As a part of The University of Nottingham's Mindset public lecture series, Dr Martin Mahony from the School of Geography, will speak this week on Is this the 'Age of Humans'? Science, politics and culture in the Anthropocene.
The talk will introduce the scientific debate over the proposed onset of the Anthropocene, an age defined by large-scale and pervasive human impacts on the earth system. Debate over the concept of the Anthropocene has not been restricted to the physical sciences, and this talk will introduce some of the ways in which scholars in the social sciences and the humanities have responded to and reinterpreted the Anthropocene, as well as exploring how the concept has been taken up in the arts.
The lecture will present the Anthropocene as a promiscuous concept, igniting new debates across disciplinary divides. However, it is also a concept which has yet to find much traction outside of the Western academic circles in which it has been vigorously debated. This talk, the comments of respondent Jasmin Irisha Jim Ilham – environmental campaigner and The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus alumnus – and the subsequent discussion, will therefore provide a space to reflect on the potential of the idea of the Anthropocene to travel more widely.
Martin appeared on BFM89.9 on Monday afternoon to preview the discussion – listen to a podcast of the interview.
For further information about the event itself, please contact Praveena Chackrapani.
Posted on Tuesday 14th March 2017