John Tresch: 'Fiat Lux and Earth’s Answer'
Friday 27 February
10:30 - 11:10
Paradiso, Main Hall
John Tresch
The notion that humans play a role in nature’s creation has roots that long precede discussions of the Anthropocene. Very compelling are the Romantic era’s personifications of a living, growing earth, whose latest blossoms are humans and their technologies. These new cosmograms rewrote Genesis, incorporating geology’s dark and hidden past and the illuminations of human industry and society. Their call to ‘hear’ the Earth still resounds today.
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Session 4: How the Night Changed
Friday 27 February
10:30 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Paul Bogard & Noam M. Elcott & John Tresch
The night was once pitch dark. Nocturnal human activity was determined by darkness. The real darkness of the night informed our cultural conception of night and darkness. But the night changed during the nineteenth century