Eleanor Paynter

Hey there, Eleanor here, host of Migrations: A World on the Move. We've got another episode coming to you soon. But in the meantime, we wanted to share a brand new podcast from our colleagues in the South Asia Program here at Cornell's Einaudi Center that we think you'll want to check out if you're interested in South Asia, climate change, or stories of adaptation, creativity, and survival. Here's a sneak peek.

Various

The idea of making arts and turning into something new. We need to think about art as being about sites about the structure of a system, not just a thing that can be bought and sold. Climate change is an economic problem. It's a social problem, right? It's like a tentacular mess.

Daniel Bass

I'm Daniel Bass, manager of the South Asia program at Cornell University.

Shavin Seneviratne

And I’m Shavin Seneviratne, graduate student in architecture at Cornell and student worker at the South Asia Program. You're listening to the next month to podcast where we examine how art and culture can help us navigate the uncertain future.

Daniel Bass

We'll begin with examining how people through South Asia from the mountains of Nepal to the beaches of the Maldives, from the deserts of Pakistan to the deltas of Bangladesh, from the tea estates of Sri Lanka to the mega cities of India, our understanding, examining analyzing, presenting, and living with climate change.

Shavin Seneviratne

Our focus is not the science of climate change, but how individuals and communities are responding to a changing climate through visual arts, cinema, literature, architecture, and other cultural expressions in South Asia.

Daniel Bass

Stay tuned for new conversations and stories on The Next Monsoon.