The Department of Sociology and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program invite you to a colloquium:
“Making Music, Making Community: Lesbians, Feminism and the Women’s Music Community”
Presented by:
Dr. Jo Reger
Professor of Sociology and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, Oakland University; Editor, Gender & Society
Friday January 22 at 11am
480c Fretwell
This Monday, October 13th, RealClearPolitics will be hosting an event in Charlotte to discuss energy issues on the midterm election campaign trail as well as the implications of those issues for the state of North Carolina. I sincerely hope that you’re able to join us to watch the panel discussion and interviews, as we believe the conversations will highlight some very important issues.
Quick details:
We hope to use this discussion to bring the best ideas from community members like you to our national audience. Please feel free to share this invitation with any interested colleagues or friends. We hope to see you in Charlotte on Monday!
Ted Hamlin, Account Coordinator Account Coordinator RealClearPolitics 1667 K Street NW; Suite 1150 Washington, DC 200006 202-802-0951 @TedHamlinRCPLooking Back: Lessons Learned from 30 Years as a Policy Analyst BY
JEFFREY WASSERMAN : VICE PRESIDENT, RAND CORPORATION
DIRECTOR, RAND HEALTH
Jeffrey Wasserman is vice president and director of RAND Health. He currently leads the National Health Security Strategy project, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and earlier led projects related to public health entrepreneurship and the relationship between law and public health emergency preparedness. He was co–principal investigator on RAND’s Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts (COMPARE) initiative and led a Gates Foundation–funded project on improving diagnostic tools for the developing world. Wasserman is a professor of public policy at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an instructor in the University of Southern California’s International Public Policy and Management program, where he teaches a course on public policy formulation and implementation. Wasserman received his B.A. in political science and his M.S. in public policy analysis from the University of Rochester; his Ph.D. in public policy analysis is from the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014 at 12:30PM
WHERE: CONE 113
Lunch will be provided
Project Mosaic will host a public lecture by Dr. Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University.
Title: Intergenerational Mobility and Equality of Opportunity in the US.
When: October 2, 2:00 p.m. in the College of Health and Human Services 159.
Public Policy will host a lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Wasserman, RAND Corporation,
Title: TBA
October 29th: 12:30 p.m.
Jeffrey Wasserman is vice president and director of RAND Health. He currently leads the National Health Security Strategy project, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and earlier led projects related to public health entrepreneurship and the relationship between law and public health emergency preparedness. He was co–principal investigator on RAND’s Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts (COMPARE) initiative and led a Gates Foundation–funded project on improving diagnostic tools for the developing world. His talk will focus on lessons learned in his 30 years as a policy analyst.
INTERNATIONAL COFFEE HOUR: Thursday, September 4 & 18 from
TIME: 4:00PM-6:00PM
PLACE: Prospector Faculty/Staff Dining Room
Contact: intlsso@uncc.edu
Enjoy coffee and conversation at this informal gathering held twice monthly on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Faculty, staff and students are welcome. Please note that attendance is usually between 80~100, but we project 200~300 for our September gatherings! All are welcome. More information on the program is available at http://isso.uncc.edu/programs/international-coffee-hour.
DEADLINE FOR ENROLLMENT IN THE FRIENDSHIP & CULTURE EXCHNAGE Monday, September 8
Contact: intlsso@uncc.edu
Encourage your students to enroll in this one-on-one conversation partner program where international students are matched with students from the United States to meet independently to exchange ideas and learn about their respective cultures. Information and application are available at http://isso.uncc.edu/programs/international-friendship-culture-exchange-program.
UNC Charlotte International Festival Saturday, September 20
TIME: 10:00AM-6:00PM
PLACE: In and around the Barnhardt Student Activity Center
Contact: international@uncc.edu
Plan to join us and encourage your students to explore more than 50 cultural displays at the 39th annual UNC Charlotte International Festival. Art, crafts, costumes, food, music, and dance combine to create the illusion of having traveled the globe in a day. Sign in sheets can be available for faculty wishing to grant credit for attending. Contact OIP for additional engagement and reflection assignment ideas. Additional details available online at http://ifest.uncc.edu.
International Speaker Series: Dr. Badrul Alam, author & professor from India Thursday, September 25
TIME: 3:30PM-5:00PM
Place: Dale Halton Reading Room, Atkins Library
Contact & RSVP: international@uncc.edu
Dr. Badrul Alam will speak on current affairs between India and the U.S. in the first installation of the 2014-2015 International Speaker Series. Faculty are encouraged to reserve space to attend with their classes and/or arrange for an extra-credit sign-in sheet for their students. For more information on the series, see http://oip.uncc.edu/calendar/international-speaker-series.
Association for Institutional Thought 2015 Call for Papers
The 36th Annual Meeting of AFIT will take place on April 8-11, 2015 in Portland, Oregon, at the Marriot hotel in conjunction with the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) 57th Annual Conference.
