The 7th Thyssen lecture on Science, Knowledge, and the Legacy of Empire, organised by the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities.
Date: Tuesday 14 October 2025
Time: 18.30 - 20.00
Location: Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.
Admission is free and all welcome. Please register for a ticket on Eventbrite here or by clicking on the image below.
This lecture examines the tangled paths that connect the history of colonialism to the climate crisis. A lot of recent work on ‘climate and colonialism’ focuses on the straight line that links colonial-era resource extraction, in service of an expanding European industrial capitalism, to the long-term commodification of nature and fossil fuel dependency that lie at the root of our current environmental catastrophes.
Further information on the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities is available on their website at https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/
For further information on this event please email Joanne D’Arcy, Project Manager, Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities at darcyjo@tcd.ie