Academic 2008-2009
The Structural Violence of Humanitarianism
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
4:15-5:30 pm
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Public lecture by Dr. Linda Whiteford, at 4:15pm in the Hesburgh Center auditorium. Dr. Whiteford is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Associate Vice President for Global Strategies and International Affairs at the University of South Florida, Tampa.
People are drawn to humanitarian aid work for many reasons, just as those who seek their shelter do so for many reasons. They meet in the hellish terrain of great and urgent need, confronted by limited and constrained ability to provide. This presentation takes the violence done to women and girls during times of civil and military conflict, geophysical and political disasters, and complex emergencies as the lens through which to view the global failure to provide reproductive rights to women. We must consider the political agendas of those who shape the policies and programs of assistance, particularly in the provision of reproductive rights. Global violence inherent in the widespread ‘normalization’ of rape—in this case, of women, girls, and boys—in and around humanitarian aid camps, reflects the biopower of the state to control the welfare of its citizens. However, the ‘citizens’ of international aid shelters and camps are stateless people having fled their governments into the care of global protection. These ‘citizens’ are three ways vulnerable, made victims by their gender, ethnicity, and their state of statelessness.
Linda Whiteford's research has influenced an extraordinary number of medical anthropologists, economic anthropologists, and policy-makers over the last two decades. As a medical and economic anthropologist who studies the linkages between infectious disease, international health, development, and marginalized or refugee populations, Whiteford's research serves as a
foundation for understanding connections between global policy and local realities. Her work takes place in Latin America, most recently in Ecuador and Cuba, as well as refugee camps in various regions across the world.
Academic 2007-2008
Poverty alleviation through Microfinance in Rural Maharashtra, India
Tuesday, April 29
7:30 PM
208 DeBartolo Hall
Biraj Solanke, with her husband, founded the Majalgaon Vikas Pratishthan in 2003 to reach out to the under privileged women and children in Majalgaon taluka in Beed district in the state of Mahrashtra, India. In the last 4 years the institution has set up more than 450 Self Help Groups which provide micro-finance to the women. The institution has helped more than 10000 families double or triple their incomes and helped many women to become small entrepreneurs. She will be talking about her experiences with the microcredit lending and its effects on poverty alleviation.
Sponsored by the Department of Economics and Policy Studies and the Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor
Race and Inequality in Urban America, William Julius Wilson
January 27
7 p.m.
101 DeBartolo Hall
William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard, will speak on “Race and Inequality in Urban America” at 7 p.m. Sunday (Jan. 27) in Room 101 DeBartolo Hall.
Wilson, a sociologist and author of the book, “There Goes the Neighborhood,” will address some 250 Notre Dame students who spent part of their winter break on an Urban Plunge studying the causes of urban poverty while living with the urban poor. His lecture will particularly concern the proposals made by the 2008 presidential candidates to combat poverty in America.
Wilson is one of only 19 University Professors, the highest professional distinction for Harvard faculty. After earning a doctoral degree from Washinton State University in 1966, he taught sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Chicago before joining the Harvard faculty in 1996. He has received 42 honorary degrees and was selected by Time magazine in 1996 as one of America’s 25 most influential people.
Wilson’s lecture is a component of the 25th anniversary celebration of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns. Since 1983, more than 17,000 students have participated in the center’s service-learning courses, and more than 6,000 of these students have participated in the Urban Plunge program. The center also provides community-based research and service opportunities for Notre Dame students and in recent years has been ranked among the top 25 service-learning and community-based research programs in the nation.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is cosponsored by the Poverty Studies interdisciplinary minor and the Department of Economics and Policy Studies.
Academic year 2006-2007
Monday, April 2, 2007
Chuck Craypo, Emeritus Professor, Economics and Policy Studies
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Labor History Film #5 “Is Wal-Mart Good For America?” FRONTLINE explores the relationship between U.S. job losses and the American consumer's insatiable desire for bargains. Through interviews with retail executives, product manufacturers, economists, and trade experts, correspondent Hedrick Smith examines the growing controversy over the Wal-Mart way of doing business and asks whether a single retail giant has changed the American economy. (2004, 60 min.)
