Anthropocene Histories

This partnership seminar series with the Institute of Historical Research explores the historical matrix of the Anthropocene.

Watch Holistic Ecologies Before Modernity - with Minji Lee and François Quiviger. on YouTube.
Holistic Ecologies Before Modernity (March 2026)
Watch Apprehending Other Worlds: Mohamed Amer Meziane, Melissa Leach and James Fairhead. on YouTube.
Apprehending Other Worlds (March 2026)
Watch Anthropocene Histories, Eco-critical Approaches to Art History on YouTube.
Eco-critical Approaches to Art History (Nov 2025)
Watch Anthropocene Histories - Cities on YouTube.
Cities and the Anthropocene (Oct 2025)
Watch Anthropocene Histories: Scarcity on YouTube.
Scarcity (May 2025)
Watch The great economization of the Ocean on YouTube.
The Great Economization of the Ocean (May 2025)
Watch Anthropocene Histories Seminar: Images of Extraction on YouTube.
Images of Extraction (Jan 2025)
Watch Anthropocene Histories Seminar: Learning from Past Sustainability on YouTube.
Learning from Past Sustainability (Nov 2024)
Watch Anthropocene Histories seminar: Experimental histories in the Anthropocene on YouTube.
Experimental Histories in the Anthropocene (Oct 2024)
Watch UCL History - Professor John Sabapathy's Inaugural Lecture 'Cockaigne' - 29 November 2023 on YouTube.
Goodbye Cockaigne! Working, eating, & laughing in the Anthropocene (Nov 2023)
Watch Locating the Anthropocene: Markers, meaning, implications on YouTube.
Locating the Anthropocene: Markers, meaning, implications (March 2023)
Watch Anthropocene Histories: Whose Energy? on YouTube.
Whose Energy? (Feb 2023)
Watch Anthropocene Histories: Climate in Motion: Science, Empire and the Problem of Scale on YouTube.
Climate in Motion: Science, Empire and the Problem of Scale (March 2022)
Watch Animal History in the Anthropocene on YouTube.
Animal History in the Anthropocene (Jan 2022)
Watch Teaching Environmental History and the Anthropocene on YouTube.
Teaching environmental history & the Anthropocene (Dec 2021)
Watch Epistemicides and the Resources of Justification on YouTube.
Epistemicides and the Resources of Justification (Oct 2021)
Watch Anthropocene Histories: What should historians do in the next decade of the climate crisis? on YouTube.
What Should Historians Do in the Next Decade of the Climate Crisis? (June 2021)
Watch Anthropocene Histories: Thinking with extinction on YouTube.
Thinking with Extinction (March 2021)
Watch Anthropocene Histories: Sylvain Piron 'Original sin & the Anthropocene' on YouTube.
Original Sin and the Anthropocene (Feb 2021)
Watch Anthropocene Histories: P.Chakrabarti - Anthropocene & the Challenges of Deep Historical Imagination on YouTube.
Anthropocene and the Challenges of Deep Historical Imagination (Jan 2021)

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If you have any questions on our existing projects, potential partnerships or would like to know more about studying Anthropocene at UCL, get in touch.

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