Oct. 14-15: The Color of Disaster: A Symposium & Fundraiser

Jamilah Pelrean takes in the scene in her living room in New Orleans East. She and her husband Damien returned there this week and were able to salvage little. The Pelreans built the house picking out its every detail. Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005 (STAFF PHOTO BY JOHN MCCUSKER)

Oct. 14th and 15th

The Color of Disaster:
Race, Class and Hurricane Katrina
A Symposium and Fundraiser at NYU

Oct. 14, 8pm
Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South

The Eye of the Storm:
Voices and Visions of New Orleans
Brenda Marie Osbey, Poet Laureate of Louisiana
Frank Stewart, Photographer, Jazz @ Lincoln Center
Deb Willis, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Hosted by:
Tricia Rose, American Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Robin Kelley, Anthropology, Columbia University

Oct. 15, 2:30pm
Loewe Theater
35 West 4th Street
2pm - doors open

Eyewitnessing the Storm: Stories of Catastrophe and Survival
Moderator: Tricia Rose, American Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Tony Zumbado, NBC Photojournalist
Michaela Harrison, artist and New Orleans resident

4:30pm
Before and After Katrina: History, Race and Space in New Orleans
Moderator: Lisa Duggan, American Studies, NYU
Adam Green, American Studies, NYU
Walter Johnson, American Studies, NYU
George Lipsitz, African American Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Brenda Marie Osbey, Poet Laureate of Louisiana

7:00pm
Weathering Katrina: Community and Culture
Moderator: Robin Kelley, Anthropology, Columbia University
Mindy Fullilove, School of Public Health, Columbia University
Mandy Carter, Executive Director, Southerners on New Ground (SONG)
Charlton McIlwain, Department of Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Education, NYU
Eric Tang, community organizer, American Studies, NYU

9:00pm
Performance by Mother Tongue

All Events Are Free and Open to the Public. All monetary donations gratefully accepted for the Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund, a project of Community Labor United, New Orleans.

Sponsored by:
New York University's Office of the Dean, Center for Art and Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, Steinhardt School of Education, Humanities Council, Office of the Provost, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dean for the Humanities, American Studies Program, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, GSOC/UAW Local 2110, the Union for Graduate Assistants, UCATS/AFT Local 3882, the Union for Clerical and Technical Staff, ACT-UAW Local 7902, the Union for Adjunct and Part-Time Faculty

For more information, please visit Robert Campbell, Administrator, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
New York University
41 East 11th Street, 7th Floor

212-992-9545 phone
212-995-4433 fax
NYU mail code: 8641
robert.campbell@nyu.edu
www.nyu.edu/fas/gender.sexuality