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In the Path of Disaster(s)
Friday, November 19
8:45 am: Welcome coffee
9:00 am: Introduction and Plenary
Jacqueline Couti and Luis Duno-Gottberg, Rice University
9:15 Kathleen Canning, Dean, School of Humanities, Rice University
9:30 Jim Blackburn, Rice University
Chair: Joseph Campana, Rice University
10:15 am: Round table I: “Facing Disaster in a Coastal City: Scholarship, Service Learning, and Holistic Community Engagement, Part I”
Title “Addressing Environmental Issues, Racial Inequities, and Injustices in New Orleans during the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Aimée K. Thomas, Vairleene Einstein, Hilary Nguyen, Loyola University New Orleans
Chair: Uriel Quesada, Loyola University New Orleans
11:00 am: Coffee break
11:15 am: Panel I
Title: “Creative Resistance: Art in the Aftermath of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico,” Charlotte Rogers, University of Virginia
Title: “Dammed and Damned: Water Infrastructure and Unnatural Disaster,” Sophie Sapp Moore, Rice University
Macondo in Ruins: The Ends of History and the Return of Nature, Carlos Fonseca, Trinity College, Cambridge University
Chair: Gisela Heffes, Rice University
12:35 pm: Lunch and networking event
2:30 pm: Round table II: “Facing Disaster in a Coastal City: Scholarship, Service Learning, and Holistic Community Engagement, Part II”
Title: “In the Aftermath of the Storm: Ecological Thought and Creative Spiritual Ritual Art”
Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans
Anne Daniell, Taiyah (Tai) Murphy, and Jacqueline (Jackie) Mutter, Loyola University New Orleans
Chair: Aimée K. Thomas, Loyola University New Orleans
3:30 pm: Coffee break
4:00 pm: Panel II
Title: “The Climate of Theory: Hurricanes, Slaves’ Skeletons, Geology of Silence, Tidalectics,” Anny-Dominique Curtius, University of Iowa
Title: “Only If You Count the People of Color: Disaster Capitalism and the Myth of Colorblindness in France,” Christopher M. Church, University of Nevada, Reno
Chair: Jacqueline Couti, Rice University
5:15 pm: Welcome/Plenary
Reginald DesRoches, Provost, Rice University
6:00 pm: Cocktail/Buffet (libation with food) at the Hilton.
Saturday, November 20
9:00 am: Morning coffee and welcome
9:30 am: Round table I with activists and artists
Léopold Lambert, architect and editor-in-chief of The Funambulist
“Tropic Toxiques (Toxic Tropics),” Jessica Oublié, graphic novel author
Kapwani Kiwanga (presentation in French with close captions translated by Nathan Dize), artist having an exhibition at the Moody
10:45 am: Coffee break
11:00 am: Round table II with Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, Bayou City Waterkeeper, and Air Alliance Houston
A conversation on pressing environmental concerns in Houston with: Rachel Powers, Executive Director of Citizens’ Environmental Coalition; Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, Executive Director Bayou City Waterkeeper; and Leticia Ablaza, Government Relations and Community Outreach Director Air Alliance Houston.
Chair: Joseph Campana, Rice University
Moderator: Weston Twardowski, Rice University
12:30 pm: Lunch and networking event
2:30 pm: Panel III
“Katrina’s Long Shadow: Disease and Illness in the Aftermath of Disaster”
Richard M. Mizelle, University of Houston. Discussant, Nicole A. Waligora-Davis, Rice University. Chair: Siham Bouamer, Sam Houston
3:30 pm: Coffee break
4:00 pm: Round table III – Documentary discussion
Please view “Home – Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes” ahead of our discussion at https://www.livingbetweenhurricanes.org/the-film/
We are pleased to let know that now there is a version of the documentary with French subtitles as well as the English one, both of which can be accessed on the documentary website www.livingbetweenhurricanes.org and vimeo vimeo.com/369196618 by clicking on the cc button.
Michael Chanan, Director
Chair: Luis Duno-Gottberg, Rice University
5:00 pm: Closing and final remarks