2025 Humanities Symposium: Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor
Keynote Address
by Amitav Ghosh
Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.
McGuire Hall
In The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction, acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh explores the climate crisis through multiple disciplinary lenses. In three short chapters: Stories, History, and Politics, which also address art, colonialism, and Laudato Si among other topics, Ghosh interweaves reflections on how we are constrained by our current modes of thinking and how we might find a way forward.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria. Amitav Ghosh’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and he has served on the juries of the Locarno and Venice film festivals. The Great Derangement was given the inaugural Utah Award for the Environmental Humanities in 2018. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times. Amitav Ghosh holds four Lifetime Achievement awards and five honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest honors, by the President of India. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood, of a Dan David prize, and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal. In 2018 the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor, was conferred on Amitav Ghosh. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. In 2019 Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade. In 2024, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. Headshot credit: Mathieu Genon.
This event will be captioned. If you require additional accommodations, please contact Disability and Accessibility Services at das@loyola.edu.
Faculty Teaching Seminar
Faculty members are invited to attend this year's Humanities Symposium Fall Teaching seminar on Wednesday February 5 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM in College Center Conference Room 105. This seminar will provide information about the Humanities Student-Faculty Colloquia and will also offer suggestions and resources for teaching this year's text.
Faculty from three different departments will share ideas about how to incorporate this text into your spring courses. Further details to follow.
Daniel Deudney - Modern Masters Reading Series
6:30 Thursday February 13th
McGuire
Daniel H. Deudney teaches political science, international relations and political theory at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a BA in political science and philosophy from Yale University, a MPA in science, technology, and public policy from George Washington University, and a PhD in political science from Princeton University. His areas of research are general international relations theory, international political theory and republicanism, and contemporary global issues (nuclear, outer space, environment, and energy). His publications include Renewable Energy (Norton, 1983), co-author; and Contested Grounds: Conflict and Security in the New Global Environmental Politics (SUNY, 1998), co-editor.
Student-Faculty Colloquia
Wednesday, March 12 and Thursday, March 13, 2025
McManus Theatre
Faculty from all disciplines are invited to bring their classes to our student-faculty
colloquia March 12 and March 13.
For more information about the 2025 Humanities Symposium events, please email Billy
Friebele, associate professor of Visual and Performing Arts, at wefriebele@loyola.edu.
Event Information
Theme: Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor
Keynote Address:
Thursday, March 13, 2025
McGuire Hall
6:30 p.m.
Text: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
Questions? Please contact Billy Friebele, Associate professor, Visual and Performing Arts
wefriebele@loyola.edu