Join Lady Eaton College, LEC Cabinet, and our special guest, Subhankar Banerjee (the 45th Ashley Fellow) for a family-style Fall College Dinner where students, staff, and faculty will have an opportunity to socialize, enjoy a family-style meal together, and celebrate the Ashley Fellow.
Tuesday, October 8th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm in the Lady Eaton College Dining Hall.
This event is free for students from all colleges. Click here to register.
The Ashley Fellowship is administered by the Colleges at Trent University and is awarded to a visiting scholar each year. Subhankar Banerjee is a photographer, writer, curator, and conservationist. He is a professor of Art & Ecology and founding director of the Center for Environmental Arts & Humanities at the University of New Mexico.
Since 2002, he has been working closely with Indigenous Gwich’in and Iñupiat elders, and scientists and conservationists in Alaska. His first book and the companion exhibition Seasons of Life and Land: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge contributed significantly to the campaign to protect the internationally significant wildlife nursery and a place important to Indigenous peoples from oil and gas development.
Subhankar most recently served as the director and cocurator (with Dr. Jennifer Garcia Peacock) of “a Library, a Classroom, and the World,” an award-winning project for the 2022 Venice Biennale art exhibition Personal Structures organized by the European Cultural Centre in Venice, Italy. His photographs have been exhibited widely, including the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Princeton University Art Museum, Nottingham Contemporary, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Subhankar is currently working on four books on biodiversity: Shorebirds in Modern Times; Coexistence: Biodiversity in New Mexico (editor); a book on Sundarban, the largest mangrove forest on earth, and a book on the global history of biodiversity and justice (cowriting with Finis Dunaway).
Renowned for its commitment to both the arts and social justice across its academic departments and collegiate environment, the LEC community eagerly anticipates welcoming Subhankar, who will reside within the college throughout his stay. Trent students and fellows will have the chance to engage with Subhankar and his work through workshops, guest lectures, and appearances at LEC Events. His visit will conclude with an Ashley Fellow College Dinner and a Public Talk, open to students, staff, alumni, and community members.
"We are honoured to welcome Subhankar to LEC as this year's Ashley Fellow" says Dr. Christine Freeman-Roth, Principal, Lady Eaton College. "Subhankar perfectly represents both the ideals of the Ashley Fellowship, and those of Lady Eaton through his lived experiences and unique perspective through a lens of both art and ecology."