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Posted in CUNY Hub News, 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 CUNY Hub News, 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.

Posted in CUNY Hub News, News on May 14, 2025.

The 6th CCHRI Intensive Introductory Workshop: Palaeosciences and Environmental history for historians and archaeologists.

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.

Posted in CUNY Hub News, News on May 13, 2025.

Recent Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) related publications

Here follows details of recent Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) related publications. CCHRI is a lead partner in the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES CUNY-Princeton Thematic Hub. The first three publications below are specifically relevant to CCHRI’s BRIDGES-related projects:

Posted in CUNY Hub News, News on May 12, 2025.

Greenland Response project update

Archaeological sites across the circumpolar north are rapidly degrading as a consequence of rising global temperatures. This short film shares the story of the Greenland RESPONSE project and the archaeologists racing to record and rescue what is left. Focussing on the sub-arctic farming landscape of Kujataa, south Greenland, the film documents the excavations of Norse (Viking) farming settlements dating between the 10th-14th centuries, while exploring the very tangible connections to present-day Inuit farming communities working the same soil.