Professor Samir Gandesha
Director of the Institute of Humanities
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Samir Gandesha is an Associate Professor in the Department of the Humanities and the
Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He specializes in
modern European thought and culture, with a particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th
centuries. His work has appeared in Political Theory, New German Critique, Constellations
Logos, Kant Studien, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Topia, the European Legacy,
the European Journal of Social Theory, Art Papers, the Cambridge Companion to
Adorno and Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader as well as in several other edited books. He
is co-editor with Lars Rensmann of Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical
Investigations (Stanford, 2012). He is co-editor (with Johan Hartle) of Spell of Capital:
Reification and Spectacle(University of Amsterdam Press, 2017) and Aesthetic
Marx(Bloomsbury Press, 2017) also with Johan Hartle. He has also contributed to
openDemocracy, Canadian Dimension, the Vancouver Sun and the Globe and Mail. In the
Spring of 2017, he was the Liu Boming Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at the University of
Nanjing and Visiting Lecturer at Suzhou University of Science and Technology in China.
Dr Saswat.S.Das
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
West Bengal, India
Coordinator of the workshop