A seminar that includes a lecture and a conversation, on the topic of anthropocentrism, with two researchers from Adam Mickiewicz University: Taynna Marino and Ewa Domanska.

History Beyond Anthropocentrism

Programme:

15h00  |  Taynna Marino (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Bridging Indigenous and Western knowledges: a defense of empathy for a more sustainable world
Commentary by Felipe Brandi (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)

In times of the Anthropocene, empathy has been often criticized to cause more harms than benefits, for example in cases of organized violence, torture and genocides, or in the case of intellectual colonialism. This communication aims to the discuss the necessity of a critical and self-aware defense of empathy to historical knowledge. Here I claim that bringing a notion of a transcultural empathy as a way of relating and knowing across cultures and systems of knowledge can enable us to bridge Indigenous and Western knowledges and ways of knowing toward a more collaborative and sustainable historical knowledge.

16h15  |  Conversation with Ewa Domanska (Adam Mickiewicz University / Stanford University) conducted by José Neves (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)

Ewa Domanska has developed an important work of questioning the possibilities and limits of the discipline of History. In that work, the relationship between History, on the one hand, and Archaeology and Anthropology, on the other, has been emphasised, as well as the reflection on ecological issues. Dialoguing closely with authors such as Hayden White, with whom she has worked, but also with the Polish critical tradition, Domanska is a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and at Stanford University. On this occasion she will be interviewed by José Neves, professor of the History Department at NOVA FCSH and researcher at IHC / IN2PAST.