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Call for Papers:听Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts Conference this May. Find out more about the CfP and how to submit here.听Deadline: Feb 11th, 2024

Animal Scales: UCL Anthropocene and听the Centre for Critical Global Change, Goldsmiths, have launched a new seminar series running from February to July this year. More information and links to all six events can be found here.

UCL Anthropocene co-convenor Professor John Sabapathy delivered his inagurual lecture on November 29th, 2023, entitled听'Goodbye Cockaigne! Working, eating, & laughing in the Anthropocene, 1250-2023'. You can watch a recording of the lecture and read a reprot on the lecture here, written by History听PhD student Hugo Raine.

UCL Anthropocene co-convenor Professor John Sabapathy will deliver his inaugural lecture听Goodbye Cockaigne! Working, eating and laughing in the Anthropocene, 1250-2023听听辞苍 Nov 29th, 6:30pm, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre.听More information here.

International Booker Prize winning author Georgi Gospodinov and his translator Angela Rodel will join UCL SSEES鈥檚 Uilleam Blacker, who was a member of the judging panel for the Prize, for a conversation about Georgi鈥檚 latest, multi-award-winning novel, Time Shelter, a brilliant, satirical look at memory, nostalgia and populist politics. More information here.听(Part of the Writers of the Anthropocene series).听Dec 1st, 6:30pm, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre

The UCL Warning Research Centre (Science and Technology Studies)听hosted the 鈥楥reating Effective Warnings For All Conference鈥� from September 11-13th. Read more about the conference here.

Spot marking the beginning of the Anthropocene identified by UCL researchers. UCL Anthropocene member and听Secretary of the Anthropocene Working Group, Dr Simon Turner (UCL Geography) said: 鈥淭he sediments found at the bottom of Crawford Lake provide an exquisite record of recent environmental change over the last millennium. Seasonal changes in water chemistry and ecology have created annual layers that can be sampled for multiple markers of historical human activity." Read more here

A special issue of听 has been published, edited by the Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene group. The group is a collaboration between UCL, UFRGS Brazil, and CIESAS Mexico. UCL Anthropocene co-convenor Professor Sahra Gibbon,听member Dr Jennie Gamlin and research fellow Dr Maria-Paula Prates, who are part of this collaboration, have co-edited this issue alongside colleagues in Brazil and Mexico.

Professor Marie-Annick听Moreau and UCL Anthropology launch new podcast Hearing above the roar,听exploring why major energy infrastructure projects in Africa are on the rise and how rural communities in Tanzania and Kenya can鈥攁nd are鈥攎obilising to protect their waters, lands and ways of life. Listen to the podcast here (includes transcripts in English and Swahili, as well as links to further resources)

Professor David Wengrow (UCL Archaeology), who has been named the 2023 Albertus Magnus Professor at the University of Cologne, one of the university鈥檚 highest academic honours, for his work on comparative archaeology around the world. Professor Wengrow spoke last year with听Amitav Ghosh, as part of an event with UCL Anthropocene. You can see the recording here

Blog post:听Creating synergies for collaboration at Anthropocene's Chemical Exposures workshop.听The UCL Anthropocene Chemical Exposures reading group held their second hybrid workshop event in London in March, with a visit from Professor Michelle Murphy (University of Toronto). Read here for more on what was discussed

- Professor Mark Maslin (Geography), Professor Priti Parikh (Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction), Professor Richard Taylor (Geography) and Dr Simon Chin-Yee (Political Science) in The Conversation

Cop27:听UCL Anthropocene members and colleagues across SHS share their insights and reflections from the conference. Read contributions from Professor Lisa Vanhala (Political Science), Professor Mark Maslin (Geography), Professor Rodney Harrison (Archaeology) and Dr Fergus Green (Political Science) and more here.

