Conference Conferences

NATURE AND HISTORY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

February 12-14, 2025 University of Warwick
Oculus, Rooms 01, 08, 09

University Rd, Coventry CV4, UK

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Program

February 12, 2025

Warwick University Campus, Oculus building, OC0.01

16.15-17.15 David James (Warwick)
Moral Psychology and an Environmental History of Political Ideas:
Some Reflections on Pierre Charbonnier’s Affluence and Freedom
17.30-18.30 Elena Tripaldi (Padua)
Monistic Definitions of Nature in the Anthropocene Debate:
A Hegelian Critique

February 13, 2025

Warwick University Campus, Oculus building, OC0.01

09.45-10.45 Thomas Khurana (Potsdam)
Politics of Nature: Prolegomena to a Critique of Political Ecology
11.00-12.00 Tim Howles (Oxford)
Deferring the End and Holding Open the Present: Katechontic Political Theology at the Time of the Anthropocene

February 13, 2025

Warwick University Campus, Oculus building, OC1.09

12.45-13.45 Isabel Sickenberger (Potsdam)
Nature and Dialectics: A Hegelian Critique of Engels
14.00-15.00 Alexey Weissmueller (Potsdam)
Adorno’s Negative Dialectics of Nature and History
15.15-16.15 Tom Simpson (Warwick)
Planetary Pictures: Historicizing environmental sciences in the Anthropocene
16.30-18.00 KEYNOTE
Travis Holloway (Pratt)
Philosophy at the End of the World:
History, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene

February 14, 2025

Warwick University Campus, Oculus building, OC1.08

09.45-10.45 Maximilian Hepach (Durham)
Climate Phenomenology
11.00-12.00 Tobias Keiling (Warwick)
Mourning for Certainty: Historical Understanding in the Anthropocene

Participants

Travis Holloway (Pratt), Tim Howles (Oxford), David James (Warwick), Thomas Khurana (Potsdam)
Isabel Sickenberger (Potsdam), Tom Simpson (Warwick), Elena Tripaldi (Padua), Ben Ware (KCL), Alexey Weissmueller (Potsdam)