#  The Environment Forum with Ranjan Ghosh | Plastic Nature 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 23, 2024** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Thompson Room (Barker Center 110)**  



 

 



 

## 

 



##  [THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM](/environment-forum)

##  SPEAKER: Ranjan Ghosh

##  Moderated by Robin Kelsey

###  About the Event

 What kind of a negotiation and home has nature built with plastic, a material that is a travelling and transformative genius? In a neo-materialist and an interobjective presence, plastic and nature have built a deeply entangled relationship – the problematic connection between the nature of plastic with what Ranjan Ghosh calls “plastic nature”. Within the material democracy of plastic, nature has been the object of change, but hasn’t nature through its own rounds of plasticity changed the way we see nature today? Hasn’t nature changed itself and plasticized plastic in ways that are startling and unique? The subject-object position has undergone massive revision as also the philosophy of seeing a material and nature. What, then, is this plastic nature?

###  About the Speaker

 [Ranjan Ghosh ](https://ranjanghosh.in/)is known for his work on the inbetweenness of disciplines for many years now, bringing his “trans” theory (which he calls “trans(in)fusion approach”) to bear on his wide-ranging scholarly work that spans across the fields of comparative literature, comparative philosophy, the philosophy of education, environmental humanities, critical and cultural theory, and intellectual history. His books include the widely discussed *Thinking Literature across Continents* (2016, with J Hillis Miller), the duology in *Transcultural Poetics* (2017) & *Trans(in)fusion: Reflections for Critical Thinking* (2020), *Philosophy and Poetry: Continental Perspectives* (ed., 2019), *Plastic Tagore* (2024), and the trilogy that he is completing to establish the discipline of plastic humanities: *The Plastic Turn* (2022), *Plastic Figures* (2025, forthcoming) and *Plastic Humanities* (forthcoming). Ghosh is Professor at the Department of English, University of North Bengal in India. Learn more about his work at [http://www.ranjanghosh.in](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ranjanghosh.in&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=m5Jli9Lw6CFrtowmYHkEgi1CBGhoB2mGb7zYwQBAC88&m=xG3rFAbEsSitIEHTsa0FpQCZzkiJaBKNeSgrlfaKIUU3eyuiNdvrmq7mn1zuyQrC&s=ZHEMp1X2xYHZpljcYfbfMi4rNPqdJo6vXx9rR7B7kQc&e=).

 [Robin Kelsey](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/robin-kelsey) joined the Harvard faculty in 2001 and has been Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography since 2009. From 2016 to 2024, he served as Dean of Arts & Humanities, and prior to that he served as Chair of the Department of History of Art & Architecture.

###  About the Series

 [The Environment Forum](/environment-forum) is dedicated to exploring new work in the arts and humanities that reframes or reimagines the relationship of humanity to the rest of nature. The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by [Robin Kelsey](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/robin-kelsey), Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography at Harvard University.

 This event is co-sponsored by the [Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability](https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/).



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Environment Forum ](/event-series/environment-forum)
- [ Public ](/event-type/public)
 
 

 Share on:- [     Facebook ](#)
- [     Twitter ](#)
- [     Linkedin ](#)
 


 Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/node/1595006/event-feed.ics)  Copy link link