Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society

Telling a Different Story - Religion, Extractivism and (Green) Colonialism in Europe - Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm Welcome to a conference that explores the intersections of religion, spirituality, colonial legacies, and ecological sustainability in European contexts. It encourages a conversation across discipline...

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Join us and others as members of ICEHO!

The GV film series presents environmental documentaries and includes discussions with directors, experts or film critics. The series is a cooperation between the RCC, DOK.fest München, and the Münchner Volkshochschule.

More info on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

Tomorrow, we will open the Green Visions film series winter lineup with 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤.

A discussion with Alexandra Caterbow (NGO HEJSupport) will follow the screening. The screening is free and open to the public.

👉more info: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

CfP: “The Ecological Bootprint: Apprehending the Military-Environmental Nexus” (conference)
📆17–19 March 2026
✍️Submission Deadline: 15 November 2025

This #conference seeks to critically examine the entanglements between the #military and the #environment.

The graphic shows a collection of images from the virtual exhibition "Wetland Times" together with the logos of the Env&Soc Portal and the Virtual Exhibitions and a QR code that redirects to the full exhibition.

We are happy to share that we have just published a #new #virtual #exhibition on the Environment & Society Portal! "Wetland Times" by Enaiê Mairê Azambuja, Blake Ewing, and Nicola Thomas investigates the complexity of time in wetland spaces.

Browse it: www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/...

Freshwater Fish Invasion as Deliberate Neglect: Unpacking Multispecies Colonialism in West Papua Indonesian state experts introduced invasive species into West Papua, a deliberate ecological disruption that advances a colonial agenda disguised as development.

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article by Hatib A. Kadir! Starting in the 1970s, Indonesian state experts introduced invasive species in West Papua, a deliberate ecological disruption that advanced a colonial agenda disguised as development. Read more on our Environment & Society Portal

#envhist #envhum #multispecies

Former RCC fellow Claudia Leal, now president of ICEHO, has summed up her take-aways from this year's SOLCHA conference. SOLCHA is Latin America's major environmental history conference, which this year took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

We are a project partner of 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝟒𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, an EU-funded research project on ecological justice. You can now follow it on Bluesky:
bsky.app/profile/spea...
#EnvHum #EnvJust #EnvLaw

Check out the winner of the 2025 Turku Book Prize!

In this insightful exploration, author Misria Shaik Ali explores the concept of #embodiedharm at the intersection of mining and agriculture southwest of the Cuddapah Basin in #AndhraPradesh, India.

A contribution to the planetary health series on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴: seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/18/t...

Please find more information on the position and how to apply on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

🚨CfA: student assistant
ℹ️Dr. Francesca Mezzenzana’s project “Learning #Nature(s): A Cross-Cultural Investigation of #Children and Nature(s)”
📆start date: 1 December 2025

📧application deadline: 7 October 2025

The graphic shows the cover of the book with a cover picture of plastic waste. In the background is also a waste site and the logo of the Environment & Society Portal.

We have just added a new #bookprofile to the Environment & Society Portal: 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘴𝘦 by Dr. Sayan Dey.

You can now read the full book via our Multimedia Library: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/garbocra...

#rccportal #envhum #envhist #india #garbage #openaccess

🚨 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲: The deadline for submissions has been extended to 31 October 2025.

🚨 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲: The deadline for submissions has been extended to 31 October 2025.

Are you at the beginning of your career and interested in environmental history? This is the best way to get involved 👇

Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control Excerpt from Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control by Gabriela Jarzębowska.

The full text of 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 by Gabriela Jarzębowska is now available on our Environment & Society Portal!

#envhist #envhum

Please see the full call on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

The three-day RCC #conference in July 2026 will host a Young Scholars Forum, “Repressed Pasts, Crossed Borders, Just Futures: #Environmental, Social, and Political Perspectives,” for which it invites tandem presentation proposals to be submitted by 1 October.

Here is a reminder that proposals for this July 2026 conference can be submitted until October 1.

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum

JOB: One-year postdoctoral research fellowships at The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry on 2026-27 theme of “habitat”, Emory University (USA).
Appropriate for #envhist & #envhum scholars!

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Roças and queimadas: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal In 1966, historian Albert Silbert highlighted the longstanding importance of fire in the traditional Portuguese rural economy, at a time when such practices were being erased from the landscape.

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article: "𝘙𝘰ç𝘢𝘴 and 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘴: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal" by José Miguel Moura Ferreira, Miguel Carmo, Inês Gomes, and Marta Silva. www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9983
#EnvHist #EnvHum #fire

Congratulations, Isaac!

Understanding Grief and Politics in Planetary Health Explore how grief and cancer intersect with environmental politics, revealing the complexities of planetary health and community solidarity.

The article is now online on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴: seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l...

Is #grief inherently political?

In this deeply personal essay author @dylanmharris.bsky.social explores the connections between global #foodproduction and the health—and related grief—of the individual.

This essay is a contribution to the #planetaryhealth series featured on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴.

Additionally, in each of these three categories they would like to praise two honorable mentions. Congratulations to everyone!

The jury’s verdicts and honorable mentions can now be found in the News section on the RCC website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

The jury and organizers of the #writingcompetition “Tell the Untold!” would like to thank all of the participants and are especially thrilled to announce the #winners.

Congrats to Felix (short fiction), Vieser (creative nonfiction), and Fraillon (reflective essay) for their remarkable submissions.