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<div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Thursday 17 August, 6.00-8pm Public Lecture and Launch of the Centre</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Introduced by Prof. Mary Spongberg, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UTS</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">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.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">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.</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">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
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