New 'Anthropocene Histories' partnership seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London

We are glad to announce twelve online seminars over the course of 2021. Seminar convenors: Sophie Page (UCL), Amanda Power (Oxford), John Sabapathy (UCL), Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge) and Anna Echterhölter (Vienna)

 

'Anthropocene Histories' is a new monthly online seminar series at the Institute of Historical Research, exploring the historical matrix of the 'Anthropocene', the proposed (and contested) geological epoch marking the earth system's profound alteration by human activities. Proposed dates for the Anthropocene range from 50 to 10,000 years ago and this seminar takes a similarly wide perspective, both chronologically and disciplinarily.

 

18:30 CET, Vienna and 15:30–17:30 GMT, London

All welcome, this seminar is free to attend but booking is required.

www.history.ac.uk/partnership-seminars/anthropocene-histories

 

Anthropocene Histories II: Sylvain Piron

 

www.history.ac.uk/events/original-sin-anthropocene

 

Sylvain Piron (EHESS), 'Original sin and the Anthropocene', 2 February 2021, 1530–1700 GMT. All welcome, registration required.

 

'Anthropocene Histories' seminar at the Institute of Historical Research

 

Sylvain Piron is Directeur d'études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). He has published most recently L'Occupation du monde (Zones sensibles, 2018) and its sequel, Généalogie de la morale économique (Zones sensibles, 2020).

 

Commentary by Juliane Schiel (Vienna)

 

A review in English of volume 1 is available here.

We are glad to announce twelve upcoming partnership seminars over the course of 2021.

'Anthropocene Histories' is a new monthly online seminar series at the Institute of Historical Research, exploring the historical matrix of the 'Anthropocene', the proposed (and contested) geological epoch marking the earth system's profound alteration by human activities. Proposed dates for the Anthropocene range from 50 to 10,000 years ago and this seminar takes a similarly wide perspective, both chronologically and disciplinarily.

16:30-18:30 CET, Vienna and 15:30–17:30 GMT, London

Seminar convenors: Sophie Page (UCL), Amanda Power (Oxford), John Sabapathy (UCL), Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), and Anna Echterhölter (Vienna)

free, registration required
www.history.ac.uk/partnership-seminars/anthropocene-histories

  • 12. January 2021 Pratik Chakrabarti (Manchester): ‘Anthropocene and the Challenges of Deep Historical Imagination
    Pratik Chakrabarti is Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Manchester and Director of its Centre for the History of Science. His book Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity has just been published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

     

  • 2. February 2021 Sylvain Piron (EHESS), 'Original sin and the Anthropocene'
    Sylvain Piron is Directeur d'études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). He has published most recently L'Occupation du monde (Zones sensibles, 2018) and its sequel, Généalogie de la morale économique (Zones sensibles, 2020). Commentary by Juliane Schiel (Vienna) A review in English of volume 1 is available here.

  • 2 March 2021 Seminar "Thinking with extinction"
    Elizabeth Boakes (UCL), Lee Raye (Open University), Sadiah Qureshi (Birmingham), Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch), Sophie Page (UCL)
    Online - via Zoom 16:30-18:30 CET, Vienna and 15:30–17:30 GMT, London
    Contact email only    ihr.events@sas.ac.uk/

     

  • 4 May 2021, Panel discussion
    'Imperial animals: are animals a new subaltern in the history of empires?'
    A panel discussion with Rohan Deb Roy (Reading), Antoinette Burton (Illinois U-C), Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia), Aleks Pluskowski (Reading).
      3:30PM - 5:30PM GMT
    All welcome, registration here.
    Panellists:
    Rohan Deb Roy (Reading)
    Antoinette Burton (Illinois U-C)
    Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia)
    Aleks Pluskowski (Reading)
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