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Date: Nov 18, 2008
Visiting Presidential Scholar Chester Hartman to Speak on Housing and Racism in the United States
Director of research for Poverty & Race Research Action Council will address Hofstra housing symposium Saturday
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY – Chester Hartman, Ph.D., a leading expert in the areas of affordable housing and racial inequalities in the United States, will speak at Hofstra this week during a three-day visit under the Presidential Scholar Program.
On Friday, November 21, he will speak on "The Social Construction of Disaster: New Orleans As the Paradigmatic American City." This lecture will be based, in part, on his 2006 book, There Is No Such Thing As a Natural Disaster: Race, Class and Hurricane Katrina (Routeledge, 2006). The lecture and discussion will be at 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. in Breslin Hall Room 100. The lecture is free and open to the public
On Saturday, November 22, Dr. Hartman will give the opening address at a daylong symposium, "Forging a New Housing Policy: Opportunity in the Wake of Crisis". The conference will consider the future of housing policy and community organizing in the context of the current financial crisis and will look at concrete paths to action. Speakers will include community organizers, non-profit representatives, and academics. The conference begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald A. Axinn Library, South Campus. Registration is at www.hofstra.edu/housingcrisis or at the door Saturday.
Dr, Hartman, who will also speak with students on Thursday, November 20, comes to Hofstra under the Visiting Presidential Scholar program, which brings guest lecturers from many disciplines to campus for multi-day visits. He holds the Ph.D. from Harvard University in City and Regional Planning, and presently is the director of research for the Poverty & Race Research Action Council PRRAC is a civil rights policy organization convened by major civil rights and anti-poverty groups in 1988-89. PRRAC's primary mission is to help connect social scientists with advocates working on race and poverty issues, and to promote a research-based advocacy strategy on issues of structural racial inequality. He is also editor of the council's journal, Poverty & Race.
Prior to taking his present position, he founded and was President/Executive Director of PRRAC. Before that, he was a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Harvard and served on the faculty there as well as at Yale, the University of North Carolina, Cornell, the University of California-Berkeley, and Columbia University. He is currently an adjunct professor of sociology at George Washington University.
His many books include Poverty & Race in America: The Emerging Agendas (Lexington Books, 2006); The Right to Housing: Foundation of a New Social Agenda (Temple University Press, 2006); City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco (University of California Press, 2002); Between Eminence & Notoriety: Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning (Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research, 2002); and Challenges to Equality: Poverty & Race in America (M.E. Sharpe, 2001).
His articles have appeared in The Nation, Social Work, Virginia Law Review, Journal of the American Planning Association, University of Wisconsin Law Review, Progressive Architecture, The Utne Reader, The Village Voice, Encyclopedia of Social Work, Social Policy, Society, Dissent, Mother Jones, Planning, Yale Law Journal, Journal of Housing, The Progressive, Journal of Urban Affairs and many other academic and popular journals and newspapers.
Dr. Hartman is the founder and former chair of the Planners Network, a national organization of progressive urban and rural planners and community organizers. He serves or has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban Affairs, Housing Policy Debate, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Housing Studies, The Journal of Negro Education and is a former board member/secretary of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. He has served as a consultant to HUD, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Stanford Research Institute, Arthur D. Little, California Rural Legal Assistance, the Urban Coalition, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Legal Aid Society of New York.
Hofstra University is a dynamic private institution where students can choose from about 140 undergraduate and 155 graduate programs in liberal arts and sciences, business, engineering, communication, education, health and human services, and honors studies, as well as a School of Law. With a student-faculty ratio of 14-to-1, our professors teach small classes averaging 22 students that emphasize interaction, critical thinking and analysis. Hofstra offers a faculty whose highest priority is teaching excellence. The University also provides excellent facilities with state-of-the-art technology, extensive library resources and internship programs that match students’ interests and abilities with appropriate companies and organizations. The Hofstra community is driven, dynamic and energetic, helping students find and focus their strengths to prepare them for a successful future.
On Friday, November 21, he will speak on "The Social Construction of Disaster: New Orleans As the Paradigmatic American City." This lecture will be based, in part, on his 2006 book, There Is No Such Thing As a Natural Disaster: Race, Class and Hurricane Katrina (Routeledge, 2006). The lecture and discussion will be at 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. in Breslin Hall Room 100. The lecture is free and open to the public
On Saturday, November 22, Dr. Hartman will give the opening address at a daylong symposium, "Forging a New Housing Policy: Opportunity in the Wake of Crisis". The conference will consider the future of housing policy and community organizing in the context of the current financial crisis and will look at concrete paths to action. Speakers will include community organizers, non-profit representatives, and academics. The conference begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald A. Axinn Library, South Campus. Registration is at www.hofstra.edu/housingcrisis or at the door Saturday.
Dr, Hartman, who will also speak with students on Thursday, November 20, comes to Hofstra under the Visiting Presidential Scholar program, which brings guest lecturers from many disciplines to campus for multi-day visits. He holds the Ph.D. from Harvard University in City and Regional Planning, and presently is the director of research for the Poverty & Race Research Action Council PRRAC is a civil rights policy organization convened by major civil rights and anti-poverty groups in 1988-89. PRRAC's primary mission is to help connect social scientists with advocates working on race and poverty issues, and to promote a research-based advocacy strategy on issues of structural racial inequality. He is also editor of the council's journal, Poverty & Race.
Prior to taking his present position, he founded and was President/Executive Director of PRRAC. Before that, he was a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Harvard and served on the faculty there as well as at Yale, the University of North Carolina, Cornell, the University of California-Berkeley, and Columbia University. He is currently an adjunct professor of sociology at George Washington University.
His many books include Poverty & Race in America: The Emerging Agendas (Lexington Books, 2006); The Right to Housing: Foundation of a New Social Agenda (Temple University Press, 2006); City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco (University of California Press, 2002); Between Eminence & Notoriety: Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning (Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research, 2002); and Challenges to Equality: Poverty & Race in America (M.E. Sharpe, 2001).
His articles have appeared in The Nation, Social Work, Virginia Law Review, Journal of the American Planning Association, University of Wisconsin Law Review, Progressive Architecture, The Utne Reader, The Village Voice, Encyclopedia of Social Work, Social Policy, Society, Dissent, Mother Jones, Planning, Yale Law Journal, Journal of Housing, The Progressive, Journal of Urban Affairs and many other academic and popular journals and newspapers.
Dr. Hartman is the founder and former chair of the Planners Network, a national organization of progressive urban and rural planners and community organizers. He serves or has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban Affairs, Housing Policy Debate, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Housing Studies, The Journal of Negro Education and is a former board member/secretary of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. He has served as a consultant to HUD, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Stanford Research Institute, Arthur D. Little, California Rural Legal Assistance, the Urban Coalition, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Legal Aid Society of New York.
Hofstra University is a dynamic private institution where students can choose from about 140 undergraduate and 155 graduate programs in liberal arts and sciences, business, engineering, communication, education, health and human services, and honors studies, as well as a School of Law. With a student-faculty ratio of 14-to-1, our professors teach small classes averaging 22 students that emphasize interaction, critical thinking and analysis. Hofstra offers a faculty whose highest priority is teaching excellence. The University also provides excellent facilities with state-of-the-art technology, extensive library resources and internship programs that match students’ interests and abilities with appropriate companies and organizations. The Hofstra community is driven, dynamic and energetic, helping students find and focus their strengths to prepare them for a successful future.
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