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2007 - 2008 Events


   

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Faculty Scholar Seminars

September 11, 2007
A Faculty Scholar Seminar in cooperation with the Maternal and Child Health Program, UIC School of Public Health
Youth Participation as a Protective Factor:
Implications for the Well Being of Minority Youth

A Faculty Scholar Seminar with:
Michele Kelley and Christine Bozlak
School of Public Health
Division of Community Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago

December 4, 2007
The Problem of Urbanicity and Survey Nonresponse Bias:
Identifying Possible Mechanisms and Solutions

A Faculty Scholar Seminar with:
Allyson Holbrook
Assistant Professor, Public Administration Program and
Survey Research Labaratory, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Department of Psychology, College of Liberals Arts and Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago


January 15, 2008
Stigma and Risk Among African-American Adolescents
Whose Mothers Have HIV

A Faculty Scholar Seminar with:
Sally Mason
Associate Professor of Clinical Social Work
Department of Psychiatry
UIC College of Medicine

March 11, 2008
Renaissance 2010, Contested Urban Development, and the Politics of Race
A Faculty Scholar Seminar
Pauline Lipman
Department of Policy Studies, College of Education
University of Illinois at Chicago

April 1, 2008
Community Based Cultural Socialization Among Adolescents:
Repetoires of Practice of Interpreting Everyday Life (and Literary) Problems

A Faculty Scholar Seminar
Yolanda Majors
Department of Curriculum Studies
College of Education
University of Illinois at Chicago

April 22, 2008
Making Life Better in Cities: Improving the Productivity of Governmental
and Non-Profit Urban Agencies

A Faculty Scholar Seminar
Darold Barnum
Professor of Information and Decision Sciences
Professor of Managerial Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago

GCI Seminar Series

September 18, 2007
Understanding and Ending the Cycle of Homelessness and Incarceration
Through Permanent Supportive Housing

A GCI Seminar presented by:
John Fallon
Program Manager, Returning Home Initiative
Corporation for Supportive Housing

October 9, 2007
Lessons from One Year at Hull-House and the Legacy of Jane Addams at UIC:
Engaging Publics, Counterpublics and Communities

A GCI Seminar presented by:
Lisa Lee
Director, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
University of Illinois at Chicago

October 16, 2007
The Roots and Resolution of African Conflict
A GCI Seminar presented by:
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Professor and Head, Department of African American Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago

October 30, 2007
Community Building and Drug and Alcohol Treatment:
What's the Connection?

A GCI Seminar presented by:
Thomas Lyons
Research Fellow, Great Cities Institute
Research Associate, TASC, Inc.

November 20, 2007
From the White City to the Tourist City:
Daniel Burnham, Richard M. Daley, and the Making of Chicago

A GCI Seminar
Dennis Judd
Professor, Department of Political Science
Fellow, Great Cities Institute
University of Illinois at Chicago
Costas Spirou
Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
National-Louis University


November 27, 2007
Theories of Third Space: Reconceptualizing the Conceptual
A GCI Seminar
Benet DeBerry-Spence
Liautaud Graduate School of Business
University of Illinois at Chicago


January 29, 2008
Sidewalks to Skyscrapers:
Challenges for Engineering and Disability in the Built Environment

A GCI Seminar
Glenn Hedman
Director, Assistive Technology Unit
Department of Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago

February 5, 2008
Higher Education Partnerships and Place Based Community Development
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

A GCI Seminar
Alice K. Johnson Butterfield
Jane Addams College of Social Work
University of Illinois at Chicago
Richard Kordesh
Great Cities Institute
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
University of Illinois at Chicago

February 26, 2008
Bringing Together Academia, Government and the Community
to Address Urban Challenges

A GCI Seminar
Martin Adams
NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center
Michael Bennett
Associate Professor of Sociology
DePaul University

March 4, 2008
How Operations/Business Managers and Executive Directors Collaborate
to Move Organizations Forward

A GCI Seminar
Deborah Strauss
Board Member, Alliance for Nonprofit Management
Former Director, Lumity (formerly IT Resource Management)


March 18, 2008
If Your Tree Falls In A Forest, Be Sure It Makes A Sound:
Marketing Challenges for Nonprofit Organizations

A GCI Seminar
Martin Berg
Director of Marketing and Communications
Community Investment Corporation

April 8, 2008
Instituting the 'Platinum' Standard via Sarbanes-Oxley
A GCI Seminar
Dottie Johnson
Director of Consulting Services
Lumity

April 15
Cooking Up a Global City
A GCI Seminar
Paul O'Connor
Former Executive Director
World Business Chicago

April 17
Maintaining Diversity in the Post-Civil Rights Era:
An Action Research Ethnography

A GCI Seminar presented with the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
Pamela Anne Quiroz
Department of Policy Studies
Department of Sociology
University of Illinois at Chicago



The Vernon D. Jarrett Lecture Series on Race and Education




GCI Research Cluster Events

August 29, 2007
Two presentations in the Governance Lecture Series:
Race, Inequality and Regionalism
Myron Orfield
Executive Director, Institute on Race and Policy
University of Minnesota Law School
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute

Race and Housing in Metro Chicago
Tyrone Forman
UIC African American Studies and Sociology
Fellow, Institute for Government and Public Affairs


November 1, 2007
The Mortgage Lending Crisis:
Implications for Our Communities

A Panel Discussion hosted by the GCI Community Economic Development Research Cluster

Expert Panel:
Harry Pestine, Community Affairs Program Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Ellen Seidman, Executive Vice President, National Policy and Partnership Development, ShoreBank Corporation; Director of the Financial Services and Education Project, Asset Building Program, New America Foundation
Geoff Smith, Research Director, Woodstock Institute
Mike Van Zalingen, Director, Homeownership Services, Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago

Moderators:
Philip Ashton, Assistant Professor, College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs
Janet Smith, Associate Professor, College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs; Co-Director, Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement


November 2, 2007
Developing Community Capacity for Research Participation
A Workshop hosted by the GCI Healthy City Collaborative


February 29, 2008
Developing Authentic Community/University Research Partnerships:
A Primer for Community Based Participatory Research

A Seminar hosted by the GCI Healthy City Collaborative
and Institute for Health Research and Policy
Bill Baldyga
Associate Director, Institute for Health Research and Policy, UIC
Cynthia (Cee) Barnes-Boyd
Director, Healthy City Collaborative and UIC Neighborhoods Initiative
Jen Kauper-Brown
Co-Director, Community Based Participatory Research Program, Northwestern University
Michele Kelley
Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, UIC


April 16, 2008
Global Decisions, Local Foreclosures:
The Subprime Crisis and the New World (Dis)Order

A Lecture Presented by the GCI Community Economic Development Research Cluster
David Ranney, UIC Professor Emeritus,
Former Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development


April 18, 2008
Protecting Participants in Community Research: A Community-University Dialogue
A Workshop hosted by the GCI Healthy City Collaborative



Special Events

November 6, 2007
China and India: Governance, Urban Development, and Sustainability
in the Cities of the Global South

A GCI Panel Discussion

PhD Student Panel:
Ratoola Kundu
, 3rd Year PhD Student, Urban Planning & Policy, UIC
Kamna Lal, 2nd Year PhD Student, Public Administration, UIC
Meng Sun, 2nd Year PhD Student, Urban Planning & Policy, UIC
Lan Wang, PhD Candidate, Urban Planning & Policy, UIC
Barry Weisberg, JD, PhD Candidate, Criminal Justice, UIC

Moderator:
David C. Perry
, Director, Great Cities Institute