Dealing with the Disasters of Others

12:30

Welcome Coffee and Registration

Greetings

13:00

Ulrike Davy (Bielefeld), Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research

13:15

Gerhard Sagerer (Bielefeld), Rector of Bielefeld University

Introductory Talk

13:30

Heike Egner (Klagenfurt), Marén Schorch (Bielefeld):
Communicating Disaster: Framing a New Research Program
(Abstract) (Manuscript) (Presentation)

Session 1
Communicating Disaster in Space and Time 
Chair: Heike Egner (Klagenfurt)

14:15

Keynote Valerie November (Lausanne):
“Space Matters” – The Spatiality of Risk (Abstract)(Presentation)

15:00

Coffee Break with Cake

15:30

Michael Bründl (Davos): 
Visualization of Hazard and Risk - New Ways for Improving the Communication Between Science, Practice and Citizens (Abstract)

16:15

Dieter Neubert (Bayreuth) / Elísio Macamo (Basel):
Will this Flood be Dangerous? Risk Communication and the Tension between Expert Systems and Local Knowledge in Mozambique and Germany (Abstract)

17:00

Stephen Mosley (Leeds):
A Disaster in Slow Motion: The "Smoke Menace" in Urban-Industrial Britain (Abstract)

17:45

Short Break

18:00

Xperiment! (Vienna, London):
Out of the Sandbox. Frederick’s Disaster Scenarios and Emergency Provisions. (Abstract)

19:00

Conference Dinner (ZiF Cafeteria)

Session 2
Media and the Micro Order of Disaster
Chair: Jörg Bergmann (Bielefeld)

9:00

Ruth Ayaß (Klagenfurt):
Pictures of Pain - Photographs of Disasters (Abstract)

9:45

Gebhard Rusch (Siegen):
The Public Eye on Disasters - Journalists' Views at the Disasters of
Others.

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Stephan Habscheid (Siegen):
Relating Disasters to Space and Time, Practice and Identity: The Contribution of Situated Texts (Abstract)

11:45

Keynote
Nalaka Gunawardene (Sri Lanka):
Breaking News on a Restless Planet: Covering Disasters in a Networked Society (Abstract) (Presentation)

12:30

Lunch Break (ZiF Cafeteria)

Session 3
Technologies and Social Media for Dealing with Disasters
Chair: Volker Wulf (Siegen)

14:00

Monika Büscher, Lisa Wood, Sung-Yueh Perng (Lancaster):
Altruistic, Augmented, Agile: Public Crisis Response. (Abstract)

14:30

Volkmar Pipek (Siegen):
Working Together in Crisis (Abstract) (talk had failed unfortunately)

15:00

Kate Starbird (Boulder):
Digital Volunteerism: How Social Media Enables and Structures Collective Action during Disaster (Abstract)

15:30

Coffee Break with Cake

16:00

Gunnar Stevens (Siegen):
User-Centered Design of Smart Grid Security

16:30

Stefan Morley (Dräger, Lübeck):
Industrial Safety Research - From Customer Need to Product (Design) (Abstract)

16:45

Reinhold Friedrich (BMBF, Bonn):
New Perspectives of Research for Civil Security

17:00

Short Break

17:15-
18:00

Panel Discussion: “Analysing Practices – Designing Futures?”
Contributors of Session 3 and Peter Ladkin

19:30

Dinner (Dinner in town, direct payer)

Session 4
Organisation and Management of Disaster Communication
Chair: Wolf Dombrowsky (Berlin)

 9:00

Stefan Strohschneider (Jena):
Heedful Interaction and Affiliation in Emergency Management Teams
(Abstract)

 9:45

Norbert Reez (BBK, Bonn):
White-Collar Crisis Communication.
Strategic Exercises and Top-Level Media Management Training in Germany. (Abstract) (Presentation)

 10:15

Birgit Velte (German Red Cross, Berlin):
The Role of Information in Disasters: What Can We Learn from the 2011 Japan Earthquake? (Abstract)

 10:45

Coffee Break

 11:15

Andrew Collins (Northumbria):
What next for Disaster Education and Communication?
(Abstract) (Presentation)

 12:00

Jörg Bergmann (Bielefeld): The Disastrousness of Disaster
(Presentation)

 12:30

Convenors of the Research Group
Final Comments and Conference Close

 12:45

Lunch (ZiF Cafeteria)

End of Conference

Departure