On October 3rd, 2023, Prof. Christina Gerhardt from the University of Hawai’i will join us to talk about her new book Sea Change:

Sea Change weaves together cartography and geography, art, short texts and poetry to share the histories and cultures of islands, centering the voices of islanders, predominantly but not exclusively of Black Caribbean and Indigenous Pacific islanders. Sea Change tells of the impacts of sea level rise and of the solutions, both soft engineering and hard engineering, being put forward to address them. Sea Change aims to bring greater attention to islands, to islanders and to the impacts of and solutions to sea level rise.

Prof. Gerhardt is an environmental journalist and academic, founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, and former Barron Professor of Environmental Humanities at Princeton. She is a permanent Senior Fellow at UC-Berkeley where she taught previously. Her environmental journalism has been published by The Guardian, Grist, The Nation, Orion and Sierra, among other outlets, and she has been interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered, 1A and Morning Edition.

The talk, with a Q&A featuring Prof. C. Patrick Heidkamp (Southern CT University), will take place in Gant 020 at 2pm. The event is sponsored by the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium and by German Studies.

For those joining us online, please follow this link:

https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m99bc63ef4225322d1e4d8a7431139408