Humanity and Climate Change
Event
ICArEHB Dialogues ‘Humanity and Climate Change‘, will take place Tuesday 17th of October 2023 at 5pm (Faro time) in videoconference, with Dr. Ceren Kabukcu (ICArEHB), Dr. Axel Timmerman (IBS Center for Climate Physics, Pusan National University) and Dr. Kate Britton (University of Aberdeen), and will be convened by Dr. Sara E. Rhodes.
Speakers
Each 90 min Dialogues event will be live-streamed for registered viewers and shared via the ICArEHB YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram accounts.
 | Ceren Kabukcu is an archaeobotanist working with carbonised plant macro-fossils. Her work examines prehistoric plant foods, past reliance on fuelwood and woodland resources through the analysis of plants targeted by prehistoric foragers during the Middle Palaeolithic, Upper Palaeolithic, and Epipalaeolithic in Southwest Asia and parts of Mediterranean Europe. She also investigates the transition to farming and crop domestication in habitations with some of the earliest evidence for settled life and agricultural practices (Pre-pottery Neolithic and later Neolithic) in Southwest Asia. She grew up in Turkey, completed her BA in the USA, MA in Canada, and PhD in the UK (Liverpool, 2015). Before joining ICArEHB in 2023, I she held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Liverpool (Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow and Gerda Henkel Stiftung Research Associate). |
 | Axel Timmermann received his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany in 1999. After a postdoc in the Netherlands and becoming research team leader at the IfM-GEOMAR/University of Kiel, Germany he moved to the University of Hawaii to work as a professor at the International Pacific Research Center and the Department of Oceanography. He became the Director of the new IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in 2017, where he also holds a Distinguished Professorship. Prof. Timmermann received the Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science (2008), the University of Hawai’i Regents’ Medal for Research Excellence (2015) and became a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2015). He also received the Milanković Medal from the European Geosciences Union (2017) for his contributions to paleoclimate research. He has published over 220 peer-reviewed articles and was awarded the “Scientist of the Year” award by the Korean Science Journalist Association. For his contributions to communicate climate research to the public. |
 | Kate Britton began her archaeological career in 2002 at Durham University, where she studied Archaeology (BSc), specialising in prehistory, bioarchaeology and palaeodietary reconstruction. She then moved on to University of Reading (2005) to study for a NERC-funded MSc degree in Geoarchaeology. It was at Reading that she began to incorporate the stable isotope analysis of animal and human remains into her research. In 2006 she returned to Durham to start a PhD in Bioarchaeology, again receiving sponsorship from NERC. In 2007 she joined the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, initially as a doctoral candidate, and after finishing her thesis, as a post-doctoral research scientist and DAAD Junior Scholarship holder. Prof. Britton was appointed Lecturer in Archaeological Science in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen (2010), becoming later a Senior Lecturer (2016), and Head of Department (2020). Kate was made Professor (Personal Chair) in 2021. |
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