In the year that sees Bristol as European Green Capital, the Digital Cultures Research Centre - UWE Bristol, is pleased to announce The Anthropocene: Looking for the Emergency Exit - a series of public talks at Watershed, addressing the growing recognition of humanity’s profound impact on the earth.

The term Anthropocene, was coined by Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000 to claim that the earth has entered a new geological era, characterised by the effects of the proliferation of a single species – us. It addresses the challenges of climate change, the depletion of natural resources and the destruction of biodiversity.

This seminar series brings together prominent researchers engaging the Anthropocene from a range of arts and humanities disciplines. The aim is to consider its key cultural, political-economic, media arts, and philosophical and ethical dimensions. The series hopes not only to look at what is recorded in the geological record of human life with a critical and reflective eye, but to encounter in our present situation ways of opening a passage toward a new era, before this one is fully realised.

All are welcome and admission is free, but please register for tickets via Eventbite as spaces are limited.

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