The Tulane University Provost's Office is sponsoring a seven-week series of discussions on before-and-after issues of Hurricane Katrina. Local and national experts will conduct a wide-ranging panel discussion on the pre-storm environment.

New Wave: Series to Take Aim at Katrina

Week 1
August 28th: Katrina Takes Aim
2/12/2006, Sunday, 6:00 p.m., McAlister Auditorium

Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History and Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Studies at Tulane University
Gregory Breerwood, Deputy District Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Colonel Terry Ebbert, Director of Homeland Security, City of New Orleans
Dan Milham, Chief Meteorologist, WDSU-TV Channel 6
R. King Milling, President, Whitney National Bank & Chairman, Governor’s Advisory Commission on Coastal Restoration & Conservation
Moderator: John “Spud” McConnell, radio commentator, WWL-AM 870

Katrina & the Constitution: How Our Fundamental Political System Contributed to the Crisis
2/14/2006, Tuesday, 12:00 noon, Boggs Hall Room 239

Stephen Griffin, Rutledge C. Clement, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law, School of Law, Tulane University
* Box lunches provided to the first 25 attendees.

Rebuilding New Orleans: Habitat for Humanity’s Operation Home Delivery
2/16/2006, Thursday, 4:00 p.m., First Floor, Josephine-Louise (J-L) Hall

Dennis Kehoe, Classics Department, Tulane University & Board Member, New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity

Week 2
Information Sources & Decision Making During Hurricane Evacuation
2/21/2006, Tuesday, 7:00 p.m., Jones Hall Room 204

Karen Taylor, Communications Department, Tulane University
Traci Hong, Community Health Sciences Department, School of Public Health, Tulane University
Christopher Beaudoin, Community Health Sciences Department, School of Public Health, Tulane University
Steve Banning, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
Ken Campbell, College of Media & Information Studies, University of South Carolina

Disaster Management: Comparing Responses to Katrina and the 2005 Tsunami
2/22/2006, Wednesday, 12:00 noon, Newcomb 119

Eamon Kelly, Payson Center for International Development, Tulane University
* Box lunches provided to the first 25 attendees.

Impacts of Katrina & Rita on Louisiana’s Oil & Gas Based Economy
2/23/2006, Thursday, 9:00 AM, Goldring-Woldenberg Hall II, Room 2110

Eric Smith, Clinical Professor & Associate Director, Entergy-Tulane Energy Institute, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Week 3
NIMBY (not in my backyard) & New Orleans: Where Will Things Go?
3/7/2006, Tuesday, 12:00 noon, Boggs Hall Room 239

Daniel Aldrich, Political Science Department, Tulane University
* Box lunches provided to the first 25 attendees.

The Post-Katrina Media Landscape in New Orleans
3/8/2006, Wednesday, 7:00 p.m., Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

Michael Depp, Reuters correspondent; commentator, NPR’s “All Things Considered;” adjunct instructor, University College Media Arts program
Paul Greenberg, Lecturer, Media Arts, University College at Tulane
Diane Newman, operations manager, WWL-FM
Terry O’Connor, Editor, CityBusiness
Vanessa Oubre, General Manager, FOX 8 Television
Dan Shea, Managing Editor, Times-Picayune
Anzio Williams, News Director, WDSU-TV
Additional presenters to be announced.

Katrina, Japan, & Natural Disasters
3/9/2006, Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Boggs Hall Room 105

Yutaka Horiba, Economics Department, Tulane University

Week 4
Katrina & the Gulf Coast: Ecosystem and Economics
3/13/2006, Monday, 7:00 p.m., Gibson 126 A

Robin K. McCall, Oceanographer & University College adjunct instructor, Tulane University

An Earth Science Perspective on Katrina
3/15/2006, Wednesday, 7:00 p.m., Gibson 126 A

Torbjorn Tornqvist, Earth & Environmental Sciences Department, Tulane University

New Orleans’ Population After Hurricane Katrina
3/24/2006, Friday, 3:00 p.m., Jones Hall Room 102

Audrey Singer, The Urban Center of the Brookings Institution -
Singer is a consultant to the Governor's Louisiana Recovery Authority, working with cities and towns across South Louisiana to develop a long-term regional vision for rebuilding. She will discuss the challenges of planning and population forecasting in a post-disaster environment.

Katherine Donato, Sociology Department, Rice University -
Donato’s research is titled "The Changing Face of the Gulf Coast: Immigration to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama" in the Migration Information Source newsletter of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington D.C.

Greg Stone, New Orleans Health Department & Emergency Operations Center and
Tim Grant, New Orleans Health Department & Emergency Operations Center -
Grant and Stone are Master's students at the Payson Center, working for the New Orleans Health Department at the Emergency Operations Center.  They have organized several rapid population estimate surveys to gauge the repopulation of the city.

Beth Fussell, Sociology Department, Tulane University -
Fussell’s research focuses on Mexican migration to the U.S. She is currently leading a group of students in survey research on Latino migrants in New Orleans.

Week 5
The History of New Orleans’ Levee Boards & Water Infrastructure
3/27/2006, Monday, 12 noon, Newcomb 119

Carolyn Kolb, historian and University College adjunct instructor, Tulane University

Katrina’s Impact on Professional and College Sports
3/29/2006, Wednesday, 12 noon, Gibson 308

Gary Roberts, Deputy Dean, Sumter Davis Marks Professor of Law, Director of the Sports Law Program, School of Law, Tulane University

Post-Katrina Status of the Justice System: Why Is It Important?
3/30/2006, Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Newcomb 208

Charles Taylor, Attorney-at-Law & University College Adjunct Instructor of Paralegal Studies

Week 6
Prejudice & Stereotyping Through the Lens of Katrina
4/4/2006, Tuesday, 12 noon, Boggs Hall Room 239

Janet Ruscher, Psychology Department, Tulane University
* Box lunches provided to the first 25 attendees.

Historic Disasters—Responses & Rebuilding
4/4/2006, Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Gibson Hall 126 A

Emily Clark, History Department, Tulane University
Susann Lusnia, Classics Department, Tulane University
Terrence Fitzmorris, historian & Associate Dean, University College, Tulane University

Week 7
Rebuilding the Vietnamese Community in New Orleans East
4/12/2006, Wednesday, 4:00 p.m., 206 Mechanical Engineering Building

Allison Truitt, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
 
The Vietnamese community in New Orleans was perhaps best known for a small outdoor market held on Saturday mornings in a parking lot of an apartment complex and small stores that sold Vietnamese videos, coffee, and groceries. The market, along with the homes of many Vietnamese, was located in New Orleans East, an area devastated by the flooding and storm surge from Hurricane Katrina.  While the Vietnamese community has always been known for its preservation of cultural forms, it is now gaining recognition as a strong political voice for rebuilding New Orleans East.  Professor Truitt will present an overview of the social history of the Vietnamese community in New Orleans, its preservation of distinctive cultural forms such as the market, and its perseverance in the face of so much physical destruction.