Lecture I: Between Globalization and Global Warming: Towards a History of the Present
20.10.2014
Lecture II: Climate Change and the Question of Scale in Human Affairs
22.10.2014
Lecture III: Climate and the Human Condition
27.10.2014
Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is an Affiliate Faculty of the English Department and a resource faculty for Comparative Literature. He is also a Faculty Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. Chakrabarty holds a visiting professorial fellowship at the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University, and an honorary professorial fellowship with the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He also serves on the Board of Experts for the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. His publications include Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 (1989, 2000); Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000, 2007); Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (2002).