Colloquia - Fall 1997
Date: September 26,1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Toward Sustainable Land Use in Asia." Speaker is G. Gordon Davis, Environmental Attorney .
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: October 9,1997
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Norris Center, Louis Room North
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Title: IPR Colloquium - The Evaluation of the Welfare Reform
Description: "Assessing the New Federalism Project." Speaker is Stephen Bell, The Urban Institute; "The Urban Change Project." Speaker is Gordon Berlin, Manpower Demonstration Research Corp. (MDRC). Discussants are Charles Manski (IPR-Economics) and
Norman Bradburn, (Public Policy, University of Chicago).
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: October 10,1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Can Women Lead? Insights from Meta-Analytic Studies of Leadership." Speaker is Alice Eagly, IPR-Psychology.
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: October 14, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "The Commercialization of the Nonprofit Sector - Should Anyone Care?" Speaker is Burton A. Weisbrod, IPR-Economics.
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: October 24, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 1808 Chicago Avenue
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Title: IPR Colloquium (Co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology)
Description: "The Social Institution of Marriage and What It Does for People" Speaker is Linda Waite, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: October 29, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Cursing and Celebrating the Victims: Claiming the Saddest Story of World War II." Speaker is Laura Hein, Department of History, Northwestern University.
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: October 30, 1997
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center,633 Clark Street
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Title: IPR Distinguished Public Policy Lecture
Description: "Rising Inequality and the Political Support for Welfare Policy" Speaker is Michael Wallerstein, IPR-Political Science and Karl O. Moene, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway; "Friedman's Revenge: The Reform of the Liberal Welfare State in Canada and the United States." Speaker is John Myles, Department of Sociology, Florida State University. Discussant is Peter Swenson, IPR-Political Science.
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: October 31,1997
Time: 12:00 AM- 1:00PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Education, Overeducation, and Youth Unemployment in the United States and Germany." Speaker is James Witte, IPR-Sociology .
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: November 3, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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IPR Colloquium
Description: "The Changing Terrain of Work and Employment: Temporary Workers and Their Managers in High-Tech Manufacturing." Speaker is Vicki Smith, Department of Sociology, University of California-Davis.
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: November 12, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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IPR Colloquium
Description: "Have Changes in Welfare and Taxes Made More Mothers Work?" Speaker is Bruce Meyer, IPR-Economics.
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: November 14, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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IPR Colloquium
Description: "Legitimate Correction or Illegitimate Violence? Wives, Slaves and Legal Categories of Assault and Murder in the Antebellum U.S. South." Speaker is Laura Edwards, Department of History, UCLA.
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: November 17, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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IPR Colloquium
Description: "Hate Speech on College Campuses." Speakers are Dennis Chong and Jonathan Casper, IPR-Political Science.
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: November 19, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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IPR Colloquium
Description: "Structure of Achievement and Behavior in Middle Childhood." Speaker is Greg Duncan, IPR-Education and Lori Kowaleski-Jones, IPR Postdoctoral Fellow.
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: November 20, 1997
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Hardin Hall, 633 Clark Street
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IPR Colloquium
Description: "Who Benefits from Catholic Schooling?." Speaker is Derek Neal, Department of Economics, University of Chicago.
Contact: Patricia Reese
(847-491-8712)
