Amitav Ghosh: Voices on the Environment Public Lecture 

Amitav Ghosh is the internationally-recognized author of The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Nutmeg’s Curse, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and numerous, far-reaching fiction and non-fiction works that span personal identity to colonialism and climate change. Ghosh addressed this public event as part of “Voices on the Environment,” a series of events at the intersection of science, the humanities and the arts that link environmental journalism, literary writing, activist performance, and critical approaches to climate change, the environment, and language. This public lecture with an introduction from Dean of College of Arts and Sciences Professor Rosario (Rosie) Ceballo was followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with panelists, Rabih Alameddine (author, The Wrong End of the Telescope; Lannan Foundation Visiting Chair Fall 2023) and Ashanee Kottage (SFS’22, Earth Commons Post-baccalaureate Fellow).
Program co-sponsors proudly include the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, the Earth Commons, the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics, the Walsh School of Foreign Service, the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, the Department of English, and the Global and Comparative Literature Program.