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Title:
Shrinking the Earth: From an Age of Abundance to an Age of Limits
Speaker:
Professor Donald Worster (Professor Emeritus, The University of Kansas; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Date:
December 12, 2014
Time:
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue:
F 520, Teaching Building, Zhuhai Campus, Sun Yat-sen University
Language:
English
Donald Worster，美國當代著名歷史學家，堪薩斯大學赫爾榮譽教授，美國人文與科學院院士，環境史學的創始人與權威學者之一，劍橋大學「環境與歷史 」系列叢書主編，現為中國人民大學特聘教授，其最著名的代表作包括《自然的經濟體系:生態思想史》、《塵暴：1930年代的美國南部大平原》等。Worster於1980 年憑《塵暴》一書榮獲美國歷史學研究最高奬「班克羅福特奬」。
Centre for Historical Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
South China Research Center, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Center for Historical Geographical Studies, Sun Yat-sen University
