<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class=""><p style="text-align:start" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal" class=""><span style="font-weight:300" class=""><span style="white-space:normal" class=""><span style="background-color:#ffffff" class=""><span style="text-decoration-style:initial" class=""><span style="text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:13pt" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="color:#7030a0" class="">WiSER warmly invites you to the next PUBLIC POSITIONS session</span></span></span></b><br class="">

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<b class=""><span style="font-size:16pt" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="">Dipesh Chakrabarty<p style="text-align:start" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal" class=""><span style="font-weight:300" class=""><span style="white-space:normal" class=""><span style="background-color:#ffffff" class=""><span style="text-decoration-style:initial" class=""><span style="text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="color:#c00000" class="">The Planetary Age in Human History<p style="text-align:start" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal" class=""><span style="font-weight:300" class=""><span style="white-space:normal" class=""><span style="background-color:#ffffff" class=""><span style="text-decoration-style:initial" class=""><span style="text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="" class="">For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change and the implications of the Anthropocene for the practice of knowledge and theoretical imagination.

Climate change, he argues, upends longstanding ideas of capitalism, history and globalization. This talk will introduce and elucidate the notion of a new "planetary age" in human history and discuss some of the intellectual challenges it poses to scholarship in the humanities.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:start" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal" class=""><span style="font-weight:300" class=""><span style="white-space:normal" class=""><span style="background-color:#ffffff" class=""><span style="text-decoration-style:initial" class=""><span style="text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="color:#1f497d" class="">A founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, Chakrabarty is  Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Services Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.  A recipient of the 2014

Toynbee Foundation Prize, he is known for his major opus </span></span></i></b><b class=""><u class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="color:#1f497d" class="">Provincializing Europe</span></span></u></b><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="color:#1f497d" class="">. His new book, </span></span></i></b><b class=""><u class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="color:#1f497d" class="">The Climate of History in a Planetary Age </span></span></u></b><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="color:#1f497d" class="">is published by the University of Chicago Press in 2020.</span></span></i></b><br class="">

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<b class=""><span style="font-size:13pt" class=""><span style="background:white" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="color:#c00000" class="">Thursday, 15<sup class="">th</sup> October 2020</span></span></span></span></b><br class="">

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