Monday, January 12, 2009

Lessons from the Flood--Collaborating in a Crisis

You're invited to a public program!
Lessons from the Flood--Collaborating in a Crisis
7 p.m. Thursday, January 15
Iowa City Public Library, Room A
Guest Lecturer Iowa City Manager Michael Lombardo"The View from City Hall"
Panelists Barbara Eckstein, UI Associate Provost and Professor of English"Before the Flood: An Endangered River Runs Through Us"
Gregg Oden, UI Professor of Psychology and Computer Science"After the Flood: Co-Chairing the UI Flood Mitigation Task Force"A reception follows at the Englert Theatre.
Presented by the Graduate Institute on Public Engagement and the Academy.
Sponsored by the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and the UI Graduate College. Co-sponsored by the UI Center for Teaching, UI Civic Engagement Program, the City of Iowa City, the Women's Resource and Action Center and the UI Associate Provost for Diversity.

For more information call the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies 335-4034 or visit http://www.uiowa.edu/obermann/about/NewsReleaseLessonsFromtheFlood.pdfIf you require an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Neda Barrett in advance at 319-335-4034.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow. Are they already patting themselves on the back? Who's paying for the reception at the Englert?