Strengthening the Environmental Humanities
The aim of this project is to support the permanent institutionalization of the Environmental Humanities (EH) at LMU Munich. It receives generous funding from the Volkswagen Foundation (January 2020–December 2026) through its “Hochschule der Zukunft/ University of the Future” initiative. The grant will help to internationalize EH at LMU Munich, publicize it within Germany and beyond, and develop and formalize curricula for an innovative state-of-the-art Master’s Program in Environment and Society. It provides transformational funding to develop EH into a fully-fledged discipline at LMU. The project aims to learn productively from the opportunities and challenges of existing EH programs from around the globe; to finance workshops and short-term-visiting professorships; and to design and become experts in innovative teaching tools, such as massive open online courses (MOOCs), field seminars, digital multimedia presentations, and exhibitions.
RCC Director Christof Mauch is the lead-PI of this project. He works with a team of scholars from different faculties at LMU. It is coordinated at the RCC by its two project directors Dr. Anna Antonova and Dr. Hanna Straß-Senol.