Returning to Katrina: Bringing Hurricane Katrina Research Back to the Community

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.

Conference Dates: June 4-5, 2010
Long Beach, Mississippi

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 and Gerald Blessey, Mississippi Coast Housing Director and former mayor of Biloxi, Mississippi.

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

Please submit all abstracts to the attention of Jack Covarrubias at CPR@usm.edu by the deadline of April 30, 2010.