Workshop | Writing history in the Anthropocene
DAAD-Graduiertenkolleg
| Activiteit van Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam |
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| Datum: | vrijdag 26 april 2024 om 09:30 uur tot 17:00 uur |
| Locatie: | UvA, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Bushuis, Amsterdam |
| Informatie: | De workshop vindt plaats op basis van precirculated papers. Er is een beperkt aantal plaatsen beschikbaar voor actieve onderzoekers |
| Toegang: | Gratis, aanmelden verplicht |
© KI via Canva.comWhile geographers have debated for quite some time whether the Anthropocene as a geological epoch started 500, 250, or just 70 years ago, historians have only just begun to notice the epoch. Broadly defined as the era in which humans have come to constitute a geological force capable of impacting the global climate, the concept among other things challenges us to rethink the ways in which historical actors related to their environment, to people in other parts of the world, and to reconsider the timescales in which we situate our histories.
How do we relate to the Anthropocene in our scholarship? Does the concept inspire or terrify us? Do we employ it as a conceptual framework, a loose collection of questions, or as a counterpoint to our own approach? During this workshop, we explore what the Anthropocene means to us in writing histories. We thus probe what it means to write history at this moment of confluence of many environmental crises, to what extent present concerns productively inform our work.
We invite participants of this workshop to reflect on the ways in which their work grapples with these problems and questions. The workshop takes its cue from the work of Sandra Mass, Professor of Transnational History at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She will present insights from her upcoming book Clio contaminated: Geschichtsschreibung im Anthropozän. We welcome participants whose work implicitly considers the concerns which come to the fore around the notion of the Anthropocene or explicitly addresses the concept of the Anthropocene.
De deadline voor de Call for Papers is 16 februari.