Monday, March 19-23, 2007
Celia Rouse, Provost's Distinguished Women's Lecturer
Tuesday, March 20, 5:00-6:30 p.m. in 126 DeBartolo Hall
"Making Schools Accountable: Effects on Students and Schools"
Wednesday, March 21 12:00-1:15 p.m. in 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Gender Studies Brown Bag
"The Social Costs of an Inadequate Education"
Professor Rouse is the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and they Director of the Education Research Section.
Her primary research and teaching interests are in labor economics with a particular focus on the economics of education. She has studied the economic benefit of community college attendance, evaluated the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, examined the effects of education inputs on student achievement, and tested for the existence of discrimination in symphony orchestras.
Her current research includes studies of Florida's school accountability system and randomized evaluations of the use of computers in schools. Ph.D. Harvard University.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Louis Uchitelle, veteran New York Times reporter
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium
The McBride Lecture (supported since 1978 by the United Steelworkers of America), will feature Louis Uchitelle, veteran New York Times reporter and author of The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences, which argues that corporate responsibility should entail more than good accounting and that successive administrations have failed miserably in protecting the American people from greedy executives, manipulative pension fund managers, leveraged buyouts and plain old bad business practices.
Friday, November 3, 2006
Governor Michael Easley, North Carolina
2:00 pm 102 DeBartolo Hall
"Intersection of Values and Politics in Modern American Life"
Reception immediately following event at 3:30 pm in the Notre Dame room of the Morris Inn.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Heidi Hartmann, Boehnen Lecture co-sponsored with Gender Studies.
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium
This lecture has been funded by Shari and Dave Boehnen in recognition of the pressing national need for work and family balance, and focuses on gender inequities in the workplace. This lecture is intended for a non-specialist audience and is intended to appeal to a broad constituency of students outside of the fields of Gender Studies and Economics
Sunday, October 22-Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Conference
University of Notre Dame, CCE Auditorium
New Directions in the Study of Happiness: United States and International Perspectives
Monday, September 11, 2006
Michael Zweig, SUNY Stony Brook
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Labor History Film #1 - “Meeting Face to Face: The Iraq-US Labor Solidarity Tour” (2006, 27 min.) This film brings the voices of Iraqi working people directly into the conversation as we consider the war and continuing occupation and what the next steps should be. We also see American working people bringing new energy and commitment to the movement for peace, social justice, and a humane foreign policy.
Academic year 2005-2006
October 11
7:00 pm 220 Malloy
Shawn Bushway, "Criminology as an interdisciplinary, policy relevant social science:How a Domer became a professor of criminology."
October 12
9:30 am 119 O'Shaughnessy
Shawn Bushway, "Using State Child Labor Laws to Identify the Casual Impact of Adolescent Work Intensity on Crime."
October 29
10:00 Jordon Auditorium, Medoza College of Business
Thriving in a Wal-Mart World: An Undergraduate Conference
February 17
10:00 a.m. 119 O’Shaughnessy
"Economics, Ethics and Moral Bias: Experimental Approaches"
March 30
7:00 p.m. 126 Debartolo
Larry Mead, "Welfare Reform: Implications for the War on Poverty"
Streaming video presentation
Broadband http://streaming.nd.edu/econ/ps/mead.wmv
Dial-up http://streaming.nd.edu/econ/ps/mead_low.wmv
Academic year 2004-2005
October 7 Becky Blank and William McGurn
"Is the Market Moral? A Dialogue on Religion, Economics & Justice"
Thursday, February 24 Jason DeParle
"Welfare to Work: A Closer Look at a Diverse Population in Transition"
Monday, March 14 through Thursday, March 17
Provost's Distinguished Women's Lecturer, Nancy Folbre
Wednesday, March 30 Dean Baker
7:00pm-9:00pm
126 DeBartolo Hall
"Social Security: The Phony Crisis"
Wednesday, April 13 Cynthia (Mil) Duncan
6:00pm-8:00pm -reception to follow
127Hayes-Healy Auditorium
"Culture and Politics
in Poor Communities"