The Nutmeg’s Curse and The Dawn of Everything: a discussion with Amitav Ghosh and David Wengrow

W. H. Auden argued that ‘poetry makes nothing happen’ but our shared stories about the past certainly frame what we think is politically possible in important ways. Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement (2016) challenged writers of modern fiction for their uninterest in group life and environments, a lack of interest which makes the Anthropocene unthinkable. The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021) opens out the fruit of the nutmeg tree to produce a more-than-human history of imperial and corporate entanglements which provide a set of instructive ‘parables for a world in crisis’. Here he will respond to The Dawn of Everything as another exercise in using writing to try to make something happen, to which David Wengrow will reply.

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• Film screening: 'RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World'

Film screening and discussion with director Catherine Bainbridge accompanied by David Wengrow, Clive Nwonka and Maria Chiara D’Argenio.
16 June 2022, 10am-1pm

• HYBRID - Political futures from the deep past: thinking through the Dawn of Everything

Panel discussion with Sonya Atalay, Luiz Costa, Paul Gilroy, Benedetta Rossi, and David Wengrow, chaired by Alpa Shah.
15 June 2022, 6pm-7:30pm

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