News & Events


NEW PUBLICATIONS

A collection of essays edited by Damiano Benvegnù and Matteo Gilebbi

Prof. Ogden’s new book is out!


THE ANTHROPOCENE GROUP

Socioeconomic Trends of the Great Acceleration of the Anthropocene from 1750 to 2010. The data graphically displayed is scaled for each datum’s 2010 value. Source data is from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme www.igbp.net. Author: Bryan MacKinnon (21 April 2018)

Situated within the larger Environmental Humanities community at Dartmouth College, the Anthropocene Group is an interdisciplinary collective of students, faculty, and activists interested in investigating environmental, social, and epistemological limits and benefits of a concept such as the Anthropocene.

If you are interested in receiving regular updates about the Anthropocene Group initiatives, please contact Matteo Gilebbi (matteo.gilebbi@dartmouth.edu). We are looking forward to seeing you at these events!


PAST EVENTS

 
 

THE ANTHROPOCENE GROUP Winter 2021

For Winter 2021, our guest will be Axelle Karera (Professor of Philosophy at Emory University). Prof. Karera’s work is situated “at the intersection of 20th century continental philosophy, the critical philosophy of race (particularly Black critical theory), contemporary critical theory, and the environmental humanities.”

On Thursday, February 18th at 4:00pm (via Zoom) Prof. Karera will talk about her article “Blackness and the Pitfalls of Anthropocene Ethics,” published in 2019 in the special issue on “Race and the Anthropocene” of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race. A copy of the essay can be downloaded from HERE.

(For the Zoom link, please RSVP to Humanities.Events@Dartmouth.edu)


CONVERGENCE SYMPOSIUM
February 11 – 12, 2021
More info at this webpage

THE ANTHROPOCENE GROUP Fall 2020

A conversation with Arun Saldanha (Professor of Geography, Environment, & Society at the University of Minnesota). Prof. Saldanha is particularly interested in “the geography of race relations, globalization and counterculture”.

The event is scheduled for Tuesday, October 20th, at 5:00pm (via Zoom). Prof. Saldanha will give a lecture entitled “Racial capitalism and the politics of catastrophe, from Minneapolis to the earth”. A Q&A will follow, together with a discussion on his recent piece on Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, entitled “A date with destiny: Racial capitalism and the beginnings of the Anthropocene”. A copy of the essay can be downloaded from here.