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Posted in News on May 26, 2025.

The Sound of Trees: A Symphony of Mindfulness, at the University of Cologne

Ecolit recently held their first public event, The Sound of Trees: A Symphony of Mindfulness, at the University of Cologne. The event featured biologist and musician Tarun Nayar, aka Modern Biology, along with resident artists from the South Asian diaspora: Senthuran (flute), Moonlit Brooks (poetry) and Zainab Lax (harp). In collaboration with Cologne's Forest Botanical Garden and urban mushroom farm, Pilzling, the event was an opportunity for collective experience and connection through place-based storytelling, music and poetry.

Posted in News on May 23, 2025.

Sharing, Commoning and Autonomy

A Dialogue between Anna Tsing (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Thomas Widlok (University of Cologne). This webinar took place on 28 April 2025, exploring the dynamic interplay between commoning, sharing, and personal autonomy, drawing from ethnographic research on sharing economies and alternative exchange systems, while also engaging with recent developments in multispecies anthropology.

Posted in News on May 22, 2025.

Annual MESH Symposium 2025 | Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds

The Annual MESH Symposium 2025. This symposium takes storytelling as a site for the exploration, enactment, and unsettling of entangled human and nonhuman lives in the horizon of rapid environmental change.

Posted in News on May 21, 2025.

The 5th meeting of the Climate Change and History Research Initiative CCHRI-DAI-ANAMED project Socio-ecological approaches to the history and archaeology of Anatolia

Princeton University’s Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) a co-lead in the BRIDGES CUNY-Princeton Hub, is partnering with The Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) to shed light on socio-ecological approaches to the history and archaeology of Anatolia.

Posted in News on May 16, 2025.

CCHRI 2025 Colloquium: The Anthropocene as Heuristic? Mobilizing for Change and the Role of the Past.

CCHRI, in collaboration with the Human Development Report Office of the UN, hosted the CCHRI’s annual colloquium, addressing the contemporary challenge of the value of the concept of an Anthropocene, and in particular what its heuristic value might be in addressing global environmental challenges, and whether a historical perspective contributes constructively to building such a strategy.