The Human Condition in the Anthropocene

Wednesday, February 18, “Climate Change as Epochal Consciousness”
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Thursday, February 19, “Decentering the Human? Gaia”
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Friday, February 20, Roundtable discussion with Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University; Michael Warner, Yale University
Moderator: Gary Tomlinson
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Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Law at the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University before moving to Chicago.

He is the author of many articles and books including The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth (2015, forthcoming), Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2008; 2000), Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (2002), and Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 (2000; 1989).

He is founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, a founding editor of Postcolonial Studies, and a consulting editor of Critical Inquiry. Chakrabarty is currently working on a book on climate change and on a collection of essays on history’s relationship to the present. Chakrabarty was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2006. He was recently named the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize for his contributions to global history.

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