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Living With Floods Symposium |
Begins:3/10/2009 |
Ends:3/12/2009 |
“Living With Floods: From Science to Policy,”
March 11-12, 2009, offers an opportunity to better understand the disastrous floods of summer 2008. National experts will address topics ranging from the science of floods to the psychological impact of displacement, from flood mitigation to flood risk insurance.
Sessions on the first day of the symposium will focus on flood prediction and impacts (social, economic, and environmental). Sessions on the second day will focus on flood mitigation strategies, flood risk management and insurance, and community planning. Invited speakers represent top flood and natural disaster experts from major universities across the U.S. and from appropriate state and federal agencies.
The Forkenbrock Series on Public Policy is a regular public series presented by The University of Iowa Public Policy Center to provide a forum for dialogue about policy areas from an applied, academic, and interdisciplinary perspective.
Symposium focus
* Social, environmental, economic impacts
* Flood mitigation strategies
* Risk management & insurance
* Community planning |
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A Debtor World: Interdisciplinarty Symposium on Debt |
Begins:5/2/2008 |
Ends:5/3/2008 |
Perhaps the most common American experience today is debt. While debt can enable individuals and companies to do useful things they would otherwise be unable to do, excessive debt can cause serious financial problems for individuals, businesses and society at large. Debt is pervasive in the U.S. today. According to the latest figures from the Federal Reserve, there is almost $30,000 outstanding in consumer credit and home mortgages for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Even on an inflation-adjusted basis, that represents a thirteen-fold increase since 1946 when the figure was only $2,200. There are 900 million credit cards in circulation in the United States. Debt growth has not been restricted to consumers. Business debt is nine times as large as it was in 1946. Put simply, Americans have committed their future cash flows at an unprecedented rate.
This conference will explore debt as neither a problem nor solution but as a phenomenon. Many different academic disciplines can make important contributions to help us understand why consumers and businesses decide to borrow money, what happens to businesses and consumers under a heavy debt load, and what norms and institutions societies need to encourage the efficient use of debt. Much of this knowledge is compartmentalized into intellectual silos that are rarely cross-fertilized. The goal of the conference is to promote the sharing of this knowledge.
For more information go to
http://www.abiworld.org/Debt08/ |
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UI Social Work program sponsors national Family-Centered Practice conference |
Begins:4/16/2008 |
Ends:4/18/2008 |
The University of Iowa School of Social Work's National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice will celebrate 30 years of national leadership in family-centered child welfare practice with a conference April 16-18 at Hotel Vetro in Iowa City.
Conference speakers include leaders in family-centered child welfare practice, policy and research. Participants will discuss what the field has learned over 30 years and how that knowledge can shape the future. Sponsors are the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice, the UI School of Social Work and Portland State University School of Social Work.
The conference is geared toward child welfare professionals, including social workers, administrators, educators, students, researchers, policymakers, community program staff and consumers of child welfare services.
For registration information and a conference schedule, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~nrcfcp or contact Miriam Landsman at 319-335-4934 or miriam-landsman@uiowa.edu.
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Nov. 19 panel discussion focuses on job loss in the global economy |
Begins:11/19/2007 |
Ends:11/19/2007 |
Nov. 2, 2007
Nov. 19 panel discussion focuses on job loss in the global economy
Concern about the serious erosion of U.S. worker protection and the threat of long-term damage to the economy is growing as millions of jobs shift overseas in manufacturing, information technology, finance, healthcare and other professional services.
The University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies will address these concerns in a free, public program, "State of Labor in the Global Economy," at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, in Meeting Room A at the Iowa City Public Library.
The program will feature a panel of internationally known experts who will discuss the lack of labor regulation and its impact on individuals and communities. They will report on the economic, social and legal implications resulting from the massive movements of people and production worldwide.
Panelists include Craig Becker, legal counsel with SEIU and the AFL-CIO; Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology, the University of California, Los Angeles; and Nancy Folbre, a MacArthur Fellow and a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts. They will focus on increasing labor union bargaining power, promising approaches to job protection, the incorporation of immigrants into regulated full-time employment, and reversing the stagnation of middle-class income.
