Center for Environmental History, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria

As part of the close ties between the Rachel Carson Center and the Center for Environmental History (ZUG Wien) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), RCC fellows have given occasional talks as part of the institute's mini-symposia series. Starting in 2013, these talks were formalized as an RCC lecture series.

• 16th RCC Lecture / 103rd ZUG-Minisymposium: Heather Dorries: “Sustaining All Our Relations: Indigenous Environmental Justice and the Climate,” 22 April 2024.
• 15th RCC Lecture / 6th ONLINE Minisymposium in Cooperation with University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) and Center for Environmental History (ZUG): Mona Bieling, “Land Use and Environmental Ideologies in British Mandate Palestine: Four Case Studies,” 2 March 2023.
• 14th RCC Lecture / 5th ONLINE Minisymposium of the Center for Environmental History: “The Rivers of Rio de Janeiro: Urban Nature at Work in the Early 20th Century,” 9 December 2021.
• 13th RCC Lecture / 96rd ZUG-Minisymposium: Mark Stoll: “Consumer Capitalism, the Environment, and Environmentalism,” 18 November 2019.
• 12th RCC Lecture / 93rd ZUG-Minisymposium: Timothy Brown: “The Greening of Cold War Germany,” 21 March 2019.
• 11th RCC Lecture / 91st ZUG-Minisymposium: John Kim: “Human Appropriation of the Calcium Cycle: From Rain, Land, Food, to Water,” 31 January 2019.
• 10th RCC Lecture / 89th ZUG-Minisymposium: Timothy J. LeCain: “The New Material Humanism,” 8 November 2018.
• 9th RCC Lecture / 86th ZUG-Minisymposium: Helmuth Trischler: “Das Anthropozän als Provokation und Herausforderung über die Umweltgeschichte,” 23 May 2018.
• 8th RCC Lecture / 80th ZUG-Minisymposium: Sofia Teives Henriques: “Energy Transition in the City: Lisbon 1854–2006,” 12 June 2017.
• 7th RCC Lecture / 77th ZUG-Minisymposium: Paul Sutter: “Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Towards an Environmental History of US Public Health Efforts during the Construction of the Panama Canal,” 07 November 2016.
• 6th RCC Lecture / 76th ZUG-Minisymposium: Alan MacEachern: “Respecting Borders: Two Nations' Histories of a Natural Disaster,” 10 October 2016.
• 5th RCC Lecture / 74th ZUG-Minisymposium: Allen Thompson: “Novel Ecosystems and Adapting Nature Conservation,” 2 May 2016.
• 4th RCC Lecture / 71st ZUG-Minisymposium: Gregory T. Cushman: “The First Great Acceleration and the Opening of the Anthropocene, 1830–1913,” 3 December 2015.
• 3rd RCC Lecture / 65th ZUG-Minisymposium: Jane Carruthers: “Environmental History in Southern Africa: Challenges and Opportunities,” 9 December 2014.
• 2nd RCC Lecture / 63rd ZUG-Minisymposium: Harriet Ritvo: “At the Edge of the Wild,” 22 October 2014.
• 1st RCC Lecture / 54th ZUG-Minisymposium: Ellen Arnold: “A Daughter of the Rhine: Rivers and Identity in Gallo-Roman Poetry,” 21 March 2013.
• 49th ZUG-Minisymposium: Bridget Love: “Treasure Hunts in Rural Japan: Place-Making at the Limits of Sustainability,” 19 June 2012.
• 43rd ZUG-Minisymposium: Ed Russell: “The Evolution of the Industrial Revolution: New World Cottons, Amerindians, and Mechanization of the English Cotton Industry,” 05 June 2011.
• 42nd ZUG-Minisymposium: Don Worster: “Abundance or Scarcity? The Limits to Growth Debate Revisited,” 31 March 2011.
• 35th ZUG-Minisymposium: Christof Mauch: “Was heißt und zu welchem Ende betreibt man Weltumweltgeschichte,” 26 May 2010.