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Update from Reinhold Leinfelder

Affiliated Carson Professor, New University Affiliation, and More

17.05.2012

Reinhold Leinfelder (2011-12) has been named an Affiliated Carson Professor from 2012 onwards. Leinfelder will play a key role in developing the joint RCC–Deutsches Museum Anthropocene exhibition planned for 2014. Leinfelder co-authored an article (in German) on this exhibition in the most recent issue of Kultur und Technik. Furthermore, he has been working on a partnership with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin; they are sponsoring a multi-year series of podium discussions, exhibitions, thematic events, and film projects on the topic of the Anthropocene. The series is being kicked off with a large workshop on 25 May which will feature the ‘father’ of the Anthropocene, Nobel Prize recipient Paul Crutzen. Finally, Leinfelder has recently given keynote lectures and a seminar on the Anthropocene in Dillingen and Bad Neuenahr.

Furthermore, as of 1 April 2012, Leinfelder is now affiliated with the Freie Universität Berlin where he is a professor in the Institute for Geological Sciences. Leinfelder is developing an interdisciplinary working group on geo-biology and Anthropocene research. LMU and the FU Berlin are partner universities.

Finally, Leinfelder will participate in a podium discussion with German schoolchildren during the ‘Environment Week’ of the German President Joachim Gauck. The topic is climate and environmental protection in schools and will be held at the Presidential Palace, Schloss Bellevue, in Berlin. In addition, Leinfelder has also been interviewed by an initiative for natural science school pupils' researchers and wrote an article on Darwin and Biodiversity in a publication of the Natural Sciences Museums in Germany.