Séminaire - The Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene

Épisode de Avenir Commun Durable (2023-2024) - Kyle Harper par Collège de France · 28 mars 2024 · 1 h 00 min

Kyle Harper

Avenir Commun Durable (2023-2024)

Collège de France

Année 2023-2024

Séminaire - The Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene

John McNeill

Distinguished University Professor, Georgetown Universit

Résumé

This lecture will review two concepts that now feature prominently in environmental histories of the modern world and in global change science: The Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene. It will present evidence, drawn mainly from collaborations in the Anthropocene Working Group, for the view that both the Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene began around 1950; that the Great Acceleration has begun to slow; but that the Anthropocene is set to last for many millennia yet to come.

John McNeill

J.R. McNeill, Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University, has authored or edited more than 20 books, including Something New Under the Sun, listed by the London Times among the 10 best science books ever written (despite being a history book); and Mosquito Empires, which won the Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association; and most recently The Webs of Humankind (2 vols.). He is a former president of both the American Society for Environmental History and the American Historical Association, an elected member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academia Europaea, and a member of the Académie Royale du Maroc. In 2018 he received the Heineken Award for History from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Kyle Harper est Professor of Classics and Letters à l'université de l'Oklahoma et Fractal Faculty au Santa Fe Institute. Historien dont les travaux tentent d'intégrer les sciences de la nature dans l'étude du passé humain, ses principaux intérêts de recherche comprennent l'histoire des maladies…

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