Meetings & Events Protect New York holds academic meetings and seminars, supports interchange between academic research and government (and other sectors), facilitates research by our members, collaborates across disciplines and academic institutions, and provides testimony and advice to government. We also are committed to improving post-secondary-level education in disaster planning, homeland security, emergency management, public health, hazard and disaster engineering, medicine, and related fields. Protect New York Meetings & Events Conference on Protecting New York from Terrorism and Disaster: Taking Stock, Setting Directions, Looking Forward Was held Thursday-Friday, January 10-11, 2008 The Levin Institute of the State University of New York 116-120 East 55th Street, New York, NY Read more about the Conference Download a PDF of the FINAL Conference Program The catastrophic risks that New York State faces from terrorism, pandemics, and natural and technological disasters will challenge us for generations. To create and disseminate knowledge on ever better ways of protecting ourselves, New York must foster excellence in research, education, and public service. Founded in 2006 at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, in Brooklyn, N.Y., Protect New York is dedicated to helping New York State and New York City meet this challenge. With members representing 20 colleges and universities and dozens of academic disciplines, Protect New York invites papers and presentations on research results, research in progress, progress in theoretical frameworks, and innovations in training and education. Contributions are accepted from all disciplines, as long as they are so framed as to be broadly understandable. We intend our conference to highlight advances in knowledge, bridge researchers and practitioners, create opportunities for collaboration, encourage young investigators, and serve as a forum for open debate. To help protect states and urban regions from catastrophic loss, we intend our conference to promote the application of science and rigorous reasoning in public policy, journalism, and business. Applicants to present papers at our conference must be members of Protect New York. Membership is free but requires registration via this web site and approval by our board. (Note that panel chairs may at their discretion invite guest panelists who are not members.) Requirements for membership are stated on the website. Subject to the specific wording on this website and approval of applications by our board, the following persons qualify: University and college faculty members and students in accredited institutions conducting research or education on our topics; and Public officials and professionals with records of responsibility and accomplishment related to emergency management, disaster planning, and counter-terrorism. Accepted papers will be considered for publication by Protect New York's official publication, the Journal of Applied Security Research. Proposed papers must (1) relate to security and disaster issues affecting New York City, the tri-state Metro New York region, New York State, or any of the state's regions and jurisdictions, or (2) address topics bringing to New York applicable lessons from other states, cities, and regions. We especially invite papers that take stock in the wake of 9/11: What have we learned and in what directions should we proceed? TOPICS AND PANELS Read the Draft Conference Program HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER OR PROPOSE A PANEL Note: Paper or Panel Proposals submitted too late for this conference will be considered for the next conference (TBA). Submitted papers will be judged by a panel appointed by the Board of Protect New York or by panel chairs designated and approved by the Board. Until further notice, please submit proposals as follows: If a panel chair has been confirmed in the topic on which you would like to propose a paper, please submit to that chair. If no panel has been set up on your panel or no panel chair has been confirmed, submit to Protect New York President, Professor Ernest Sternberg at ezs@buffalo.edu. In your email, state your name, mailing address, email, and phone number, and whether you are a Protect New York member. If you aren't you will be asked to join before further steps are taken. To propose a paper, please provide a title and abstract in the body of the email. To propose a panel, please provide in the body of the email information on the proposed topic, your background in the topic, and whom you have in mind as potential panelists. Do not send your paper now; your panel chair will ask for it later. Do not send attachments. FEES The fee for the two-day conference is expected to be in the $100-150 range, subject to decision by the Protect New York Board. The fee pays for registration, two box lunches, and refreshments. ACCOMMODATIONS There will be no conference hotel. Hotels in Manhattan are plentiful and in early January offer the year's lowest prices. With some searching on travel or hotel web sites, it should be possible to get a fine room near midtown under $200 per night. 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