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.
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.
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.
Following protocol approved at the BRIDGES Governing Council meeting in February 2025, the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES recently launched 3 separate schemes; publishing calls for the following:
The CCHRI annual entry-level workshop took place as usual in January and introduced over twenty participants from the fields of history and archaeology to the palaeoecological sciences and their relevance to historical and archaeological research.
