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SPRING 2008 COLLOQUIUM DESCRIPTION |
January 23, 2008 12.00-2.00 p.m. Conant / Lowy Lounge |
BUSSW Diversity Committee
Annual Potluck Luncheon |
January 31, 2008 3:00-4:30pm
Conant Lounge |
Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Presenter: Rachel Dekel, Senior Lecturer, The Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, Israel, Visiting Scholar, Boston University School of Social Work |
February 7, 2008 3:00-4:30pm
Conant Lounge |
Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Presenter: Judith Gonyea, Professor and Chair of Research, Boston University School of Social Work |
February 14, 2008 3:00-4:30pm
Conant Lounge |
Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Topic: Wal-Mart in the world: Different strategies in different contexts
Presenter: Chris Tilly, Professor, Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, University of Massachusetts, Lowell |
February 19, 2008 12.15-2 p.m.
Conant Lounge |
Faculty Colloquium
Topic: Service Needs of Returning Iraqi Veterans and Their Families
Presenter: Terence Keane, Ph.D., Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development at the VA Boston Healthcare System and Director of the Behavioral Science Division of the National Center for PTSD |
February 21, 2008 3:00-4:30pm
Conant Lounge |
Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Topic: Let the Government become their guardians”: Welfare Policy, Administrative Law, and the Legal Construction of the Family in the Early Nineteenth Century
Presenter: Kristen Collins, Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
Discussant: Rob Hudson, Professor of Social Work, Boston University School of Social Work |
February 27, 2008 12.15-2 p.m.
Lounge |
Racism Brown Bag/Diversity Committee Program
Spike Lee’s Film “When the Levees Broke”
Discussion by Maude Hurd, National President of The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
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February 28, 2008 3:00-4:30pm
Conant Lounge |
Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Topic: Contested Interpretations of Economic Inequality Following Hurricane Katrina
Presenter: Deborah Belle, Professor, Boston University Department of Psychology |
March 4, 2008
12.15-1.45 p.m.
Conant Lounge |
Diversity Committee Program
Go Global. International Perspectives on Social Work Practice
Topic: New Challenges for Korean Social Workers
Presenter: Dr. Hyemee Yoon, Korea
Topic: The Challenges of Treatment in a Shared Traumatic Reality
Presenter: Dr. Rachel Dekel, Israel |
March 6, 2008
3:00-4:30pm
Conant Lounge |
Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Presenter: Kevin Lang, Professor, Boston University Department of Economics |
March 20, 2008
3:00-4:30pm
Conant Lounge |
Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Presenter: Marisol Negron, Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Latino Studies, Brandeis University |
March 27, 2008
3:00-4:30pm
Conant Lounge |
Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Presenter: Heather MacIndoe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown University |
March 31, 2008
12.15-2 p.m.
Conant Lounge |
Faculty Colloquium
Topic: Teaching Social Work Students about Safety Issues / Violence Prevention in the Workplace. |
April 3, 2008
3:00-4:30pm
Conant Lounge |
Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Presenter: Gail Steketee, Dean ad Interim, Professor, Boston University School of Social Work |
April 10, 2008
3:00-4:30pm
Conant Lounge |
Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Presenter: Robin Robinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, UMASS Dartmouth |
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