After 3+ years, here's my first peer-reviewed article: 'Forgotten Stories of Yogurt' about old yogurt-making methods involving spring rains, ant colonies, and nettle roots. A huge thanks to my relatives, whose yogurt stories and flavors have been a constant source of inspiration!
We plan to curate a mini-exhibition on fermentation in
@DeutschesMuseum
to initiate discussions around fermentation and its relevance to planetary health. If you are in Munich and interested in microbiome/fermentation/food sustainability, email for details (ucfamut
@ucl
.ac.uk)
Next Monday, 5th June (3-4pm CET)
@CarsonCenter
Reading Group welcomes
@DVillanuevaRo
and Scott Slovic to discuss their inspiring book, 'Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities'. Participate online, email ucfamut[at].
At the
@CarsonCenter
Reading Group, we will host Simone M. Müller (
@haztravrcc
) to delve into her recent book, 'The Toxic Ship.' Join us online on Monday, Oct 16th, at 3pm (CET).
🔗 Details & RSVP:
Join RCC reading group next Monday (Jan15, 15:00 CET) with Bettina Stoetzer from MIT. We'll discuss her book, "Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin."
For the reading material and Zoom link, email ucfamut[at].
@CarsonCenter
Delighted to receive the
@OxfordFoodSymp
Proceedings! My contribution explores the overlooked cross-border informal food transfers among the Turkish-speaking community in Germany, providing insights into biocultural diversity, sustainability, and migration through fermented foods
@CarsonCenter
reading group will host Malcom Ferdinand
@Malcomsun
to discuss his book "Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World"(Polity,2021). Our session will be online on September 19th 2022, 3/4:30 pm(CET). If you are interested✍️ucfamut(at)
Join us for our next
@CarsonCenter
Reading Group with
@greggmitman
! (08 May, 15:00-16:00 CET) We'll discuss his book, 'Empire of Rubber - Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia.' Interested? Email ucfamut[at].
#envhistory
I chaired the fantastic panel titled “Conceptualising Mountain Regions: Problems and Possibilities”
#eseh2023
. I'm grateful to
@jontepalmblad
for both organizing and presenting. Similarly, I thank
@nrheroor
and
@tejasosteric
for their provocative presentations.
@CarsonCenter
The article is part of a special issue on "Ethnobiology and Philosophy" in the Journal of Ethnobiology. Link: Pluralist Ethnobiology: Between Philosophical Reflection and Transdisciplinary Action -
The writing has been a long and involved process; I'm deeply grateful to everyone who's been part of it:
@CarsonCenter
sessions (2019–2023), the SIEF Conference Symbiotic Living Panel (2021), the Coronavirus Multispecies Reading Group (2022), and Rob Dunn’s Lab Ferment Meetings.
PhD-Lecture* "Culturing Sustainability: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Fermentation"
By
@sevgimutlu80
Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova, PhD Candidate,
@CarsonCenter
14.11.2023. - 6 pm - Pécs, University of Pécs,
@pte1367
Thank you to the Studio Métabolisme Team
@EcoleUrbaine
organizing the "Metabolism studies: Materiality and relationality in the Anthropocene". in Lyon with engaging sessions and inspiring presentations! Looking forward to the following events.
Around Munich next week? Join us for an engaging talk by
@RRobDunn
on "The Role of Flavor in Our Relationships with Other Species".
Wed, 14th June, 17:00 at KHG Room (near to the Rachel Carson Center) if you're interested in attending please email: thinkfermentation
@gmail
.com.
Did you recently earn your PhD in environmental history or the environmental humanities? If you successfully defended your dissertation in 2021 or 2022, kick off the new year with a chance to win the prestigious ESEH 2023 Tallinn Dissertation Prize. Apply now!
📢The call for the 2023 ESEH Tallinn Dissertation Prize is open!
The dissertation award is presented every second year to the best doctoral dissertation in European
#envhist
Looking forward to receiving original and promising contributions!
CfP: Animals in Anatolian and Turkish History (May 16-17, 2024, Istanbul). The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 9, 2024. Please send your abstracts to ocezik21
@ku
.edu.tr.
Pinch me! I've had the opportunity to collaborate with former Noma chef David Zilber and evolutionary ecologist Veronica Sinotte, exploring traditional yogurt fermentation practices in my village in Bulgaria. I'm immensely grateful to
@RRobDunn
for making this dream a reality!
