Agenda

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Friday, May 25, 2007

• Arrival and Overnight
• 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Guided Visit to & Discussion: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant
• 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Possible Guided Tour of the Pennsylvania State Capitol
• Evening: Teaching PA and PAT-Net Reception

Saturday, May 26, 2007

• 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
• 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Opening Plenary
  • Camilla Stivers, Cleveland State University: “Public Administration in Dark Times”
• 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break with Refreshments
• 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Session 1
  • 1.1 Responses to Stivers
  • 1.2 Administrative Responses to Crisis
    • Baker
  • 1.3 What Happened to High Level Theory in PA Literature?
  • 1.4 Public Policy Problems and Complexity Thinking
    • Mischen&Jackson
• 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Luncheon Plenary
  • Beverly Cigler, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg: “A Report on the ASPA Task Force on Hurricane Katrina”
• 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session 2
  • 2.1 Some Thoughts on Cruelty and Custom
  • 2.2 Decision Making
  • 2.3 Critical Theories of Public Engagement in an Era of Governance
  • 2.4 Anti-Essentialism
    • Spicer
• 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break with Refreshments
• 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Session 3
• 3.1 Spots, Fears and Enchantments: Portent of Public Administration in Crisis
• 3.2 Different Lenses on Disaster
• 3.3 Capacity Building
• 3.4 Expressions of the Spoken and Unspoken in PA: Information, Discourse and a State of Despair
  • Stone&Madigan
  • Rossmann
• Evening Entertainment: TBA

Sunday, May 27, 2007

• 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
• 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Session 4
  • 4.1 Alternative Responses to Fear
    • Smith Hall
    • Jones
    • Precis: Bussey/Hummel/Zingale
  • 4.2 Exception, Control, and Need in the Discourse of Security
  • 4.3 Ideologies, Values, and Leadership
    • Cunningham, Abdelrazek & Olshfski
  • 4.4 Framing Disaster and Terror
• 10:00 a.m.– 10:30 a.m. Break with Refreshments
• 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Session 5
  • 5.1 Constitutional Values and Citizenship
    • Spicer
  • 5.2 Explaining Failure
  • 5.3 Expectations of Government
  • 5.4 Collateral Damage: Impacts on Theory of Terror and Disaster
• 12:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Luncheon Plenary
  • Alex Kouzmin, University of South Australia: "Crisis/Emergency Management in Crisis”
• 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session 6
  • 6.1 Roundtable on Hope, Optimism, Utopianism, and Public Administration Theory
  • 6.2 Interpreting Terror
    • Wagenaar&Boersma
  • 6.3 Participatory Governance
  • 6.4 Public Administration Responses to Crisis or Terror
• 3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Break with Refreshments
• 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. PAT-Net Business Meeting