All the latest news, media appearances and achievements from those involved with UCL Anthropocene.
November 2023
UCL Anthropocene co-convenor Professor John Sabapathy will deliver his inaugural lecture Goodbye Cockaigne! Working, eating and laughing in the Anthropocene, 1250-2023 on Nov 29th, 6:30pm, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre. More information here.
October 2023
International Booker Prize winning author Georgi Gospodinov and his translator Angela Rodel will join UCL SSEES’s Uilleam Blacker, who was a member of the judging panel for the Prize, for a conversation about Georgi’s latest, multi-award-winning novel, Time Shelter, a brilliant, satirical look at memory, nostalgia and populist politics. More information here. (Part of the Writers of the Anthropocene series). Dec 1st, 6:30pm, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
July 2023
Spot marking the beginning of the Anthropocene identified by UCL researchers. UCL Anthropocene member and Secretary of the Anthropocene Working Group, Dr Simon Turner (UCL Geography) said: “The 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 Medical Anthropology Theory on ‘Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene’ 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, 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. Read an introduction to the special issue here
Professor Marie-Annick Moreau and UCL Anthropology launch new podcast Hearing above the roar, exploring why major energy infrastructure projects in Africa are on the rise and how rural communities in Tanzania and Kenya can—and are—mobilising 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)
June 2023
Professor David Wengrow (UCL Archaeology), who has been named the 2023 Albertus Magnus Professor at the University of Cologne, one of the university’s highest academic honours, for his work on comparative archaeology around the world. Professor Wengrow spoke last year with Amitav Ghosh, as part of an event with UCL Anthropocene. You can see the recording here
March 2023
Blog post: Creating synergies for collaboration at Anthropocene's Chemical Exposures workshop. 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
November 2022
'COP27 will be remembered as a failure – here’s what went wrong' - 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: 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 Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin. Professor Simon Lewis (UCL Geography) senior author of this study, spoke to the Guardian, saying: “We 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’t 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.”
October 2022
UCL Anthropocene Honorary Research Fellow Gaia Vince reviews The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg: " Greta Thunberg is already assured her place in history as the Jeanne d’Arc (or Cassandra) of our time. She’s 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 “striking for the climate”. Anything written or orchestrated by her – like this appealingly produced anthology of essays – 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."
September 2022
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.
June 2021
UCL’s Archaeology South-East launches SHS Dean’s Fund supported project PalaeoLondon, to bring the deep past of London alive for school children and the wider communities
Prof. Andrew Barry co-authors 'A new public health order: engineering vaccine equity' in KCL's series of essays on how we can Build Back Better Together
UCL Anthropocene, the Sarah Parker Remond Centre, Institute of Advanced studies and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Kings, will run a two-day workshop on Engineering Global Vaccine Equity
September 2020
Artist Simon Faithfull launches new exhibition 'Memories From The Future' at Galerie Polaris in Paris.
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