{"id":92,"date":"2014-09-16T20:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T20:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/?p=92"},"modified":"2015-09-29T19:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T19:00:47","slug":"the-anthropocene-friday-may-8-4-to-6-pm-room-193-humanities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"The Anthropocene, May 8, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dipesh Chakrabarty <\/b>(History, University of Chicago) is currently working on a book project on the implications of the science of climate change for historical and political thinking. His influential article, \u201cThe Climate of History: Four Theses\u201d (<\/span>Critical Inquiry<\/i>, Winter 2009), indicates the beginning of that project. Chakrabarty has written or co-edited books including <\/span>Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 <\/i>(Princeton, 1989; 2000), <\/span>Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference <\/i>(Princeton, 2000; second edition, 2007), <\/span>Cosmopolitanism <\/i>(Duke, 2000; edited with Rochona Majumdar and Andrew Sartori), and <\/span>Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies<\/i> (Chicago, 2002). He is a founding member of the editorial collective of<\/span>\u00a0Subaltern Studies<\/i>, a co-editor of <\/span>Critical Inquiry<\/i>, and a founding editor of\u00a0<\/span>Postcolonial Studies<\/i>. Chakrabarty has received many honors for his work, and <\/span>Provincializing Europe <\/i>has been translated into Italian, French, Polish, and Spanish and is being brought out in Turkish, Korean, and Chinese. His most recent book,\u00a0<\/span>The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth<\/i>, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dale Jamieson<\/strong>\u00a0(Philosophy, NYU) is the author of\u00a0Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed\u2014and What It Means For Our Future<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford, 2014),\u00a0Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge, 2008), and\u00a0Morality’s Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford, 2002).\u00a0Love in the Anthropocene<\/em>, with Bonnie Nazdam, will be published by OR Books in 2015. Jamieson\u00a0is also the editor or co-editor of nine books, most recently\u00a0Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy<\/em>, 2nd Edition (Oxford, 2012) with Lori Gruen and Chris Schlottmann, and has published more than one hundred articles and book chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of journals including\u00a0Environmental Ethics<\/em>;\u00a0Science, Technology, and Human Values<\/em>;\u00a0Science and Engineering Ethics<\/em>;\u00a0Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science<\/em>;\u00a0The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics<\/em>; and the\u00a0Journal of Applied Philosophy<\/em>.\u00a0At NYU, Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Law, and Director of the Animal Studies Initiative.<\/p>\n

Peter Kareiva<\/strong>\u00a0(Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy)\u00a0joined The Nature Conservancy\u2019s staff in 2002 after more than twenty years in academics and work at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where he directed the Northwest Fisheries Science Center Conservation Biology Division. In addition to his duties as the Conservancy\u2019s chief scientist, his current projects emphasize the interplay of human land-use and biodiversity, resilience in the face of global change, and marine conservation. Kareiva\u00a0publishes prolifically, having authored over 100 scientific articles in such diverse fields as mathematical biology, fisheries science, insect ecology, risk analysis, genetically engineered organisms, agricultural ecology, population viability analysis, behavioral ecology, landscape ecology and global climate change. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and been named a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Kareiva\u00a0has taught at over eight different Universities around the world (including Brown University, Uppsala University, University of Washington and University of Virginia) and authored six books.<\/p>\n

Anahid Nersessian <\/strong>(English, UCLA)\u00a0researches the long Romantic period (1750-1850) and its legacies. Her first book,\u00a0Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment<\/em>\u00a0(Harvard University Press, 2015), argues that Romantic writers use literary form to model minimally harmful practices of renunciation, self-containment, and adaptation with respect to a world of finite resources. She is currently working on two book projects: an edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s long poem,\u00a0Laon and Cythna<\/em>\u00a0(under contract with Broadview Press), and\u00a0The Calamity Form<\/em>, a study of rhetoric and tropology in relation to environmental crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dipesh Chakrabarty (History, University of Chicago) is currently working on a book project on the implications of the science of climate change for historical and political thinking. His influential article, \u201cThe Climate of History: Four Theses\u201d (Critical Inquiry, Winter 2009), indicates the beginning of that project. Chakrabarty has written or co-edited books including Rethinking Working-Class … Continue reading The Anthropocene, May 8, 2015<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-participants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}