Our Times are Crisis: COVID, Climate & Disaster Solutions

Katherine E. Browne, Laurian Farrell and Scott G. Knowles

Our Times are Crisis: COVID, Climate & Disaster Solutions

Katherine E. Browne, Laurian Farrell and Scott G. Knowles

7:30pm

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Authors and experts in candid, live conversation reflect on the topics that matter most during this unprecedented time. Join us for a panel discussion that looks forward, asking questions many of us have had while facing a global pandemic and ever-increasing climate change concerns. When crisis becomes our everyday, what does our future look like? Published panelists Katherine E. Browne, Laurian Farrell and moderator Scott G. Knowles will explore how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity to compare with current social adaptation in the context of disaster recovery, risk reduction and human resilience.

Tune in each day of the Festival to hear new speakers in critical conversation about the topics shaping today’s world.

The audio from this event will be available later on the CovidCalls podcast, hosted by the conversation’s moderator, Scott G. Knowles.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

Proudly supported by
Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett
Andrew and Valerie Pringle

This event has undergone a participant change. Please be advised that Susanna Hoffman, originally scheduled for this event, can no longer appear. The event will proceed, with apologies for any inconvenience caused by this change.

Panel Discussion

Authors and experts in candid, live conversation reflect on the topics that matter most during this unprecedented time. Join us for a panel discussion that looks forward, asking questions many of us have had while facing a global pandemic and ever-increasing climate change concerns. When crisis becomes our everyday, what does our future look like? Published panelists Katherine E. Browne, Laurian Farrell and moderator Scott G. Knowles will explore how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity to compare with current social adaptation in the context of disaster recovery, risk reduction and human resilience.

Tune in each day of the Festival to hear new speakers in critical conversation about the topics shaping today’s world.

The audio from this event will be available later on the CovidCalls podcast, hosted by the conversation’s moderator, Scott G. Knowles.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

Proudly supported by
Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett
Andrew and Valerie Pringle

This event has undergone a participant change. Please be advised that Susanna Hoffman, originally scheduled for this event, can no longer appear. The event will proceed, with apologies for any inconvenience caused by this change.

Panel Discussion

Featured Authors

Katherine E. Browne
Katherine E. Browne, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Colorado State University. Her work as a disaster anthropologist began in the aftermath of Katrina in St. Bernard Parish, where she followed the lurching recovery of a large African American family. That work led first to the documentary film Still Waiting: Life After Katrina broadcast on PBS stations in the US and Canada. After six more years of research, she wrote Standing in the Need: Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home After Katrina, the story of the long-term effects of the recovery machine on this same African American family.

Read more about Katherine E. Browne

Laurian Farrell
Laurian Farrell has worked in the private, public and philanthropic sectors for 20 years, focusing on resilient city building, environment and flood risk management challenges. She has applied her training in water resources engineering and landscape architecture to programs in Canada, where she is from, and more recently to 100 Resilient Cities in New York before joining the Global Resilience Network. Here, she works alongside Chief Resilience Officers and global colleagues to advance innovative and impactful solutions that realize the vision of equitable and resilient cities.

Read more about Laurian Farrell

Scott G. Knowles
Scott Gabriel Knowles is a Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is a historian of disaster worldwide. Knowles is the author/editor of six books—including The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America; Legacies of Fukushima: 3.11 in Perspective, co-edited with Kyle Cleveland and Ryuma Shineha; Worlds Fairs in the Era of the Cold War, co-edited with Art Molella; The Second Environmental Crisis, co-edited with James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf; Building Drexel: A University and Its City, 1891-2016, co-edited with Richardson Dilworth; and Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City.   

Read more about Scott G. Knowles

7:30pm

Sunday, October 31

What to read

Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice by , Standing in the Need: Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home after Katrina by ,
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