Mediathek Event
May 18, 2017-Jun 25, 2018
Anthropocene Lectures 2017-18

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 epistemic potentials for human action upon the Earth are to be explored.

In the framework of the Anthropocene Lecture series, a number of distinguished speakers accentuating the Anthropocene debate were invited to respond to a topic that will be a central challenge for many generations to come. The lectures took place at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam.

 

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Berlin/Potsdam, Germany

The Human Imprint: Nature, Time, and Law in the Anthropocene

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Anthropocene Lecture: Bruno Latour

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The Body Politic. Human Being and Becoming in the Planetary Era

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The Historians’ Task in the Age of the Anthropocene: Finding Hope in Japan?

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Historians and the Anthropocene. A Discipline and an Interdisciplinary Concept

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Bogdanov, Platonov, Haraway & Robinson: An Unexpected Canon for a Theory for the Anthropocene

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