What does the "Enlightenment" hold for us today?  Can certain radical and detoured "enlightenments" be useful in addressing the conjoined ecological and economic problems of our time?
 
    Join Humanities Council Short-Term Fellow Professor Monique Allewaert, author of Ariel’s Ecology: Personhood and Colonialism in the     American Tro pics, 1760-1820, for a lunch-workshop on these questions and more.
  
    Required Readings Attached:

    Michel Foucault, "What is Enlightenment?"
    Monique Allewaert, "Insect Poetics," pp. 299-303 ad 321-326)
    Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Thesis #3" from "The Climate of History: Four Thesis"

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