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[Devleena Ghosh]

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Public Lecture and Launch: Dipesh Chakrabarty,  'The Human and the Geological: On Anthropocene Time'

Thursday 17 August, 6.00-8pm Public Lecture and Launch of the Centre
Introduced by Prof. Mary Spongberg, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UTS
Building 6: CB 06.04.040, Reception 6-6.30pm, Lecture and Q&A 630-8.00pm
RSVP: Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/dipesh-chakrabarty-lecture-climate-and-justice-tickets-36264159076

This lecture discusses how distinctly geological and sociological ideas undergo mutual translation in current debates on climate change, climate justice, and the idea of the Anthropocene.  The aim of the lecture is to investigate the relationship between our contemporary imaginations of world history and the history of the planet.

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Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of History and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and a Faculty Fellow at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, The University of Chicago.
His books include ‘Historical Teleologies in the Modern World’ (Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming 2015); ‘Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference’ (Princeton, 2000; 2008); ‘Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies’ (Chicago, 2002); ‘Cosmopolitanism’ (Duke, 2000); ‘From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition’ (Oxford, 2007). He is currently working on ‘The Climate of History’ (Chicago) and ‘History and The Time of the Present’ (Duke).

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