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DESCRIPTION:Date & Time: Aug 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM Pacific Time\n\nWebinar 
 info: 
 https://hazards.colorado.edu/training/hurricane-katrina-at-20\n\nAugust 29, 
 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane and 
 flooding that followed devastated the city of New Orleans and many other 
 communities across the Gulf Coast, leaving an indelible mark on people’s 
 lives. \n\nKatrina was a turning point disaster in American history, 
 exposing deep environmental and social injustices as well as critical 
 issues across the disaster lifecycle. The event, and the protracted 
 recovery that followed, also profoundly influenced disaster research and 
 emergency management practice.\n\nThis webinar will bring together authors 
 from The Katrina Bookshelf 
 (https://utpress.utexas.edu/search-grid/?series=the-katrina-bookshelf). 
 This series, edited by Kai Erikson and published by the University of Texas 
 Press, examined many different dimensions of Katrina—ranging from 
 cultural trauma to the impact on children. The books explore the many 
 lessons Katrina taught us about the nature of disasters and about the 
 social world.\n\nWe hope you can attend this webinar to learn more about 
 the process of bringing the authors of the Bookshelf together. The 
 panelists will reflect on how the response to Katrina shaped research, 
 practice, and policy landscapes in the decades that followed. They'll also 
 discuss lessons from Katrina that have been overlooked and progress 
 that’s at risk of being rolled back.\n\nPANEL:\n\nRonald Eyerman is a 
 professor of sociology and codirector of the Center for Cultural Sociology 
 at Yale University. His book Is This America? explores how Katrina has been 
 constructed as a cultural trauma in print media, the arts and popular 
 culture, and television coverage.\n\nPamela Jenkins is an emerita professor 
 of sociology and faculty in the women’s studies program at the University 
 of New Orleans. Her book Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of 
 Two New Orleans Neighborhoods, examines two African American 
 neighborhoods—working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain 
 Park—to learn how their residents experienced “Miss Katrina” and the 
 long road back to normal life.\n\nJacquelyn Litt a professor of sociology 
 and women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her 
 research, which was a central contribution of Displaced: Life in the 
 Katrina Diaspora, focused on practices of informal assistance among African 
 American women survivors post-Katrina.\n\nLori Peek is director of the 
 Natural Hazards Center and professor in the Department of Sociology at the 
 University of Colorado Boulder. She is co-editor of Displaced: Life in the 
 Katrina Diaspora. She is also the co-author of Children of Katrina, which 
 offers one of the only long-term, multiyear studies of young people 
 following disaster, and The Continuing Storm, which assesses the storm's 
 ongoing impact on individual lives across the wide-ranging geographies 
 where displaced New Orleanians landed.\n\nSteve Kroll-Smith is a emeritus 
 professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro 
 and was formerly a research professor of sociology at the University of New 
 Orleans. Kroll-Smith is a coauthor of Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and 
 the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods. He is also the author of 
 Recovering Inequality, a comparative exploration of Hurricane Katrina and 
 the 1906 San Francisco 
 Earthquake.\n\n_____________________________________________________\n\nADDITIONAL 
 ARTICLES & POSTS\n\nINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS (Aug. 26, 2025): Twenty Years After 
 Hurricane Katrina, Experts Fear Trump’s Cuts Will End in a Repeat 
 Catastrophe\n"The destruction was harrowing: More than 1,800 people died. 
 Total damages, accounting for inflation, exceeded $200 billion. Katrina’s 
 impacts still linger today. The hurricane reshaped the South, fueling a 
 widespread diaspora of disaster survivors into new areas that altered the 
 economy and community connectedness."\nFull article here: 
 https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082025/todays-climate-hurricane-katrina-aftermath-legacy-trump-fema-cuts/\n\n\nNRDC 
 POST on FEMA & CLIMATE CRISIS  RISKS (Aug. 14, 2025): 20th Anniversary of 
 Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned and the Dismantling of Disaster Response 
 \n"In the two decades since Hurricane Katrina, major policy reforms 
 strengthened disaster response at every level, bolstering the capacity of 
 the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) . . . That progress is at 
 risk today as the Trump administration has cut staff, rolled back many of 
 these advances, and left FEMA severely weakened—even threatening to 
 dismantle the agency entirely."\nFull article here: 
 https://www.nrdc.org/media/20th-anniversary-hurricane-katrina-lessons-learned-and-dismantling-disaster-response 
 \n\n\nCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT LAW - Blog Post Aug. 25, 
 2025\nPOST: Katrina 20 Years Later: Lessons We Must Heed This Hurricane 
 Season \n"Stronger storms and a failing insurance system keep exposing deep 
 inequalities and pushing families into a growing housing crisis."\nFull 
 blog here: https://www.ciel.org/katrina-20-years-later/\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/27/18879316.php
SUMMARY:Hurricane Katrina 20 Years: The Climate Crisis and Deep Environmental & Racial Injustices
LOCATION:Zoom RSVP: 
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