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Visiting Professors

Starting in 2024, the "Strengthening the Environmental Humanities" project will be host to up to four Volkswagen-Foundation Visiting Professorships. The invited professors and lecturers will bring unique global perspectives on environmental humanities research and will contribute to the teaching and academic life of students in the RCC’s graduate programs and beyond.

In the winter semester 2024/25, ecologist and environmental photographer Dr. Alison Pouliot was the first VW-Foundation Visiting Professor at the RCC.

Dr. Alison Pouliot’s work straddles art and science and added exciting perspectives to the environmental debates and educational events at the RCC as she took part in research project discussions, “works in progress” sessions, Tuesday Discussions, and Lunchtime Colloquiums, or ran forays into the woods. Dr. Pouliot conducted a number of workshops and gave several talks during her stay, all focused on ways of perceiving, understanding, and documenting the “environment” through photography, writing, in-situ observation, and exploration.

  • 30.09.2024 Photography Workshop: Visualising the Digital Environmental Humanities, RCC. Photography workshop in collaboration with Jonatan Palmblad with theoretical/practical sessions (workshop post).
  • 24.10.2024 Lunchtime Colloquium: The Dark Web, RCC. This seminar explored parallels between the internet and mycelial networks (Youtube video).
  • 25.10.2024 Excursion: Slow Mushrooming: A Foray Through Fungal Realms, English Garden. This was a foray for 20 students to search for fungi and consider their ecological/cultural significance (event posting).
  • 09.11.2024 Mushroom Workshop: A Kingdom of Conundrums, Freising. In collaboration with Susanne Unger, this highly interactive and hands-on workshop for ESCP students explored fungi through ecological, philosophical, technological and historical lenses.
  • 12.11.2024 Tuesday Discussion: Fungi, Aesthetics and Land Restoration, RCC. As part of the Tuesday Discussion Series, this talk explored fungi in the context of land restoration (event posting).
  • 22.11.2024 Photography Workshop: Visualizing the Environment, Wessobrunn. This two-day event, run in partnership with Anna-Maria Walter explored both photographic and sensory approaches to understanding and documenting the environment (workshop report in Die Kulturschock).
  • 19.12.2024 Writing Workshop: Visual Narratives – Finding Words Through Images, RCC. This creative writing workshop used images/ sensory prompts to inspire writing ideas (workshop report).