Seminar series jointly organised by the Institute of Historical Research, London and the EUI Department of History
Since the turn of the 21st century, the prospect of planetary histories has begun to appear on the horizon of historians’ views. This seminar draws on the latest historical research and writing around the potential of planetary histories, and how we might do them. This seminar series is supported by the EUI Interdisciplinary Research cluster International Thinking and Planetary Futures
Programme:
Thu 29 October 2026-IHR – London and online, 6.30-8pm CET (5.30pm-7pm GMT)
Robert Suits (UCL) and Liz Chatterjee (Chicago – online), Planetary Energy Histories
Monday 16 November 2026– EUI, Villa Salviati and online, 5-6.30pm CET (4-5.30pm GMT)
Zoltán Boldizsár Simon (Universität Bielefeld), "Anthropocene History and the Question of Agency"
Wed 16 December 2026 – IHR - London, 6.30-8pm CET (5.30pm-7pm GMT)
Lucas Scholz (Manchester), "Mapping the Weather Wars: A Planetary Microhistory"
Thu 28 Jan 2027 – online only - 6.30-8pm CET (5.30pm-7pm GMT)
Sarah Shortall (Notre Dame), Planetary Catholicism
Thu 11 Feb 2027 – IHR – London and online, 6.30-8pm CET (5.30pm-7pm GMT)
Duncan Kelly (Cambridge) - Worlds at War
Thu 11 March 2027 – IHR – London, and online – 5, 6.30-8pm CET (5.30pm-7pm GMT)
Alina Utrata (Oxford), The Planetary in Political Exit: Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Visions, From Outer Space to Seasteading to Charter Cities
Thu 29 April 2027 - EUI and online, 4.30-6pm CET (3.30pm-5pm GMT)
Panel on Planetary Law
Thu 27 May 2027 –IHR– and online, 6.30-8pm CET (5.30pm-7pm GMT)
A Conversation with Pierre Charbonnier (CNRS-Sciences Po)
For more information and to register, please refer to the dedicated IHR webpage