Warfare for empire and territorial domination over the past two centuries has caused severe harm to human populations and the ecosystems that sustain them. A demilitarized future is necessary for collective planetary well-being, with warfare linked to broader human attempts to dominate and control nature. Sunil Amrith holds the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professorship of History at Yale, has a secondary appointment at the Yale School of the Environment, and directs the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Research focuses on movements of people and ecological processes connecting South and Southeast Asia and global environmental history. Event details may change and should be confirmed; public library events are free.
Professor Sunil Amrith (Yale University, author of The Burning Earth) has written that over the last 200 years, warfare for empire or other territorial domination has been disastrous for people and the environment that sustains them. Amrith suggests that a demilitarized future is necessary for our collective well being on the planet, and that warfare is related to the greater problem of humans attempting to control nature.
Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, with a secondary appointment as Professor at the Yale School of the Environment. He is the current Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. Amrith's research focuses on the movements of people and the ecological processes that have connected South and Southeast Asia, and has expanded to encompass global environmental history.
He has published in the fields of environmental history, the history of migration, and the history of public health. Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur. *Events at the public library are free. Categories: Nature, Online Address: San Francisco, CA
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