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TITLE: The Anthropocene: Are We There Yet?
SPEAKER: David Christian, John R. McNeill
EVENT DATE: 12/10/2009
RUNNING TIME: 82 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Historians David Christian and John R. McNeill, in a lecture at the Library of Congress, discuss how rapidly increasing human impact on the biosphere is changing the way scholars and experts view human history.
Speaker Biography: David Christian is a professor of history at Macquarie University in Sydney and a distinguished visiting scholar at the Kluge Center.
Speaker Biography: John McNeill is the interim director and professor at the Mortara Center for International Studies at Georgetown University.