Book Launch "Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands" at
#eseh2023
co-authored and presented by
@pavla_simkova
and
@miliprokic
.🙌A new volume on the environmental history of islands that eighteen authors have worked through the stories of fourteen islands.📚
My foraging adventure today was fruitful! Wild asparagus and mushrooms have made an appearance. What more could one ask for? 🌿🍄
#Foraging
#wildfood
#slowfood
We were very excited to hold the first workshop of our "Thinking with Fermentation" project, supported by the
@msc_lab
. Thank you, all participants, for the fruitful discussion and help developing our communication strategy. Stay in tune for future updates!
I am happy to share; I am currently visiting fellow
@CSSMicrobes
() at the University of Helsinki until the end of June. If anyone from my network is in or around Helsinki during this time, I would love to meet up and chat. Just drop me a message.
Join the
@CarsonCenter
reading group with
@JennyJJPrice
next Monday (15 April) at 15:00–16:00 CET. We will discuss her article "Stop Saving the Planet!—and Other Tips via Rachel Carson for Twenty-First-Century Environmentalists."
@Mikdatca
Bu alman cavdar ekmegi rengi o nedenle rengi koyu, Almanya'da organik un kullanarak ve geleneksel odun firininda uzun surede pisirilen eksi hamurlu ekmege hala ulasilabilirken, ilk ekmegin yapildigi bu topraklarda bu lezzetleri kaybetmis olmamiz ne aci!
Thank you Jamie
@jsplorimer
for being with
@CarsonCenter
Reading Group today! We enjoyed discussing your book and thinking with you about the possibilities and challenges of "probiotic approaches" towards restoring the health of our bodies and our planet...
Join RCC reading group for Environmental History Week with Christof Mauch to discuss his forthcoming book 'Paradise Blues:Traveling through the Nature and History of the USA' April 24th (15:00-16:00CET).Send an email to ucfamut[at] for the link.
#EHW2023
In collaboration with
@RRobDunn
, Veronica Sinotte and David Zilber we embarked on a project to explore old yogurt-making traditions, which took us to my village in Bulgaria.
Listen to our journey and stories in the latest podcast episode here: .
Three incredible days at the "Social Microbes" doctoral school organized by
@CSSMicrobes
. It gifted us with new friends, fresh ideas, and flavourful memories. A heartfelt thank you to everyone involved!
Please join us for the upcoming
@CarsonCenter
Reading Group session with Stefanie Fishel to discuss her book
The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic.
@UMinnPress
Date: 27 May (Monday)/15:00 (CET) For the zoom link and readings✉️ucfamut[at]
Tomorrow, September 18, 2023 (Monday, 15:00 CET), we're excited to host Juno Salazar Parreñas (
@JunoIsHere
) for a discussion on her book "Decolonizing Extinction" at the
@CarsonCenter
Reading Group. To get the Zoom link, email us at ucfamut[at]
Thoroughly enjoyed today's
@CarsonCenter
Research-in-Progress session! Got insightful details about
@DOUNOMoussa5
Ph.D. project on Lassa Fever, part of the ERC-funded Bloodborne: Hot Zones project led by
@greggmitman
Always fascinating to see how Ph.D. projects are advancing.
Join us for a joint session with
@CarsonCenter
Humanities&MultispeciesReadingGroups. We're hosting Irus Braverman to discuss her book, "Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel". 14th Aug,15:00-16:30 CET. Email ucfamut[at] for Zoom link
For those who know, I love cooking. Tonight, to prevent the zucchinis I bought from going bad, I whipped up a delicious 'mucver' feast. Mucver is a vegetarian fritter made with zucchini, carrots, potatoes, a mix of herbs, eggs, and seasonings.
Last day of the
#degrowth
conference, I had a chance to visit the local farmer's market in Zagreb. Nice to see people are still selling homemade fermented food here!
Curious about old yogurt practices with ants, plants, and rain? My article 'Forgotten Stories of Yogurt: Cultivating Multispecies Wisdom' in 'Ethnobiology and Philosophy' special issue of
@SofEthnobiology
is coming soon!Edited by
@AbigailNievesD
,
@DavidLudwigWUR
,Charbel N.El-Hani
@Mai_Abbas_
and I are organizing a Workshop "Sensations of Fermentation" on
7 June 2021 (Monday, 13:00-14:30 CEST).
Join us at Spaces of Possibility (CONFEX)!
For registration:
Our RCC weekly online Works in Progress session is still lively as much as face to face meetings, thank you
@BettinaStoetzer
for sharing your works this week.
