Lecture Whose planetary consciousness? Add to calendar 2025-05-12 16:00 2025-05-12 18:00 Europe/Rome Whose planetary consciousness? Refectory Badia Fiesolana YYYY-MM-DD Print Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email When 12 May 2025 16:00 - 18:00 CEST Where Refectory Badia Fiesolana Organised by Department of Economics Department of History Department of Law Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Department of Political and Social Sciences Florence School of Transnational Governance In this event, organised in collaboration with the International Thinking and Planetary Futures Research Cluster, Professor Sunil Amrith (Yale University) will present the biennial Toynbee Prize Foundation Lecture for 2025. Recent work has suggested that the emergence of planetary consciousness marks a threshold in human life on a fast-warming planet. This lecture traces the origins of one strand of 'planetary consciousness' to the early twentieth century and asks how far that way of seeing life on Earth continues to be marked by its imperial origins. Drawing on Indian debates from the last quarter of the twentieth century, it asks: does planetary consciousness stand in the way of earthly justice? Scientific Organiser(s): Prof. Glenda Sluga (EUI) Speaker(s): Sunil Amrith (Yale University) Contact(s): Laura Borgese (EUI - Department of History and Civilization)