Events

A talk by Debjani Bhattacharyya

“The Double Commodification of Monsoon: Risk and Cyclone Science”

Moderated by Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (History and Public Health)

Time:  4:15pm – 5:45pm (followed by a reception)

Location:  Room 208 Knox Hall, 606 West 122nd Street, between Broadway and Claremont

Debjani Bhattacharyya holds the Chair for the History of the Anthropocene at the University of Zurich, where she directs the Digital History Lab. She is the author of Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is a non-resident fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania since 2019. Currently she is writing a long history of how marine insurance market’s risk apprehensions shaped weather knowledge and a derivatives market in climate futures in the Indian Ocean Region.