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You are invited to a Public Policy Lunch Presentation
 A Participatory Action Research & Bi-National Learning Exchange Project:
Knowledge and Power in the NGO Sector, Haifa and Boston
with Professor Donna Haig Friedman and Jennifer Cohen, Public Policy PhD Student.
Monday, April 7th
11:30 - 1:00
in the PP Classroom, McCormack 3-412
We also look forward to hearing about the conference in Israel where Prof. Haig Friedman and Jenny Cohen presented their findings in March. Lunch will be served.
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The Forgiveness Business:
Report from the Field
John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies presents:
 Padraig O'Malley
John Joseph Moakley Chair of Peace and Reconciliation will give the second of the Spring 2008 lecture series.
Northern Ireland:
The Forgiveness Business: Report from the Field
Tuesday, April 8th
4:30PM
University of Massachusetts Club
It has been ten years since the fighting stopped. There's a new power-sharing government in Northern Ireland, and still neighbors don't talk to neighbors. Is reconciliation possible? And if so, is there a roadmap?
Directions: Red line to South Station. The club is at 225 Franklin Street (Floor 33), adjacent to Post Office Square. Questions, Reservations: 617-287-5550
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Political Economy and Public Policy Lecture Series:The Role of Migration in New England's Educational Advantage
Prof. Alan Clayton-Matthews will be speaking on The Role of Migration in New England's Educational Advantage
Thursday April 10
11:30AM-1:00PM
McCormack Hall, 3rd Fl. Rm. M3-415
How has New England managed to achieve higher rates of educational attainment among its youth? This paper explores how migration flows of college students and college-educated adults raised the educational attainment of the population in New England and each of the New England states during the period 1970 to 2005. Alan Clayton-Matthews
For more Info: http://umbppf.blogspot.com/2008/03/political-economy-and-public-policy.html |
Annual Slomoff Lectureship
Health Care Rationing:The Elephant in The Room
Presented by The Graduate Program In Dispute Resolution
 Paul Levy, President and Chief Executive Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, and author of the blog "Running a Hospital" ( runningahospital.blogspot.com)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
1:30 PM
Campus Center, Third Floor,
Conference Ballroom A
Reaction and discussion by a panel of experts, including:
Marc Roberts
Professor of Political Economy,
Department of Health Policy and Management,
Harvard School of Public Health
James Sabin
Clinical Professor, Departments of Psychiatry
and Ambulatory care/Prevention, Harvard Medical
School; Director, Harvard Pilgrim Health
Care Ethics Program
Stephen P. Crosby
Dean, McCormack Graduate School
of Policy Studies, UMASS Boston
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COLLOQUIUM SEMINAR
Paul Levy: Collaborative
Leadership
5:00 - 6:00PM
Campus Center, third Floor,
Conference Room 3540
Discussion Panel
David Matz
Professor and program Director,
Dispute Resolution, UMASS Boston
Benyamin Lichtenstein
Professor in Management,
UMASS Boston
Maureen Scully
Professor in Management,
UMASS Boston
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Political Economy and Public Policy Lecture Series: Progressive Income Taxation as a Tool for Economic Development
Prof. Christian Weller and Manita Rao (PPOL doctoral student) will be speaking on Progressive Income Taxation as a Tool for Economic Development
Thursday April 24
4:00PM-5:30PM
McCormack Hall, 3rd Fl. Rm. M3-415
How can progressive income taxation be linked to economic development for industrializing nations? This paper explores a possible solution to the dilemma that industrializing economies often find themselves in: trying to attract more capital into their economies from overseas while having to manage the growing economic and financial risks that often are associated with greater capital mobility.
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How Cancer Crossed the Color Lines: Race and Disease in America
John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies invites you to a public lecture featuring:
Dr. Keith Wailoo
the 2008 Robert C. Wood Visiting Professor
in Public and Urban Affairs
Monday, April 28, 2008
6:00-8:00PM
Old Faculty Club Lounge
11th Floor Healey Library
University of Massachusetts Boston
 Keith Wailoo is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History and Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University. Professor Wailoo also holds a joint appointment with the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers. He was recently elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, one of four learned academies that advise the US government on matters of health and medicine. His research examines the cultural politics of disease in America and his books have earned accolades for addressing questions of racial justice and inequality in medicine and health care. Professor Wailoo's work focuses principally on health care politics and the ethnic and racial relations of medicine. His research sheds light on how scientific and technological approaches to health interact with politics, society, and culture to shape individual health experiences, disease disparities, and social responses to disease. His latest work, a co-edited volume (with Julie Livingston and Peter Guarnaccia), A Death Retold: the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (University of North Carolina, 2006), explores a common theme: how scientific and technological understandings have interacted with health care politics, racial and ethnic relations, and cultural politics to inform responses to disease over time.
Direction to the UMASS Boston campus can be found at www.umb.edu. |
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The Changing World of Work in US Retail Trade
Wednesday April 30, 2008
8:30 to 10:30AM
University of Massachusetts Boston
Campus Center Ballroom C
A discussion of findings from a national study
As a sector, retail trade exemplifies the central dilemma of low wage work in modern economies. Giant retailer Wal-Mart is the largest US employer, and overall, retail is one of the largest employment sectors in the country. What happens to jobs in this industry, which is a major provider of entry-level jobs, is a key element of the broader picture of low wage employment nationwide.
Retail work is undergoing significant change in the United States. To explore these changes, and their impacts in terms of turnover, skill levels, and other key workforce variables, the authors conducted 18 case studies of food and consumer electronics retail businesses. They spoke to employees from top corporate executives to frontline employees, visited stores, and reviewed HR statistics.
The two study authors will present selected findings: Françoise Carré, Ph.D. Center for Social Policy, McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston and Chris Tilly, Ph.D. Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Discussants of the study findings will include: Prof. David Weil¸ School of Management, Boston University and a representative from the retail industry.
Copies of the report will be available.
Event sponsored by the Center for Social Policy,The McCormack Graduate School at UMass Boston and the Center for Industrial Competitiveness and Department of Regional Economic and Social Development at UMass-Lowell |
The Agony of Somalia
A Film Discussion About survival, emigration, immigration and U.S. involvement in Somalia and the implications for Human Rights, Democracy and U.S. Sentiments
10:30 AM - 12 NOON
Chancellor's Conference Room, Quinn Building
with
Somali Scholar
Bashir Khalif Sudi
Along with other prominent scholars, UMB faculty, Somali students and guests including Abdullah T. Faaruuq, Imam
University of Massachusetts Boston
Bunker Hill Community College
The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences
Center for African and Caribbean Community Development
McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies
The Center for Democracy and Development
William Monroe Trotter Institute
For further information please contact:Mr. Ibrahim Iman - 781-526-0563 or Dr. Paul R. Camacho, 617-287-5853, paul.camacho@umb.edu
Refreshments will be served. |
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SAVE THE DATE Women, Wages and Work Conference
 On June 9th, the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy will be hosting the Women, Wages and Work Conference at UMass Boston. Scheduled for June 9th, this conference will bring together those interested in closing the wage gap, ensuring retirement security for women, increasing job training opportunities. Featured speakers include: Lilly Ledbetter, whose gender discrimination lawsuit went all the way to the Supreme Court; a number of U.S. Congresswomen, Suzanne Bump, Secretary of the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, and many more. To find out more about the conference, see the preliminary program, and to get on our notification list for information about how to register, click on this link:www.mccormack.umb.edu/womenwages&work | |
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