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Seminar
SoSe 22: Global Environmental History
Adrian Lerner Patron
Kommentar
As our collective impotence in the face of a deadly microscopic virus and planetary climate change reveal, processes that involve non-human species, matter, and forces unfold in ways that often challenge the rationality of conventional human scales. To understand the biological and geophysical dimensions of the past therefore requires approaches capable of transcending these boundaries. Global history provides tools to deploy such perspectives, from its foundational insight to think about humanity in a planetary logic to its critical flexibility to experiment with different spatial and temporal scales. This seminar offers an approximation to both global and environmental history by focusing on the intersection of these two major trends in contemporary historical thinking. Through in-depth readings of classic and recent works, we will discuss how global perspectives can enrich approximations to environmental phenomena, and how environmental history can offer vantage points to understand global processes. We will also interrogate the potential of global environmental history to inform some of the planet’s urgent issues, as well as the analytical and political limitations of these perspectives. Schließen
14 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Di, 19.04.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 26.04.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 03.05.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 10.05.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 17.05.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 24.05.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 31.05.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 07.06.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 14.06.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 21.06.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 28.06.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 05.07.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 12.07.2022 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 19.07.2022 18:00 - 20:00