中央研究院歷史語言研究所

講　題：人類世與日本

主講人：Prof. Julia Adeney Thomas（美國聖母大學歷史學系教授）

與談人：Prof. Paul Jobin 彭保羅（本院社會學研究所副研究員）

主持人：Prof. Albert Wu 吳孟軒（本所副研究員兼副所長）

時　間：2026年5月7日（四）15:00～17:00

地　點：本所研究大樓七樓703會議室

主辦單位：本院主題計畫「臺灣的宗教與『人類世』：面對全球宗教環境史的考察」

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摘　要：

This talk explores both what the Anthropocene is and what Japan might teach us as we navigate the coming decades of unprecedented disruption. Some have suggested that early modern Japan exemplified satisfactory stewardship of nature while others argue that even Tokugawa society pushed beyond environmental constraints. Today some hope that Japan's current urban consolidation and population decline will allow nature to recover and stabilize, but others dispute this contention. In exploring these debates, this talk puts Japan's history into conversation with Anthropocene science.

延伸讀物：Thomas, Julia Adeney, ed. Altered Earth: Getting the Anthropocene Right. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

講者自傳：

Julia Adeney Thomas teaches history at the University of Notre Dame (USA) and researches the intellectual history of Japan, photography as a political practice, and the challenge of the Anthropocene to historical practice. She is the author of Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Ideology; Strata and Three Stories (with Jan Zalasiewicz); and The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach (with geologists Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz). Among her edited volumes are Japan at Nature's Edge (with Ian J. Miller and Brett Walker), Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right (with Geoff Eley) and Altered Earth: Getting the Anthropocene Right. She is currently working on The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene. Thomas's many articles bridge the divide between the humanities and the sciences to address our global environmental crisis. Although she lives in Chicago, her heart is in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.

聯絡人：官柏勳（jonnyguan8805@gmail.com）