Highlights of the Winter Research Forum 2025
27.02.2025
On Friday, 7 February 2025, the entire RCC community came together in LMU’s Senatssaal to celebrate the end of the academic term with the biannual Research Forum. Designed to showcase the innovative research being conducted across the different sections of the RCC, our community gathered to discuss and celebrate.
This year’s forum began with a panel, introduced by Director Christof Mauch, which included visiting scholars presenting their current research from Italy, France, Japan, the United States, and Switzerland. Landhaus Manager Moremi Zeil then introduced this term's ten Landhaus fellows. We broke for lunch with catering and coffee, which provided attendees with the opportunity to follow up on the presenters’ talks and discover more about everyone’s projects.
After the break, the RCC Exhibition Studio was presented by Hanna Straß-Senol and Franziska Bax, director and associate of Environmental Humanities Development respectively, and Senior Editor Pauline Kargruber presented on the RCC’s publications. These presentations were followed by a brief talk by Kerrin Langer (TU Dortmund) and Frank Reichherzer (Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences) on “Iron Trinity.” Co-Director Sonja Dümpelmann and Managing Director Lena Engel then took over to introduce visiting doctoral students and secondees from the collaborative research project Speak4Nature. To cap off the event, five students from the Environmental Studies Certificate Program (ESCP) presented their original and diverse final projects, moderated by the program’s coordinator Susanne Unger. More information on the students’ final projects can be found on the ESCP’s website.
Finally, certificates were handed out to two doctoral students, Daniel Dumas and Saskia Brill, after having successfully defended their dissertation, and to the certificate students Niklas Frost, Natalie Gast, Sven Gindorf, Nadine Kellner, and Lilliane Weiss. The cowbell award for the persons finishing their presentations the closest to the allotted time went to visiting scholars Fabienne Jouty and Kumiko Kiuchi.
We warmly congratulate each and every graduating student and our two cowbell awardees!
The RCC would like to thank everyone who participated and contributed to help make this Research Forum a very memorable celebration of current research in the environmental humanities.