23

OCT

2026

Outreach

HESCOR Virtual Exhibition Opening

16:00 · Seminargebäude 106

Join us for the opening of the HESCOR Virtual Exhibition. See the exhibition page for the programme.

13

OCT

2026

Internal Meeting

EXTRA HESCOR Lunch: Virtual Exhibition Preparation

11:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th floor, Seminar Room

Final meeting to revise the Virtual Exhibition and prepare the Opening Event. Special date and time: Tuesday at 11:00.

22

SEP

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch: Publication Projects

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th floor, Seminar Room

Presented by Boqiang Huang / Götz Ossendorf.

08

SEP

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th floor, Seminar Room

Informal get-together.

21

JUL

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

Paper discussion on population networks (Dr. Johanna Hilpert / MSc Max Brockmann)

14

JUL

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

Lecture on population networks (Dr. Johanna Hilpert / MSc Max Brockmann)

07

JUL

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

15:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

Project presentations Paper discussion on Humans and States, Animals and Multispecies Communities, Technologies and the Technosphere (Dr. Shumon T. Hussain / Dr. Dominik Ohrem)

30

JUN

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

ecture on humanities perspective on human and Earth system coupled research, theoretical framework (Dr. Shumon T. Hussain / Dr. Dominik Ohrem) - Humans and States, Animals and Multispecies Communities, Technologies and the Technosphere

23

JUN

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

Paper discussion on Human Existence Potential modelling - Klein et al. (Dr. Annika Vogel / Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier)

18

JUN

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

16

JUN

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

Paper discussion on vegetation reconstruction - Kern et al. (Prof. Dr. Nikki Vercauteren)

09

JUN

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

Lecture on humans and climate coupled modelling (Dr. Annika Vogel / Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier)

04

JUN

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

02

JUN

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

Paper discussion on Cologne protocol - Schmidt et al. (Dr. Isabell Schmidt)

21

MAY

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

12

MAY

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

Lecture on paleoclimate reconstruction (Prof. Dr. Nikki Vercauteren)

07

MAY

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

05

MAY

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

Lecture on paleodemography (Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier)

04-08

MAY

2026

HESCOR @ conferences

European Geophysical Union Annual General Assembly

Vienna

At the EGU General Assembly 2026 in Vienna, three contributions from our group addressed past Human–Earth system dynamics from complementary perspectives. The studies were developed under the scientific guidance of Yaping Shao and combine palaeoclimate data, vegetation modelling, archaeological questions, and machine-learning approaches. Philipp Schlüter presented “Learning the Green Wave”, a hybrid machine-learning framework for reconstructing past vegetation seasonality from modern satellite observations and bioclimatic predictors. Guohao Liang’s contribution focused on climate-based Human Existence Potential and possible dispersal pathways of Homo sapiens into East Asia between 80 and 30 ka. Christian Wegener applied the Human Existence Potential model to European occupation and settlement patterns, spanning early hunter-gatherer presence and the emergence of farming societies.

28

APR

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

Paper discussion on ESM and humans - Steffen et al. (Prof. Dr. Nikki Vercauteren)

23

APR

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

21

APR

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

Lecture on Earth System Models (Prof. Dr. Nikki Vercauteren)

15-17

APR

2026

Workshop

Multiple Crises – Strained Resources Symposium

The Strained Empire: Resources, Conflict, and Collapse in the Premodern Empire

14

APR

2026

Lecture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Earth System Coupled Research

16:00 · Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str 11, 6th floor, lecture room

First meeting and organisation of the seminar.

09

APR

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

26

MAR

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

12

MAR

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

09-10

MAR

2026

Vision Forum

Vision Forum: Database

Hörsaal 4.001, Geophysics and Meteorology Building, Pohligstraße

26

FEB

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

29

JAN

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

15

JAN

2026

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

18

DEC

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

17-18

DEC

2025

Vision Forum

Vision Forum: Politics of more-than-human life and Earth System Science

Auerbach Library, MESH

Public Evening Lecture: Beyond Resources: Relations of Use and Investigating Zoopolitics in the Past (Prof. Dr. Hannah Chazin); Journal Club: Chapter 1 (“Flyover History and Domestication as an Ontostory”) of her new book Live Stock and Dead Things: The Archaeology of Zoopolitics between Domestication and Modernity (University of Chicago Press 2025)

09-10

DEC

2025

Vision Forum

Vision Forum: Politics of more-than-human life and Earth System Science

Auerbach Library, MESH

Public Evening Lecture: Anthropocene Historiography and Earth System Science (Dr. Zoltán B. Simon); Journal Club: Introduction (“On Plurihistoricity: An Introduction”) of his new book Plurihistoricity: On the Historical Cultures of Extinction, Justice, and the Historical Profession (Routledge 2025)

