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SUMMARY:Kenneth Karmiole Research Fellowship Presentation: Witnessing Disas
	ter
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DESCRIPTION:Talk given by John Sullivan a PhD candidate and Quinn Fellow in
	 the History Department at Northwestern University. \nBetween 1788 and 179
	3\, the Frenchman Louis-Benjamin Fleuriau de Bellevue (1761–1852) trekked 
	the length of Italy and climbed its Alpine peaks\, a long sojourn that cap
	ped his years of training as a geologist and natural historian. Toward the
	 end of his journeys\, he passed through Sicily and Calabria\, in the peni
	nsula’s far south\, to observe the devastating aftermath of a series of ea
	rthquakes that had rocked the region in 1783. In this talk\, John Sullivan
	 will incorporate Bellevue’s travel notebooks into a rich body of evidence
	 documenting the various historical methods and genres used to comprehend 
	earthquakes and their attendant phenomena in eighteenth-century Naples and
	 Guatemala\, kingdoms then within a common Bourbon imperial sphere. Bringi
	ng together natural histories\, like Bellevue’s\, as well as chronology\, 
	conjectural history\, exemplary history\, and bureaucratic testimonies\, S
	ullivan will reveal what historically pregnant moments earthquakes were. O
	n one hand\, he will demonstrate how different sociopolitical contexts sha
	ped the types of seismic histories written on either side of the Atlantic.
	 On the other\, he will point up the central role of cities as a throughli
	ne uniting many of these historical narratives.\n\nEvent Website: https://
	www.1718.ucla.edu/events/witnessing-disaster/\n\nSource: https://community
	.ucla.edu/event/398fb9dd-6f7e-428e-82a9-ad9e7211d48f
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	9BusueOO#/registration
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