Schedule — Survivology

Day 1 — Friday, 19 December 2025

Amphitheatre East 150, New Academic Block, IIM Calcutta

10-1030 — Registration
1030-11 — Welcome addresses
11-12 — Panel 1: Writing Climate Anil Menon, Gautam Bhatia, Samit Basu
Moderator: Pragyan Rath, IIM Calcutta
12 — Coffee
1215-130 — Session 1A: Amphitheatre East 150
- Arya Raja, Jamia Milia Islamia New Delhi
  Transcorporeal “Technologies” for an Eco-Ethical ‘Self:’ Beyond Climate Catastrophe in Vandana Singh's “Reunion”
- Ankit Prasad, EFLU Hyderabad
  Persistent Utopias in Vandana Singh's Climate Fiction
- Masuma Khatun, CSSS Calcutta
  Marginal Resistance: Decolonial Climate Imagination in Vandana Singh's Postcolonial Science Fiction
- Chair: Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University
1215-130 — Session 1B: Amphitheatre East 100
- Sudeshna Rana, Independent Writer and Researcher, Dhanbad
  The Coalfields in Fiction: Tracing the Textual Trail in Regional Literature
- Raju Ray and Madhumita Roy, IIEST Shibpur
  The Speculative Futures in Indian Climate Fiction: A Study of Samit Basu's The City Inside
- Debasmita Sarkar, Shri Ramasamy Memorial University, Sikkim
  The Root-Bridge Imagination: Indigenous Eco-Engineering and Speculative Survivology in P. Mario K. Kmenlang Pathaw's Tynrai (Roots)
- Chair: Doyeeta Majumder, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
130-230 — Lunch
230-315 — Keynote 1: Sami Ahmad Khan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi At the End(s) of the World(s): Global Climate Change and CBRN Warfare in Select Indian Web Series
Discussant: Arunima Chakraborty, IIMC Calcutta
315-4 — Keynote 2: Francesco Verso, Future Fiction Discussant: Dip Ghosh, Kalpabiswa, Calcutta
4 — Tea
430 — Writing masterclass with Gautam Bhatia [limited places; may spill over to next session]
Amphitheatre East 150
430-515 — Keynote 3: Suparno Banerjee, Texas State University ‘Anxieties of a Bodily Kind: Climate Change and Post-COVID Speculative Narratives from India’
Discussant: Francesco Verso
515-6 — Panel 2: Launch of The Speculative Route: Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa, eds. Merve Tabur, Sami Ahmad Khan Sami Ahmad Khan, Suparno Banerjee, Samit Basu
7 — Conference dinner for registered and invited participants

Day 2 — Saturday, 20 December 2025

Amphitheatre East 150, New Academic Block, IIM Calcutta

1015-11 — Panel 3: Climate Comix and Games Appupen, comics artist
Discussant: Nandita Roy, IIM Calcutta
11-1145 — Keynote 4: Rajat Chaudhuri, novelist 'Fevers and Forking Paths -- Pathways, Pandemics and Future Histories in The Butterfly Effect and Survive the Century.'
Discussant: Devi Vijay, IIM Calcutta
1145-12 — Coffee
12-130 — Session 2A: Amphitheatre East 150
- Devika Aji, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  Water You Doing? : Who is the Alien(s) in Gaganachari (2024)
- Dileep Kumar C T, St. Jospeh's College Devagiri, Kozhikode
  From Ruined Earth to Imagined Futures: Wayanad's Landslide, Survivology and Climate Storytelling in Gun Island
- Debalina Das, Panchla Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal
  Wading Through Bengal: Slow Violence, Coexistence and Ecological Collapse in Wade (2020) and the North Bengal Climate Crisis
- Chair: Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University
12-130 — Session 2B: Amphitheatre East 100
- Samriddhi Singh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
  Ecofeminism and Solarpunk Speculations: Toward an Ethics of Regenerative Care
- Bhuvi Sharma, Loreto College, Kolkata
  Holograms of Survival: Speculative Maternalities and Climate Anxiety in “Of Holo Ma, without Maa”
- Ranjabati Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
  The Female Body as Archive: Tracing Resilience in Literature through Feminist Survivology
- Chair: Nandita Roy, IIM Calcutta
130-230 — Lunch
Amphitheatre East 150
230-315 — Keynote 5: Rimi B. Chatterjee, novelist 'The Antisense Universe, Survivology, and Civilizational Redesign'
Discussant: Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur Univrersity
315-415 — Panel 4: কল্পবিজ্ঞান কোন পথে? [Whither Kalpavigyan?] Supriyo Das, Soham Guha, Anushtup Sett, Dip Ghosh
Moderator: Riju Ganguly
415-445 — Tea
445-615 — Screening: Kalpavigyan: A Speculative Journey (2021) 82 mins. Directed and written by Arunava Gangopadhyay and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

