Anthropocene Markers: Contexts and Narratives
Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 5 p.m. CET
Special Zoom seminar with Giulia Rispoli, Assistant Professor at the Università Ca' Foscari Venezia and visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
What is the Anthropocene we live in? How does it differ from the past geological epoch? How dangerous has the planetary environment become? This seminar provides an introduction to the notion of the Anthropocene—the idea that humans are the main agents of the transformation of the planet—from a perspective that intertwines the sciences and the humanities. It reconstructs the context in which the Anthropocene emerged as a scientific and cultural theory and the central narratives that characterize the current debate about the global signals of human impact on the Earth system.
This webinar is the third of a series of monthly seminars delivered by leading scholars in history and philosophy of science as an opportunity for students, post-docs, and researchers to broaden their cultural perspectives on the scientific enterprise and as a prelude to the conference “The Evolution of Knowledge” that SISSA will host July 14-16 2022.
For further information and to recieve the link, contact the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Natural Sciences and Humanities: ilas@sissa.it