FW: Call for Papers: "Returning to Katrina: Bringing Hurricane Katrina Research Back to the Community"
Rachel Harris
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:58:17
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Subject: Call for Papers: "Returning to Katrina: Bringing Hurricane
Katrina Research Back to the Community"
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*"Returning to Katrina: Bringing Hurricane Katrina Research Back to the
Community"*
* *
*Keynote speakers will include Stephen E. Flynn, President of the Center
for
National Policy and author of The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a
Resilient
Nation.*
* *
*Conference Dates: June 4-5, 2010*
*University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast*
*Long Beach, Mississippi*
*Approaching the five year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this
research
summit aims to return scholars who conducted post-Katrina research back
to
the Gulf Coast region to share their findings with the communities they
once
studied. This interdisciplinary conference seeks paper proposals from
those
who received grants to study the natural, social, political, and
economic
effects of Hurricane Katrina in its devastating wake to present their
research to help communities threatened by natural disasters and chaotic
disruptions to become more resilient in the future.*
*Submission of Abstracts:*
* Issue areas may include any area or application of community
resilience from all academic disciplines, including disaster mitigation,
geographic and scientific perspectives, and economic, political, and
social
resilience.
* Abstracts for presentations should be between 250-500 words, and
should be sent as attachments in a .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.
* For more information, please visit the website of The Center for
Policy and Resilience at: http://www.usm.edu/gulfcoast/cpr/summit.php
* *Please submit all abstracts to the attention of Jack Covarrubias
at *
*C...@usm.edu* <C...@usm.edu>* by the deadline of March 15, 2010.*
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