[Sci-tech-public] FW: Announcing a conference on Disasters: Recipes and Remedies

[David Mindell]

We are reaching out to MIT Political Science department to announce the
upcoming Social Research conference, Disasters: Recipes and Remedies. We
thought some of your colleagues and members would be interested in the
agenda and, perhaps, attending. If you review this information and think
the conference might resonate with your colleagues, we would be very
pleased if you forwarded this information to them. (If you have an
online calendar, listserv or publication, we would be happy to link to
your site from ours or exchange advertising with our quarterly
international journal, Social Research.)

The Social Research conference, Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, is the
17th conference in the Social Research series, which is dedicated to
enhancing public understanding in an engaging, multi-disciplinary
discussion and is scheduled to take place at The New School in New York
City on November 1st and 2nd, 2007. Nicholas Scoppetta, Fire
Commissioner of New York City will give the keynote address, followed by
Q and A with Bob Kerrey, President of The New School. 

This conference is convened at a time at which we are seriously
threatened by an increasing number of disasters of all kinds: those
conventionally considered "natural," like hurricanes and tsunamis,
and those normally considered man-made, like pandemics and large-scale
bioterrorist attacks. This increasing threat is not only due to
urbanization, globalization, coastal development, inadequate
infrastructure design, and international hostilities, among other
things, but is also a consequence of global warming.

The need for serious reflection on how we can best think about, prepare
for, respond to and prevent disasters is urgent. At this conference,
leading experts will explore the commonalities of all disasters. They
will examine the unequal protection and treatment of populations made
vulnerable by their location and or socioeconomic status; the impact of
disasters on the economy and overall human development; how hazards
develop into disasters; and how design factors either mitigate or
amplify their effects. 

To view the agenda, schedule, speaker bios and to register, please
visit www.newschool.edu/disasters. We are pleased to announce that the
ACLU is cosponsoring the conference and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
will offer a guided tour of its collection focused on artistic
representations of disasters in collaboration with the conference on
Saturday, November 3rd. For additional information and to view past
conferences, please visit our website: www.socres.org.

Thank you, very much, for you consideration.

Sincerely,

Arien Mack
Marrow Professor of Psychology
Director: Journal Donation Project
Editor: SOCIAL RESEARCH
New School University
212-229-5727, Ext, 3105 (Tel)
212-229-5476 (Fax)
65 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10003


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