Seminar SISSA-MPIWG webinar on "Anthropocene Markers: Contexts and Narratives" March 17, 2022, 5 p.m. CET

[ICTP/infopoint - Emili Sabina]

ILAS - SISSA Interdisciplinary Lab for Advanced Studies and the Max 
Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin are pleased to 
invite you to participate in the joint webinar:

"Anthropocene Markers: Contexts and Narratives"

delivered on zoom by Giulia Rispoli, Assistant Professor at the 
Università Ca' Foscari,  Venice, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni 
Culturali, and Visiting Scholar at the

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,

Thursday, march 17, 2022 at 5 p.m. CET

Abstract: What is the Anthropocene we live in? How does it differ from 
the past geological epoch? How dangerous has the planetary environment 
become? This seminar provides an introduction to the notion of the 
Anthropocene—the idea that humans are the main agents of the 
transformation of the planet—from a perspective that intertwines the 
sciences and the humanities. It reconstructs the context in which the 
Anthropocene emerged as a scientific and cultural theory and the central 
narratives that characterize the current debate about the global signals 
of human impact on the Earth system.

This webinar is the third of a series of monthly seminars delivered by 
leading scholars in history and philosophy of science. The first

seminar took place on january 20 2022, given by Michel Janssen on the 
"Evo-Devo of Scientific Knowledge". The second one was given by Matteo 
Valleriani on "From the quadrivium to modern science". The series will 
continue in the next months with talks by Don Salisbury and Yin Xiaodong 
on april 28 on science in China and by Hanoch Gutfreund on may 19 on the 
history of modern neuroscience.

These seminars are meant as an opportunity for students, post-docs, and 
researchers to broaden their cultural perspectives on the scientific 
enterprise and as a prelude to the conference “The Evolution of 
Knowledge” that SISSA will host July 14-16 2022. The conference is organised

jointly with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the 
Chinese Academy of Science and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The seminars can be joined at the link below: we strongly recommend 
using a login name on zoom which can be easily identified (ideally: Name 
Surname) by the moderator and to mute your microphone.

LINK ZOOM only for the third seminar:

Stefano Ruffo is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: MPI-SISSA_Seminar_Giulia_Rispoli

Time: Mar 17, 2022 04:30 PM Rome

Join Zoom Meeting

https://sissa-it.zoom.us/j/83286943080?pwd=Sm9XYTlSV2NSanhDVm1aTmtpeUZGZz09

Meeting ID: 832 8694 3080

Passcode: 366154