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Soil and Soul: A Gathering
Soil and Soul: A Gathering
This ten-minute film captures impressions from the ecological farming workshop, “Soil and Soul: A Gathering,” organized by Judith Bopp (RCC), Nakul Heroor (RCC), and Renuka Karuppian in October 202...
Lunchtime Colloquium with Salma Abouelhossein
Lunchtime Colloquium with Salma Abouelhossein
Salma Abouelhossein (Harvard University) will present on “Planning an Egyptian Hinterland: Urbanization, Agro-Ecology, and Empire in Egypt’s Sugar Belt.”
Lunchtime Colloquium with Benjamin Glasson
Lunchtime Colloquium with Benjamin Glasson
Benjamin Glasson (Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Melbourne) will present on “Greenwash 2.0: The Poetics of Corporate Environmentalism.”
Speak4Nature: Isabel - An International Approach to Ecocide
Speak4Nature: Isabel - An International Approach to Ecocide
In this Speak4Nature talk, Isabel Pinheiro de Paula Couto (UFSC, Brazil) presents her research on ecocide in Brazil as a part of the workshop "The Political Implementation of Nature’s Inherent Valu...
Speak4Nature: Isabel - Advancing Ecological Justice
Speak4Nature: Isabel - Advancing Ecological Justice
In this Speak4Nature seminar, former secondee Isabel Pinheiro de Paula Couto (UFSC, Brazil) presented on ecological justice in practice in the city and region of Florianópolis, detailing the work a...
Speak4Nature: Gabrielle Fagundez - The Climate Catastrophe in Southern Brazil
Speak4Nature: Gabrielle Fagundez - The Climate Catastrophe in Southern Brazil
In this Speak4Nature talk, Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez (UFSC, Brazil) presents her research on the climate catastrophe in southern Brazil as a part of the workshop "The Political Implementation of N...
Speak4Nature: Gabrielle Fagundez - The Climate Emergency and the Right to Health
Speak4Nature: Gabrielle Fagundez - The Climate Emergency and the Right to Health
In this Speak4Nature seminar, visiting scholar Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez (UFSC, Brazil) presents her research on climate change and “borderline law.” Climate change defines our era, profoundly imp...
Speak4Nature: Felipe Jardim - Cultivating the Right to Food
Speak4Nature: Felipe Jardim - Cultivating the Right to Food
In this Speak4Nature seminar, Landhaus Fellow Felipe Jardim explored how community gardens address urban food and land challenges in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro. His study investigates the connection...
Lunchtime Colloquium with Nastasya Kosygina
Lunchtime Colloquium with Nastasya Kosygina
Nastasya Kosygina (University of California, Irvine) will present on “Old Rome’s Floods and New Rome’s Earthquakes: Urban Re-Planning Under the Sixth-Century Byzantine Occupation.”
Lunchtime Colloquium with Elijah Doro
Lunchtime Colloquium with Elijah Doro
Humboldt Fellow Elijah Doro will present on “Toxic Narratives of the African Wasteocene: Gold Mining and Arsenic in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe).” Disclaimer: The quality of the video was...
Lunchtime Colloquium with Julia Ludewig and Sabina Magagnoli
Lunchtime Colloquium with Julia Ludewig and Sabina Magagnoli
Julia Ludewig (Allegheny College, Pennsylvania) and Sabina Magagnoli (Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia and University of Ferrara, Italy), who are both currently visiting scholars at the RCC, wi...
Lunchtime Colloquium with Anke M. Friedrich and Markus Vogt
Lunchtime Colloquium with Anke M. Friedrich and Markus Vogt
Anke M. Friedrich (LMU Munich) and Markus Vogt (LMU Munich) will present on “Earth Shattered: Geology and Ethics.”
Lunchtime Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Laura Otto
Lunchtime Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Laura Otto
Laura Otto (Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg) will present on “Climate Migration and Violence: Perspectives from Comparative Literature and Anthropology.”
Lunchtime Colloquium with Ufuk Özdağ
Lunchtime Colloquium with Ufuk Özdağ
Prof. Dr. Ufuk Özdağ (Hacettepe University, Ankara) will present on “Why Is Environmental Thinking on the Rise in Turkey.”
Lunchtime Colloquium with Elizabeth DeLoughrey and Nakul Heroor
Lunchtime Colloquium with Elizabeth DeLoughrey and Nakul Heroor
Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA) and Nakul Heroor (Rachel Carson Center) will present on “Discourses on Rising Waters: Stories and Politics.”
Lunchtime Colloquium with Alison Pouliot
Lunchtime Colloquium with Alison Pouliot
Alison Pouliot (Volkswagen Foundation Visiting Professor) will present on “The Dark Web: A Foray in the Fungal Underground.”
Lunchtime Colloquium with Borja Nogué Algueró and Sergi Cot Cantalosella
Lunchtime Colloquium with Borja Nogué Algueró and Sergi Cot Cantalosella
Borja Nogué Algueró (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Sergi Cot Cantalosella (Departament d'Acció Climàtica, Girona City Council)...
Lunchtime Colloquium with Tobias Leenaert
Lunchtime Colloquium with Tobias Leenaert
Tobias Leenaert will present on “Meat the Future: The Issues, Actors, and Solutions in the Protein Transition.”
Lunchtime Colloquium with Lachlan Fleetwood
Lunchtime Colloquium with Lachlan Fleetwood
Lachlan Fleetwood will present on “Environmental Determinism, Climatic Stability, and Imperial Imaginaries of Habitability in Central Asia.”
Lunchtime Colloquium with Meredith Welch-Devine
Lunchtime Colloquium with Meredith Welch-Devine
Rachel Carson-Simone Veil Fellow Meredith Welch-Devine will present on “Transdisciplinary Collaboration to Understand the Past and Imagine New Futures: Pastoralism, Cultural Heritage, and Climate C...