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Who Are We? What Disasters Tell Us About Ourselves Panel Discussion at Levan Center
What: The Norman Levan Center for the Humanities at Bakersfield College is pleased to present Who Are We? What Disasters Tell Us About Ourselves on Wednesday, April 18 at 7 p.m. Who Are We? What Disasters Tell Us About Ourselves is a free panel discussion presented by three Bakersfield College faculty members: psychology professor Lora Larkin, philosophy professor Rene Trujillo, and history professor Ann Wiederrect.
Who Are We? What Disasters Tell Us About Ourselves is a panel discussion surrounding Rebecca Solnit’s provocative book A Paradise Built in Hell, which, according to Publishers Weekly, is a “vividly written, cogently argued book” about the populace’s response to natural and man-made disasters.
In Who Are We? What Disasters Tell Us About Ourselves, Larkin, Trujillo, and Wiederrect will respond to Solnit’s book, and address issues such as how people behave in disasters when normal social controls are absent, what the social contract does and does not do, and what history really teaches about behavior in disasters.
The panel discussion is made in conjunction with California Reads: Searching for Democracy Initiative, made possible with support from Cal Humanities in partnership with the California Center for the Book.
Admission and parking are free. Call the Norman Levan Center for the Humanities at Bakersfield College at 395-4339 for more information.
When: April 18, 7 p.m.
Where: The Norman Levan Center for the Humanities
Bakersfield College
Contact: The Norman Levan Center for the Humanities, 661-395-4339
Who Are We? What Disasters Tell Us About Ourselves
April 18, 7 p.m.
Free admission and parking
The Norman Levan Center for the Humanities at Bakersfield College
1801 Panorama Drive
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