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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 Blog on May 20, 2025.

A Conversation with Dr Rebekah Humphreys: Decoding the Lives of Animals

Author: Sophie Spooner. In an interview with Dr. Jeanette Gallagher, Dr Rebekah Humphreys, UWTSD, discusses concepts from her recently published book, “Animals, Ethics, and Language: The Philosophy of Meaningful Communication in the Lives of Animals.” The conversation between Dr Humphreys and Dr Gallagher probes fundamental questions surrounding our moral obligations towards the animal kingdom, which form the basis of Rebekah’s book. The essence of ethics in our interactions with both human and non-human life is at the core of their discussions.

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 BRIDGES IPO news, News on May 14, 2025.

UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES PUBLISHED CALLS

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:

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.