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Affiliated Events

Affiliated Anthropocene events which reflect the diversity of the subject, with regular seminars, lectures, debates and conferences through the year. All seminars will take place online this term.

Term 1:

February 2021

DateTimeTitlePresenterSeriesBooking
25/02/211-2pmWeathering of sedimentary rocks as a positive feedback on climateProf.Robert Hilton, University of Durham – Department of GeographyPhysical Geography Lunchtime Seminar SeriesContact Cécile Porchier

March 2021

DateTimeTitlePresenterSeriesBooking
02/03/211.30-2.30pmMetabolism, Markets, and the Senses: Conceptualising Connectedness in the Malagasy SwiddenFiacha O’Dowda UCL Anthropology HERG/ AEDHuman Ecology Research Group (HERG)Contact Katy Hamilton
04/03/211-2pmJames Croll bicentenary: glacial cycles, astronomical theories and geological archivesProf.Chronis Tzedakis, University College London – Department of GeographyPhysical Geography Lunchtime Seminar SeriesContact Cécile Porchier
09/03/211.30-2.30pmA collective above and beyond the State: contemporary world-making in an Ashaninka village (Acre/Brazil)Dr. Carolina Comandulli, UCL Anthropology HERG/ AEDHuman Ecology Research Group (HERG)Contact Katy Hamilton
11/03/211-2pmTBCDr.Andreas Born, University of Bergen – Department of Earth SciencesPhysical Geography Lunchtime Seminar SeriesContact Cécile Porchier
15/3/215.30pmMapping and Measures A roundtable event featuring: Bernard Geoghegan (Media Theory, Kings College London); Anne Godlewska (Geography, Queen’s University); Ijlal Muzaffar (Architectural History, Rhode Island School of Design); Jason Nguyen (Architectural History, University of Toronto); Caitlin Rosenthal (History, University of California, Berkeley); and Jaqueline Wernimont (Literature, Dartmouth).'The Quantification of Urban Space' programmeBook here
16/03/215.30pmCounter MappingA workshop led by Juan Francisco Saldarriaga (Senior Data & Design Researcher, Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Columbia University) and Dana Byrd (Art History, Bowdoin College)'The Quantification of Urban Space' programmeBook here
16/03/211.30-2.30pmManioc, Machines and Gold: Livelihoods and the Temporal Ambivalence of Scarcity among Miners in Cameroon.Rosalie Allain, UCL Anthropology HERG/ AED   Human Ecology Research Group (HERG)Contact Katy Hamilton
18/03/211-2pmTBCJoshua Powelll, University College London – Department of Geography & Institute of ZoologyPhysical Geography Lunchtime Seminar SeriesContact Cécile Porchier
25/03/211-2pmTBCDr.Sruthi M.Krishna Moorthy, Ghent University – Department of EnvironmentPhysical Geography Lunchtime Seminar SeriesContact Cécile Porchier

The images below feature artworks made by UCL artists engaging with the Anthropocene. Click on the artist for further information.

Fiona Curran, The Grass Seemed Darker Than Ever (detail), 2016. Commissioned by Kielder Art and Architecture for Kielder Forest, Northumberland.

Simon Faithfull, Still from: 'Re-enactment for a Future Scenario #2: Cape Romano', 2019, HD video, 6min loop.

Rhona Eve Clews, If I eat you, will we both still be OK? (Plant), from the series Odes (PART OF A LARGER QUEST), 2019, multi-screen video installation, Slade School of Fine Art MA/MFA Degree show. Documentation by Holly Buckle.

Eleanor Morgan, Spider Spinning Machine 1810, 2008, etching.

Kat Austen, Coral Empathy Device, 2017, CC-BY-SA 4.0. Video documentation: https://www.katausten.com/portfolio/the-coral-empathy-device/.

Henrietta Simson, Sketch for the Anthropocene, 2015, 21 x 29 cm, collage on graph paper.

Christina Della Giustina, You Are Variations, Version 01 and 02 - Visp vs Vordemwald, audio-video installation, ca. 2 x (12 x 4 x 4 m), Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, CH, December 2011. Video documentation: https://vimeo.com/313811835; https://vimeo.com/265145196.

Hermione Spriggs and Laura Cooper, Concert of a Lure, 2017.

Onya McCausland, sixbells_ScreenShot_1 Six Bells Mine Water Treatment Scheme 51°43 33.56 N 3°07 58.63 W 847m.

Nick Laessing, Plant Orbiter, 2017.

Ram Shergill, Anthropogenic Echinoidea Sympoiesis, 2019, Chromogenic Print, Leica Gallery Los Angeles in collaboration with Jack Irving and Daen Palma Huse.