On 29 September, 2021, the QM Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences welcomed Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty (Chicago) for a discussion of his new book, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. The event featured responses from the QM South Asia Forum’s Chris Moffat (History) and Shital Pravinchandra (Comparative Literature). The discussion was chaired by Simon Reid-Henry (Geography). You can watch a recording of the event via YouTube, embedded below.

Event Description: The Queen Mary Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences welcomes Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty to a panel discussion of his recent book, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. In this bold work Chakrabarty invites us to see ourselves from two perspectives at once: the (human-centred) global and the (human-decentred) planetary. The consequence of doing so, which Chakrabarty explores in this work, forces us to reconsider everything from the nature of human agency to literature to humanism itself. As the geological intrudes upon social life, we must take stock and rethink our way forward.