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6:30 PM, EST
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Book club | "Wasteocene: Chronicles from the Global Dump" by Marco Armiero
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Italian cultural institute of Montreal, Montreal
- Language English
- Price Free admittance - RSVP required
The book chosen for this session is "Wasteocene: Chronicles from the Global Dump" by Marco Armiero. The discussion will be held in English.
Please confirm your presence by filling the form on the Italian Cultural Institute's website.
On the Author
Marco Armierois an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for the History of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He directed for ten years the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He has conducted research at Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. He was also a Marie Curie Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. He has published for Einaudi Le montagne della patria (2013), L’era degli scarti (2021), La natura del duce (2022, with R. Biasillo and W. G. von Hardenberg), and La tragedia del Vajont: Ecologia politica di un disastro (2023). He has been the president of the European Society for Environmental History since 2019. In Italy, he serves as a research director at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the National Research Council.
The book can be obtained at the following bookstores:
The book is available for free in Italian as an e-book on the MLOL platform.
The book is also available in French as Poubellocène: chronique de l’ère des déchets, published by the Quebec’s publisher LUX Éditeur.
Its original English version is published by Cambridge University Press.
Location
1200, avenue Dr. Penfield
Montreal H3A 1A9
Kanada