CRGE Announces "Rebuilding with Tools for Social Justice: Hurricane Katrina One Year Later"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
College Park, MD -- The Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity announced today that a symposium on Hurricane Katrina will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park campus on October 18, 2006.
The symposium, titled "Rebuilding with Tools for Social Justice: Hurricane Katrina One Year Later," will feature conversations and panel discussions about the issues of race, class, gender and social inequality that were brought to the forefront of national debate last year by the disaster in New Orleans and the greater Gulf Coast region.
This special event will feature a number of prominent thinkers from across the country, including Dr. Patricia Hill Collins, a University of Maryland professor and leading voice of Black feminism. CRGE Founding Director Dr. Bonnie Thornton Dill (Chair and Professor of the UM Department of Women's Studies) will serve as the symposium's presider and will moderate a panel on, "The Rippling Effects of Katrina."
In addition to Dr. Patricia Hill Collins (Wilson Elkins Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park), confirmed speakers include: Dr. Beverly Mason (Former Chair of the Sociology Department, Xavier University, New Orleans), Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard (UM Department of African American Studies & the Democracy Collaborative), Mr. John O'Neal (Junebug Productions, New Orleans; founder of the Free Southern Theater), Dr. Ronald Walters (UM Department of Government & Politics), Dr. Mary Waters (Sociology Department, Harvard University) and Dr. Beverly Wright (Founder and Director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University in New Orleans).
The symposium is free to attend. More information, including registration, is available at CRGE Online (www.crge.umd.edu). This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, the Department of Sociology, the Department of African American Studies, Honors Humanities and the American Sociological Association.
The Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity (CRGE) is a nationally prominent research organization that promotes scholarship as well as faculty and graduate student development across the University of Maryland campus. CRGE's interdisciplinary work explores the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity and other dimensions of difference as they shape identities, behavior and complex social relations.
For more information, please contact Wendy Hall by email (hallw@umd.edu)
or phone at 301.405.2931.
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