"21st Century Justice: Current Research on Policing, Criminals, Prisons, and Guns," March 28, 2011. Presentations by Wesley G. Skogan, Professor of Political Science and IPR Associate Director and Fellow; John Hagan, MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law and IPR Faculty Associate; and Jens Ludwig, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy, University of Chicago.

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“Radical Shift or Politics as Usual? Implications of the 2010 U.S. Congressional Elections,” January 10, 2011. Presentations by Kenneth Janda, Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus of Political Science; Laurel Harbridge, Assistant Professor of Political Science and IPR Faculty Fellow; and David Dranove, McNerney Professor of Health Industry Management and IPR Faculty Associate.

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"Improving No Child Left Behind: What the Research Says," April 5, 2010. Presentations by Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice; Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Education & Social Policy; and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University; Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago; David Figlio, Orrington Lunt Professor of Education & Social Policy; Professor of Economics; and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University.

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"Opportunities for Change: Taking Action to End Extreme Poverty in Illinois," December 9–10 2008, Illinois Poverty Summit, with keynote speaker Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund. Presentations by IPR faculty fellows Fay Lomax Cook, Dan A. Lewis, and James Rosenbaum. Co-sponsored with the Illinois Governor’s Office and Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights.

“Reflections on the 2008 Presidential Election,” November 3, 2008, with Fay Lomax Cook, Director of IPR, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, and IPR Faculty Fellow; Benjamin Page, Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making and IPR Faculty Associate; and James Druckman, Associate Professor of Political Science, IPR Faculty Fellow, and Chair, IPR Program in Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy.

Apartheid in America,” with Felice Yeskel, Executive Director of Class Action, November 15. Co-sponsored with Northwestern’s Department of Gender Studies, Multicultural Student Affairs, LGBT Resource Center, and AKA Sorority

"Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America," with Xavier de Souza Briggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 29.

"The Public Policy Implications of the Next Supreme Court," with
Lee Epstein, Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor and Andrew Koppelman, Professor of Law and Political Science, October 14.