Centre for World Environmental History

12/04/2025

“The Adivasis of eastern India and the global planetary health crisis” by Prof Vinita Damodaran in The Lancet is a powerful call to center Indigenous voices in the fight for climate and health justice.

🔗 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00570-7/abstract

As historians we rarely predict the future since we are trained to look at the past, draw lessons from it, and identify turning points in history. The Industrial Revolution, beginning around 1800, was such a turning point with its enormous resource needs, as was the period after 1945 with the rush t...

04/04/2025

Will TB ever end? On , we join hands with Ekta Niketan TB Centre to discuss the harsh reality of TB in India. Despite bold claims & new programs, anti-TB drugs remain scarce, and patients continue to suffer. Urgent action is needed!

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04/04/2025

Kalimpong: A history of espionage & intrigue between India and China.
Read this fascinating piece by Prem Poddar, Senior Associate at the Centre for World Environmental History.

https://scroll.in/article/1080836

Prem Poddar and Lisa Lindkvist Zhang’s ‘Through the India–China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas’ examines the historical role of the town.

21/03/2025

A four-day natural dye & tie-dye workshop is underway at Sundarban Bijoynagar Disha, West Bengal. In collaboration with CWEH and Botanical Survey of India, it explores dye extraction from indigenous plants, focusing on mangrove species.

06/03/2025

Join the walkthrough of Science, Humanism & the Making of Modern India—an exhibition unearthing hidden colonial-era networks & indigenous narratives.

In January 2023, the University of Sussex, in collaboration with the Botanical Survey of India and the John Innes Centre, launched an exhibition in the Industrial Section of the Indian Museum in Kolkata, titled "Science, Humanism and the Making of Modern India", curated by Michael Rayner and Vinita....

07/02/2025

Join us at the University of Sussex on June 26-27, 2025, for a workshop marking the 30th anniversary of Richard Grove’s Green Imperialism (1995). A key dialogue between environmental historians & climate researchers! Stay tuned for registration updates (in-person & online)

07/09/2024

All-day event by the Centre for World Environmental History
Date: September 16, 2024
Time: 10 AM to 5 PM
The event consists of two main parts:

Exhibition: "Iconography of climate change: children's painting from Bengal Delta"

This is part of the mangrove school projected runs throughout the day

Seminar: "The earth is full of spirits as a tree is full of leaves: environmental values and oral narratives of indigenous communities in India"

Time: 3 PM to 5 PM, Arts A, Room Number A108
Speakers for the seminar include:

Dr. Anindita Saha
Dr. Amarjeet Gurumayum
Dr. Alex Aisher
Zuky Sherper
Dr. Saumya Ranjan Nath

23/05/2024

Some snippets from 'CWEH Mangrove School project - Batik Art workshop' at Bali Island, West Bengal. About 30 students participated along with visitors from Sunderbans Tiger Widow Welfare Society.

14/05/2024

The Centre for World Environmental History is organising Batik Artwork Workshop from 18th May to 24th May, 2024 at Bali Island, West Bengal, India.

12/03/2024

Please join us for CWEH Seminar: Caste, Politics and History in Contemporary India this Wednesday 13th March, 2024
For more info click the link

Centre for World Environmental History research seminar

11/03/2024

Join us on our upcoming workshop on "Nature as Curriculum: Education and the Earth System in the Anthropocene"
Tuesday 19 March 11:00 until 17:30
Room number : Fulton 208
For more info:

This Centre for World Environmental History workshop addresses challenges for education in the Anthropocene in uncertain times

24/01/2024

Thousands of villagers in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are fighting a proposal to expand a port owned by billionaire Gautam Adani, one of the world's richest men. Environmentalist Meera Shah claims it could also "destroy" Pulicat lake, the second-largest saltwater lake in India.

Locals in 100 villages of Tamil Nadu state are fighting the expansion of a port owned by Gautam Adani.