Colloquium, 2/8

“Stories of Noah and the Ark: 
Conservation and Climate Change”
 

Speaker is Jeffrey Cohen

Dean of Humanities and Professor of English,

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Our oldest myth for how to survive ecological catastrophe comes from the Genesis, where Noah and his family load an ark full of animals to begin life anew. Over the millennia this story has been retold and reconfigured in fascinating ways, making the ark a ship full of stories. Come aboard and learn about the long history of this vessel of preservation, from ancient Babylonia to contemporary science fiction.