CSLS Speaker Series – “When Acts of God Became Acts of Man: Floods, Property, and the Legal Origins of Climate Change in Houston”

Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley

Featuring Jonathan Levy, Professor of History, Sciences Po Paris, Centre for History Abstract: This talk is drawn from a book-in-progress on the history of climate change in the city of Houston in the late twentieth century. Historians are currently at work exploring how to effectively write "planetary histories" of climate change; this book approaches climate from the perspective […]

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