Disasters in Connecticut: Past, Present, and Future

Floods and earthquakes, wars and famines, engineering failures and economic collapses — What makes an event a “disaster”? Join us as two leading scholars in the field of disaster studies, State Historian Andy Horowitz and Jacob A.C. Remes, consider these events through an engaging discussion of Connecticut disasters — past, present, and future.

Light refreshments will be served, and River Bend Bookshop will be on hand to sell copies of the speakers’ work.

Andy Horowitz is the Connecticut State Historian and an Associate Professor of History at UConn. He is the author of Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 (Harvard University Press, 2020), which won the Bancroft Prize in American history. Jacob A. C. Remes is a clinical associate professor of history at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he directs the Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies. He is the author of Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era (University of Illinois Press, 2016). Together, Remes and Horowitz edited Critical Disaster Studies (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).

Questions? Contact Natalie Belanger, Public Programs Manager, at nbelanger@connecticutmuseum.org.

TICKETS
$15 General Admission
$10 Members
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