Anthropocene Lectures
Nature and the Writing of History
Date
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, Berlin 14195, Germany, Main Conference Hall
Organizer
MPIWG in cooperation with the HKW
Lecturing Person
Prasannan Parthasarathi (Boston College)
The Anthropocene—the geological epoch of humanity—has established itself as a key concept within a wider scientific and social discourse. In the midst of the dramatic and destabilizing changes to the basic conditions for life on our planet, new potentials for human agency upon the Earth are to be explored.
In the framework of the Anthropocene Lecture series, a number of prominent speakers accentuating the Anthropocene debate are being invited to respond to a topic that will be a central challenge for many generations to come. The lectures take place at the MPIWG, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam.