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It's 2022 and everybody is talking about the climate emergency, but what does it mean in a global context with plural perspectives?

Together with the Centre for New Writing and the Literary Leicester Festival, The Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies are running a dynamic virtual event. Join Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016) and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2022), and a panel of experts chaired by Clare Anderson as we engage in dialogue between the sciences and the arts in thinking about the climate emergency.

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Dr Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is a distinguished author previously shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In recent years, he has published on the climate emergency, most famously The Great Derangement and The Nutmeg’s Curse. Through these works, Ghosh explores the current climate crisis through the lens of Western colonialism and its exploitation of natural life.

At the centre of his most recent book is the nutmeg spice, a symbol of global exploitation imperial expansion into the New Word. Gosh exposes how colonial histories impact our experience of the climate emergency today, both in patterns of lived experience and the destruction of our natural environment. He provides readers with a window into the origins of global inequalities, critiquing the forces of Western society and its impact.

Professor Clare Anderson

Clare Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Leicester, and Director of the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies. Her research explores histories of colonial governance, labour extraction and oppression and their legacies in the world today.

Professor Mark Williams

Mark Williams is Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester. His research focuses on themes surrounding the anthropocene, biosphere and the evolution of life to unpack how human patterns of behaviour and consumption are impacting nature and our ecosystems in profound ways.

Professor Caroline Upton

Caroline Upton is Professor of Human Geography at The University of Leicester. Her research is concerned with exploring dynamic interactions between policy, practice and rural livelihoods in the context of debates around environmental governance, environmental justice, ecosystem services and climate change.