Dear colleagues,
<br>
<br>This is to cordially invite you to the next instalment of the Anthropocene
<br>Lecture Series, in which Professor Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy School of
<br>Government) will speak on The Human Imprint: Nature, Time, and Law in the
<br>Anthropocene (abstract below and here
<br>).
<br>
<br>The lecture will be delivered at the Max Planck Institut für
<br>Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG; Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin) on Monday,
<br>25 June, 5-7 pm, and is co-organized between MPIWG, Haus der Kulturen der
<br>Welt, and Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam.
<br>
<br>Very best wishes,
<br>Stefan Schäfer, IASS
<br>
<br>
<br>Abstract
<br>Human history has been entwined with the history of nature since the earliest
<br>accounts of creation. The advent of the environmental sciences secularized
<br>those histories, postulating new causal and consequential connections between
<br>nature and humanity. The Anthropocene is but the latest of the narratives that
<br>tie the laws of the Earth to the activities of nature’s most interventionist
<br>offspring: the human species. In this talk, I will trace the modern scientific
<br>narratives of human-nature relationships through the parallel lens of
<br>environmental law. I will ask what difference the concept of the
<br>Anthropocene—in particular, its embrace of the geologic timescale—makes to
<br>our notions of responsibility toward a planet that we not only inhabit but
<br>also consume and transform through human enterprise.
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