Sea Change: Conversation with Christina Gerhardt and Rachel Brahinsky
Past Event
August 19,2023
Co-presented with Point Reyes Books
Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (University of California Press 2023) weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us—and make us see—island nations in a warming world.
Join Mesa Refuge alums Christina Gerhardt and Rachel Brahinsky in conversation about Christina’s new book.
“A stunning atlas of the present and future.”—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York
“An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities.”—Booklist, starred review
One of the Best Science Books of 2023, New Scientist
Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Senior Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and former Barron Professor of Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. Her environmental journalism has been published by Grist.org, The Nation, The Progressive, and the Washington Monthly.
She has been awarded fellowships by the Fulbright Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities and held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Columbia University and University of California, Berkeley. She was a resident at the Mesa Refuge in 2020, where she worked on Sea Change.
Rachel Brahinsky is a human geographer and an associate professor at the University of San Francisco, where she is affiliated with Urban and Public Affairs, the Politics Department, and Urban Studies program. A former journalist with a focus on urban policy and social change, her current research investigates the geography of race and property in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a Mesa Refuge resident in 2021, she worked on a book on the untold story of multigenerational Black women’s activism in Bayview-Hunter’s Point.
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