| Date | Topic | Presenter |
|---|
| Jan 18 | CURL Welcome and Overview of CURL Projects |
|
Jan 25
| Injury: Accident or Disease? Implications for the Health Care Provider
| Thomas Esposito, Trauma Critical Care, Loyola University Medical Center
|
Feb 1
| Social Preservation: The Quest for Authentic People, Place, and Community
| Japonica Brown-Saracino, Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago
|
Feb 8
| Organic Public Sociology: Engaged Research, Activism, and Social Change
| Michael Burawoy, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley & Past President of the American Sociological Association
|
Feb 15
| Multiple Faces of Self-Sufficiency: Towards an Empowerment Perspective in Workforce Development
| Philip Hong, School of Social Work, Loyola University Chicago
|
Feb 22
| When Cities Thrive Instead of Just Survive: The Effects of Central City Dominance on Smaller Metro Areas
| Jon Norman, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, Stanford University (newly appointed Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola, starting Fall 2008) |
Feb 29
| How Diversity Has Transformed the Project of Racial Integration in Cities
| Ellen Berry, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
|
Mar 7
| No Seminar. Spring Break
|
|
Mar 14
| Finding Food in Chicago
| Danny Block, Department of Geography, Chicago State University, and David Goldblatt, Center for Urban Environment Research and Policy, Loyola University Chicago. |
Mar 21
| No Seminar. Easter Break
|
|
Mar 28
| TBA
|
|
Apr 4
| Connecting Research and Activism: Vietnam, Veterans, and the Media
| Jerry Lembcke, Department of Sociology, Holy Cross
|
Apr 11
| A visit to the Freedom Museum
| We will be leaving CURL at 9:30am and walk to the Freedom Museum (445 N. Michigan). Please RSVP to Gina Lopez at glopez@luc.edu
|
Apr 18
| Construction of Collective Consciousness - African American Reality
| Selvaraj Arnlnathan, S.J., Loyola University Chicago
|
Apr 25
| Broad-Based Organizing - Power, Values, and Struggles
| Lina Jamoul, Senior Policy Analyst, Loyola CURL & Organizer, Industrial Areas Foundation
|