Laura Dassow Walls, University of Notre Dame
Honors College, 107 Capen Hall"The Planet at the End of the Mind: Natural History in the Anthropocene" The era now known as the Anthropocene is often said to have been ushered in circa 1784, with the invention of the steam engine--the same moment in which natural historians were first advancing a comprehensive, planetary view of nature as profoundly historical. […]