On 9/6 at 6:30 pm at RJ JULIA in Madison, CT I’ll be in conversation with Christina Gerhardt about her new book SEA CHANGE: AN ATLAS OF ISLANDS IN A RISING OCEAN, which examines islands and how physical landscapes and cultures adapt to the current and projected effects of sea-level rise.

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About Christina:
Christina Gerhardt is an associate professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. and former fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. Before that, she worked as a Barron Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. She is a senior fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, where she previously taught. Professor Gerhardt has been awarded fellowships by various institutions and commissions, including the Fulbright Commission, the DAAD, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library, and the Rachel Carson Center. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the Free University Berlin, and Columbia University.