November 11, 2005
Clark U Examines ‘Lessons of Katrina’
Clark University faculty and students will host “Lessons of Katrina: Clark University Explores Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath,” a teach-in and symposium designed to address questions raised by the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the response from government officials, members of the media, and civil society. The event, held on
Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 3:15 p.m. to 5 p.m., is free and open to the public.
The event will begin with an opening plenary from Gregory V. Buttons, professor at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health and member of the Academic Health Preparedness Center. He will speak on “Forced Migration as an Index of Vulnerability in Hurricane Katrina,” from 3:15 to 4 p.m. in the Jefferson Academic Center, Rm. 320.
Four concurrent panel discussions will follow, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., in the Jefferson Academic Center. Panel topics are:
· Race, Inequality and Community
· International and Domestic Responses to Katrina
· Geographic Perspectives on Hurricane Disasters
· Clark Students: Research and Activism
Clark students will also hold a bake sale in Tilton Hall at the Higgins University Center to raise money to send aid and supplies to a school in the affected area and to help with rebuilding efforts.
The event is sponsored by Clark’s departments of Geography, Government, History, IDCE, Sociology, UDSC, and the Office of the Dean of the College. For more information please contact 508-793-7441.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in New England, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
Clark University
Worcester, Mass.
phone: 508-793-7635
www.clarku.edu
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