Upcoming Fall Semester Schedule
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Every Friday During the Regular Academic Semester, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m in Room 9 of the Inamori Center in Crawford Hall
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January
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January 15: The First Year of the Obama Presidency. Doug Brattebo, Ph.D., J.D.
January 22: "
“Conflict Minerals” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With members of
the Student Anti-Genocide Coalition (STAND) and faculty commentators.
January 29: Chimeras, Cyborgs, and the
Moral Limits of Science. With Jason Scott Robert, Franca Oreficce Dean’s Distinguished Professor
in the Life Sciences, Arizona State University
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February
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February 5:The Challenges of Increasing
Faculty Diversity. With Marilyn Sanders Mobley, Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity
and Equal Opportunity and Professor of English, CWRU.
February 12: Long-Term Care in the United States and the Netherlands. With M. C. Terry Hokenstad, Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
February 19: An Actuary’s View of Health Care Reform Estimates. With John Bertko, former Vice President and Chief Actuary, Humana Inc.
February 26: Is Deindustrialization Bad for America? With Susan Helper, AT&T Professor and Chair, Department of Economics; David Clingingsmith, Assistant Professor of Economics; and Joe White.
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March
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March 5: Ohio’s State Budget: Now What? With Zach Schiller, Research Director, Policy Matters Ohio.
March 12: Spring Break, No Discussion
March 19: Science in the Courts. With Wendy Wagner, Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor, University of Texas School of Law.
March 26: To be determined |
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April
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April 2: Abortion, Health Care Reform, and the Moral Dimensions of Political Compromise. With Susan Dwyer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland.
April 9: To be determined
April 16: : Does Environmental Responsibility Mean the Elderly Should Accept “Natural” Deaths? With Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University.
April 23: What the Health Care Reform Law Will Do; or, Why Health Care Reform Failed; or, Health Care Reform: What Next? or, All of the Above. With Joe White, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy |
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Please contact Joe at joseph.white@case.edu to suggest any speakers for the 2009-2010 series of discussions, or to suggest any ways to improve as we near
our 21st year. We will resume sending out weekly announcements in August. When we begin again, if you have announcements that you would like us to add to the sidebar, please send the information to Joe. If you would prefer not to receive the announcements, please inform Dr. Andrew Lucker, Associate Director of the Center for Policy Studies, by e-mail (andrew.lucker@case.edu). |
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