Colloquia - Spring 1998
Date: April 9, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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the Evanston Campus Map
Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "The Economics of Immigration."
Speaker is George Borjas, Kennedy School, Harvard University.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 9, 1998
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center
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the Evanston Campus Map
Title: IPR and JCPR Seminar on "Immigration"
Description:
George Borjas,
Kennedy School, Harvard Univeristy
"Immigration and Welfare
Magnets"
John DiNardo,
Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine
"Intergenerational Assimilation:
Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s,
1970s, and 1990s"
Discussants:
Barry Chiswick (Department of Economics, University
of Illinois at Chicago)
and Bruce Meyer (IPR-Economics, Northwestern)
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 13, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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the Evanston Campus Map
Title: IPR
Colloquium
Description: "The Chicago
Wilderness: A Wilderness in Chicago?." Speaker is Steve
Packard, Conservation biologist, Chicago Wilderness and
the Illinois Nature Conservancy.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 17, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Changes in Wage Discrimination Against
People with Disabilities." Speaker is Thomas DeLeire,
Harris School, University of Chicago.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 20, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Longitudinal Effects of Parental
Welfare Receipt on Children." Speaker is Gretchen Caspary,
IPR Graduate Fellow.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 22, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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the Evanston Campus Map
Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Covering Clinton and Monica: The
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." Speaker is Ken Bode, Dean,
Medill School of Journalism.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 23, 1998
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: University of Chicago, 1155 E. 60th Street,
Room #140C
Title: IPR and JCPR Seminar on "Child Care and Work"
Description:
Joe Hotz, Department of Economics,
UCLA
Deborah Vandell, School
of Education, University of Wisconsin
Discussants:
TBA
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: April 27, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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the Evanston Campus Map
Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "On the Logic of Cooperative Social
Norms." Speaker is Joel Guttman, Department of Economics,
Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Visiting Professor, Department
of Economics, University of Chicago.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 1, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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the Evanston Campus Map
Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "The Manipulation of Legal Remedies
to Deter Suits by Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse."
Speaker is Cynthia Bowman, NU Law School.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 4, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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the Evanston Campus Map
Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "The Impact of the California
Secondary Curriculum Reforms 1984-1992: Student Diversity,
Differential Outcomes, and Implications for Policy."
Speaker is Betty Merchant, College of Education, University
of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 4, 1998
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Fisk Hall, Room B-1, Evanston Campus
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the Evanston Campus Map
Title: IPR and Medill School of Journalism
Panel Discussion
"The Loss of Innocence: When Journalists and Juries
Get It Wrong"
Participants:
Kenneth Adams, wrongly incarcerated for 18 years in
the Ford Heights Four case
Jeanne Bishop, Medill graduate and attorney. News
stories falsely linked her to the murders of her sister
and brother-in-law
Perry Cobb, former Death Row inmate wrongly tried
more times than any person in American history
Gary Gauger, an innocent man condemned to die for
the murder of his parents
Dennis Williams, spent 18 years on Death Row before
being exonerated in the Ford Heights Four case
Moderator: David Protess, Professor of Journalism
and IPR faculty fellow; co-author of the forthcoming book,
A Promise of Justice
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 6, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "The Farrakhan Factor: African-American
Writers on Leadership, Nationhood, and Minister Louis
Farrakhan." Speaker is Amy Alexander, Journalist
and Editor.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 7, 1998
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, Evanston
Campus
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Title: IPR and JCPR Seminar on "Training"
Description:
"The Influence of Changes in the Wage Distribution
on Education Training Choices." Speaker is Steve Pischke,
Department of Economics, MIT, and Visiting Scholar, Joint
Center for Poverty Research.
"Estimating the Impact of the GED on the
Earnings of Young Dropouts Using a Series of Natural Experiments."
Speaker is Richard Murnane, Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University.
Discussants: TBA
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 8, 1998
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center
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the Evanston Campus Map
Title: IPR Distinguished Public Policy
Lecture on Public Policy and the American Labor
Market
Description: "The New Social Security —
True Retirement Security for All Americans." Speaker
is The Honorable John E. Porter, U.S. Representative (Republican-10th
District, State of Illinois).
Reception to follow
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 14, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department, Seminar Room, 1808
Chicago Avenue
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Title: IPR and Department of Sociology
Description: "Older Workers: Trends in Employment
Security and Employment Institutions." Speaker is
William Bridges, Department of Sociology, University of
Illinois at Chicago.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 15, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Saving the Ocmulgee Oldfields:
American Indian Empowerment." Speaker is Paul Friesema,
Professor of Political Science and IPR Faculty Associate.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 20, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Conference Room, 617 Library Place
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Title: IPR Colloquium
Description: "Custody, Working Mothers, and
the Law." Speaker is Mary Kate Kearney, Visiting
Associate Professor, DePaul University College of Law.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 21, 1998
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department, Seminar Room, 1808
Chicago Avenue
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Title: IPR Colloquium with the Departments
of Political Science and Sociology
Description: "Affirmative Action as Culture
War." Speaker is Jennifer Hochschild, Woodrow Wilson
School, Princeton.
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
Date: May 21, 1998
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: University of Chicago, 1155 E. 60th Street,
Room #140C
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Title: IPR and the Joint Center
for Poverty Research Seminar on "Family Issues"
Description: Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Harris School,
University of Chicago.
Topic and discussants TBA
Contact: Patricia
Reese
(847-491-8712)
