Friday, January 20, 2006
Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquium posits the question: Can the Gulf Coast be saved?
 Mary Hallock Morris, assistant professor of political science, will present the first in the spring 2006 College of Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquia Series. She will present “Before there was Katrina: Flood Control, Wetland Loss, and the Political Battle to Save the Louisiana Gulf Coast” at 3:30 p.m. Friday, January 27, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. The colloquium will focus on the politics and policies that have contributed to the environmental problems along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. Central to understanding these problems is a brief history of the Mississippi River, a cultural icon popularized by Mark Twain’s writings; a muddy navigation corridor that was a key element to the nation’s westward expansion; and one of the major projects for the Army Corps of Engineers, an agency charged with keeping the basin’s residents free from floods. Against this backdrop, Morris will discuss the problems of path dependency and negative externalities, the policy community that created these problems, and the various political strategies used from 1940–2000. As a coda to this research, she posits the question “Can this coast be saved?” For more information about Morris’s colloquium and the series, see the Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquia Series Web page. |
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