Conference Theme:
Institutionalism: History, Theory, and Futures
The 2015 AFIT conference invites you to submit papers and sessions that address the history of Institutionalism, its theoretical development, and innovative futures and expansion. The conference theme encourages work on the history of Institutionalism – with respect to establishment of its infrastructure and intellectual community, and its connection to other heterodox approaches and to the broader heterodox community; development of theory and impact on policy; and efforts and strategies for memory creation/preservation. Papers employing and discussing historical methods and their role in developing institutional theory and the evolution of capitalism are welcomed.
The organizer encourages papers and sessions that historically and theoretically examine institutional-heterodox concepts- social provisioning; resource creation; life-process; institutional change; predation; enclosures; invidious distinction; waste; going concern; administered prices; centralized market planning; salesmanship; class; ownership; valuation; machine process; capital; and the social nature of money, among others. The organizer is interested in how we utilize and further develop those and other concepts to analyze the capitalist process, as well as theorizing violence, slavery, gender, precariousness, race/ethnicity, surveillance, incarceration, dependence, think-tanks, religion, politics of austerity, and money in politics.
Papers and sessions that address the futures and expansion of Institutionalism, including in the classroom and research, but also outside of academia, are strongly encouraged. Sessions and papers that showcase or outline potentials for theoretically meaningful interdisciplinary collaborations, as well as connecting Institutionalism to other heterodox approaches are strongly welcomed. For example, the organizer is interested in session(s) on feminist-institutionalism. Also, the conference seeks papers that utilize and develop research methods appropriate for institutional analysis, including ethnographic research, oral history, and social fabric matrix analysis, among others. Policy and issues-oriented topics are also welcomed, especially if connected to theoretical/methodological discussions. The conference organizer would like to specifically invite papers and panels about Portland and the region, and presentations by local academic and other activists/practitioners that would enrich the discussion about institutional analysis.
AFIT will continue the tradition of having one or more sessions that explore ideas, experiences, and materials to advance economic education from institutional and other heterodox perspectives. Finally, panels and papers discussing current changes in higher education are also welcomed.
The conference is receptive to proposals for panels that review and discuss books recently published by AFIT members. AFIT encourages proposals from graduate students. AFIT will continue to sponsor prizes for outstanding student papers. Check our website for announcement of the student competition.
The format of the 2015 conference panels does not include discussants. However, if you organize a panel, and you find it necessary to have discussants, you are welcome to do so. Proposals for complete sessions are encouraged.
Proposal Format: Paper
Title of the Paper
Name and Affiliation
Mailing Address, Telephone Number, E-mail
Willingness to serve as a moderator (areas)
Other Authors
Abstract (150 words; New Times Roman 12)
Proposal Format: Session
Title of the Session
Title of each Paper (3/4 papers)
Moderator with Affiliation, Mailing Address, Telephone Number, E-mail Address
Presenters with Affiliation, Mailing Address, Telephone Number, E-mail, Willingness to serve as moderators (areas)
Abstract for each paper (150 words; New Times Roman 12)
Current membership in AFIT is required for presenting a paper. AFIT’s annual membership dues are $25 and $15 for full-time students. Please, pay here: http://www.associationforinstitutionalthought.org/division.php?page=membership. All presenters and moderators are required to register prior to March 1, 2015 at the WSSA web site http://wssa.asu.edu.
In order to better facilitate discussion, AFIT requests that you e-mail your paper by April 1 to the moderator of your session. The suggested length of submitted papers is 3000 words. However, if you have prepared a longer paper, you are welcome to submit it in its original length. Please, make every effort to avoid cancellations, especially once the program is finalized! All proposals must be sent to the conference organizer by December 1, 2014 by e-mail with the subject line AFIT 2015 Proposal Last Name and file attachment last name_AFIT15 in Microsoft Word format to the conference organizer and Vice President of AFIT:
Zdravka Todorova
todorova.institutional@gmail.com
Department of Economics, Wright State University
For more information about AFIT, please visit our website at
www.associationforinstitutionalthought.org
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Zdravka Todorova
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton, OH 45435-0001
937-775-3932
http://www.wright.edu/~zdravka.todorova/
Vice President
Association for Institutional Thought
http://www.associationforinstitutionalthought.org/
The Rethinking Economics 2014 London Conference is a student-run conference in promoting pluralism within economics. This year’s conference will follow up the London 2013 conference; Lord Adair Turner, Dr. Ha-Joon Chang and many more will be exploring problems in economics and alternatives to the current status quo.
The conference takes place on the weekend of the 28th and 29th of June. Tickets are just £10 for the weekend for students/concessions and £20 for general admission, and include lunch.
For more information or to buy tickets, please visit www.rethinkingeconomicslondon.org.
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Here is a link to the Project Mosaic the Dr. Rubin talked about in our meeting. They have many planned activities for students and staff.
http://projectmosaic.uncc.edu/
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