von Hardenberg Announces New Publications
- New RCC Supported Anthology Published
- Julia Herzberg Announces New Publication
- Christof Mauch and Jens Kersten on "The Drawbacks of Consumption"
- Dennis Meadows Visits the Rachel Carson Center
- Job Announcement: Digital Humanities Research Specialist
- New Perspectives Issues Explore Ecovillages and Biocultural Diversity
- RCC Staff Interviewed on Vulpes Libris Blog
- Karen Oslund to Speak at the University of Greenland
- New Research Cluster with LMU Center for Advanced Studies
- Satoshi Murayama Elected As President of the Association for East Asian Environmental History
- Wilko Graf von Hardenberg to Deliver Keynote Lecture
- New Portal Exhibition Online
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2012 News
- Job Announcement: Web Developer
- International Curatorial Fellowship
- Job Announcements: Two Research Associate Positions
- Slides and Questions from Dennis Meadows' Lecture Now Available
- Anne Milne Takes Up New Position
- Maohong Bao Receives Promotion to Professor
- Maohong Bao Announces New Publications
- Call for Proposals: Environment & Society Portal Exhibitions
- News from Anthony Carrigan
- Chair of Advisory Board Jane Carruthers Receives Honors
- The RCC Announces Carson Professorships
- Chiara Certoma gives seminar in Sant'Anna Science Café
- Call for Papers: Disasters in World History
- Two New Calls for Papers Released
- Lawrence Culver Announces Program
- Staff Attend Digital Humanities Workshop
- The RCC Announces a New Position
- News from Marianna Dudley
- Future Fellow Maurits Ertsen Announces Water History Conference
- ESEH 2013 is now accepting proposals!
- Silent Spring Essay Contest
- Applications for Fellowship Cohort 2012-3 Due
- Alumni Rob Gioielli Appointed Coeditor of Ohio Valley History
- Eagle Glassheim to Speak at the Collegium Carolinum
- Green Visions Schedule Announced
- Amy Hay Participates in H-Environ Roundtable Review
- Ingo Heidbrink Receives LOEWE Fellowship
- Update from Ingo Heidbrink
- Ingo Heidbrink Attends Diverse Conferences
- RCC Releases Image Film
- Alumni Sherry Johnson's Book Receives Award
- RCC Staff and Fellows in China
- Andrea Kiss to Present Her Research throughout Europe
- Martin Knoll Organizing Conference ‘Rivers, Cities, Historical Interactions’
- Exciting Career Opportunity in the Environmental Humanities in Sweden
- Book Launch in Zurich, Switzerland
- Patrick Kupper Announces New Projects
- Kicking Off Our Autumn Lunchtime Colloquium
- New Lunchtime Colloquium Schedule
- New Lunchtime Colloquium Schedule Announced
- Carson Fellows Stefania Gallini and Claudia Leal Elected SOLCHA Presidents
- Claudia Leal Travels to Brazil
- Sustainability Lecture Series Honored by German UNESCO Commission
- Update from Reinhold Leinfelder
- Reinhold Leinfelder Presents His Research
- Reinhold Leinfelder Announces Diverse Publications
- Uwe Lübken and Christof Mauch Join Advisory Board
- Uwe Lübken Presents His Work in Scotland
- Update from Gary Martin on Global Environments Summer Academy 2012
- Gary Martin and Ursula Münster to Attend 13th International Society of Ethnobiology Congress
- Gary Martin Invited to Join Darwin Expert Committee
- Christof Mauch Visits India
- Essay by Director Christof Mauch Featured in New Book by Orion Magazine
- News from John McNeill
- Future Fellow Jan-Henrik Meyer Announces Journal Publication
- Nina Möllers Announces New Publication
- Timo Myllyntaus Announces New Publications
- The RCC Welcomes New Board Members
- New Perspectives Issue Examines Contested Landscapes
- New RCC Perspectives Issue Examines Post-Fukushima Europe
- New Perspectives Issue Explores Neurohistory
- New Perspectives Issue Hits the Shelves: "On Water"
- Hot Off the Press: Two New Issues of Perspectives Journal
- New Perspectives Issue Brings Out the Voices of Salmon People
- New Perspectives Issue Grapples with Sickness, Hunger, War, and Religion
- Newest Perspectives Examines Silent Spring's Legacy
- Call for Applications: PhD Program in Environment and Society
- Dan Philippon’s Fulbright Fellowship
- Environment & Society Portal Featured in Italian Journal
- James Rice Publishes New Monograph
- Edmund Russell Takes Up New Position
- Martin Schmid Announces Call for Papers
- Hanna Schösler Announces New Publications
- Introducing the RCC's Blog!
