What Is A Disaster? Andy Horowitz in Conversation with Jacob A. C. Remes

Floods and earthquakes, wars and famines, engineering failures and economic collapses — these frightening events seem to define modern life. We name them “disasters” but what makes a disaster different from other periods of time? In a freewheeling conversation, Connecticut State Historian, Andy Horowitz sits down with Jacob A. C. Remes, clinical associate professor of history at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, to discuss events in Connecticut history and beyond, thinking out loud together about why some kinds of bad news are considered disasters while others are not, and what difference it makes.