How the Anthropocene Made Modernity
Wednesday 13 March 2024, 4pm GMT (12pm EST)
Online - Zoom link via Eventbrite.
The Oxford-Penn-Toronto IDC in the Environmental Humanities is delighted to invite you to a lecture with Amanda Power from Oxford University: 'How the Anthropocene Made Modernity'.
The formal diagnosis of Anthropocene through physical markers of human transformations of the earth priorities a materiality that asks ‘when’ before ‘how’ and ‘why’. In this talk Amanda Power shows how early expansionist policies across the globe envisaged ‘civilization ’as the successful exploitation by elites of landscapes, ecologies, and human and non-human life, such that ceasing to dominate the earth was an illegitimate choice.
Speaker:
Amanda Power, Sullivan Clarendon Associate Professor in History at the University of Oxford, is a historian of religion, power, and intellectual life in medieval Europe. She is involved in an AHRC-funded collaborative network concerning‘ stateless ’spaces in the global Middle Ages, and her current monograph project, Medieval Histories of the Anthropocene, queries the relations of religion, power, and the construction of public rationality in building states across Eurasia.
