Interview

Patrick Anthony, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

Climate Crises and Politics in the Eighteenth Century

27 July 2023

(0:14 h)

Interview

Patrick Anthony, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

Climate Crises and Politics in the Eighteenth Century

Why was the Enlightenment a turning point in the way in which humans think about climate? In what way did climate catastrophes affect revolutions and vice versa? How did climate politics emerge during this time?

In this GHIL podcast interview, Research Fellow for Colonial and Global History Mirjam Brusius and PR Officer Kim König talk to Patrick Anthony about the research behind his GHIL lecture on Climate Crises and Politics in the Eighteenth Century.

Patrick Anthony is currently a Junior Core Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the Central European University and will soon take up a new position as an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin.

Don’t miss his accompanying GHIL Lecture on ‘Terrestrial Enlightenment: Ruin and Revolution in an Eighteenth-Century Climate Crisis’