Event

Join Shannon Mattern (Penn, Cinema & Media Studies) and Billy Fleming (Penn, Design), and Christina Gerhardt (Environmental Humanities, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) author of Sea Change for a conversation about sea level rise, its impacts and solutions to them, engaging city planning, landscape design, urban data, mediated infrastructures, environmental journalism, poetry and art.

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.
Book will be available for purchase by courtesy of Making Worlds Bookstore.

Christina Gerhardt is an environmental journalist and academic, founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; former Barron Professor of Environmental Humanities at Princeton; and 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. She's been interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered, 1A and Morning Edition, among other venues.