UCL Anthropocene Inaugural Seminar Series

This series explores two questions: What implications does the Anthropocene have for our disciplines? And what can our disciplines do to how we understand the Anthropocene?

Seminar 1: Geography+

Watch Véra Ehrenstein-Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the Anthropocene
Watch Mark Maslin-Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
The Conjunction of all Disciplines
Watch Andrew Barry-Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
Early and Late Anthropocenes

Seminar 2: History & Politics+

Watch Tom Pegram - Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
What does the Anthropocene do to Politics?
Watch Nils W Metternich - Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
Climate Change and Conflict
Watch John Sabapathy - Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
What does the Anthropocene do to History?

Seminar 3: Anthropology+

Watch Jerome Lewis - Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
Anthropology in the Anthropocene
Watch Katherine Homewood - Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
What do Human Ecology studies offer the Anthropocene?

Slides from Sahra Gibbon (Anthropology) – Medical Anthropology and the Anthropocene are available for download below. 

sahra_gibbon_medical_anthropology_and_the_anthropocene.pptx

 

Seminar 4: Archaeology+

Watch Manuel Arroyo Kalin - Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
Rewilding the Anthropocene in Amazonia
Watch Dean Sully - Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
Objects of the Misanthropocene
Watch Dorian Fuller - Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
Early Anthropocene Carbon Emissions
Watch Colin Sterling - Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
Heritage in the Anthropocene
Watch Elizabeth Graham - Anthropocene Seminar on YouTube.
The Future is Rubbish

Contact us

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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