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UCL Anthropocene
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UCL Anthropocene brings together researchers from across disciplines to articulate and address the problems that the Anthropocene poses for our collective future.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene/
Many thanks to the Centre for Apocalyptic & Postapocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) @uniheidelberg.bsky.social for welcoming @fmussgnug.bsky.social, @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social & Emily Baker to talk about emergence and emergencies last week—we look forward to our discussions in Bloomsbury next spring!
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
👏👏 to @fmussgnug.bsky.social for a 🎆 inaugural lecture on loving apocalypse too much @uclselcs.bsky.social last night!

Saul Bellow's Herzog, Frank Kermode, Loki & multiverse destruction, Mary Shelley's & apocalypses as a way of looking beyond & through them to something more sustaining.
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Our ECR Showcase (hosted by UCL Anthropocene and UCL Health Mind & Society) is at the www.artworkersguild.org on Wednesday! There'll be networking, a light lunch, presentations on last year's projects and an announcement of this year's ECR funding! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecr-showca...
October 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
📣Tomorrow!

The UCL Stampede for Arts on a Heating Planet🌍

Life-size puppet animals🦁 are travelling a 20,000km route to symbolise their flight from climate disaster as part of THE HERDS public art & climate initiative

Attend our events to mark the arrival in London👇
26-29 June
🔗 shorturl.at/T64aV
June 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The Visual Arts on a Heating Planet 🌍

Join us for this roundtable event where artists & scholars explore the role of the arts in responding to the accelerating climate crisis.

📆26 June, 12noon - 1.45pm
📍IAS Common Ground
🔗 Book here! shorturl.at/gXFmr

Part of the UCL Stampede events & The Herds 🦁
June 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📣Next week!

The UCL Stampede for Arts on a Heating Planet🌍

Life-size puppet animals🦁 are travelling a 20,000km route to symbolise their flight from climate disaster as part of THE HERDS public art & climate initiative

Attend our event to mark the arrival in London👇
26-29 June
🔗 shorturl.at/T64aV
June 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Join us for the 5th seminar in our Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social & natural sciences seminar series!

Ann Stoler will speak about Radical Adisciplinarity in conversation with Andrew Barry

📆19 June, 5-6pm
📍Online
Sign up here👉https://shorturl.at/c1EqD
June 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The Performing Arts on a Heating Planet 🌍

Join us on 26 June for a presentation of THE HERDS by the project team.

The Herds is a public art & climate initiative where life-size puppet animals sweep through city centres on a 20,000km journey fleeing climate disaster.

🔗Book here👉 shorturl.at/HP3y2
June 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The Visual Arts on a Heating Planet 🌍

Join us for this roundtable event where artists & scholars explore the role of the arts in responding to the accelerating climate crisis.

📆26 June, 12noon - 1.45pm
📍IAS Common Ground
🔗 Book here! shorturl.at/gXFmr

Part of the UCL Stampede events & The Herds 🦁
June 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Join us for the fourth seminar in our Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social & natural sciences series!

John Haldon speaks about history, archaeology and palaeoscience in conversation with John Sabapathy.

📆10 June, 5-6pm
📍IAS Common Ground & online
Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/SJViw
June 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Join us for the fourth seminar in our Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social & natural sciences series!

John Haldon speaks about history, archaeology and palaeoscience in conversation with John Sabapathy.

📆10 June, 5-6pm
📍IAS Common Ground & online
Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/SJViw
June 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Join us for an Anthropocene Histories seminar on Histories of Heating🔥

How might history help us understand the material & social significance of heat? In what ways do these histories connect with domestic structures, gender & patterns of consumption?

📆4 June,3-5pm
📍online
🔗 shorturl.at/a7VZD
June 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Introducing the UCL Stampede for Arts on a Heating Planet🌍

Life-size puppet animals🦁 are travelling a 20,000km route to symbolise their flight from climate disaster as part of THE HERDS public art & climate initiative

Attend our events to mark the arrival in London👇
26-29 June
🔗 shorturl.at/T64aV
June 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Join the next event in the Anthropocene seminar series on Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences!

Nikolas Rose (IAS, UCL) will speak about The Exposome in conversation with Andrew Barry and Sahra Gibbon.

📆3 June, 5-6pm
📍online
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...
June 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
5 years on from the first UK lockdowns, what do we make of the material remnants the pandemic left behind and the memorials that have grown in response to its memory?

Join us for this Anthropocene event to find out:

📆12 June, 6-7pm
📍IAS Common Ground, UCL
🔗 shorturl.at/mbfj5
June 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
How might history help us understand the material and social significance of heat? In what ways do these histories connect with domestic structures, gender & patterns of consumption?

Join us for an Anthropocene Histories seminar on Histories of Heating🔥

📆4 June,3-5pm|
📍online
🔗 shorturl.at/a7VZD
May 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
📣Today at 5pm!

Join us for the second seminar in our Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences seminar series

Mariam Motamedi-Fraser will speak about Animal Studies on 27 May from 5-6pm in the IAS Common Ground.

Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/7fNTU
May 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
📣Join us for another seminar in our Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences series!

Ann Stoler will speak about Radical Adisciplinarity in conversation with Andrew Barry on 29 May from 5-6pm online

Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/6BIae
May 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
📣Coming up next week!

Wretched Waters: Making Modernity & the Southern North Sea

📆28 May, 5-7pm
📍Room 6.02, The Bartlett,UCL

This talk by Dr Sam Grinsell explores what it means to put particular sites at the heart of global histories of the environment.

Sign up!🔗 shorturl.at/jMPN6
May 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The deepening crisis & Earth System itself shows that a new concept of scarcity is needed, one that acknowledges the actual finitude of water, air, biodiversity, & Earth Systems 🌍

Join this Anthropocene Histories seminar where we explore Scarcity

📆21 May, 3-5pm
📍online
🔗 shorturl.at/aimoH
May 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📣Join us for the first seminar in our Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences seminar series!

Georgina Born and Andrew Barry will speak about AI, Environment and Art on 20 May from 5-6pm in the IAS Common Ground.

Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/fSi6c
May 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Join us for this Anthropocene Histories seminar where Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse discuss how the ocean, in the years proceeding WWII, has been harnessed to become a space of ever-intensifying capital investment and innovation 🌊

📆14 May, 3-5pm
📍Online - zoom
🔗 shorturl.at/qQGsE
May 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
📣Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences seminar series

In this UCL Anthropocene mini-series, we reflect on the question of interdisciplinarity & the social and historical sciences through a series of conversations.

🔗Find out more and join us! shorturl.at/TJh42
May 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
📣The great economization of the Ocean: Following cod & doing empirical economy

📆14 May, 3-5pm
📍Online - zoom
🔗 shorturl.at/hiDmV

Our speakers discuss how the ocean has been harnessed to become a space of ever-intensifying capital investment & innovation.

Join this Anthropocene Histories seminar!
May 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Wretched Waters: Making Modernity and the Southern North Sea

📆28 May, 5-7pm
📍Room 6.02, The Bartlett,UCL

This talk by Dr Sam Grinsell will explore what it means to put particular sites at the heart of global histories of the environment.

Sign up! 🔗 shorturl.at/jMPN6

@thebartlettucl.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM