The Conservation of Catastrophe: An Agenda for Research

Date: 

Thursday, November 16, 2023, 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. He is a faculty affiliate of the Science, Technology & Society Program at Harvard University, a research Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University, and a Senior Fellow at Melbourne University Law School. Saptarishi holds a doctorate from Harvard University, LLMs from Harvard Law School and American University’s Washington College of Law, and a BALLB (Hons.) from the National University of Juridical Sciences, India. Saptarishi has received awards and fellowships from the Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council, the American Society for Legal History, the American Society for Environmental History, the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, and Brown University. Saptarishi’s writing has appeared in encyclopedias, edited volumes, and in legal and interdisciplinary journals. His book, All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. He tweets @saptarishi_b.

Contact: Liz Flanagan