04

DEC

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

02-03

DEC

2025

Vision Forum

Vision Forum: Politics of more-than-human life and Earth System Science

Auerbach Library, MESH

Public Evening Lecture: Planetary Cohabitability and Coarticulation of Life (Dr. Iwona Janicka); Journal Club: “Habitability: Planetarity vs Cosmopolitics,” Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism 2.1 (2024), 4-25

28

NOV

2025

Workshop

BLE & HESCOR Workshop

10:00 · Lecture Hall Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen

BLE & HESCOR Workshop: Interdisciplinary Cooperation and Profile Building

20

NOV

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

The BLE and HESCOR meeting: preparation and discussion

06

NOV

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

JQS SPECIAL ISSUE issues: Presentation/discussion of the contributions

31

OCT

2025

Vision Forum

Vision Forum: Population Turnovers in Central Europe

(A. Maier)

23

OCT

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

Elena Robakiewicz, Frederik von Reumont, and colleagues present the HESCOR Comics

09

OCT

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

Oliver Kern presents his current work on Vegetation data, modelling, optimisation, etc.

22-23

SEP

2025

Vision Forum

Vision Forum: Transitions and Networks during the Neolithic in Europe

Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

11

SEP

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

28

AUG

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

14

AUG

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

31

JUL

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

Boqiang Huang will talk about WP6: An overview of current work and possibilities

17

JUL

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Meteorologie Raum 3.133

07

JUL

2025

Lecture

HESCOR Ringvorlesung: Modelling the Human-Earth Connections: A Journey Through Time and Scientific Disciplines

15:30 · Geo-/Bio-Hörsaal in Zülpicher Str. 49a, building 310c; Zoom

Verena Förster / Elena Robakiewicz: Data Communication: Reaching Specialists and the Masses

05

JUL

2025

Outreach

Tag der Archäologie

03

JUL

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

Database WP5/Techn

23

JUN

2025

Lecture

HESCOR Ringvorlesung: Modelling the Human-Earth Connections: A Journey Through Time and Scientific Disciplines

15:30 · Geo-/Bio-Hörsaal in Zülpicher Str. 49a, building 310c; Zoom

Angela Kunoth: Network Modelling and Machine Learning Approaches for Coupling Human and Earth System Data

05

JUN

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

26

MAY

2025

Lecture

HESCOR Ringvorlesung: Modelling the Human-Earth Connections: A Journey Through Time and Scientific Disciplines

15:30 · Geo-/Bio-Hörsaal in Zülpicher Str. 49a, building 310c; Zoom

Nikki Vercauteren / Oliver Kern: The Earth System - Modelling Present and Past

22

MAY

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

21-26

MAY

2025

HESCOR @ conferences

Emerging of the Neolithic in Europe

Zadar, Croatia

12

MAY

2025

Lecture

HESCOR Ringvorlesung: Modelling the Human-Earth Connections: A Journey Through Time and Scientific Disciplines

15:30 · Geo-/Bio-Hörsaal in Zülpicher Str. 49a, building 310c; Zoom

Christian Wegener / Annika Vogel: Human & Earth System Coupled Research

08

MAY

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

28 APR

02 MAY

2025

HESCOR @ conferences

European Geophysical Union Annual General Assembly

28

APR

2025

Lecture

HESCOR Ringvorlesung: Modelling the Human-Earth Connections: A Journey Through Time and Scientific Disciplines

15:30 · Geo-/Bio-Hörsaal in Zülpicher Str. 49a, building 310c; Zoom

Kate Rigby et al.: Modelling Human-Environment Entanglements

14

APR

2025

Lecture

HESCOR Ringvorlesung: Modelling the Human-Earth Connections: A Journey Through Time and Scientific Disciplines

15:30 · Geo-/Bio-Hörsaal in Zülpicher Str. 49a, building 310c; Zoom

Andreas Maier / Silviane Scharl: Deep-Time Cultural Evolution - Current Research Questions

01

APR

2025

Outreach

KölnerKinderUni: Wie erfindet man eine neue Wissenschaft?

16:30 · S132, HF-Gebäude, Geb.-Nr. 216, Gronewaldstr. 2, 50931 Köln

Der Klimawandel betrifft uns alle! Und das stellt uns vor schwierige Fragen und Aufgaben. Wissenschaftler aus allen Bereichen versuchen zu erforschen was der Klimawandel für uns Menschen und unsere Kultur bedeutet und wie er unsere Zukunft als Gesellschaft verändert. Doch welche Wissenschaftler fragt man hier, wo doch unterschiedlichste Experten in ihrem Bereich forschen. Am Besten alle! Genau darum geht es in diesem Workshop: wir wagen einen Blick hinter die Kulissen von einem neuen Grossprojekt an der Uni Köln, das interdisziplinär arbeitet. In diesem Projekt versuchen Mathematiker, Archäologen, Klimaforscher, Sprachwissenschaftler und Kulturwissenschaftler gemeinsam an der Frage zu arbeiten und damit einen neuen Wissenschaftszweig zu erfinden. Wir werden selber in einem Rollenspiel herausfinden, wie man trotz grösster Unterschiede gemeinsam forschen kann und welche Fragen die Forscher echt ins Schwitzen bringen. Als Ergebnis erstellen wir unseren eigenen kleinen Blogeintrag für die Website des Projekts.

