Thursday December 4, 5-6:15 PM, AB1079
Speaker: Alexander C.T. Geppert, New York University and NYU Shanghai
Global history is currently attempting to reinvent itself under the supposedly new label ‘planetary history’ yet without paying much attention to the planet’s outerspatial environment. Divided into four segments – planetization, picturization, satellization, extraterrestrialization – this talk argues that the transformation of the world into planet Earth is a historical process from without that began in earnest in 1946. If ours is a Planetary Age, it is upon planetary history to explain its genesis from the heavens down to earth.
Snacks & Drinks will be provided.
