TfC Lunch time talk: Dipesh Chakrabarty
Climate Change and Human History
Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty
Friday 22nd August
12:30 - 2:00
Building 3, Seminar Room, Room 2.10
ALL WELCOME
Transforming Cultures is pleased to welcome Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty to UTS. In this paper, he will explore the implications of climate change for how we view the relationship between natural and human histories
Brief Biography:
Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty is currently Research Fellow (Research School of Humanities, Australian National University) and the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor (Dept. of History and Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilization, University of Chicago).
His research interests include modern South Asian history and historiography, postcolonial theory and history-writing, comparative studies of questions and politics of modernity.
He is founding member of the series Subaltern Studies, co-editor of Critical Inquiry and a founding-editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies. He has also served on the editorial committee of Public Culture and American Historical Review. His publications include: Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Provincialising Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton University Press, 2000), Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 (Princeton University Press, 2000).
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