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Provost’s Lecture Series—Natural Disasters/Human Responses

Provost’s Lecture Series
http://www.provost.duke.edu/speaker_series/index.html
Natural Disasters/Human Responses

The list is endless: Southeast Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, Sichuan Earthquake, Haiti Earthquake. All of these conjure images of human suffering, shattered lives, broken communities and heroic rebirths. With burgeoning global populations and increasing residential densities in hazard prone areas, the frequency and seeming enormity of recent disasters has had a horrific toll. The speakers of the Provost's series, drawn from experts in the media, government, arts, and other fields, will explore questions concerning planning, response, ethics, memorialization, history, literature, logistics, and most of all, human impacts related to mitigating and responding to these recurrent tragedies.

Edwidge Danticat
Author
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
5:15-6:45 p.m.
Smith Warehouse
The Garage, C105 Bay 4 (first floor)
Writing Tragedy, Writing Hope: Haitian Writers At Home and Abroad Respond to The January 12, 2010 Earthquake
Edwidge Danticat will examine ways in which writers both in Haiti and in the Haitian dyaspora have responded creatively to the earthquake and will also read excerpts from her own work. Copies of two of Ms. Danticat’s books, Brother, I'm Dying and Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, will be available on site for purchase.