Lecture Anthropocene History and the Question of Agency Add to calendar 2026-11-16 17:00 2026-11-16 18:30 Europe/Rome Anthropocene History and the Question of Agency Sala degli Stemmi Villa Salviati - Castle YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Nov 16 2026 17:00 - 18:30 CET Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati - Castle Organised by Department of Economics Department of History Department of Law Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Florence School of Transnational Governance The event is organized within the framework of the "International Thinking and Planetary Futures" Interdisciplinary Cluster In this talk will argue that the new form of human agency specific to the Anthropocene is not geological agency but Earth System agency. It will spotlight three aspects of the identification of a new kind of human agency specific to the Anthropocene predicament as useful to the establishment of Anthropocene history as distinct field of historical studies: the differences between Anthropocene history and established fields such as environmental history and climate history; the relation between Anthropocene history and Earth System science; debates on the multiple timelines of the Anthropocene and its onset.