24-28

MAR

2025

HESCOR @ conferences

Kiel Conference

17-18

MAR

2025

Workshop

ROAD Workshop – The ROCEEH Database

Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Join Zoom Meeting

The aim of the workshop is to familiarize users with ROAD's functions, so they can use the database independently as a tool for research. Each person should bring a laptop. The workshop will be held for one day (17.03., 4-6 hours), with personalized discussions about how to apply the data from ROAD on the second day (18.03).

13

MAR

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Zoom

"KLAPtrap"

13

FEB

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Meteorology, Pohligstraße, "kleiner Seminarraum" 3.137 or Join Zoom Meeting

Extended training on HEP/OWM

30

JAN

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · MESH, Weyertal 59 (Back building, 3. + 4. floor); Zoom

Numerical data on human behaviour

16

JAN

2025

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Zoom

19

DEC

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR XMAS Lunch

12:00 · Meteorology, Pohligstraße, Library, Room 3.155; Zoom

05

DEC

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Zoom

02

DEC

2024

Lecture

Ringvorlesung: Climate Change in the Arctis (S. Crewell)

16:00 · Geo-/Bio-Hörsaal in der Zülpicher Str. 49a, Gebäude 310c

25-27

NOV

2024

Workshop

3rd HESCOR Workshop: „Parameterize Human System Dynamics“

Repräsentationssaal 100 (1st floor) Building 221 Klosterstr. 79b/I, 50931 Köln

21

NOV

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Zoom

07

NOV

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Zoom

04

NOV

2024

Lecture

Ringvorlesung: HESCOR: Mensch-Erde-System Forschung (Y. Shao)

16:00 · Geo-/Bio-Hörsaal in der Zülpicher Str. 49a, Gebäude 310c

Ringvorlesung WS 24/25 "Moderne Erdsystemwissenschaften" VORTRAG: HESCOR: Mensch-Erde-System Forschung Prof. Dr. Yaping Shao (Institut für Geophysik & Meteorologie, Universität zu Köln)

24

OCT

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Zoom

10

OCT

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Zoom

Social media concept will be presented and discussed

26

SEP

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123; Zoom

12

SEP

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Library at MESH, Weyertal 59, Wienand building, 3rd floor or ZOOM

Preparation/Planing of 3rd HESCOR Workshop - open discussion

29

AUG

2024

Workshop

Blogwriting follow up/Abstract Workshop

09:00 · Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology Pohligstrasse 3, 50969; 3.137 (kleiner Seminarraum); 3. Etage

Follow up on the Blogwriting Workshop with Mathew Stiller Reeves

15

AUG

2024

Workshop

Blogwiting Feedback Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123

As part of a continuation of the blogwriting workshop hosted by Dr. Mathew Stiller-Reeve, we will be doing peer feedback of our blog posts or other short written material - no matter where you are in the process!

01

AUG

2024

Workshop

Blogwiting Feedback Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123

As part of a continuation of the blogwriting workshop hosted by Dr. Mathew Stiller-Reeve, we will be doing peer feedback of our blog posts or other short written material - no matter where you are in the process!

23-24

JUL

2024

Workshop

2nd HESCOR Workshop: „Learning from Human Data“

Room S01 [ground floor] Seminargebäude 106, Universitätsstr. 37, 50931 Köln

27-28

JUN

2024

Workshop

Blogwriting Workshop

Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123

Workshop hosted by Dr. Mathew Stiller-Reeve on science communication

20

JUN

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Bernhard Feilchenfeld Straße 11, 6th Floor, Room 6.123

this week's HESCOR Lunch will focus on the upcoming 2nd HESCOR Workshop

06

JUN

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Seminar room 2 of the Institute of Mathematics

Introduction to WP 4 by Max Brockmann

25

APR

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · "Grüner Tisch" in the Library of the Institut of Prehistoric Archaeology, 1. OG, Weyertal 125, D-50931 Köln

18

APR

2024

Lecture

Kurzvortrag (10 Min) zu „HESCOR – ein neues interdisziplinäres Projekt an der Uni Köln“

18:00 · Institute of Archaeology

11

APR

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · MESH: uppermost floor (Lounge)

14

MAR

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities, second floor of Aachener Str. 217

29 FEB

01 APR

2024

Workshop

1st HESCOR Workshop: „Dismanteling cross-diciplinary barriers“

Wienand-Haus, Auerbach library, third floor of the back building, Weyertal 59, 50937 Köln

15

FEB

2024

Internal Meeting

HESCOR Lunch

12:00 · Meteorology, room 3.155 in Pohligstr. 3