A new study is published in Nature, entitled听.听Professor Simon Lewis (UCL Geography) senior author of this study, , saying: 鈥淲e know today that these peatlands are very close to that tipping point where they could release billions of tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere...We don鈥檛 know exactly how close but we do know that for the last couple of decades, droughts have been getting longer in the centre of the Congo basin. Our study brings a brutal warning from the past. This is an important message for world leaders gathering at the Cop27 climate talks.鈥�

UCL Anthropocene Honorary Research Fellow Gaia Vince : "听Greta Thunberg听is already assured her place in history as the Jeanne d鈥橝rc (or Cassandra) of our time. She鈥檚 been heroically battling the forces of climate inaction and denial since she stepped on to the global stage as a shy 15-year-old schoolkid 鈥渟triking for the climate鈥�. Anything written or orchestrated by her 鈥� like this appealingly produced anthology of essays 鈥� stands an excellent chance...This book is superb at explaining the urgency and importance of preventing climate change, but despite its heft it stops too soon."

Octagon Gallery exhibition Objects of the Misanthropocene opens in the Wilkins Building, running from 26 September 2022 to 6 February 2023. A series of events will run alongside the exhibition, more details of which can be found here.

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity co-authored by David Wengrow (UCL Institute of Archaeology), with the late David Graeber, has been shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022. David Wengrow will discuss ideas from his book in two special events with UCL Anthropocene and the IAS on听June 15 (panel discussion with Sonya Atalay, Luiz Costa, Paul Gilroy, Benedetta Rossi, and David Wengrow, chaired by Alpa Shah) and June 16 (a conversation with Amitav Ghosh and David Wengrow)

The Chemical Exposures workshop will take place in June, with a keynote opening lecture from Michelle Murphy (University of Toronto) on Thursday June 9th.

Call for papers: UCL Anthropocene, together with听SHS Health, Mind and Society, is听requesting contributions to the听Chemical Exposures workshop in June. Please see here for more information on how to propose a paper, conversation or interactive session. Deadline: April 22nd, 2022

UCL Anthropocene launches new COP26 blog series, with members across History, Archaeology, Geography, Science and Technology Studies, Anthropology, Art and more answer the question of: 'What should be happening at COP26 and beyond?'

UCL Professor of Comparative Archaeology David Wengrow, co-author of The Dawn of Everything with David Graeber,听writes in the Observer as COP26 gets underway

UCL Geography's Prof. Simon Lewis writes Guardian column '' in response to IPCC climate report

UN鈥檚 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report 鈥榳ake-up call for all governments to take climate change seriously鈥�

UCL鈥檚 Archaeology South-East launches SHS Dean鈥檚 Fund supported project PalaeoLondon, to bring the deep past of London alive for school children and the wider communities

Prof. Andrew Barry co-authors in KCL's series of essays on how we can听Build Back Better Together

UCL Anthropocene, the Sarah Parker Remond Centre, Institute of Advanced studies and听Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Kings, will run a two-day workshop on Engineering Global Vaccine Equity

Edward Christie (History of Art) reflects on the Cultural Ecology series as it comes to a close after eight events

Dr Simon Turner (Geography) appears on the Guardian podcast to discuss:听

Prof. Mark Maslin (Geography) publishes How to Save Our Planet: The Facts

Dr Sahra Gibbon (Anthropology) and Dr Jennie Gamlin (Institute for Global Health) granted听Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award for their project on Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene

Prof Dorian Fuller (Archaeology) publishes '' in PNAS

Dr Hannah Knox publishes Thinking Like A Climate:听Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change

Artist Simon Faithfull launches new exhibition 'Memories From The Future' at in Paris.

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Prof. Andrew Barry publishes '' in听openDemocracy

Dr. Jerome Lewis publishes 听in听Scientific American听journal.听

UCL Medical Anthropology launches blog series.

UCL launches podcast series.

Institute of Advanced Studies launches podcast series.

Prof. Katherine Homewood publishes 鈥痠n the Journal of Peasant Studies.

UCL Medical Anthropology launches blog series.

Dr.听Colin听Sterling publishes in鈥疘nternational Journal of Heritage Studies.鈥