#  The Inaugural Frederick A. Jakobiec Lecture 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 22, 2023** 

 04:00PM - 05:30PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Loeb House Ballroom, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

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**Lorraine Daston**

   
Director emerita,   
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin  
Visiting Professor,   
University of Chicago

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**"The End of Natural Disasters"**

   
The purely natural disaster, for which no one is to blame, is an Enlightenment category. Previously, there were just disasters, and plenty of blame to go around. In the age of anthropogenic climate change, we are fast losing the category of the natural disaster – and with it, the concept of blameless evil.



 

 



 

 

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