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I have been invited as Visiting Tagore scholar to the Institute of South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. As Tagore Professor 2024, I shall lead the Tagore Program’s third Spring Institute with a series of classes and, finally, deliver the Distinguished Tagore Lecture 2024 on April 26th. I shall be the third Visiting Tagore Professor at the Tagore Spring Institute, UC Berkeley, after Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri and Ashis Nandy.
I have been elected as Member in Class I of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, or European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Based in Salzburg, Austria, the Academy aims to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration between leading scientists, practitioners of governance, and artists, all with the goal of analyzing societal challenges and solving complex issues. Election to the Academy is a rare and prestigious honor – there are only 2,000 members in total, and its ranks of elected and honorary members include 35 Nobel Prize winners and numerous former heads of state.
I am the first Indian to be elected as Member in the Class I and the fifth Indian in the history of this eminent Academy.
I am the first Indian to be elected as Member in the Class I and the fifth Indian in the history of this eminent Academy.
I shall guest edit two major special numbers:
- “Turn to Plastic: Thinking Humanities Today”, University of Toronto Quarterly, February 2025, forthcoming, University of Toronto Press, 80,000 words.
- “Random”, Philosophy, Politics, and Critique, 2024, forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press, 72,000 words.
My new book The Plastic Turn has just come out from Cornell University Press. I was asked to share my thoughts about what brought this book about. Please see this if you are interested: https://www. cornellpress.cornell.edu/ ghosh-2022-11/
The next book of my plastic trilogy — Plastic Figures — has been contracted by Cornell University Press
Cornell University Press introduces Guest Lecturers in Art where you are welcome to invite a Cornell Press Author to speak to your Class: please see the link — Art
My book Plastic Tagore has been contracted by Oxford University Press.
My recent work on plastic/ plastic theory/ plastic humanities have come out in the following journals/sites:
- ‘Plastic History’ Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, Vol. 49, Number 3, Summer 2022, 233-262.
- The Plastic Turn’ Diacritics, Volume 49, Number 1, 2021, 64-85 (Johns Hopkins University Press)
- ‘Plastic Controversy’ Critical Inquiry, In the Moment, February, 2021
- ‘Desiring-Material: Plastic-Art and Affect-ability’, the minnesota review issue 97, 2021, 53-76 (Duke University Press)
- ‘Plastic Pedagogy’ in Flashpoint Epistemology ed. Bernadette Baker (New York, Routledge, 2022)
- Plastic Literature’, University of Toronto Quarterly, for the special issue on ‘World Poetics and Comparative Poetics’, Vol 88, no 2, Spring 2019, 277-291.
I am the co-editor (with Emelia Quinn) of the journal The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (published by Oxford University Press)
the latest volume (2022) is just out: https://academic.oup.com/ ywcct
I have guest edited a Forum on ‘Creative Critical’ for the minnesota review (December, 2022).