The Centre organizes a weekly Environmental Humanities reading group, and so in the spirit of collective capacity building; capacity that we will eventually leverage in terms of varied research and teaching engagements. This reading group is open to all, including, indeed especially, to those who are currently at the beginning of their research/writing-careers. For those of you who aren't involved in any research yet, you may conceive of the Centre as an avenue and opportunity for you to gradually build your knowledge and skills, and to become engaged in research projects.
Reading group is conducted every Friday from 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm at RTC Tea house.
Following are the list of books that has been discussed every Friday:
| Date | Titles | Lead Discussant |
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August 20, 2021 |
1) Opperman and Lovino’s ‘Introduction: The Environmental Humanities and the Challenges of the Anthropocene’ (up to page 13), and 2) Van Dooren and Bird-Rose’s ‘Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds. |
Dr. Jelle JP Wouters Mr. Roderick Wijunamai |
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August 27, 2021 |
Karma Ura’s ‘Deities and Environment’ and Elizabeth Allison’s ‘Deity Citadels: Sacred Sites of Bio-Cultural Resistance and Resilience Bhutan |
Mr. Kinley Dorji Dr. Jelle JP Wouters |
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September 10, 2021 |
Radhika Govindrajan’s Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in the India’s Central Himalayas. Topics discussed are: - Introduction - Chapter 2: The Goat Who Died for Family: Sacrificial Ethics and Kinship -Chapter 5: Outsider Monkey, Insider Monkey: On the Politics of Exclusion |
Ms. Kinley Dolma Dorji |
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September 24, 2021 |
Merlin Sheldrake’s celebrated Entangled Life. How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change our Minds & Shape Our Futures. -Chapter: 1, 2, 3 & 4. |
Ms. Bijayata Rai |
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October 1, 2021 |
Merlin Sheldrake’s celebrated Entangled Life. How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change our Minds & Shape Our Futures. -chapters 5 till 8 + epilogue |
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October 22, 2021 |
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction Thom van Dooren's. |
Mr. Roderick Wijunamai |