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Shared read book discussion: The Big Truck That Went By

The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

2/16/2021
5 pm – 6 pm
Zoom webinar
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, by Jonathan Katz

Tuesday, February 16  |  5:00pm - 6:00pm EST | https://dartgo.org/big_truck

Join us for a moderated discussion with author Jonathan Katz, and Claire Peyton PH.D. a Visiting Scholar at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, as they share their first-hand account of the devastating hurricane and earthquake that nearly destroyed Haiti in 2010 and discuss the successes and failures of the global aid response. Discussion will be facilitated by Dartmouth Professor Chelsey Kivland.

Part of the ’Round the Girdled Earth Series. Organized and hosted by The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College.

For more information, contact:
Sharon Tribou-St. Martin
sharon.m.tribou-st.martin@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://history.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=62256

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