Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society

This week with Gregg Mitman and a talk on “Thinking Like a #Mountain.”

All talks are free and #opentothepublic. The talks may be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in Munich, or to anyone with an interest in #environmental issues.

In this #TuesdayDiscussion, acclaimed US-based artist and professor Nnenna Okore will explore how her socially engaged practice cultivates deeper connections with the natural #environment.

The Tuesday Discussions are free and open to the public.

Wonderful sheep photo, great call for proposals, fantastic opportunity:

Want to organize the 2026 ESEH Summer School in Environmental History? Check out our new call: eseh.org/call-for-pro...

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Photograph of an American bison standing beside a fence at the London Zoo in 1906.

The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories.

Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...

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Insisting on Boars: How Villagers of Karaburun Employ their Knowledge of Multispecies Entanglements in Local Power Struggles Villagers witness and push to maintain ecological relations in the face of development that has decimated olive groves and scattered fences and turbines.

New Arcadia article by Efe Cengiz. Read about how villagers of Karaburun, Turkey, witness and push to maintain ecological relations in the face of development that has decimated olive groves and scattered fences and turbines across the landscape.

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This week with Juliane Prade-Weiss and a talk on “Extractivism, War, and a History of Mass #Violence: Lebedev’s Donbas #Anthropocene.”

All talks are free and #opentothepublic. They may be of interest to undergrad and grad students in Munich, or to anyone with an interest in #environmental issues.

Please find more information online: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

This week, Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford) will present on “Beastly Tales from the #Himalaya: An #Anthropology for the #Anthropocene.”

How does one write of places in the world where the ground is, quite literally, slipping away from under your feet?

The event is free and #opentothepublic.

Today, Andreas Jünger (@a-juenger.bsky.social, ProEnviron/RCC) will join us for the #TuesdayDiscussion to talk about “Organic Crops in #Andalusia: An Insight into #OrganicFarming in Southern Spain.”

The Tuesday Discussions are free and open to the public.

Former Carson fellow Mu Cao has written about the 2025 conference of the Asian Association for Environmental History. Check it out!

Tomorrow, Kärin Nickelsen (Economics, LMU) will join us with a talk on “To Live Among the Stars: #ArtificialEnvironments in the Early #SpaceAge.”

All talks are free and #opentothepublic. The talks may be of interest to students in Munich, or to anyone with an interest in #environmentalissues.

Please find more info here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

This Tuesday, Silvia Reckermann, board member of Nord Süd Forum Munich, the umbrella organization for global #engagement and #learning in Munich, will join us for the #TuesdayDiscussion.

The Tuesday Discussions are free and open to the public.

Postdocs, PhD candidates, and students interested in environmental history, make sure to join our early-career network to learn about new opportunities and conferences around Europe! #EnvHist #EnvHum

Between Salt and Water: The Environmental Crisis at Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan, India Across a century and a half, colonial, private and government salt farming at Sambhar has transformed the ecology of the lake and caused a slow cataclysm of pollution, affecting wildlife and livelihoo...

Across a century and a half, colonial, private and government salt farming at Sambhar has transformed the ecology of India's Sambhar Lake, affecting both wildlife and livelihoods. Read Deborah Sutton's new Arcadia article to learn more!
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Poster announcing film screening, which takes place on 22 January at 17:00 at the RCC, Leopoldstraße 11a.

We are hosting a film screening of a documentary film about the association Urgewald, followed by a Q&A session with Urgewald staff member Judith Hentschel. The event is free and open to the public.

Trailer: www.urgewald.org/urgewald-doku

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Tomorrow, Karen Pittel (Economics, LMU) will join us with a talk on “Water in a #HeatedWorld.”

All talks are completely free and #opentothepublic. The talks may be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in Munich, or to anyone with an interest in #environmentalissues.

This event is part of the #lectureseries “On Environment.” The series is organized by the Chair of Environmental Humanities at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.

Free and open to the public. Please find more info online: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
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This lecture will comparatively analyze #plantation paradigms from Ireland, Jamaica, and Saint Domingue (Haiti) arguing that such #island landscapes, many still substantially unresearched, remain some of imperialism’s most significant, calculated, and damning designed #environments
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Tonight, Finola O'Kane (University College Dublin) will present on “Plantation Islands: The First Blueprints for #Colonialism?”
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More info on the screening and how to register online: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

The Green Visions film series presents environmental documentaries from around the world, including discussions with directors, environmental experts, or film critics. The series is a cooperation between the Rachel Carson Center, @dokfest.bsky.social, and the Münchner Volkshochschule.

Tonight, we continue with the winter lineup of the Green Visions #FilmSeries.

📽️ 𝘋𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘥 (dir. Lisa Eder, GER 2021, OV with German subtitles)
🗓️ 13 January 2026, 18:30–21:00
💰 free

A discussion with Ursula Schuster (director of the Bavarian Forest National Park) will follow the screening.

Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here:
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This Tuesday, Markus Kröll, head of the business division “Sustainable Industries” at Fraunhofer IPA, will join us for the #TuesdayDiscussion to talk about “Practical Pathways to #ClimateNeutrality for Industry and Commerce.”

The TDs are free and open to the public.

Our first event in the new year will be a talk today by Stephan Pauleit (Strategic #Landscape Planning and Management, TUM) on “Transforming #Urban Landscapes: Why #GreenCities Are the Future.”

New 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 #recording available now!

@milespowell.bsky.social’s “Fishing for #Sharks,” read by the author himself, dives into sportfishing practices, literature, biology, and ecology.

You can have a listen to the recording online: springs-rcc.org/fishing-for-...

Members — ICEHO

Join us! We are the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations and we hope to expand our reach and representation in 2026. We consist of ssociations, networks, centers, institutions, publishers, and journals. Check out the page below to see our current members. #EnvHist

This month I feature @monicavasile.bsky.social, @carsoncenter.bsky.social, @jbquijada.bsky.social, @adeleperry.bsky.social, @winnipegfreepress.com, @theguardian.com, @johnubacon.bsky.social, and more!

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