Today's May Day march was such a warm welcome to Helsinki, where I will be spending the next few months on my visiting fellowship at
@CSSMicrobes
, University of Helsinki
Munich friends! Join us for
@heymayahey
talk on "Tracing the Fermentation Revival: How Microbial Logics Shape Alternatives in Health, Food & Sustainability"
Wednesday, 28th February, 16:30
@CarsonCenter
, LMU Munich
For details & registration visit:
The next
@CarsonCenter
reading group will host
@heymayahey
on 19 February (Monday)/15:00 CET to discuss her paper, "Communicating With the Microbial Other: Reorienting humans and microbes in polylogue." For the Zoom link and reading materials📧 ucfamut[at]
@Kuzubudu
Her bolgenin kendine ozgu mikrobial cesitligi bu peynirlere farkli tatlar olarak yansidi. Tarih boyunca her kultur yerel mikroplarla isbirligi icinde ayakta kalma yontemleri gelistirdi, ekmek,sarap, peynir bu kadim ortakliklardan birkac tanesi...
Join us for the upcoming
@CarsonCenter
Reading Group session! We will host Weihong Bao from
@UCBerkeley
. We'll dive into her article, "Set Design Thinking and the Art of the Human." Monday, July 31, 15:00-16:00 (CET), please email ucfamut[at] for zoom link
Excited to announce our next
@CarsonCenter
Reading Group session with philosopher
@LaDoeland
! Join us on 22 May (Monday),3-4pm CET as we delve into her thought-provoking article "At home in an unhomely world: On living with waste." Email ucfamut[at] to join
If you want to trace how foods and their flavor shaped human evolution, this book is the perfect guide! Thank you
@RRobDunn
and Monica Sanchez for sharing all these flavors and their stories with us.
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
@PrincetonUPress
Ilginçtir, Almanya'da bir restoranda oturan insanların UFO'lar hakkında konuştuklarını duymak, Filistin'de olup bitenleri duymaktan daha muhtemeldir. Tecrübeyle sabit👀
A great event by
@CarsonCenter
FilmClub for today's FORAGERS screening! Fascinating post-film discussion with director Jumana Manna. Thanks
@nrheroor
, Lotta, and
@Mai_Abbas_
for their efforts. The Palestinian foods were the perfect zahter touch!
Çevre tarihi ve çevre ile ilgili beşeri ve sosyal bilimlerde doktorasını yapan ve İngilizce makale yazan arkadaşlar, yazılarınızı alandan uzmanlarla paylaşıp geliştirmek için geri donuş alabileceğiniz bu destek programı kaçırmayın!
@Onur_Inal
@muhalefetserhi
@aginbasak
@Mikdatca
Alerji gibi oto-immun hastaliklarin altinda dogaya yabancilasmamiz yatiyo. Arastirmalar kirsalda ve dogal kaynakli antijen ve patojenlerle yetisen cocuklarda bu hastaliklar daha az goruldugunu gosteriyo .Lorimier bunu "yoklugun salgini" olarak adlandiriyo...
@TasteAtlas
This is not tavukgöğsü in the video! When cutting tavukgöğsü, the thin chicken breast fibers become distinct and it has a firmer texture. This can only be a mock tavukgöğsü made without using real chicken🙃
@esehtweets
@esehnextgate
@NUjhazy
@MoniqueePalma
@monica_vasile
@fe_ecn
çevre tarihi veya çevre alanında beşeri ve sosyal bilimlerde doktorasını tamamlayan arkadaşlar, tezinizin özetini ESEH (Avrupa Çevre Tarihi Topluluğu) doktora tezleri veri tabanina gönderip çalışmalarınızı daha geniş kesimlere yayabilirsiniz. Ayrıntılar👆
As
@CarsonCenter
Reading Group, we are excited to host
@BronTaylor
on Monday (July 18th 2022, 3 – 4:30 pm, CET) to discuss his book; Dark Green Religion. If you are interested, please drop me an email for the zoom link! (ucfamut
@ucl
.ac.uk)
@DianaUrge
The fact that 'degrowth' remains untouched by the business world may indicate the strength of this concept against capitalist logic. While other terms were easily adopted, this term remains immune to being used in greenwashing!
@BugdayDernegi
Tam gıdalar aynı zamanda prebiyotiktir, yani vücudumuzdaki yararlı mikropların (microbiome) beslenmesine ve çoğalmasına yardımcı olan besinlerdir.Vücudumuzdaki bu mikropların kendi vücüt hücrelerimizin 10 katı kadar olduğu ve sağlığımız için kritik önemde olduğu düşünülmektedir.
Thanks to the great atmosphere and interesting events, my first week of PhD passed quickly;)
I look forward to becoming part of the vibrant
@CarsonCenter
community!