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October 2009
October 22
End Date
Symposium on Building Safer Communities—Improving Disaster Resilience
Charleston, SC
This symposium commemorates the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Hugo by exploring changes in coastal construction practices, improved building safety and community resilience, and addressing unresolved building safety and damage reduction issues.
August 2009
August 9
End Date
2009 National Conference on Community Preparedness
Alexandria, VA
FEMA's Community Preparedness Division is hosting a conference aimed at those seeking to create safer, stronger, and better-prepared communities, regardless of the hazards faced. Attendees will share best practices in collaborative emergency planning, discuss preparedness outreach and education, discover innovative funding approaches, and receive updates on preparedness research.
July 2009
July 19
End Date
Coastal Zone 2009
Boston, MA
NOAA, FEMA, and Massachusetts Partnership will host a conference that explores changing coastal landscapes and provides information on coastal and ocean resource management. Three central tracks will be presented: coastal communities adapting to changing conditions, conservation in the face of change, and planning for the changing uses of the ocean and Great Lakes.
July 15
End Date
34th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Application Workshop
Omni Interlocken Resort, Broomfield, Colorado
The Natural Hazards Center is hosting this year's workshop to bring researchers and practitioners from many disciplines together for face-to-face discussions on issues and trends that affect how society deals with hazards and disasters. The workshop will involve 400 federal, state, and local emergency officials; representatives of nonprofit and humanitarian organizations; hazards researchers; disaster consultants; and others dedicated to alleviating the impacts of disasters.
June 2009
June 17
End Date
Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) Board Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA
The Board of Directors of the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) voted to approve a resolution that allows the Plaquemines Parish to use a portion of its small rental allocation for a Homeowner Rehabilitation Program. In addition to this, resolutions were passed that would allow: a Nonprofit Rebuilding Grant Program; Emergency Rental Assistance; Final parish disposition plans for Louisiana Land Trust properties; and Hazard Mitigation Grant Program allocations for Gustav and Ike recovery.
June 9
End Date
2009 National Urban Area Security Initiative Conference
Charlotte, NC
The Urban Area Security Initiative Conference (UASI) provides a forum for exchanging technical and administrative UASI information, as well as an opportunity to share best practices in emergency management, public health, evacuations, and mass care planning.
June 7
End Date
33rd Annual National Conference: Green Works to Reduce Flood Losses
Orlando, FL
This conference will present state-of-the-art techniques, programs, and resources to better improve flood mitigation, watershed management, and other community goals.
June 5
End Date
Ghosts of Katrina Conference to Examine Community Preparation, Resilience
Advanced Education Center, University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park campus, Gulfport, MS
The Ghosts of Katrina conference, sponsored by the University of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Coast and the Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI), will examine the lessons learned through disaster events like Hurricane Katrina and what steps should be taken to enhance community resilience. The conference is free and open to the public.
April 2008
April 15
End Date
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Boston, MA
AAG annual meeting in Boston, MA; April 15-19 2008
Session of potential interest: "In the Shadow of a Storm: Geographies of Katrina and Post-Katrina New Orleans" Organizers: Scott Bell, Brown University and University of Saskatchewan; Xun Shi, Geography, Dartmouth University
November 2007
November 1
End Date
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies Conference
The New School University, New York, New York
Two day multi-disciplinary conference on disasters in New York City.
August 2007
August 29
End Date
Hurricane Katrina Anniversary
Two year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster
August 29
End Date
International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina & Rita
New Orleans, LA
August 29 - September 2, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana
www.InternationalTribunal.org
Peoples’ Justice: the International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
August 14
End Date
ASA Roundtable - Rebuilding Place: Race, Class and Disaster in New Orleans
Section on Sociology of Culture Refereed Roundtable Session at the ASA Annual Conference
August 13
End Date
Paper presentation - Housing Discrimination against Latinos in Coastal Mississippi: A Pre and Post-Katrina Study of Linguistic Profiling
New York City
Paper presentation at ASA Annual Conference
August 13
End Date
Paper presentation - Health Needs and Health Care: Perspectives from Katrina
New York City
Paper presentation at ASA Annual Conference
August 12
End Date
Paper presentation - The Four Disasters of Hurricane Katrina: People, Peril, and Pollution in the Floodwaters
New York City
Paper presentation at ASA Annual Conference
August 12
End Date
Paper presentation - Brokerage Roles in Disaster Response: Organizational Mediation in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
New York City
Paper presentation at ASA Annual Conference
August 11
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August 11
End Date
ASA Special Session - The Human Face of Katrina
Special session at the ASA Annual Conference - Alpha Kappa Delta Distinguished Lecture
August 11
End Date
ASA Section - On the Bureaucratic Production of Knowledge Gaps: Organizing Ignorance in Post-Katrina New Orleans
New York City
Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology at the ASA Annual Conference
August 2
End Date
Rural Sociology Society Annual Meeting
Santa Clara, CA
Rural sociologists have studied effects of Hurricane Katrina on rural areas and some of these studies are on the program.
May 2007
May 20
End Date
URISA - GIS in Public Health Conference
New Orleans
A new specialty conference debuting in New Orleans in the Spring of 2007.
May 20-23, 2007: New Orleans
April 2007
April 13
End Date
Disaster and Migration: Hurricane Katrina's Effects on New Orleans' Population
Tulane University
Conference on disaster and migration at Tulane University
March 2007
March 7
End Date
Through the Eye of Katrina: The Past as Prologue?
University of South Alabama
A multidisciplinary conference sponsored by the University of South Alabama Department of History in collaboration with the Journal of American History
February 2006
February 2
End Date
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
University of Pennsylvania
The Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted an interactive symposium on rebuilding cities and their environs after disaster.