University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Amitav Ghosh, “Future or Past? Climate Change as seen from the Global North and South”

October 30, 2020

Amitav Ghosh, “Future or Past? Climate Change as seen from the Global North and South”

Friday October 30, 2020 | 3.00-4.00 pm | Zoom link (no registration required)

In the West, no matter whether in economics, science or indeed, fiction, climate change is almost always imagined in relation to the future.  In the global south the imagining of climate change is markedly different. This talk will examine some of the differences between the two perspectives.

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of ReasonThe Shadow LinesIn An Antique LandDancing in CambodiaThe Calcutta ChromosomeThe Glass PalaceThe Hungry Tide, and the three volumes of The Ibis Trilogy; Sea of PoppiesRiver of Smoke and Flood of Fire.The Circle of Reason was awarded France’s Prix Médicis in 1990, and The Shadow Lines won two prestigious Indian prizes the same year, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke award for 1997 and The Glass Palace won the International e-Book Award at the Frankfurt book fair in 2001. In January 2005 The Hungry Tide was awarded the Crossword Book Prize, a major Indian award. His novel, Sea of Poppies (2008) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2008 and was awarded the Crossword Book Prize and the India Plaza Golden Quill Award.

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