Speaker:
Dipesh Chakrabarty |University of Chicago3:00 PM in Haskell Hall
ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will elaborate on the significance of the distinction between "globe" and "planet" as categories of historical thought, a distinction I proposed in my 2021 book, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age.
BIOGRAPHY: Dipesh Chakrabarty is a professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021) and One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (forthcoming, 2023).
Please join us for a reception on Haskell’s mezzanine immediately following Dr. Chakrabarty’s talk.