Loyola University Chicago

Center for Urban Research and Learning

Friday Morning Seminars - Spring 2012

SPRING 2012

DateTopicPresenter
January
20th
Healthcare Inequalities, Ethnography, and Christian Social Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
 
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Aana Vigen, Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Department of Theology, Loyola University Chicago
January
27th
Investing in Chicago's Community Schools: A Funder's Perspective
Kathleen Cangemi, Director of Community Investment-Education, and Katie Pacyna, Measurement Manager, Community Investment, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago
February 
3rd
Connecting the Dots - Privatization is the Symptom, Not the Cure
 
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Tom Tresser, Adjunct Instructor at the IIT Stuart School of Business, Educator, Organizer, Activist
February
10th
"Mothers of Conservatism"
Michelle Nickerson, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago
February
17th
Girl/Friends Leadership Institute: Using Art for Social Change
Scheherazade Tillet, Executive Director, A Long Walk Home, Inc.
February
24th
Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power, and Social Injustice: Building a Sustainable Energy Policy for the 21st Century
Anthony E. Ladd, Professor, Department of Sociology, Loyola University New Orleans
February
27th
"Woke Up Black" Film Screening
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March
2nd
No Seminar
 
March
9th
No Seminar - Spring Break
 
March
16th
Immigrant Student National Position Paper: The Experiences of Undocumented Students at Jesuit Institutions
Maria Guzman, Senior Researcher, CURL, Loyola University Chicago
 
March
23rd
"Grow Your Hair Out" : Recovery from Gang Life through Masculinity and the Body
Edward Flores, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago
March
30th
Community Uprooted: A Photographic Survey of Eminent Domain in the United States
Richard Wasserman, Photographer
April
6th
No Seminar - Good Friday
 
April
13th
*Seminar is Cancelled 
 
Cabrini Green: "Mixing it Up."*
Ronit Bezalel
Brenda Schumacher
April
20th
*Seminar is Cancelled & has been rescheduled for Fall 2012
 
Balancing Work and Family Lives*
Patricia Rupert, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago
April
27th
The Temporal Model of Social Action: Occupy
Bradley Olson, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, National Louis University