Colloquia - Spring 1997
Date: April 3, 1997
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Americanization as the Creation of
Oligopoly: The Case of Steel in Japan and Germany in the
Postwar Era." Speaker is Gary Herrigel, Department of
Political Science, University of Chicago .
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 4, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Descent Into
Totebag Hell: Public Broadcasting and Its Commercial Activities."
Speakesr are Burton Weisbrod, Department of Economics
and IPR Faculty Fellow and Craig LaMay, Medill School
of Journalism.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 9, 1997
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR
Colloquium
Description: "Building
a Progressive Majority: Ten Big Ideas to Transform America."
Speaker is William Marshall, President and Co-Founder, Progressive
Policy Institute.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 10, 1997
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Hardin Hall, 633 Clark Street
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Fairness and Equity Issues in State
Child Support Programs for Low-Income Families." Speaker
is David Betson, Department of Economics, University of
Notre Dame. Discussant is Leslie Moscow, Department of Economics,
Northwestern University.
"Inside the Welfare Contract: Research at
the Street Level." Speaker is Evelyn Brodkin, School of
Social Service Adminsitration, University of Chicago. Discussant
is Dan A. Lewis, School of Education and Social Policy and
IPR Faculty Fellow.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 11, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Land and Aboriginal Rights in Australia."
Speaker is Ian McIntosh, Cultural Anthropologist with the
Northern Land Council, Northern Territory of Australia.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 16, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "The Widow's Offering: Inheritance,
Family Structure, and the Charitable Gifts of Women." Speaker
is Leslie Moscow, Department of Economics, Northwestern
University.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 18, 1997
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Scott Hall, Room 212
Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "In Defense of 'Descriptive
Representation.'" Speaker is Jane Mansbridge, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 23, 1997
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Auditorium, Allen Center
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Waiting for a Miracle: Why Schools
Can't Solve Our Problems--and How We Can." Speaker is James
Comer, Maurice Falk Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Child
Study Center.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 24, 1997
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: University of Chicago, 1155 E. 60th Street,
Room 140C
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: Schools: "Racial and Ethnic Preference
in College Admissions." Speaker is Tom Kane, Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University. Discussant is Angela
Irvine, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University.
"Does the Black-White Test Score Gap Widen
During School." Speaker is Meredith Phillips,
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University. Discussant
is Norman Blackburn, University of Chicago.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 29, 1997
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Adjusting Labor: State-Union Relations
and Industrial Restructuring in France and Spain."
Speaker is Rand Smith, Department of Political Science,
Lake Forest College.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 2, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals, Universities,
Museums, and Others Becoming More Like Private Firms-- and
Should Anyone Care?" Speaker is Burton Weisbrod, Department
of Economics and IPR Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 5, 1997
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "The Problem of Stability in Economic
Exchange Relationships: The Implications of Embeddedness."
Speaker is Brian Uzzi, Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 8, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Redefining the American Welfare
State." Speaker is Michael Katz, Department of History
and School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 8, 1997
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center
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Title: The Earned Income Tax Credit
(EITC):
Description: "The EITC, Taxes, and Women's Labor
Supply: Recent Evidence." Speaker is Dan Rosenbaum,
Department of Economics, Northwestern University. Discussant
is Derek Neal, Department of Economics, University of Chicago.
"The EITC and the Labor Supply of Married
Couples." Speaker is Nada Eissa, Department of Economics,
University of California-Berkeley. Discussant is Steve Davis,
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 14, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR and Department of Sociology
Description: "Questions of Power: Women Living
in Mixed-Income Housing." Speaker is Cathy Flynn, Program
in Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University
and Angela Irvine, Department of Sociology, Northwestern
University.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 16, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Social Science Research and Social
Policy: How They Connect from the Perspective of a Foundation
Administrator." Speaker is Paul E. Lingenfelter, Vice
President, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 21, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Experiments in Cyberspace: The
'Crime and Punishment' Model." Speaker is Jerry Goldman,
Department of Political Science, Northwestern University.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 22, 1997
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: University of Chicago, 1155 E. 60th Street,
Room 140C
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Title: Poverty and Policy
Description: "It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda
for Fighting Poverty." Speaker is Rebecca Blank, Department
of Economics and IPR Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University,
and Director, Joint Center for Poverty Research. Discussant
is Larry Lynn, School of Social Service Administration,
University of Chicago.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 23, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Social Experimentation in the Policy
Sciences: Problems Solved (and to be Solved)." Speaker is
William Shadish, Department of Psychology, University of
Memphis, and IPR Visiting Scholar.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 29, 1997
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "The Power of Capital: Corporate Governance
and Corporate Strategy in the U.S. and Europe at the Turn
of the Century." Speaker is Colleen Dunlavy, Department
of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
