Academia Europaea Wrocław Knowledge Centre and Olga Tokarczuk's Ex-centrum Academic Research Centre invite you to participate in the conference „The Anthropocene: from boundaries to bonds. Interdisciplinary crossovers in knowledge development”. 

The two-day event will begin on Thursday, 19 October, in building H-14 and can also be attended remotely. 

The conference brings together diverse scholars to facilitate inter- and multidisciplinary reflection on the Anthropocene. Keynote speakers represent disciplines as diverse as Palaeobiology, Philosophy, Geography and Cultural Studies. The main conference themes oscillate around such themes as literary representations of the human-non-human relationships, the role of arts in navigating the challenges of the Anthropocene, education in times of the planetary crisis, as well as new ontologies and models of politics in the Anthropocene.

The most important area of scientific reflection in the submitted papers is the challenge posed to science by the new geological era. The mining industry and its impact on the ecology of countries, including water levels; green energy and (geo)political difficulties in introducing it in various state and regional contexts; reports on the work of scientific teams, including the AE Anthropocene Task Force; geological evidence for the Anthropocene; education and ecology, philosophy and ecocritical thought, Anthropocene and ethical challenges for politics, culture and science are just some of the topics submitted to the conference. ·     

One of the conference plenary speakers, Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty from the University of Chicago, has been for several decades now the key voice on the issue of climate change in the global humanities. One of the main representatives of postcolonial studies within the discipline of history, Prof. Chakrabarty has been engaged in the debate on the implications of climate change for our understanding of history, global politics and the role of humanities today. Right during the conference week a new translation of Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty's work is coming out from the most renowned academic publisher in Poland, the Universitas. The publisher together with Dipesh Chakrabarty's translators, Prof. Dorota Kołodziejczyk (MAE), our conference organizer, included, will hold a short book launch after his plenary talk.