2024 Events

Speaker: Various

West Africa and the Origins of Humankind - A Deep Time Perspective

Conference from the Human Palaeosystems Group
This event will be the first major conference dedicated to exploring human evolution and the deep human past in West Africa. [more]

Long Night of the Sciences 2024

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Human Palaeosystems in Focus: Niches, diseases & island ecosystems

This online series explores past human, social, cultural and environmental systems in deep time through the lens of various ecological niches. Leading scholars will present cutting-edge research, providing critical insights into a suite of processes that shaped the early prehistory of our species at different times and places. [more]

Domesticating Earth — The Beginnings of Agriculture Revisited

The “Domesticating Earth” symposium at Ringberg Castle in Bavaria aims to bridge these disciplinary divides by bringing together a diverse mix of senior and junior scholars from around the world, fostering direct discussions among archaeologists, ecologists, and geneticists. The goal is to break down barriers and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration to advance understanding of the cultural and biological processes that led to agriculture. [more]

Workshop: Linguistic Prehistory and Ecology in the Northern Pacific Rim

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Crossing Boundaries 2024: The Anthropocene - Addressing its challenges for humanity - crossing the boundaries of science

A joint conference with the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
This conference will be hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI GEA) in Jena and will mark the new direction of the institute in addressing issues of the Anthropocene. It will feature three days of lectures and panels with leading researchers from a range scientific disciplines. [more]

Voices of the Global South on the Anthropocene: Archaeological, Historical, and Ancestral Perspectives

By assembling young scholars together with a panel of specialists from diverse backgrounds, we hope to shed light on the complexities of the Anthropocene with a multifaceted methodological approach. Our mission is to underscore how dialogue between archaeology, history, palaeoecology, and Indigenous knowledge can yield insights into relationships between human land use, environmental stewardship, and the Earth system across space and time. [more]

From Molecules to Millennia: Advances & Challenges in Phylogenetic Dating

As high-throughput sequencing techniques continue to advance, an increasing amount of genetic information across all branches of the tree of life is being generated. With the introduction of the molecular clock hypothesis, we are now capable not only of making inferences about genetic divergence based on the number of differing mutations between sequences but also of estimating divergence in terms of absolute time units. Since then, numerous conceptual and methodological advancements have facilitated bridging the gap between genetic data and temporal divergence, jumping from molecules to millennia. Nevertheless, many challenges still remain that need to be addressed to form a more comprehensive understanding of evolution as a function of time. [more]

Conference: The language of Extreme Events

The notion of ‘extreme events’ is widely discussed in various disciplines, and is a topic of increasing academic research. Rapid and dramatic environmental and climatic events are particularly prominent in this – including heat waves, volcanic eruptions, droughts, earthquakes, floods, etc. Several of these are forecast to increase in frequency and severity given current anthropogenic climate change, as widely discussed by organisations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [more]

Environments, Land Use, and Urbanization in Ancient Central Asia

The conference aims to explore what we know and what we would like to know about cultural dynamics and human-environment interactions in ancient Central Asia and Mongolia. The cross-disciplinary event will bring together local and international scholars with expertise in archaeology, archaeobotany, and palaeoenvironmental sciences in Central Asia and adjacent regions. It will be an excellent venue to present and exchange new research results and to encourage new research projects. [more]
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