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.

Seminar convenors: Anna Echterhölter (Vienna), Sophie Page (UCL), Amanda Power (Oxford), John Sabapathy (UCL), Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
'Anthropocene Histories' is a new monthly 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.