[Anthropgrad] Work-in-Progress Seminar Special Event - Monday 1st September - Dipesh Chakrabarty

[Sharon Komidar]

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The Research School of Humanities presents,
 A Work-in-Progress Seminar Series Special Event

1- 2.30 pm, Monday 1st September 2008, Conference Room, Old Canberra
House

Climate Change and Human History: Four Theses

Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty

 

This seminar will begin by showing how anthropogenic theories of climate
change deeply challenge the division between natural and human histories
that the discipline of history takes for granted. It will then proceed
to offer some additional propositions about how the relationship between
the two kinds of history may be rethought in the context of the present
crisis.

 

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service
Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the
College, University of Chicago. He is also a Faculty Fellow of the
Chicago Centre for Contemporary Theory, holds a visiting position at the
Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University, and
an Honorary Professorial Fellowship with the School of Historical
Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is a founding member of the
editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, a co-editor of Critical
Inquiry, and a founding editor of Postcolonial Studies. He has also
served on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review and
Public Culture.

 

Convenors: Ken Taylor and Stephen Foster
For general enquiries please contact: 
Phone: 6125 2434
Email: administration.rsh at anu.edu.au 
Web: http://rsh.anu.edu.au/
All Welcome