Anthropocene Lecture – John McNeill
Historians and the Anthropocene. A discipline and an interdisciplinary concept
John McNeill, a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Union of the Geological Sciences, reflects upon the role of historians in the work of the AWG and the implications for historians of the debates surrounding the Anthropocene. Does the Anthropocene require historians to reconsider their habits with respect to periodization, evidence, units of analysis, and subject matter?
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Anthropocene Lecture – John R. McNeill
September 21, 2017
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
The Anthropocene Lectures series is a platform for inviting a number of prominent speakers, accentuating the debate on the Anthropocene.
The Anthropocene Lectures are being developed in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
