Past Presentations to the Social Science Forums

Fall 2010:

Urban Poverty and Children's Life Chances Watch Video Online Jens Ludwig, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy in the School of Social Service Administration and the Harris School, University of Chicago and Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab Co-sponsor: Department of Public Policy

Post-Election Forum Watch Video Online Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, Julie Bykowicz, political reporter for The Baltimore Sun, UMBC professors Thomas Schaller, Political Science, and Donald Norris, Chair of the Department of Public Policy and Director of the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research Co-sponsors: Department of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, and the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR)

Practical Idealists: Bringing the World to Baltimore Baltimore social change leaders who are Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Watch Video Online Vu Dang, Chief Service Officer - Baltimore City Jody Olson,Visiting Professor - University of Maryland School of Social Work and Former Deputy Director of the Peace Corps Ed Orser, Professor of American Studies, UMBC Sally Scott, Senior Program Officer - Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers (ABAG) Ashley Milburn, Director of The Culture Works Project Read more... Sponsored by the Shriver Peaceworker Fellows Program

Politics and Policy in the 21st Century: Does Race Still Matter? Watch Video Online Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania W.E.B DuBois Lecture Sponsors: Department of Africana Studies and the Dresher Center for the Humanities

Higher Education? Some Pertinent and Impertinent Questions about the Value Students and Families Receive for their College Investment Andrew Hacker, Contributor to the New York Review of Books and Department of Political Science, Queens College (CUNY) and Claudia Dreifus, New York Times columnist and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Co-Sponsors: Office of the President and the Dresher Center for the Humanities

Spring 2011 :

Reading and Discussion of Not In My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City View this talk online Antero Pietila, Author and Former Reporter for The Baltimore Sun Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Department of American Studies and The Retriever Weekly

Baltimore School Desegregation and the Challenges of Understanding Race View this talk online Howell Baum, Professor, School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, University of Maryland, College Park

The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System View this talk online Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Mullen Lecture Sponsored by the Department of Economics

Negotiating Contaminated Identities: Gender, Water, and Development in Altered Waterscapes Farhana Sultana, Professor of Geography, Syracuse University; Chair and Organizer of the 'The Right to Water' conference Korenman Lecture Co-sponsored by the Gender and Women's Studies Program

Being Face-to-Face But Not Seeing Eye-to-Eye: Divergent Goals and Experiences During Interracial Interactions View this talk online J. Nicole Shelton, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University Second Annual Distinguished Lecture in Psychology Sponsored by the Department of Psychology

Sing Out! Pete Seeger and American Reform View this talk online Allan M. Winkler, Distinguished Professor of History, Miami University in Ohio Low Lecture Co-sponsored by the Department of History