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The Tambora Revolution: The 1815 Eruption that Changed the World
September 20, 2016, 7:00 PM
Free
Gillen D’Arcy Wood, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, asks what happens when the world’s climate reaches a sudden tipping point. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the so-called “year without a summer.” The fallout from the massive 1816 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia caused a global climate emergency with a devastating new strain of cholera, crop failure and famine, food riots, and the mass emigration of refugees. This lecture, based on Wood’s award-winning book, Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World, provides a gripping disaster narrative with important lessons not only for historians and students, but also local communities and governments tasked with responding to today’s climate crisis.