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Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty: ““Climate Change and the Politics of Difference”
May 24, 2024 │ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
materia is thrilled to announce our fourth and final meeting this quarter: a talk this Friday, May 24 by esteemed Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty: “Climate Change and the Politics of Difference.” His talk will be followed by a Q&A session with the author, moderated by our team.
Professor Chakrabarty teaches in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His influential publications include Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2008) and The Climate of History in a Planetary Age(2021).
This talk develops the argument of One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (2023), an exploration of the temporal and intellectual fault lines that mark the collapse of the global and the planetary in human history.
What: Chakrabarty: ““Climate Change and the Politics of Difference”
When: May 24, 12:00 PM
Where: in person, in Pigott Hall, Room 252
