Interpreting the Anthropocene
Online Workshop
December 3rd 2020, 14.00-19.15 and December 4th 2020, 14.00-19.00
The Anthropocene is the era of pervasive human impact on the planet. Atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane concentrations that exceed Holocene peak levels, techno-fossils frozen in Greenland ice sheets, and massive species extinction are all indications of planetary boundaries that have come under stress due to human industrial, commercial, and agricultural activity. Humanity’s relationship to its environment is changing. Lagging behind that change is serious reflection on how best to understand and direct it.
This will bring together theorists working at the intersection of moral, political, social, and environmental theory/philosophy.
With: William A. Barbieri (Catholic University of America), Jelena Belic (Leiden University), Nihan Bozok (Beykent University Istanbul), Daniel Callies (UCSD), Arianne Conty (American University of Sharjah), Jamie Draper (University of Oxford), Petra Gümplová (University of Erfurt), Özge Kelekçi (METU Ankara), Facundo Nahuel Martín (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Alex McLaughlin (University of Cambridge), Darrel Moellendorf (GU Frankfurt, Normative Orders), Ben Mylius (Columbia University) and Patrick Taylor Smith (University of Twente)
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The event is part of the project "Interpreting the Anthropocene: Hope and Anxiety at the End of Nature". For further information: Click here...
Program
All times Central European (UTC+01.00)
Thursday, 3 December
14.00 – 14.15
Welcome and Introduction
Darrel Moellendorf, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
14.15 – 15.45
Session One
Jamie Draper, University of Oxford: “Territory and Self-Determination in the Anthropocene”
Petra Gümplová, Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt: “Common Ownership or Global Commons? Reassessing Risse’s Common Ownership of the Earth Thesis in the Climate Crisis”
15.45 – 16.00
Coffee Break (15 min)
16.00 – 17.30
Session Two
Jelena Belic, Leiden University: “Rethinking Human Rights in the Anthropocene”
Facundo Nahuel Martín, Universidad de Buenos Aires: “The Anthropocene in Ecological Marxism: A Latin American Reading”
17.30 – 17.45
Coffee Break (15 min)
17.45 – 19.15
Session Three
Daniel Callies, University of California – San Diego: “Intentionally Modifying the Climate in the Anthropocene”
Alex McLaughlin, University of Cambridge: “Disobedience in the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Intergenerational Resistance”
Friday, 4 December
14.00 – 15.30
Session Four
Arianne Conty, American University of Sharjah: “Animism in the Anthropocene”
Özge Kelekçi, Middle East Technical University, Nihan Bozok, Beykent University Istanbul: “A Discussion on Anthropocene from Rosi Braidotti's Feminist Perspective”
15.30 – 15.45
Coffee Break (15 min)
15.45 – 17.15
Session Five
Darrel Moellendorf, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt: “The Anthropocene: A Realistic Utopia”
Patrick Taylor Smith, University of Twente: “The Anthropocene as Revolutionary Ideal: Moral Pathway Infeasibility and Climate Change”
17.15 – 17.30
Coffee Break (15 min)
17.30 – 19.00
Session Six
Ben Mylius, Columbia University: “The Concept of the Anthropocene and the Fiction of ‘Humanity as agent’”
William A. Barbieri, The Catholic University of America: “Moral Ecology in the Anthropocene”
End of workshop
Presented by:
Workshop organized by the Lehrstuhl für Internationale Politische Theorie, Research Centre “Normative Orders” of Goethe University