Researchers predict that 3.4 million to 14 million jobs may be lost because of globalization by the year 2015.
"Virtually any U.S. job can be outsourced to another country, including nursing home care, and our legislative policies are not in tune with what is happening to families, communities and ultimately government programs that depend on a strong tax base," said Obermann scholar Jennifer Glass, a program organizer and a professor of sociology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The program is part of the Obermann Center's Cmiel Collaborative Research Seminar, funded by the Obermann Endowment, the office of the Vice President for Research, and the Office of the Provost. It is co-sponsored by the Iowa City Human Rights Commission and the University of Iowa Labor Center.
The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies provides an environment and resources for reflection and writing and for the exchange of ideas. Scholars from a broad range of disciplines and institutions interact with one another and with the public to create and communicate new knowledge and to establish a vibrant intellectual community. It is located at N103 Oakdale Hall on the UI's Oakdale Campus. For more information visit http://obermann.uiowa.edu/job-loss.html or contact Diana Baculis, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 319-335-4360 or diana-baculis@uiowa.edu.
STORY SOURCE: University of Iowa News Services, 300 Plaza Centre One, Suite 371, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2500
MEDIA CONTACTS: Diana Baculis, UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 319-335-4360, diana-baculis@uiowa.edu; Nicole Riehl, University News Services, 319-384-0070, nicole-riehl@uiowa.edu
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Crossing Borders Convocation |
Begins:4/5/2007 |
Ends:4/7/2007 |
This year's crossing borders convocation (organized by faculty affiliate Rex Honey), is titled "The Vulnerabilities of Labor Migrants."
All events are in 1117 UCC building. Here is the schedule of events:
Thursday, April 5th, 4-5:30 PM
Opening address by Mark Grey, Director of Iowa Immigration Center, University of Northern Iowa.
6:30-7:30 PM - Opening Reception.
Friday, April 6th (starting at 8:30 AM);
-- Opening address by Joseph Nevins, Vassar College. Professor Nevins is an international expert on labor migration.
-- Late morning and early afternoon sessions organized by the Crossing Borders research fellows.
-- Evening address by Rachel Kurian of the Institute of Social Science, The Hague. Professor Kurian is an expert on labor migrations between the global south and global north.
Saturday, April 7th
-- More discussion sessions with Crossing Borders fellows and closing.
Hope to see you all there for this exciting conference!
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Population Association of America Meetings |
Begins:3/28/2007 |
Ends:3/31/2007 |
The Population Association of America meetings convene in New York City, March 28th - 31st.
For more information, go to:
http://www.popassoc.org/meetings.html |
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Rising Inequality in the U.S.: Does the Middle Class Have a Future? |
Begins:4/6/2006 |
Ends:4/7/2006 |
APRIL 6th/7th - Two-Day Symposium: "Rising Inequality in the U.S.: Does the Middle Class Have a Future?" Featuring, Jody Heymann, Professor of Public Health, McGill University; Richard B. Freeman, Professor Economics, Harvard University and Program Director at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and Teresa Sullivan, Professor Sociology and Provost, University of Michigan.
Each invited guest will make a presentation to be followed by discussion, commentary, and audience participation.
All activities will take place in the SOUTH ROOM of the Iowa Memorial Union.(to find the IMU on The University of Iowa Campus, go to http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Emaps/i/imu1.htm)
Schedule of Events (all times tentative):
THURSDAY, APRIL 6TH, 4 - 5:30 PM, Jody Heymann "Addressing the Inequalities Faced by Children and Families in the Current Global Economy."
FRIDAY, APRIL 7th, 10 - 11:45 AM, Richard Freeman "What Future for Labor in the Global Economy?"
FRIDAY, APRIL 7th, 1:30 - 3:45 PM, Teresa Sullivan "Debt as the Great Unequalizer" |
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