Latest Maximilians Podcast Episodes
An Environmental History of Hungary
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarson Fellow Lajos Rácz explains the importance of climate history for the overall history of early modern Hungary. Documented climate data has only been in existence since the nineteenth century; therefore, Rácz reconstructs the pre-nineteenth century Hungarian climate from primary sources like...
Nature Conservation: The Influence of American Philosophies on Modern China
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow have US American ideas about nature conservation influenced the conception of nature in China? Carson Fellow Hou Shen bases her research around the nature writings of three well-known American writers—Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson—in order to demonstrate how the idea of...
An Environmental History of Hungary
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Lajos Rácz explains the importance of climate history for the overall history of early modern Hungary. Documented climate data has only been in existence since the nineteenth century; therefore, Rácz reconstructs the pre-nineteenth century Hungarian climate from primary sources like...
An Environmental History of the Danube
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarson Fellow Martin Schmid discusses his work on writing the first environmental history of the Danube river; Schmid’s research is part of a larger project on the Danube at the Alpen-Adria-University in Vienna. The Danube has been substantially transformed since 1800 and is, according to Schmid,...
An Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow have humans changed rivers throughout history, and what issues of social and environmental justice shape human interaction with rivers and, more generally, water? These questions shape the research of Carson Fellow Melinda Laituri, who is engaged in a comparative study between the Danube and ...
An Environmental History of the Danube
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Martin Schmid discusses his work on writing the first environmental history of the Danube river; Schmid’s research is part of a larger project on the Danube at the Alpen-Adria-University in Vienna. The Danube has been substantially transformed since 1800 and is, according to Schmid,...
An Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - VideoHow have humans changed rivers throughout history, and what issues of social and environmental justice shape human interaction with rivers and, more generally, water? These questions shape the research of Carson Fellow Melinda Laituri, who is engaged in a comparative study between the Danube and ...
Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - VideoExposing a phenomenon overlooked by many historians, Carson Fellow Donald Worster explains the importance of New World resources on Western European society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Worster details the role that gold, silver, fish, lumber, and cotton had on the imagination and...
Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsExposing a phenomenon overlooked by many historians, Carson Fellow Donald Worster explains the importance of New World resources on Western European society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Worster details the role that gold, silver, fish, lumber, and cotton had on the imagination and...
Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarson Fellow and environmental historian Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the “New World” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the most important event in modern history. These explorations gave Western society a wealth of natural resources that has never since been duplica...
Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - VideoExposing a phenomenon overlooked by many historians, Carson Fellow Donald Worster explains the importance of New World resources on Western European society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Worster details the role that gold, silver, fish, lumber, and cotton had on the imagination and...
Paradigmatic Shifts in Western Europe: The Importance of the New World
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the New World dramatically shaped the very idea of freedom; it significantly altered perceptions of nature, economic growth, and concepts of individuality. Donald Worster is an American environmental historian and is the Hall Distinguished...
Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow and environmental historian Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the “New World” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the most important event in modern history. These explorations gave Western society a wealth of natural resources that has never since been duplica...
Paradigmatic Shifts in Western Europe: The Importance of the New World
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarson Fellow Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the New World dramatically shaped the very idea of freedom; it significantly altered perceptions of nature, economic growth, and concepts of individuality. Donald Worster is an American environmental historian and is the Hall Distinguished...
Paradigmatic Shifts in Western Europe: The Importance of the New World
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the New World dramatically shaped the very idea of freedom; it significantly altered perceptions of nature, economic growth, and concepts of individuality. Donald Worster is an American environmental historian and is the Hall Distinguished...
Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow and environmental historian Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the “New World” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the most important event in modern history. These explorations gave Western society a wealth of natural resources that has never since been duplica...
Adaptation of Local Knowledge Societies and Systems to Global Change
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - April 26, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow and Director of the Global Diversity Foundation Gary Martin examines the cultural implications of conservation designation (i.e. the system of preserving certain areas of land in national park, or related, structures from outside development). Martin explains how protected areas sha...
Adaptation of Local Knowledge Societies and Systems to Global Change
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - April 26, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarson Fellow and Director of the Global Diversity Foundation Gary Martin examines the cultural implications of conservation designation (i.e. the system of preserving certain areas of land in national park, or related, structures from outside development). Martin explains how protected areas sha...
Adaptation of Local Knowledge Societies and Systems to Global Change
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - April 26, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow and Director of the Global Diversity Foundation Gary Martin examines the cultural implications of conservation designation (i.e. the system of preserving certain areas of land in national park, or related, structures from outside development). Martin explains how protected areas sha...
Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - November 09, 2010 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarson Fellow Robert Gioelli highlights how central city residents in the United States dealt with increasing environmental problems in the 1960s and 1970s. He focuses on three case studies—St. Louis, Chicago, and Baltimore—in order to determine how urban renewal plans and highway development sha...
Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - November 09, 2010 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Robert Gioelli highlights how central city residents in the United States dealt with increasing environmental problems in the 1960s and 1970s. He focuses on three case studies—St. Louis, Chicago, and Baltimore—in order to determine how urban renewal plans and highway development sha...
Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - November 09, 2010 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Robert Gioelli highlights how central city residents in the United States dealt with increasing environmental problems in the 1960s and 1970s. He focuses on three case studies—St. Louis, Chicago, and Baltimore—in order to determine how urban renewal plans and highway development sha...
Transforming Socialist Landscape
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - November 08, 2010 00:00 - VideoThe transition from socialism to post-socialism has affected many aspects of life in Eastern Europe. By using anthropological participant-observer methodologies, Carson Fellow Stefan Dorondel looks at how this shift impacted land use in these regions; he considers both how people change in relati...
Transforming Socialist Landscape
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - November 08, 2010 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe transition from socialism to post-socialism has affected many aspects of life in Eastern Europe. By using anthropological participant-observer methodologies, Carson Fellow Stefan Dorondel looks at how this shift impacted land use in these regions; he considers both how people change in relati...
Environmental Mobility History in the Making
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - September 07, 2010 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Gijs Mom describes his work on the automobile, which he sees as a vehicle for understanding how people in the early twentieth century both perceived and conquered nature. Mom relies on sources such as literature and films to determine how the car was driven and how driving changed t...
Environmental Mobility History in the Making
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - September 07, 2010 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarson Fellow Gijs Mom describes his work on the automobile, which he sees as a vehicle for understanding how people in the early twentieth century both perceived and conquered nature. Mom relies on sources such as literature and films to determine how the car was driven and how driving changed t...
Environmental Mobility History in the Making
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - September 07, 2010 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Gijs Mom describes his work on the automobile, which he sees as a vehicle for understanding how people in the early twentieth century both perceived and conquered nature. Mom relies on sources such as literature and films to determine how the car was driven and how driving changed t...
Introducing LMU
Introducing LMU - January 22, 2009 15:17 - 7 minutes - VideoGet an idea of who we are - the university in the heart of Munich. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is one of the leading research universities in Europe, with a more than 500-year-long tradition. "Introducing LMU" gives an insight into learning and teaching as well as research and life at ...
Introducing LMU
Introducing LMU - January 22, 2009 15:17 - 7 minutes - VideoGet an idea of who we are - the university in the heart of Munich. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is one of the leading research universities in Europe, with a more than 500-year-long tradition. "Introducing LMU" gives an insight into learning and teaching as well as research and life at ...
Image Film
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - January 01, 2009 00:00 - VideoVisit the RCC virtually! Shot in Munich, this film outlines the goals of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, highlights the research of the international Carson Fellows, profiles different types of events, and introduces the Center’s digital Environment & Society Portal.
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