FIRST ANNUAL VIRGINIA SYMPOSIUM ON RACE AND SOCIETY SCHEDULE
November 2 – 4, 2006
DRAFT SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (UPDATED 10/5/2006)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2006
4:30
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6:00 PM
Opening Plenary Session, The Darden School, Auditorium
Address by: Julian Bond, UVA Professor, Civil Rights Activist and
NAACP Board Chair
6:00
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7:00 PM
Opening Reception, The Darden School, Auditorium Foyer
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2006
8:00
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12:00 PM
Symposium Registration, The Darden School, Saunders Hall
8:00
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9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast, The Darden School, Auditorium Foyer
9:00
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10:00 AM
Plenary Session, The Darden School, Auditorium
Address by: Christina Melton
10:00
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10:15 AM
Refreshment break, The Darden School, Auditorium Foyer
10:15
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11:45 AM
Concurrent Sessions
“Leaving no Child Behind in the Wake of Katrina: Conceptualizing Quality
Education for All”
“The Design Impacts of Katrina: Making Visible Some of the Invisible”
Righting an Unrightable Wrong: Confronting Poverty Through Truth and
Reconciliation in New Orleans”
“Therapeutic Cultural Competence in theory and Practice following Hurricane
Katrina: Culturally Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Disaster Relief”
“When Levees Break: An African American Studies Perspective on Katrina”
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“Katrina’s No-Bid Contracts: Where is the 14th Amendment?”
“Katrina as Case Study in Social Justice and the Complexity of Decision-Making
in Large-Scale Sociotechnical Systems”
12:00
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1:30 PM
Plated Lunch, Abbott Center Dining Room
Address by: Judge Peter Beer
1:30
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1:45 PM
Break – Move to concurrent session classrooms
1:45
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3:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions (2),
Classrooms: 30, 40, 50, 170, 180, 190, 280, 290
“Hurricane Katrina: A Metaphor for the Unfinished Agenda of Social and
Educational Opportunity in Urban Schooling”
“Criminal Justice Collapse: The Constitution after Hurricane Katrina”
“Community at Risk: An assessment of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the
population of New Orleans”
“The Possible Role of Discrimination in the Helping Response after Hurricane
Katrina”
“Manna From Heaven: How to Build a Robust Minority Business Sector in New
Orleans”
* Refreshment Breaks available outside classrooms
3:15
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3:30 PM
Break
3:30
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5:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions (3), The Darden School
In Katrina’s Wake: Toward an Effective Antiracism in the College Classroom”
“Service Learning and Beyond in New Orleans: A Panel Discussion”
“Drowning Without a Hurricane: Race and Class After Katrina”
“Electoral Reform in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana”
“Disaster Recovery & Multicultural Education”
“Poverty, Welfare, and Race: Implications for Katrina’s Victims”
“Space Matters: Residential Segregation, Social Capital and the Opportunity in
New Orleans”
“Mississippi; Rebuilding, Recovery, and Race”
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2005
8:00
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9:00 AM
9:00
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10:15 AM
Continental Breakfast Outside Classrooms
Concurrent Sessions (4), The Darden School
Classrooms: 30, 40, 50, 170, 180, 190, 280, 290
“Black Catholic Schools and the Politics of Urban Redevelopment”
“The Design Impacts of Katrina: Making Visible Some of the Invisible”
“Politics and Race in Post-Katrina New Orleans”
“From the Ground Up: A CED Perspective on the Redevelopment of New Orleans
East”
“Into the Gap—Medical Relief—Health Care in new Orleans After Hurricane
Katrina”
“Hurricane Katrina through the Eyes of Black Children”
“Hurricane Katrina: Racial Implications of Organizational Precursors,
Responses, and Lessons Learned”
10:15
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10:30 AM
Refreshment break
10:30
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11:45 AM
Plenary Session, Auditorium
Address by: Ms. Liz Reyes, ABC 26 News, New Orleans
11:45
AM
Closing