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Politics and Policy Program
Colloquia
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Public Affairs Speaker Series
2011-12: In the Shadows of the Great Recession: Recovery and Inequality
Please check back soon for a complete lineup
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September 28, 2011
"The Folks Who Brought you the Middle Class: Unions and the Future of American Democracy"
Featuring Bob Baugh, executive director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council; political activist Steve Novick; and UO law professor Michael Tedesco.
Cosponsored by the Labor Education and Research Center.
141 Knight Law Center
4:30 p.m. |
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November 7, 2011
"Corporate Power in Politics and the Economy: What the Citizens United Decision Means for Our Democracy"
Annual Wayne Morse Public Address featuring Wayne Morse Chair Russ Feingold.
Erb Memorial Union Ballroom
5 p.m. |
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February 24, 2012
"Prospects for Restoring Worker Power"
Janice Fine, Rutgers University, will discuss innovative union and community organizing strategies and low wage immigrant labor in the U.S. Her talk will be followed by commentary by two experts on organized labor who will provide cross-national and practical political perspective on the subject. Commentary by Barbara Pocock, visiting professor from University of South Australia, and Gordon Lafer, UO Labor Education and Research Center
110 Knight Law Center
12:30 p.m. |
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March 1, 2012
“The Politics of Inequality”
Distinguished Speakers Jacob Hacker (Yale) and Paul Pierson (UC Berkeley) will visit the UO to discuss their recent book Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class.
Knight Library Browsing Room
4 p.m. |
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April 9, 2012
"Recovering from the Bubble Economy: Jobs, Wages and Unemployment"
Featuring Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Mark Thoma, UO economist.
Gerlinger Lounge
7:00 p.m.
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Past speaker series
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