Amitav Ghosh © Mathieu Génon - Indian author Amitav Ghosh's bestsellers open up a new view of the world by linking colonial history(s) with current issues of migration, global inequality and the worldwide climate crisis. The Institute for Social Anthropology invites the award-winning intellectual to this year's "Anthropology Talks" in Bern. In a public reading at the Stadttheater Bern, Ghosh will enter into conversation with research, culture and civil society. Amitav Ghosh grew up in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka and received his doctorate in social anthropology from Oxford. Since the 1980s, Ghosh has literarily explored the colonial history of his native Bengal, the partition of India, Indian Ocean trade, and the colonial history of Asia. His novels and nonfiction have won numerous international awards. Important voice of ecological change.
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