course description:
This lecture series was intended to provide interested Berkeley undergraduates--including students here from New Orleans area campuses--a multidisciplinary and collaborative venue through which to begin to digest and make sense of the hurricane’s effects. More about the class...
 Download a PDF of the course syllabus here.
course schedule:
guest speakers (open to the public): 6-7pm
class discussion (for enrolled students): 7-8pm
Oct 5: Jennifer Spear, Professor, Dept of History, UCB
Oct 12: This American Life: "After the Flood," episode #296, aired 9/9/05
Oct 19: Shanta Driver, Attorney, American Assn. for Affirmative Action
Oct 26: Setrak Kuyumjian & Ellen Davis, Red Cross volunteers in Biloxi, MS & Houston, TX
Nov
2: Class work session 1: Final project brainstorming
Nov 9: Richard Walker, Professor, Department of Geography, UCB
Nov 16: Class work session 2: Final project brainstorming
Nov 30: Stephen Small, Professor & Chair, Dept of African American Studies
Dec 7: Charles Henry, Professor, Dept of African American Studies
selected class projects :
Common Ground Collective: Solidarity Not Charity
A 20 minute video documenting Common Ground's work to help rebuild the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. Classmember Yoram Savion went there over Thanksgiving week and was a member of the Common Ground Documentation Team. See the Dec 3, 2005 post of the Vlog~Flux blog for its context.
contact information:
For any further information regarding this class, please email Polly Pagenhart, the UC Berkeley staff contact for it: pollyp@berkeley.edu.
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Residents in the Bywater district of New Orleans, August 29, 2005.
