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Tuesday 13 April, 5-7pm: Juliette Schaafsma (Tilburg University), ‘Closing Chapters of the Past: On the Expressive Power of Political Apologies Across the World’ 

Wednesday 14 April, 2-4pm: Anke Bernau, ‘Anthropocene’ 

In preparation for this seminar, please read as many of the following short pieces as you can, all of which can be accessed via the library catalogue:

1. Paul Crutzen, ‘The Anthropocene’, in Earth System Science in the Anthropocene, ed. by E. Ehlers and T. Krafft (Berlin: Springer, 2006), pp. 13-18. 
2. Donna J. Haraway, ‘Making Kin: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene’, in Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Durham, Duke University Press, 2016), pp. 99-103.
3. Stacy Alaimo, ‘Your Shell on Acid: Material Immersion, Anthropocene Dissolves’, in Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), pp. 143-68.
4. Kathryn Yussoff, ‘Golden Spikes and Dubious Origins’, in A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018), pp. 23-64. 

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