Posted in News on May 16, 2025.
University of Birmingham. 7-8 April 2025.
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.
This very successful meeting involved 15 presentations by speakers from the US, UK, Germany, New Zealand and India and generated a great deal of enthusiastic discussion and collaborative potential. The meeting was attended by 22 who joined for a lively 2-day discussion.
Plans to publish the presentations as a short book or as a journal Special Issue, are under discussion.
Further information, program and abstracts: 2025 colloquium
The CCHRI annual colloquium for 2026 will take the form of a two-day workshop on past climate - disease linkages, at Georgetown University’s Villa Le Balze, Fiesole, Italy, in July 2026. The program is currently in planning.
CCHRI annual colloquium 2024 & first Princeton-CUNY BRIDGES Hub meeting
3-day meeting, 24 presentations, 30+ participants.
Resilience and sustainability: past trajectories, contemporary directions, policy relevance: Princeton, June 3-5, 2024
The CCHRI hosted its annual colloquium at Princeton back in June 2024, presented also as their UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Hub launch meeting.
Twenty five papers from the meeting will be published in 2025/26 (Open Access) as Bridging History and Policy – Essays on Resilience, Sustainability and Systems Modelling, edited by John Haldon, Lee Mordechai, Ricardo Fernandes and Adam Izdebski.
Over 25 speakers presented on a wide range of topics – for a link to the program and abstracts follow the link here.
