Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean, 1770-1850

Speaker/Title: Professor Debjani Bhattarcharyya, University of Zurich
Bio: Debjani Bhattacharyya holds the Chair for the History of the Anthropocene at the University of Zürich. Her work lies at the intersection of legal and environmental history. Her book, Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge University Press, 2018) won the 2019 honorable mention for the best book in Urban History. She is currently working on her second book Climate Futures Past: Law and Weather Knowledge in the Indian Ocean World. She is a non-resident fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania.