What Is A Disaster? State Historian Andy Horowitz in Conversation with Jacob A. C. Remes
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT, United StatesFloods and earthquakes, wars and famines, engineering failures and economic collapses — these frightening events seem to define modern life. We name them “disasters.” But what makes a disaster different from other periods of time? In a freewheeling conversation, two leading scholars in the field of disaster studies will consider events in Connecticut history and […]