- Silent Spring Essay Contest Winners
- Silent Spring Essay Competition
- Global Environments Summer Academy 2013: Socio-ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World
- News from Bron Taylor
- Bron Taylor Featured in Podcast: Religion After Darwin
- Ben Tendler Presents Environment & Society Portal at International Workshop
- Franziska Torma Awarded John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship
- Helmuth Trischler Speaks on the Anthropocene in Stockholm
- Jacob Tropp Announces New Publications
- Book of the Month: 'Am Ende der Gewissheiten'
- Wilko Graf von Hardenberg named Acting Director
- Alexa Weik von Mossner Appointed Assistant Professor of American Studies
- Donald Worster Takes Up New Role at Renmin University, China
- Carson Fellows and Staff Featured in Journal
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2011 News
- Call for Papers: Hazardous Chemicals
- Call for Papers: Frost, Ice, and Snow: Cold Climate in Russian History
- Anne Milne Lectures in Graz
- Anne Milne Speaks in the United Kingdom and Estonia
- Stefanie Belharte Releases Book Chapter
- Stephen Bell to Speak in Bonn
- Schmid, Knoll Organize Conference Session
- Andrew Denning Completes Dissertation
- Donald Worster to Speak in Vienna
- New Appointment for Donald Worster
- Stefan Dorondel Wins CRASSH Fellowship
- Ed Russell to Speak in Vienna
- Ed Russell Promoted to Full Professor
- Ed Russell to Lecture in Stockholm
- Ed Russell’s New Book is Released
- Marc Elie to Edit Special Edition of Laboratorium
- Elisabeth Zellmer's Dissertation Published
- Doctoral Program: Environment and Society
- Paul Erker Receives Title of Professor
- RCC Staff Attend the THATcamp Digital Humanities Workshop in Florence
- Gallini Announces the Launch of New Journal
- Stefania Gallini Announces Sixth SOLCHA Symposium
- Ingo Heidbrink Presents His Research in Europe
- Ingo Heidbrink Announces Recent Publications
- Arielle Helmick Completes Her Dissertation
- Julia Herzberg Completes Her Dissertation
- Ingo Heidbrink Announces Exciting New Projects and Events
- The RCC Launches its Internship Program
- The RCC Welcomes New Carson Fellows, January 2011
- RCC Welcomes New Fellows, Summer 2011
- Agnes Kneitz Attends Bosch Foundation Archival Seminar for Young Historians
- Alumni Fellow Martin Knoll Presents Paper at GHI Paris
- Martin Knoll: Upcoming Lecture at the University of Kassel
- Patrick Kupper Completes His Habilitation
- Lawrence Culver Announces ASEH's 2012 Meeting
- New Lunchtime Colloquium Schedule
- New Lunchtime Colloquium Schedule Released
- Tim LeCain Proposes Butte Environmental Memorial
- Tim LeCain Wins Prize for Research
- Reinhold Leinfelder Publishes Edited Collection
- Reinhold Leinfelder Co-Authors Government Advisory Council Fact Sheets
- Reinhold Leinfelder Presents His RCC Research Topic in Europe
- Reinhold Leinfelder Featured in German Newspapers
- Lunchtime Colloquium Schedule Released
- Maohong Bao on "Learn from Dazhai" and its Environmental Consequences
- Director Christof Mauch Receives Distinguished Fellowship
- Christof Mauch Elected New ESEH President
- Christof Mauch Attends Conference in Brazil
- Christof Mauch Represents Transatlantic Environmental Humanities
- Christof Mauch Named to Annette Meier Research Award Committee
- Director Christof Mauch - Member of First Academic Advisory Committee
- Shane McCorristine: New Publications and Upcoming Lectures
- Senator George McGovern visits the RCC
- Future Carson Fellow Jan-Henrik Meyer Announces Conference
- The RCC and Social Media
- Green Visions
- LMU Fellow Frank Uekötter on Democracy and Ecology
- New Issues of RCC's Online Perspectives Journal Released
- Patrick Kupper Attends "National Parks beyond the Nation" Colloquium
- RCC Well Represented at 6th ESEH Conference in Turku, Finland
- Leinfelder to Lecture in Berlin
- Reinhold Reith Publishes New Book
- Robert Gioielli Accepts New Appointment
- State Secretary Visits the RCC
- McCorristine Organizes Workshop
- Shane McCorristine Annouces Upcoming Lectures and Publications
- Sherry Johnson Publishes Book
- Summer Semester Lunchtime Colloquium Schedule Released
- Franziska Torma's Dissertation Published
- Franziska Torma Wins the Feldman Travel Grant
- Director Helmuth Trischler Delivers Keynote Speech
- Helmuth Trischler Elected to Medical Museion Advisory Board
- Director Helmuth Trischler Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
- Stefania Barca Wins Inaugural Turku Book Prize
- Turku Book Prize 2013 Committee Announced
- Stefania Gallini and Shane McCorristine Present Posters at 2011 ESEH Conference
- LMU Fellow Frank Uekötter on Fukushima's Nuclear Disaster
- Frank Uekötter to Speak in Hiroshima
- Book Series 'Umwelt und Gesellschaft' Gains Momentum
- New Video Projects at the RCC
- Carson Professor Markus Vogt Founds New Institute
- LMU Fellow Gordon Winder Receives Professorship
- Donald Worster to Speak in Berlin
- Donald Worster to Deliver Keynote Address at University of Southern Denmark
- Donald Worster to Lecture at the University of Freiburg
- Donald Worster Receives Honorary Doctorate
- Donald Worster’s John Muir Biography Available in Paperback
- Elisabeth Zellmer's Book Reviewed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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2010 News
- ESEH Best Article Prize
- Lawrence Culver on Environmental Thought and American Urbanism
- Stefan Dorondel on Access to Natural Resources in Postsocialist States
- Stefania Gallini Wins Prestigious Book Prize
- Stefania Gallini on Urban Metabolism and Waste Regime Transition in Bogotá
- Robert Gioielli on the Urban Crisis and Environmental Justice
- Ingo Heidbrink on German Distant Water Fisheries
- Cheryl Lousley on The Affective Politics of Live Aid and Ethiopia, 1984-85
- Global Environments Summer Academy 2011: Socio-Ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World
- Alexa Weik von Mossner on Disaster and the Reconfiguration of the Social in Contemporary Cinema
- Alexa Weik von Mossner on The Future History of Climate Change in Franny Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid