Seminar: Clashing Temporalities
Among the myriad temporalities that weave in and out of each other along the Mississippi River, how can we understand time and register it? In attending to time, layers, and sediment, this seminar brings geology and conceptualizations of different timescales into close contact with the human sciences, the arts, and Pierre Part, a community who live according to the movements of the River.
Read More- contributionAmy Lesen, Catherine Russell, Thomas Turnbull
Interview: Clashing Temporalities
In this interview, Thomas Turnbull, Catherine Russell and Amy Lesen discuss their research perspectives on “Clashing Temporalities,” which was the topic of a seminar taking place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019.
Conversation, Reflection
- contributionThomas Turnbull
Driving the Limits of Time
How acknowledging and engaging with complex temporal clashes can generate coherent responses to the seemingly totalizing notion of the Anthropocene.
Reflection, Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Deep time, History, Human-environment relations, Slavery, Carbon, Time
- Field Notewhitney
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Union, St. James Parish, Louisiana, USA
Energy, Landscape
- Field NoteAmalia
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Engineering, Infrastructure, Scale, Sedimentation, Risk
- Field Notemira.witte_admin
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Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Deep time, Erosion, Landscape, Sedimentation, Sand, Mud, Clay
- Field NoteAmalia
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LaPlace, Louisiana, USA
Engineering, Infrastructure
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Jan Zalasiewicz et al., “The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene,” Anthropocene, 2016.
Program details
Seminar Slot I: November 11–13, 2019
Conveners
Bruce Sunpie Barnes (primary organizer)
Amy E. Lesen (primary organizer)
Catherine Russell (primary organizer)
Experts
Scott Wing
