Free Public Talk by Amitav Ghosh
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Ira Allen Chapel UVM
The Energy Action Seminar Series and the Zeltzerman Lecture Series are pleased to welcome author and climate activist Amitav Ghosh for a public lecture on his latest book of non-fiction, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Ghosh will be speaking on Wednesday, March 8 at 5pm in the Ira Allen Chapel. Q&A and book-signing to follow, with support from Phoenix Books. Funding provided by the Sustainable Campus Fund, the Honors College, the Humanities Center, and the Department of English.
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 Calcutta 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 Derangement; Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction, appeared in 2016. Gun Island, was released in September 2019. Ghosh's first-ever book in verse, Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban, was published February 2021. His latest book, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, was released in October 2021. Learn more about the author on his website: https://authorsunbound.com/amitav-ghosh/