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Facing the Anthropocene Webinar: Joyce Chaplin

March 18, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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In the Facing the Anthropocene series, Norman Wirzba interviews leading scholars in political economy, history, anthropology, theology, philosophy, environmental humanities, and law, in order to examine the conditions under which a hopeful future might be imagined.

Joyce Chaplin (BA, Northwestern; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins) is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. A former Fulbright Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, her work has focused on the histories of science, the environment, and climate. Her books include The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of PopulationRound About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit, and The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

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Date:
March 18, 2021
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Website:
https://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/facing-the-anthropocene/

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Facing the Anthropocene Project
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