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Approaches to the Anthropocene – a Conversation with Philippe Descola and Bruno Latour

University of British Columbia. Museum of Anthropology; Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Dr. Philippe Descola and Dr. Bruno Latour are two of France’s most prominent intellectuals, and both have redefined their respective fields of expertise by considering the place of human agency – and non-human actors – in the construction of the modern world. In this conversation, Dr. Latour and Dr. Descola will debate the idea of the anthropocene, a new geological era in which humans have become the principal agents for the transformation of our planetary systems: from small scale consumption of natural resources to large-scale human-induced climate changes. Drawing on the fields of anthropology, science studies, and other allied disciplines, these two thinkers will discuss their views on how intervention in the natural world has not only transformed planetary ecosystems, but also the very ideas and models we use to think about the planet as a whole. Sponsored by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and the UBC Museum of Anthropology.

Moving Image

2013-10-08

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45217

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/