Discussing Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis
Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
Discussing Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis
This event is part of the Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series.
Tuesday 16 May 2023,12:30pm - 2:30pm
All are welcome but registration is required.
Organizer: Dr Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (University of Oxford)
A conversation with Profs. Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (Univeristy of Chicago) and Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College-Columbia University) moderated by Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (University of Oxford) and with a response from John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Exeter) around Fredrik and Carl’s new book Scarcity: a history from the origins of capitalism to the climate crisis, with the Harvard University Press (2023).
Speakers:
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson is professor at the University of Chicago.
Carl Wennerlind is professor and chair of history at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Respondents:
John Lidwell-Durnin is a lecturer at the University of Exeter.
For further details please contact Dr Vincent Roy-Di Piazz, vincent.roy-dipiazza@humanities.ox.ac.uk.
Vincent Roy-Di Piazza is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford.
Sandwiches and refreshments will be provided.
For more details about the Lunchtime Seminars please follow the link.
As always, if anyone would like to offer a lunchtime talk, film, reading, musical performance, conference proposal, or anything else relevant to the environmental humanities, please email envhums@torch.ox.ac.uk or fiona.stafford@some.ox.ac.uk. We would also welcome expressions of interest from potential DPhil students planning to work on Environmental Humanities topics.
Sponsored by TORCH, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Oxford Humanities Division.
