The 2016 Leila and Melville Straus 1960 Family Symposium will focus on the response to the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
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CONFERENCE AGENDA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18
5:00-6:00pm, Hood Museum of Art, Hood Auditorium
Discussion with Photographers James Nachtwey & Kevin Bubriski
Moderator: Katherine Hart, Curator of Academic Programming, Hood Museum
6:00-7:00pm, Hood Museum of Art
Opening Reception and Exhibition
With images from James Nachtwey and Kevin Bubriski
8:00-10:00pm, 003 Rockefeller
Film Screening: Himalayan Megaquake (NOVA)
Followed by Skype Q&A with Director Liesl Clark
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19
11:15am-12:15pm, Haldeman 041
Narrating Disaster: Causality and Responses to the 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal
Panelists: Sienna Craig (Dartmouth), Geoff Childs (Washington University in St. Louis),
Kristine Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville), Discussant: BP Giri (Kathmandu University)
12:30-1:45pm, Haldeman 041
Social Media and Social Entrepreneurship in Response to the Earthquakes
Panelists: Austin Lord (Cornell, Dartmouth ’06), Max von Hippel (Dartmouth ’19),
Ravi Kumar (CodeforNepal.org), Kevin Bubriski (Photographer), Discussant: Lorie Loeb (DALI Lab, Dartmouth)
2:00-3:45pm, Haldeman 041
Public Health Responses to the Earthquakes
Panelists: SP Kalaunee (Possible Health, Nepal), Ian Speers ’17 (Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health),
Bijay Acharya (Massachusetts General Hospital), Shreya Shrestha, Geisel ’15 (Aasha for Nepal),
Dr. Daniel Albert (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Aasha for Nepal)
Discussant: Dr. John Butterly (Geisel School of Medicine)
4:30-6:00pm, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Keynote: Swarnim Waglé
6:00-6:45pm, Filene Atrium
Public Reception
8:00-10:00pm, 002 Rockefeller
Film Screening: The Next Big One
Followed by Skype Q&A with Producer Kunda Dixit
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20
10:00-11:30am, Haldeman 041, overflow 031
Disaster Response On and Off Campus: Current Status and Future Needs
Panelists: Ashish Khemka (Sam Houston State University), Pawan Dhakal (Dartmouth-for-Nepal),
Kripa Dongol (Dartmouth-for-Nepal), Sukriti Raut, Prithul Kharki and Deepesh Duwadi (Colby-Sawyer College),
Kathryn March (Cornell University), Discussant: Laurel Stavis (Dartmouth)
2:00-3:00pm, Haldeman 041
Town Hall: Swarnim Waglé and Mahendra Shrestha