Day 3 — Sunday, 21 December 2025

TEQIP Building, 3rd floor, Jadavpur University

10-11 — Panel 5: অস্তিত্বের সংকট [Crisis of Existence] Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri, Debojyoti Bhattacharya,Soumya Sundar Mukhopadhyay, Saikat Mukhopadhyay
Moderator: Anindya Sengupta, Jadavpur University
11-1145 — Keynote 5: Barnita Bagchi, University of Amsterdam ‘Mobilities in Lila Majumdar’s Fantastic Works’
Discussant: Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University
1115 — Kalpabigyan Writing Workshop:
Debjyoti Bhattacharya, Soham Guha, Saikat Mukhopadhyay, Anushtup Sett and Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri
[will continue through the afternoon after Lunch]
- 1115-1125: Intro
- 1125-1150: 5 min briefing from each instructor
- 1150-0150: Story writing session
- 0150-0230: Lunch break
- 0230-0300: Evaluation
- 0300-0400: Debriefing and panel discussion
1145-12 — Coffee
12-130 — Session 3A
- Paromita Sarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  Diclofenac Vultures and Destitution: Makings of Dalit Survivology in recent Anticaste SF
- Jayjit Sarkar, Raiganj University, West Bengal
  Decolonizing Survival at the End of the world: survivance, speculative fiction, speculative relations
- Dattatraya Das, Brainware University, Kolkata
  Reconfiguring AI Infrastructures: Actor-Networks, Freshwater Ethics, and Planetary Coexistence
- Chair: Sulagna Chattopadhyay, Loreto College, Kolkata
12-130 — Session 3B
- Roopsa Upadhyaya, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
  Corporeal Purity and Climate Crisis: Gender, Violence, and the Politics of Purity in Prayaag Akbar's Leila
- Soumya Sur, IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
  Childhood Futures: Ecocritical Reading of Doraemon's Cinematic Universe
- Upasana, Dr B.R. Ambedkar University, New Delhi
  Fire in the Mountain: Reading the Affective Imaginaries of Children's Climate Fiction in India
- Chair: Nandita Roy, IIM Calcutta
12-130 — Session 3C
- Akriti Kujur, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  Reimagining the Human: Quantum Posthumanism and Climate Futures in Speculative Fiction
- Rubaiya Nasrin, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
  In the Womb of the World: Posthuman Reproduction and Ethical Survival in the Anthropocene
- Merin John, NIT Trichy, Tamil Nadu
  Divergent Visions of Multispecies Futures: Hope and Abjection in “The Songs that Humanity Lost Reluctantly to Dolphins” and “Ubhayajeeviyude Athmakadha”
- Chair: Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University
130-215 — Lunch
215 — Writing masterclass with Anil Menon
215 — Surviving zombies/CBRN warfare in India: Survival 101 workshop with Sami Ahmed Khan [limited places; may result in end of civilization as we know it]
330-415 — Repeat broadcast: 'Sobuj Manush' [Green Men] after 60 years! feat. Adrish Bardhan, Premendra Mitra, Dilip Roychowdhury, Satyajit Ray
415-430 — Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
430-530 — Quiz and cosplay; Chewbacca impersonation contest
530-6 — Valedictory