Event Host: Environmental Humanities Program
Short Description: The film screening of Anthropocene: The Movie will take place on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. at Gateway Film Center.
A free screening of Anthropocene: The Movie will take place on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. at Gateway Film Center. The director, Stephen Bradshaw, will be in attendance to discuss the film with the audience. Q & A will be led by Thomas Davis, English professor and co-founder of Ohio State’s new Environmental Humanities Program.
You've heard of the Jurassic, Cambrian, Pleistocene, Holocene. Now a group of world-renowned scholars is debating whether to declare a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene. Mankind has so changed Earth, they state, that we've created our own geological layer. In this film, key members of the group, for the first time on camera, tell the story of the Anthropocene - from the Time of Fire to today's Great Acceleration and beyond. And ask, how will our story end? And, should it make us laugh or cry?
Environmental Humanities at Ohio State brings together scholars and students from multiple fields to think collectively and imaginatively about the role of the humanities in addressing the most pressing ecological challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss, the Anthropocene, the disappearing boundaries between nature and culture, and the changing status of the human, among others.
The program is funded for two years (2016-2018) by the Humanities and the Arts Discovery Theme.
