Doing Anthropocene History seminar series

After its rejection as a formal geological epoch, there is a need more than ever to look beyond stratigraphy to understand and act in the Anthropocene. Anthropocene history offers one compelling framework for making sense of the profound intersections between human and Earth history brought about, most significantly, since the Great Acceleration of the mid-20th Century and onwards. At the same time, though, the Anthropocene also poses profound historiographical challenges. For many, questions of how to go about doing historical research in and about the Anthropocene remain unsettled. What methods, collaborations, and modes of writing and teaching are appropriate to this task? Which, perhaps, are not?

The Centre for Anthropocene History’s seminar series convenes scholars approaching these questions in very different ways in their work, aiming to stimulate methodological discussion, development, and experimentation in this emerging field.

Seminar series organised by Oscar Hartman Davies and Susanna Lidström at Center of Excellence for Anthropocene History