Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Tell the Untold! An Environmental Writing Competition of the RCC
The RCC is inviting submissions for Tell the Untold!, a writing competition organized as part of our “Strengthening the Environmental Humanities” project. Authors can submit in the categories 1) short fiction, 2) creative nonfiction, and 3) short reflective essay.
Stories about our world today are often negative, focusing on environmental crises, increasing displacement, and violence. Ever more disconnected from each other and the environment that sustains us, we seem to tread an irreversible path. How, then, could more positive futures come about? Find out more.
“One Book – Many Worlds”: Highlights from a Six-Month Interdisciplinary Project
Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island stood at the center of our recent interdiciplinary project “One Book – Many Worlds,” which included series of public events and a Munich visit by the author himself.
In this news item, you can read about all the highlights and your favorite moments of the project and the key ideas that were brought up during the discussions. The final event of “One Book – Many Worlds” opens its doors on 3 April 2025: taumelnd trauen, verschlungen bleiben, a student venissage by our master’s students.
RCC Goes Abroad
The RCC offers great opportunities to study abroad. We have four Erasmus+ partner universities, a graduate exchange with the University of Kansas, an option to go abroad with our international project Speak4Nature, and much more.
If you have always wanted to study abroad, take a look at the exchanges in the “Teaching & Graduate Programs” section and find your exchange now!
