POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2026. Book Talk: The Burning Earth

This event has been postponed until spring 2026

Sunil Amrith’s book The Burning Earth is an environmental history of the modern world that foregrounds the experiences of the Global South. It was named a 2024 “essential read” by The New Yorker, a 2024 “book we love” by NPR, and was a finalist for the 2025 PEN/E. O. Wilson prize.

Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University with a secondary appointment at the Yale School of the Environment. He is the Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and also serves as Yale’s Vice Provost for International Affairs. 

Amrith’s research focuses on the movements of people and the ecological processes that have connected South and Southeast Asia and has expanded to encompass global environmental history. He is the recipient of the 2025 Toynbee Prize in Global History, the 2024 Fukuoka Academic Prize, the 2022 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History, a “scientific breakthrough of the year” award from the Falling Walls Foundation in 2022, a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship, and the 2016 Infosys Prize in Humanities. In 2024, Amrith was elected an International Fellow of the British Academy.