GHIL Lecture Patrick Anthony (hybrid)

The German Historical Institute London is dedicated to the promotion of historical research in the United Kingdom and Germany. It focuses on the comparative history of Britain and Germany, the global and colonial history of the British Empire and Commonwealth, and the history of British-German relations and transfers.

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Terrestrial Enlightenment: Ruin and Revolution in an Eighteenth-Century Climate Crisis

Join us in person at the German Historical Institute London or online via Zoom for this lecture.Some scholars and scientists identify the Enlightenment as an inflection point in the Anthropocene, a geological age in which humans act as a planetary force. My talk suggests that this inflection point was characterized not only by new means and scales of environmental exploitation, but also by the emergence of climate politics. The naturalist Georg Forster provides a helpful itinerary through this time, from his study of Saxon hydraulics in the wake of the flood of 1784 to his death in Paris during the Terror of 1794. On either side of the Rhine, resource management and disaster mitigation constituted political power.Patrick Anthony received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2021. He is currently a DAAD PRIME Fellow at LMU Munich and the University of Cambridge and is working on a global social history of Alexander von Humboldt’s science as it developed through extractive industries in Prussia, Mexico, and Siberia. This lecture takes place as a hybrid event online via Zoom and in-person at the German Historical Institute London at 17 Bloomsbury Square, WC1A 2NJ London. When registering for your ticket, please select the option you prefer.

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