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UCL Anthropocene programmes 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.
Forthcoming:
1 March 2021, 13:00-14:00 - 'Cultural Ecology'
VIRTUAL EVENT: Reimagining Museums for Climate Action: An Ecological View - Colin Sterling (University of Amsterdam)
This event is free and will take place online. All welcome.
2 March 2021, 1530–1730 - ‘Anthropocene Histories’
VIRTUAL EVENT: ‘Thinking with extinction’. A panel discussion.
Panellists:
Elizabeth Boakes (UCL): ‘Living with extinction’
Lee Raye (Open University): ‘Coping with loss’
Sadiah Qureshi (Birmingham): ‘The frozen ark and new definitions of extinction’
Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch): ‘Frankenzebra - a historian thinks about zombie zoology’
An IHR Anthropocene Histories seminar.
Seminar convenors: Anna Echterhölter (Vienna), Sophie Page (UCL), Amanda Power (Oxford), John Sabapathy (UCL), Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
All welcome.
TBC
VIRTUAL EVENT: Thinking Like a Climate - Hannah Knox (UCL, Anthropology)
We are delighted to celebrate the launch of 'Thinking Like a Climate' (Duke University Press, 2020) by Hannah Knox (UCL, Anthropology)
This event is free and will take place online.
All welcome. Do not hesitate to contact us if you need assistance on the day.
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.