Amanda Power | How the Anthropocene Made Modernity
Northrop Frye Centre (VC102)
91 Charles St West Toronto, ON M5S1K5
The NFC is pleased to invite a talk from Prof. Amanda Power presented by the Oxford/Penn/Toronto International Cluster in the Environmental Humanities.
About the talk...
The formal diagnosis of Anthropocene through physical markers of human transformations of the earth priorities a materiality that asks ‘when’ before ‘how’ and ‘why’. In this talk Amanda Power shows how early expansionist policies across the globe envisaged ‘civilization ’as the successful exploitation by elites of landscapes, ecologies, and human and non-human life, such that ceasing to dominate the earth was an illegitimate choice.
About the speaker...
Amanda Power, Sullivan Clarendon Associate Professor in History at the University of Oxford, is a historian of religion, power, and intellectual life in medieval Europe. She is involved in an AHRC-funded collaborative network concerning‘ stateless ’spaces in the global Middle Ages, and her current monograph project, Medieval Histories of the Anthropocene, queries the relations of religion, power, and the construction of public rationality in building states across Eurasia.