Last week’s Hurricane Katrina Teach-in here at Gustavus is now available to stream from the web in Windows Media Audio (wma) format. To listen to these streams, you will need to have a reliable connection to the Internet and Windows Media Player installed on your computer.
- Peg O’Connor (Women’s Studies) — Introduction
- Karen Larson (Anthropology & Interdisciplinary Studies) — “Katrina Renders America Unto Itself”
- Mark Bjelland (Geography) — “Natural Hazards and the Big Easy”
- Kate Wittenstein (History) — “The Federal Government, Race, and Katrina”
- Russell Shapiro (Geology) — “Natural Hazard, not Disaster: The Meaning of Hurricanes”
- Bob Douglas (Geography) — “Geography of New Orleans: Why the French Got it Right”
- Chris Gilbert (Political Science) — “The Politics of FEMA”
- Casey Elledge (Religion) — “Natural Disasters and Apocalypticism”
- Andy Vaughn (Religion) — “The Role of the Church in Presenting Hope”
- Ruth Johnson — Extemporaneous
- Mary Gaebler (Religion) — “Compassion Alone is not Enough”
- Jill Locke (Political Science) — “Race, Poverty, and the Hurricane”
- John Lammert (Biology) — “Don’t Drink the Water”
- Ben Laabs (Geology) — “What Happened to the Wetlands”
- Deborah Goodwin (Religion) — “Christianity and Faith-based Politics”
- Auzannette Harrell ’08 — “Questions and Answers”
- Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) — “Food and Agriculture”
- Terry Morrow (Communication Studies) — “Federalism: What We Can Expect from the Federal Government”
- Alisa Rosenthal (Political Science) — “Left Behind: Evacuation, Poverty, and the Hurricane”