Event Details
Date/Time July 17, 2026 | 14.30 – 16.00 | Online
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What if the climate crisis is not merely about rising temperatures, but about forgotten histories of colonial violence, extraction, and ecological erasure?
This masterclass addresses this significant question through Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse and Ghost-Eye. While these texts serve as important points of departure, the discussions move beyond literary analysis to re-engage with the theoretical interventions of Dipesh Chakrabarty, Donna Haraway, Jane Bennett, and Rob Nixon to rethink the climate crisis, non-human agency, slow violence, and planetary justice.
The session explores how landscapes, oceans, material objects, and even food become living archives that preserve memories of dispossession, ecological transformation, and the uneven histories of the Global South. The class will particularly benefit students and scholars interested in literary studies, environmental humanities, cultural studies, and postcolonial ecocriticism by helping them develop interdisciplinary perspectives on ecology, colonial history, and contemporary climate discourse through critically engaged theoretical frameworks.
Bio
Dr Ananya Roy Pratihar is an academic researcher specializing in literature and the Environmental Humanities, and serves as a faculty member at the Institute of Management and Information Science. She is the co-editor of Technology, Urban Space, and Network Community. She has also co-edited Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic and Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism for the Bloomsbury Schizoanalytic Applications series. In addition, she has taught seminar courses at the University of Oldenburg and the University of Göttingen, contributing to interdisciplinary discussions on literature, culture, and decolonial planetarity.
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