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The Anthropocene Debate and (Post-)Covid-19 Challenges: A Roundtable Discussion

The Anthropocene Debate and (Post-)Covid-19 Challenges: A Roundtable Discussion

14 May 2021
Anthropocene Research Group
, Newcastle University

Address of welcome
Shirley Jordan, Dean of Research

Introduction
Scott Ashley, Duika Burges Watson, Andy Large, Bernhard Malkmus | Newcastle

Book Presentation: The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach

The triangulation of research, teaching, and policy-making within an Anthropocene framework: experiences prior to and during Covid-19

Impulse reflection
Helen Berry, Freyja Cox Jensen, Bryony Onciul, Nicola Whyte | Exeter

Discussion

Break

The role of the Anthropocene debate during the post-Covid-19 recovery in education and society: ideas and visions for the future

Impulse reflections:
Marta Gasparin, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz | Leicester
Shahzeen Attari, Eduardo Sonnewend Brondizio, Jason Kelly, Philip V. Scarpino | Indiana

Discussion

Open Conversation

In what ways can we reinvigorate the Anthropocene debate within the post-Covid- 19 context?

What kind of collaborations can we initiate among each other to rekindle research agendas, reframe teaching agendas, rethink knowledge transfers into policy-making?

Closing remarks