This podcast features a talk by Dr Patrick Anthony who is Irish Research Council Fellow at University College Dublin.

The event was part of Dr Sarah Comyn's Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project and associated seminar series on Methodologies concerning Extractivism. 

https://imperialminerals.ie/

Patrick Anthony's talk -"Underlands, Empires, Atmospheres: Extractive Histories of Environmental Science" - took place in UCD Humanities Institute on November 7 2023, and was introduced by Dr Ge Tang.

About Patrick:

Patrick Anthony is a social historian of science and environment in central Europe and the World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His research ranges from German mining and working-class families in natural history to transimperial networks of earth and atmospheric science that linked Central Europe to commodity frontiers in the Americas and northern Eurasia.

He is currently an Irish Research Council Fellow at University College Dublin. Here, he is pursuing a project called Anthropocene Frontiers: The Climate of Conflict in Siberia and the Steppe, a study of how settler colonial violence in the marches of the Russian Empire generated knowledge about climate and the human capacity to change it. In fall 2024, he will begin a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at Uppsala University.

His forthcoming book, Unearthed: Science and Environment Across Mineral Frontiers, is an archaeology of environmental sciences assembled through mining industries that linked central Europe to empires in the Americas and northern Eurasia.

His research has been published in journals such as Isis, Journal of the History of Ideas, Historical Journal, and Journal of Social History.  After receiving his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2021, he was a DAAD Prime Fellow at Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität, Munich, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and a Junior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University in Budapest.

Patrick Anthony - Underlands, Empires, Atmospheres: Extractive Histories of Environmental Science

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