Climate Futures’ Past: Insurance, Cyclones and Weather Knowledge in the Indian Ocean World

Date: 

Monday, November 1, 2021, 3:45pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

In Person or Zoom (see posting)

“Climate Futures’ Past: Insurance, Cyclones and Weather Knowledge in the Indian Ocean World”
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor of History, Drexel University

Student Commentator: Alexander Geelen, Global Fellow, WIGH; PhD Candidate in History, the International Institute of Social History and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Chairs:
Sven BeckertFaculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH). Laird Bell Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Charles MaierFaculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (emeritus). Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

 


Harvard/MIT ID holders:
Harvard/MIT ID holders are welcome to attend this event in CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K262.

 

 

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