History changing history,ing and, most recently, the topic of todays talk, the culture of calamity. Todays talk, inventing disaster. I hope you will join me in a warm welcome. Prof. Kierner in 2012, Superstorm Sandy pummeled new york city and the jersey shore. I found that storm fascinating because it destroyed places i cared a lot about. That is my childhood roller coaster. It was not in the ocean when i rode on it. So i found stories about this storm really riveting, especially the Human Interest stories about its victims, survivors, about different efforts to provide postDisaster Relief, the ways in which the whole situation became politicized, in part because it happened so soon before a president ial election. I also found interesting what all these stories told us about the larger worlds of new york and new jersey larger worlds of new york and new jersey in 2012. Read andmportant, as i watched the news, i noticed that it followed a pattern that was familiar to me from katrina and
12 30 p. M. Welcome. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. We will present this room and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us leadheaded thinkers turned into scholars and teachers. The process works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little bit because she came to yale to study with Harold Lamarr a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that ragtag group in american studies. [applause] not a cohort exactly. We did become friends, puzzling throughdings, yawning brilliant, but sometimes excruciating seminars. Western history, some of you may know, was taught in the basement. And on frid
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