Anthropocene Lectures, Berlin 2017–18
In the framework of the Anthropocene Lecture series, a number of distinguished speakers were invited to further accentuate the Anthropocene debate and explore new epistemic potentials for human action on the Earth.
- contributionBergit Arends, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Anthropocene Lecture - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
How do we find new forms of coexistence in the landscapes of the Anthropocene?
Field Study, Mapping, Scale, Species, Infrastructure
- contributionGiulia Rispoli, McKenzie Wark
Anthropocene Lecture - McKenzie Wark
Bogdanov, Platonov, Haraway, and Robinson: An unexpected canon for a theory for the Anthropocene
Cosmologies, Carbon, Speculative
- contributionBruno Latour, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Anthropocene Lecture—Bruno Latour
Is the ecological crisis of the Anthropocene a fundamental crisis of modernity?
Anthropology, Speculative, History, Crisis
- contributionSheila Jasanoff
Anthropocene Lecture - Sheila Jasanoff
The human imprint: Nature, time, and law in the Anthropocene
Human-environment relations, Environmental Justice
- contributionPhilippe Descola
Anthropocene Lecture - Philippe Descola
Is the Anthropocene soluble in ontological pluralism?
Anthropology, Epistemology, Extinction, Climate change
- contributionLorraine Daston, Julia Adeney Thomas
Anthropocene Lecture - Julia Adeney Thomas
The historians’ task in the age of the Anthropocene: Finding hope in Japan?
History, Human-environment relations, Epistemology
- contributionPrasannan Parthasarathi
Anthropocene Lecture – Prasannan Parthasarathi
This lecture presents a framework for centering the natural world in the writing of history, arguing that without nature historians cannot understand time.
History, Naturecultures, Disciplinarity, Epistemology
- contributionKaren Litfin
Anthropocene Lecture - Karen Litfin
Rather than viewing issues such as climate change and mass extinction as happening “out there,” what happens when we experience them emotionally and somatically as also happening “in here?”
Anthropos, Human-environment relations, Agency
- contributionJ.R. McNeill, Jürgen Renn
Anthropocene Lecture - John McNeill
John McNeill reflects upon the role of historians in the work of the Anthropocene Working Group and the implications for historians of the debates surrounding the Anthropocene.
History, Disciplinarity, Knowledge production
Credits
The Anthropocene Lectures are have been developed in cooperation between the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam.
