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Anthropocene Histories seminar: Experimental histories in the Anthropocene
30 October 2024, 2:00 pm鈥�4:00 pm
How might the disruptions and interactions of the Anthropocene alter our attempts to write history and analyse these changed worlds?
This event is free.
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UCL Anthropocene
About the seminar:
How might the disruptions and interactions of the Anthropocene alter our attempts to write history and analyse these changed worlds?聽The first Anthropocene Histories seminar of 2024/25 will explore how historians are responding to these challenges, and the possibilities and limitations of traditional and non-traditional forms of writing. The panel will comprise Bathsheba Demuth (Brown), Julie Livingston (NYU) and Will Pooley (Bristol), in conversation with John Sabapathy.
Bathsheba, Julie and Will will be talking about their current work, but you may be interested in this recent聽Granta聽essay by Bathsheba, this聽聽by Will and colleagues, and the聽听迟辞 Julie鈥檚聽Self-devouring Growth.
About the Speakers
Bathsheba Demuth
writer and environmental historian at Brown University
In addition to her prize-winning book聽Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait,聽her writing has appeared in publications from聽The American Historical Review听迟辞聽The New Yorker听补苍诲听The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She is currently writing a biography of the Yukon River watershed.
Julie Livingston
Professor of 聽Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
A cross-disciplinary scholar with training in history, anthropology, and public health, she is the author of four books聽Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality聽(co-authored with Andrew Ross);聽Self-devouring Growth: a Planetary Parable told from Southern Africa; Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic;听补苍诲听Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana, as well as two special issues of聽Social Text: Collateral Afterworlds聽(co-edited with Zoe Wool) and聽Interspecies聽(co-edited with Jasbir Puar).聽 She is currently at work on a new book of essays about the relationship between climate change and suicide.
Will Pooley
historian of modern France at Bristol University
Will Pooley's聽interests centre on folklore, magic, and witchcraft from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. He has worked collaboratively with writers and artists to write histories as poetry, theatre and, most recently, comics.