When:
Monday, October 17, 2022
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM CT
Where: University Hall, Hagstrum 201, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: FREE
Contact:
Janet Hundrieser
(847) 491-3525
Group: Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Sponsor: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities - Environmental Humanites Research Workshop
Co-Sponsor:
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Speaker
Victor Seow, Harvard University
Title
The World that Carbon Made
Abstract
In this talk, historian of science and technology Victor Seow will be introducing his new book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, which uses the history of East Asia’s onetime largest coal mine—the Fushun colliery—to examine the rise of fossil-fueled developmentalism in the region and, more broadly, the interplay between energy and power in the industrial modern age.