| Date | Topic | Presenter |
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| Jan 18 |
CURL Welcome and Overview of CURL Projects |
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| 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 |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| Mar 28 |
TBA |
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| 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 Arulnathan, 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 |
