[CEUS-earthquake-hazards] FW: Natural and Unnatural Disasters: A Symposium

[Charles Adam Langston (clangstn)]

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The Environmental Studies and Sciences Program
at Rhodes College
The Center for Earthquake Research and Information
at the University of Memphis
and
The Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities

invite you to attend



Natural and Unnatural
Disasters

A Symposium




keynote address by


Simon Winchester
Author of
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
 A Crack in the Edge of the World:
America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
and
The Professor and the Madman



Thursday, January 27th




2:00 - 2:50 PM
Beatrice Magnani
"The New Madrid Earthquakes
200 Years Later"

3:00 - 3:50 PM
Arleen Hill
"Recipes for Disaster:
Integrating the Human and Physical Characteristics
of Place"


4:00 - 5:15 PM
Lee Clarke
"Disaster Myths
and the Damage They Do"


Reception
5:15 PM


Keynote Address
6:00 PM
Simon Winchester
"Where to Turn When the World Turns Bad"

6:45 - 7:45 PM
Roundtable Discussion
Featuring Beatrice Magnani, Arleen Hill,
Lee Clarke & Simon Winchester



University Center Theatre
University of Memphis Campus


Free & Open to the Public



For more information, go to
www.memphis.edu/moch <http://www.memphis.edu/moch>

MOCH on Facebook   <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marcus-W-Orr-Center-for-the-Humanities/319838799941?ref=ts>







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