Welcome, you’re listening to an episode of the Crisis and Catharsis podcast, where we explore stories of how people have found relief in times of crisis, focusing on artistic expression, like literature, music and art, but also expression in daily life, like cuisine and oral histories. This episode focuses on the summer of 1816 also known as the year without summer and the inventions and art that grew out of that environmental crisis. My name is Fernie, I’m a PhD student at Stony Brook University where I study Mexican migration history. I’m here with Bonnie Soper, a PhD student at Stony Brook University who studies religious and political dissidence in early modern Scotland.
Keep listening if you would like to learn about volcanic eruptions, the invention of the bicycle, and the creation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein…
