"Habitats, Humanity and Apocalypse": Keynote Lectur e by Amitav Ghosh

About this event

University Event Topic: Arts,Humanities,Lectures & Meeting s,Science,Special Event,Sustainability

School: Emory College

De partment / Organization: Center for Ethics,Creative Writing,English De partment,Environmental Sciences,Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry,His tory Department,Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies,Program in Crea tive Writing

Building/Room: Performing Arts Studio

Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry

Speaker/Presenter: Amitav Ghosh

Event Open To: All (Public),All Students,Alumni,Faculty, Graduate Students

Cost: Free

Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/sdYAve9cW9

Contact Name: Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry

Contact Phone: 4047276424

Contact Email: foxcenter@emory.edu

Link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/sdYAve9cW9

Please join the Fox Center for our Habitat Keynote Lecture: "Habitats, Humanity, and Apocalypse," delivered by environmental thinker and acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh

(Ghost-Eye, Sea of Poppies, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, and The Nutmeg's Curse).

What does it mean to dwell in a rava ged world? Already in 1966, long before the ravages of the present planetary crisis had become manifest, Martin Heidegger said in an interview: ‘It is no longer upon an earth that man lives today… the uprooting of man that is now taking place is the end [of everything human…].' This talk asks whether it is indeed the case that h uman modes of habitation have ended, and if so, whether literature mig ht be able to restore the possibility of dwelling meaningfully on the planet.

Free and open to all. Doors will open at 6:30pm. A book signing will follow the lecture.

This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Creative Writing, Environmental Sciences, Hi story, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, the Emory Center for Et hics, the Emory Climate Hub, and the Global and Postcolonial Studies p rogram.