Urban and Community Studies

Panelists: Evelyn M. Simien is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Historic Firsts: How Symbolic Empowerment Changes U.S. Politics (Oxford University Press, 2016), and the editor of Historic Firsts in U.S. Elections: Trailblazing Candidates in Gubernatorial, Congressional, and Mayoral Campaigns (Routledge, 2022).

Manisha Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press, 2017) and The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 (Liveright, 2024).

Chris Vials is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the author of Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight Against Fascism in the United States (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014). He also has co-edited The Antifascism Reader (Verso Books, 2020).

Moderated by Catherine Shen, host of Connecticut Public’s morning talk show and podcast, Where We Live.

10:00 AM Welcome and Introduction

• Pamir Alpay, UConn, Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

10:05 AM Legislative Award

• A representative from the office of US Senator Chris Murphy

10:20 AM CT DEEP Address

• Commissioner Katie Dykes, Connecticut’s Department of Energy & Environmental Protection

10:45 AM CIRCA Introduction

• Jim O’Donnell, UConn CIRCA, Executive Director

11:00 AM Panel

• An hour-long panel with legislators from across Connecticut to discuss the role of the state in mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change. Panelists include:
• Senator Christine Cohen
• Senator Tony Hwang
• Senator Cathy Osten
• State Representative Irene Haines
• State Representative Aundre Bumgardner

12:00 PM Networking Session

View posters on recent research. Refreshments will be served.

University of Connecticut

Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment

Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 4:00pm (EST)

John Vaillant

Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-nominated author of

Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World

“Fire and Oil: Coming to Terms with a More Flammable World”

Please join us for an in-person Teale lecture, on Thursday, October 10 at 4:00pm in the Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center for Human Rights on the UConn Storrs campus.

John Vaillant is an author and freelance writer based in Vancouver, BC whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Guardian, among others. His journalism, fiction, and non-fiction explore collisions between human ambition and the natural world. His latest book is the 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in General Nonfiction, Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Knopf, 2023), a stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind.

One of his earlier books, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Knopf, 2010), won the B.C. Achievement Award for Non-Fiction and was lauded as a “masterpiece” by OutsideMagazine: “What elevates The Tiger from adventure yarn to nonfiction classic is Vaillant’s mastery of language.”

Although the talk will be in-person, it is also available to watch (live) on Kaltura. The live stream link is on the Teale Series web page: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/

This event is free and open to the public. If you need accommodation to access or participate, please contact CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu

• 10/10/24 - Fire and Oil: Coming to Terms with a More Flammable World
  • This is an Honors Event. See tags below for category information. #UHLevent10933

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