| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, April 21, 2023 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, The event is taking place in room 208N, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place. |
THE B. N. PANDEY MEMORIAL LECTURE IN THE HISTORY OF INDIA
This event is a keynote presentation as part of the Centre for South Asian Studies Graduate Symposium 2023 and is open to public.
Keynote speaker:
Professor Nayanika Mathur (Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
Abstract:
This talk weaves together beastly tales of big cats that make prey of humans in India to ask what they may be telling us about a planet in crisis. There are many theories on why and how a big cat comes to prey on humans, with the ecological collapse emerging as a central explanatory factor. Yet, uncertainty over the precise cause of crookedness persists. This talk explores the many lived complexities that arise from this absence of certain knowledge to offer new insights into both the governance of nonhuman animals and their intimate entanglements with humans. It deploys ethnographic storytelling to explain the Anthropocene in three critical ways: as method, as a way of reframing human-nonhuman relations on the planet, and as a political tool indicating the urgency of academic engagement with the climate crisis.
Image credit: Nayan Khanolkar
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