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Social Sciences Forum
Spring 2010 Lecture Series

The Social Sciences Forum presents topics and perspectives of vital interest to the social sciences community and beyond. Lectures are free and open to the public and will last approximately one hour, followed by a question and answer period and a reception. For more information, call 410-455-2916.

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Past lectures are available online
 (choose Soc. Sci/Humanities Forum from drop down menu on right).


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Monday, March 22 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor

Reforming Child Welfare

Olivia Golden, Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute

Co-sponsored with the Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program

     
     
  Thursday, March 25 at 7pm (Rescheduled)


Mayoral Leadership During a Crisis: Lessons from Atlanta's First Black Mayor, Maynard Jackson

Robert Holmes, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Clark Atlanta University

Co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science, the Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program, the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, and the Department of Public Policy
     
     
  Monday, April 12 at 4pm (Rescheduled)
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Counting America: The 2010 Census

Rebecca M. Blank, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
U.S. Department of Commerce

Sponsored by the Department of Public Policy, the Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program
and the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research

     
     
 

Thursday, April 15 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor

Greenhouse Gases: Policy and Economics

Paul Joskow; President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Elizabeth and
James Killian Professor of Economics and Management, MIT


The Mullen Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Economics

   
     
 

Monday, April 19 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor

National Drug Demand Reduction Priorities:
Implications for the Nation, the Community, and Providers


A. Thomas McLellan, Deputy Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy,
Executive Office of the President of the United States


The Psychology Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Psychology

     
     
  Wednesday, May 5 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Abigail Adams

Woody Holton, Professor of History, University of Richmond

The Low Lecture, sponsored by the Department of History

     
     
  Wednesday, February 24 at 7pm
Commons, Skylight Room

Changing the Culture of Aging

William Thomas,
Professor, Erickson School of Aging Studies, UMBC

The Petrovich Lecture, sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, the Honors College,
the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Erickson School of Aging

     
     
  Monday, March 8 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor

Virgin Territory: On Writing a History of Virginity

Hanne Blank, writer and independent scholar
Followed by a conversation with Emek Ergun, PhD Candidate, Language Literacy and Culture Program, UMBC, on translating Blank's work


The Women's History Month Lecture, sponsored by the Gender and Women's Studies Program,
the Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Department of History