The Department of Italian Studies and the Office of Global Engagement, Brown University is hosting a two-part event - a film screening on November 13 and roundtable panel discussion on November 14, 2024.

This panel will focus on climate change, through a conversation among scholars and community representatives from both Florence and Providence, linking global and local, scientific and humanistic perspectives about issues of flood vulnerability, infrastructure preservation, protection of the artistic and cultural patrimony, climate action, education, justice and community resilience.

Moderated by Cornelia Dean, a science writer and former Science Editor of The New York Times, author of “Making Sense of Science” (Harvard University Press).

Panelists

April Brown, Organizational Steward, Racial and Environmental Justice Committee

Enrica Caporali, Professor of Hydrology and Hydraulic Structures and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICEA), Coordinator of the Master’s degree in Geoengineering, the University of Florence; Chair Associate, UNESCO Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-Hydrological Hazards initiative

Manuel Cordero, Founder and Principal at CIVIC, a licensed architect in Rhode Island

Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University; Chairman and Co-founder of Ocean Visions; Special Advisor to the President on ocean and climate solutions at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Macarena Gomez-Barris, Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Chair of Modern Culture and Media, Director of the Center for Environmental Humanities at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University

Kyle McElroy, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island.

Date: Thursday, November 14

Time: 7 PM

Location: Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts

Address: 154 Angell St, Providence, RI 02906

Admission: Register Here