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A nonprofit institution, the RCC was founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the Deutsches Museum, with the generous support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Our namesake is the American biologist, nature writer, and environmentalist Rachel Carson, whose accessible writing raised awareness worldwide about threats to the environm

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Former Carson Fellow Bron Taylor has launched a new Substack exploring the ethical, spiritual, and political dimensions ...
02/06/2026

Former Carson Fellow Bron Taylor has launched a new Substack exploring the ethical, spiritual, and political dimensions of our relationship to the living world:

Professor of Religion, Nature, and Ethics, the University of Florida | books include Dark Green Religion and the Planetary Future, Avatar and Nature Spirituality, Ecological Resistance Movements, and the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.

Tomorrow, Jürgen Stephan, Rosa Mühlhölzer, and Steffen Häuser of MünchenZero will join us for the Tuesday Discussion to ...
01/06/2026

Tomorrow, Jürgen Stephan, Rosa Mühlhölzer, and Steffen Häuser of MünchenZero will join us for the Tuesday Discussion to talk about the City of Munich’s goal to achieve climate neutrality by 2035 and what is needed for it.

Since declaring the climate emergency in 2019, the City of Munich has not yet established a monitoring of its climate action plan. The volunteers at MünchenZero, however, believe, that this gloal is only achievable with a comprehensive monitoring. They have established a monitoring platform that tracks Munich’s climate goals, actions, and city council resolutions. With this, they aim to make the progress transparent and highlight best practices from other cities. The findings are used to engage with local politicians and administration officials and to involve the civil society on climate policy in Munich.

Event page: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_seminars/calendar/td_stephan/index.html

The Tuesday Discussions are free and open to the public. So, feel free to join us tomorrow!

In this session, Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez (University of Fribourg, organizer), Ufuk Özdağ (Hacettepe University), Leti...
01/06/2026

In this session, Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez (University of Fribourg, organizer), Ufuk Özdağ (Hacettepe University), Leticia Albuquerque (Federal University of Santa Catarina), and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer (University of Fribourg) will discuss nonhuman legal status in Brazil, Switzerland, and Turkey under the headline “Rights of Nature—Comparative Analyses of Nonhuman Legal Status in Brazil, Switzerland, and Turkey.”

In this international brown bag colloquium (feel free to bring your lunch) we will discuss recent and groundbreaking research on environmental justice and related topics with doctoral students, visiting scholars, and fellows from different parts of the world and from different disciplines. The seminar is open to everybody.

Join us tomorrow!

Event page: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_seminars/calendar/colloquium-series5/index.html

A report on the "Melting Mountains" workshop, which took place at the RCC in November last year, is now available on H-S...
01/06/2026

A report on the "Melting Mountains" workshop, which took place at the RCC in November last year, is now available on H-Soz-Kult: https://www.hsozkult.de/searching/id/fdkn-161081?title=melting-mountains-society-and-the-vertical-climate-frontier-in-the-mountainous-peripheries&recno=1&q=melting++mountains&sort=&fq=&total=10

Over three days, the workshop participants discussed and assessed the challenges of climate change in mountain regions from multiple disciplinary perspectives. The scholars examined glaciers, migration, infrastructure, pastoralism, and political ecology, highlighting the concept of the “vertical climate frontier” as a key framework for understanding environmental, social, and economic change.

Join us tomorrow evening for our next Green Visions film screening—free of charge and followed by a discussion—with the ...
25/05/2026

Join us tomorrow evening for our next Green Visions film screening—free of charge and followed by a discussion—with the film 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨. Discussion guest is nature educator and ethnobotany researcher Hani Elfar.

Event page: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_seminars/calendar/gv26_foragers/index.html

Blurb:
Za’atar and akoub are the two central plants of Palestinian culinary culture. Artist Jumana Manna depicts not only their manual harvesting and processing, but also the patrols and interrogations surrounding these practices, as Israeli law restricts their picking. Many Palestinians continue to defy this ban, resisting the pressure to rely on cultivated varieties. Foragers is a thoughtful hybrid of ethnography and fiction that reveals how control over nature can also become control over culture.

See you tomorrow!

This Tuesday, Lorenz Stör (Sustainability Department, Munich Re) will join us for the Tuesday Discussion.In December 202...
18/05/2026

This Tuesday, Lorenz Stör (Sustainability Department, Munich Re) will join us for the Tuesday Discussion.

In December 2025, Munich Re published its new “Climate Ambition 2030” as part of the company strategy for the next five years. It defines climate and decarbonization targets for the companies’ investments, (re)insurance business, and own operations. Lorenz Stör currently acts as climate lead within the Group Sustainability Department at Munich Re. He coordinated the project and will present the climate targets as part of the wider sustainability strategy of one of the world’s largest (re)insurance companies.

Event page: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_seminars/calendar/td_stoer/index.html

The Tuesday Discussions are free and open to the public.

Join us tomorrow for this works-in-progress session with Karla Garcia and Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey. Karla García and Esmé Kapl...
18/05/2026

Join us tomorrow for this works-in-progress session with Karla Garcia and Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey. Karla García and Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey will present and discuss their current research, bringing together perspectives from environmental humanities, legal anthropology, decolonial thought, ecofiction, posthumanism, and more-than-human studies.

Karla García on “Training Nature Experts”
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey on “Human/Animal/Machine: More-Than-Human Consciousness in Ecofiction”

You can find out more here: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_seminars/calendar/colloquium-series41/index.html

We have a writing workshop with visiting scholar and writer Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey scheduled for 1 June. Esmé will take us t...
13/05/2026

We have a writing workshop with visiting scholar and writer Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey scheduled for 1 June.

Esmé will take us to the world of fiction writing, focusing on place as more than just setting, but as character.

“Place” is a frequently discussed term in the field of environmental humanities, so commonly invoked that its definition can become blurry. In modern literature, particularly the Western canon, place and ecosystem tend to be treated as backdrops to human activity rather than agentive forces within narratives. This perspective, especially once taken beyond literary contexts, constitutes a major concern when considering the impacts of human activity on the environment.

More info: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_seminars/calendar/envws_place-in-writing/index.html

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