Environmental History as if the Future Mattered: Writing the History and the Future of the Anthropocene

3. Oktober 2018 bis 4. Oktober 2018
Tagung

Pierre du Bois Annual Conference

How does Environmental History help us understand the past, expand how we explain the present, and what might it tell us about the future? Environmental history deploys the insights from the “natural archive” - climate change, volcanism, biotic shifts and human transformations of the planet for understanding events and insight into processes described in human archives. Did drought trigger the Arab Spring? Did poor harvests animate the French Revolution? From uprisings to erosion of empires, environmental changes are increasingly used as elements and amplifiers in historical explanation.

The 2018 Pierre du Bois Annual Conference brings together distinguished scholars from international history, archeology, historical ecology, anthropology, paleoclimatology, literature, geography to explore what past dynamics and the roots of present processes might tell us about the future.

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Organised by Professor Susanna Hecht and the Department of International History in partnership with the Pierre du Bois Foundation.

Veranstaltungsort

Maison de la paix
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2
1202 
Genève

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