In the Michaelmas term, our Academic Scholars met to reflect on their summer reading – Underland and Otherlands – reading and discussing specific excerpts from these works together. These provided a stimulus for the series of five short courses the scholars completed, all considering the term ‘Anthropocene’ from different academic perspectives. These courses were run by Dr Sagers, Dr Cho, Mr Evans, Ms Taylor, and Mrs Patterson. One course focused on Anthropocene Art: how can we convey the difficulties of this time period through artistic means and whether culture is its own fossil record. In another course, they explored the concept of ‘Future Fossils’: what fossils will we leave behind? What stories might we tell about humanity in the far future? What account might survive of us?

In Lent, the scholars worked in pairs to develop a research paper on a topic related to the Anthropocene. Papers were judged on the basis of their interdisciplinarity approach, depth of research, originality, and presentation style.

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