Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS and Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice,Literature and Global Arts, SIAS will be part of various conference presentations at the ‘European Geosciences Union General Assembly’ (EGU 2026). EGU is a major conference in the field of Climate and Earth Sciences, and is being held in Vienna from 3-8 May 2026.
Dr Dhara will be speaker at the talk, ‘Interpreting climate performance indices: implications for equitable and effective policy’. The piece is co-authored with Krea alum Ishitha Bagri.
Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice,Literature and Global Arts, SIAS will also be delivering a talk titled ‘When the Sea Changes, Who Decides? Performing Climate Knowledge Beyond Data’. The talk is based on a joint course conducted by Dr Ganesh and Dr Dhara at Krea, called ‘Theatre of the climate: performing a just future’.
Dr K P Sooraj from IITM, Pune will be speaking on ‘Future intensification of Northern Hemisphere Monsoons due to Declining Remote Aerosols’ for which Dr Dhara is a co-author.
These topics span climate science, climate policy, and climate education.

