[Anthropgrad] 7th Key Thinkers Lecture - 21 October - Carolyn Strange

[Sharon Komidar]

The Research School of Humanities presents,

 

7th Key Thinkers Lecture, 

Tuesday 21st October, 5 - 6.30pm, Conference Room, Old Canberra House,
ANU.

 

Griffith Taylor: Big Thinker

Dr Carolyn Strange

Senior Research Fellow, Research School of Humanities, ANU 

 

As the establishment of the Journal of Global History in 2005 suggests,
big thinking has become fashionable for historians, more than a century
after empiricism laid its icy grip on history. Some scholars did manage
to break it, however, and not all of them were historians. Working in
what he termed the 'liaison' discipline of geography, Griffith Taylor
(1880-1963) was a world thinker after and before his time - part
Victorian polymath, part post-modern interdisciplinarian. Taylor's gift
for visual representation facilitated his capacity to interpret the past
on multiple temporal and spatial scales. No less significant were his
global travels, which took him to every continent on earth by 1929. In
addressing the question of 'man's' relationship to the environment over
millennia he anticipated the logic, if not the conclusions, of the
current generation of big thinkers.

 

Carolyn Strange is the co-author, with Alison Bashford, of Griffith
Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer (National Library of
Australia and University of Toronto Press, 2008). She is a senior
research fellow in the Research School of Humanities, Australian
National University.

 

Convenor: Ned Curthoys - ned.curthoys at anu.edu.au

For general enquiries please contact:
Phone: 6125 2434
Email: administration.rsh at anu.edu.au 
Web: http://rsh.anu.edu.au/

All Welcome