Featuring The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable with Amitav Ghosh
Are we deranged? The acclai med Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well th ink so. The extreme nature of today’s climate events\, Ghosh asserts\, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of the writing of history\, where the climate cr isis has sometimes led to gross simplifications.
Join Ghosh for an ex amination of our inability—at the level of literature\, history\, and polit ics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
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 Reason\, The Shadow Lines \, In An Antique Land\, Dancing in Cambodia\, The Cal cutta Chromosome\, The Glass Palace\, The Hungry Tide\, and The Ibis Trilogy\, consisting of Sea of Poppies\, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire. The Great Derangem ent\; Climate Change and the Unthinkable\, a work of non-fiction\, app eared in 2016. His most recent novel is Gun Island\, was released in September 2019.
He holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri\, one of India's highest honours\, by the President of India. In 2010 he was a joint winner \, along with Margaret Atwood\, of a Dan David prize\, and 2011 he was awar ded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal. In 2018 the Jnanpith Award\, India’s highest literary honour\, was conferred on Amitav Ghosh. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. In 2 019 Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thin kers of the preceding decade.
Co-Moderators
As Academic Director\, Tara Ivan
ochko works in partnership with the Senior Director to provide vis
ion\, guidance\, and oversight to the UBC Sustainability Initiative. Tara r
eceived her PhD from the University of Edinburgh where she reconstructed ch
anges in the intensity of the Indian Monsoon over the last 100\,000 years a
nd investigated the interconnections between equatorial and polar climate c
hange.
Tara joined UBC’s Department of Earth\, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) as faculty in the Educational Leadership steam in 2009. In EOAS\, Tara has since served as the Director of Environmental Science and a s Associate Head Undergraduate Affairs. Tara has also engaged as a Sustaina bility Fellow with the USI to forward sustainability education at UBC\, as a steering committee member for the UBC Centre for Sustainable Food Systems \, and as a member of the UBC Interdisciplinary Education Task Force. She h elped envision the UBC 20-year Sustainability Strategy and develop the Facu lty of Science sustainability course offerings.
As an educator\, Tara builds relationships between students and community organizations through collaborative research projects. These projects allow environmental science students to actively contribute to building sustainable communities.
Presented in partnership with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions\ , Centre for Community Engag ed Learning\, and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.
Pa rt of UBC Reads Sustainability and the UBC Climate Justice Webina r Series.
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