Home News & Events Events 2025 Events 2025 Events Location: online Mining Conversations. The Futurepasts of ... Petroleum Date: Jul 29, 2025 Time: 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nellys Koyoo, Kenyatta University/ Ana Luiza Nicolae, Harvard University - Department History of Science/ Monique Verdin, Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative, The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange Location: online Host: Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and Anthropocene Commons Contact: rossee@gea.mpg.de [more] Mining Conversations. The Futurepasts of ... Lithium Date: Jun 26, 2025 Time: 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Karolína Žižková, Czech Academy of Sciences & Masaryk University/ Verónica Zuccarelli Freire, Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, MPI GEA/ Kassandra Lisenbee, Earthworks/ Berenika Boberska, Feral Office, Los Angeles Location: online Host: Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and Anthropocene Commons Contact: rossee@gea.mpg.de [more] African history – inferences from modern and ancient DNA Human Palaeosystems in Focus Date: May 13, 2025 Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Carina M. Schlebusch, Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden Location: Online Host: Human Palaeosystems Research Group Contact: kutowsky@gea.mpg.de [more] Mining Conversations. The Futurepasts of ... Forests Date: May 8, 2025 Time: 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: P. Charoenpacharaporn, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand/ N. Gándara, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile/ M. José Iturralde, Fundación Pachaysana & Humans for Abundance, Ecuador/ M. C. Rocha, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil Location: online Host: Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and Anthropocene Commons Contact: rossee@gea.mpg.de [more] Mining Conversations. The Futurepasts of ... Copper Date: Apr 29, 2025 Time: 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Gustave Lester, Centre for Anthropocene History, KTH Stockholm/ Victor Hugo Salinas Silva, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile/ Jennifer Scappettone, University of Chicago Location: online Host: Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and Anthropocene Commons Contact: rossee@gea.mpg.de [more] Online Discussion Series: Mining Conversations. The Futurepasts of … Date: Apr 29, 2025 Time: 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Various Location: online Host: Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and Anthropocene Commons Contact: rossee@gea.mpg.de [more] Drivers of vegetation change in tropical Africa Date: Apr 9, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. William D. Gosling, Department of Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics University of Amsterdam Location: Online Host: Human Palaeosystems Research Group Contact: kutowsky@gea.mpg.de [more] An archaeologist’s perspective on the miombo woodlands of south-central Africa Date: Mar 24, 2025 Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Professor Larry Barham, University of Liverpool, Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology Location: Online Host: Human Palaeosystems Research Group Contact: kutowsky@gea.mpg.de [more] From Mechanics to Gestures: Understanding Knapping Actions Through Controlled Lithic Experiments Date: Mar 12, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr. rer. nat. Li Li, The Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB), University of Algarve, Portugal Location: Online Host: Human Palaeosystems Research Group Contact: kutowsky@gea.mpg.de [more] Millennial evolution of the Mediterranean sea-level: a story of mud, archeology and geophysical modelling. Date: Jan 15, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Matteo Vacchi, University of Pisa Location: Online Host: Human Palaeosystems Research Group Contact: kutowsky@gea.mpg.de [more]