The Tagore Program on Literature, Culture and Philosophy at UC Berkeley invites you for the 3rd Tagore Visiting Scholar Lecture by literary and cultural theorist and the Tagore Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley for Spring 2024, Ranjan Ghosh.
Event moderated by Rahul Parson. Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at University of California, Berkeley
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DATE: Friday, April 26, 2024
TIME: 9 am Berkeley | 9:30 pm Kolkata (+1 day) | Calculate Your Local Time
This event will also be live streamed on the Institute’s FB page: ISASatUCBerkeley
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SPEAKER BIO
Dr. Ghosh is an Indian academic and thinker who teaches at the Department of English, University of North Bengal, India. His wide-ranging scholarly work spans across the fields of comparative literature, comparative philosophy, philosophy of education, environmental humanities, critical and cultural theory, and Intellectual history. His many books include Thinking Literature across Continents (Duke University Press, 2016, with J Hillis Miller), Philosophy and Poetry: Continental Perspectives ed. (Columbia University Press, 2019), Plastic Tagore (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and the trilogy that he is completing to establish the discipline of plastic humanities: The Plastic Turn (Cornell University Press, 2022), Plastic Figures (Cornell University Press, 2024, forthcoming) and Plastic Literature (forthcoming).
He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.
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Launched in Fall 2019, and housed in the Institute for South Asia Studies, the Tagore Program on Literature, Culture and Philosophy at UC Berkeley, is the first of its kind in the US. Designed to showcase the life and legacy of Rabindranath Tagore, the program sponsors talks and workshops on Tagore, as well as semester-long visiting professorships in Tagore Studies at UC Berkeley. Read more about the program HERE.
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
