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Calendar and Events !

SPRING 2010

12:30 Noon. Tuesday, February 9, 2010.
"Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families"  by  Wade Rathke, co-founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 100.  Taubman Brown Bag Series. Taubman Center Seminar Room.

12:00 Noon. Thursday, February 18, 2010. 
“The Problem Is Not Punishment Per Se: Punitive Policies and Attitudes towards Felons as Polity Members” by Michael Leo Owens, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University. Taubman Brown Bag. Taubman Center Seminar Room.

Thursday,February 25, 2010. 
Dexter Lecture, (more info coming soon)

12:00 Noon. Thursday, March 4, 2010. 
“Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole: Women, Membership in a ‘Particular Social Group’ and the Gendered Construction of American Asylum Policy” by Alexandra Filindra, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Public Policy, Brown University. Taubman Brown Bag. Taubman Center Seminar Room.

12:00 Noon. Tuesday, March 9, 2010. 
"A Moral Code in Property Politics: The Case of Eminent Domain in Philadelphia” by Debbie Becher, Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Taubman Brown Bag. Taubman Center Seminar Room.

12:00 Noon. Tuesday, March 16, 2010. 
"Black American Perspectives on Racial & Ethnic Change in Urban America" by Kim Williams, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Taubman Brown Bag. Taubman Center Seminar Room.

4:00 PM, Monday, April 12, 2010. 
Christopher Edley, Jr. Dean of the University of California-Berkeley’s School of Law. Alexander Meiklejohn Lecture. Venue TBA.

12:00 Noon. Thursday, April 15, 2010. 
"Policy by Other Means:  When Groups Choose Non-Governmental Solutions" by Patricia Strach, Assistant Professor, SUNY Albany. Taubman Brown Bag. Taubman Center Seminar Room.

FALL 2009

12:00 Noon, Tuesday, September 22, 2009. 
Jose Itzigsohn.  Associate Professor of Sociology
“Encountering American Faultlines: Race, Class, and Immigrant Incorporation". Taubman Brown Bag Series. Taubman Center Seminar Room.

 4:00 PM, Thursday, September 24, 2009.
“An Afternoon with Mayor Cory Booker” by Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. The Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture Series.  De Ciccio Family Auditorium (Salomon 101).

 Thursday, October 8, 2009.
CELEBRATE Taubman Center 25th Anniversary.

10:30 AM Faculty Panel “Pushing the Research Frontier: Taubman Center Faculty and Public Policy Research.”  Professors Ross Cheit, Brian Knight, Susan Moffitt, and Marion Orr. Crystal Room. Alumnae Hall.

2:30 PM  Alumni Panel “Training a Generation, Shaping Public Policy: Reflections from Taubman Center Alumni.” Cara Camacho MPA’07, Matthew Dunne ‘92, Jennifer Fries ’91, Carey Jaros ’00, Eric Tucker ’02.  Crystal Room. Alumnae Hall.

6:00 PM  Keynote Lecture by Jeffrey Toobin, CNN senior analyst, The New Yorker staff writer, and best-selling author. De Ciccio Family Auditorium (Salomon 101).

12:00 Noon, Tuesday, October 20, 2009. 
“Making Policy from the Statehouse to the White House:  What They Don't (and Do) Teach You in School.” by Eric Schnurer, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. President Public Works LLC in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Taubman Brown Bag Series. Taubman Center Seminar Room.

12:00 Noon, Tuesday, November 3, 2009.
"Using Student Test Scores to Identify Effective Teachers: The Politics and the Data" by John Tyler. Associate Professor of Education, Public Policy and Economics. Taubman Brown Bag Series. Taubman Center Seminar Room.

4:00 PM Tuesday, November 10, 2009.
“Healthcare Reform”by Jonathan Cohn. Senior editor for the New Republic, and author. The John Hazen White Sr. Lecture. Salomon 001

12:00 Noon, Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
David Karpf. Postdoctoral Research Associate of Public Policy. "The MoveOn Effect: Disruptive Innovation and the New Generation of American Political Associations" Taubman Brown Bag Series. Taubman Center Seminar Room (67 George St.)

8:00 PM, Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
"Debating Immigration: How should the United States approach the challenges?" Barus & Holley, room 166; 182 Hope Street

 4:00 PM, Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
Anton/Lippitt Conference. “President Obama and America’s Cities.”  Panelists: Scott W. Lang, Mayor of New Bedford, MA; Thomas Deller, AICP, Director of Planning and Development, City of Providence; Wilbur C. Rich, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College; and Gregory D. Squires, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. Moderated by Marion Orr, Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and Political Science.  Thomas J. Anton/Frederick Lippitt Conference.  Brown Hillel.

12:00 Noon, Tuesday, December 8, 2009.
“Renewable Energy Finance (or lack thereof) in Today's Market” by Michael Johnson, Managing Director of the Renewable Energy Program, National Development Council. Taubman Brown Bag. Taubman Center Seminar Room.