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December 06, 2024
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  • Houston History Magazine Panel: "Resilient Houston: Documenting Hurricane Harvey"

  • Guest Speaker Panel: "When the Lights (and Heat) Went out in Texas: The Texas Blackout in Historical Context"

  • Guest Speaker Panel: "Race, Health, and Air Pollution in Houston: Environmental Justice During COVID-19"

  • Guest Speaker Panel: "Seadrift Documentary Panel Discussion: Race, Refugees, and Redemption"

  • Charles Ciliske: "Buffalo Bayou & Tributaries Flood Control Project"

  • Stephen Klineberg: "Prophetic City: Tracking Responses to Mounting Inequalities, Ethnic Transformations, and Severe Storms"

  • Roberto Barrios: "Cacophony of Disaster: Interpreting Houston's Many Voices in Harvey's Aftermath"

  • Rebecca Benefiel: "Roman Graffiti and Digital Humanities"

  • Eric Magrane: "Climate, History, and the Poetry of Place: The Sonoran Desert and Beyond"

  • Houston History Magazine Panel: "Houston's Helping Hand: Remembering Hurricane Katrina"

  • Richard Mizelle: Cultivating Public Memory during Disease and Disaster

  • Merlin Chowkwanyun: Civic Tech, History, and Environmental Health Protection: Leveraging IT for Social Good?

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