What traces does humankind leave on our planet? In the Summer Term 2021, the Colloquium Fundamentale entitled “Anthropozän. Die ökologische Frage und der Mensch, der sie stellt” (Anthropocene. The ecological question and the humans asking it) will deal with literary, artistic, and cultural aspects of the ecological debate. With the lecture “Natur – Mensch – Technik. Die Herausforderungen des Anthropozäns” (The challenges of the anthropocene in the field of tension between nature, humans, and technology), cultural and literary scholar Professor Eva Horn will open the lecture series of the ZAK | Center for Cultural and General Studies at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) on Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. on the ZAK YouTube channel at www.youtube.de/ZAKVideoclips.
For more information on the program and lecturers (in German):
www.zak.kit.edu/colloquium_fundamentale
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