The Social Ecology of Fires
Featuring: Stephen J. Pyne, Arizona State University, and a panel of experts on the fire challenge including: Dr. Peter Bryant, Biological Sciences, UCI and Dr. Nalini Venkatasubramaniam, Computer Science, UCI
Date: January 13, 2009, 5:00-7:00pm UCI Student Center, Doheny Beach Room A, Reception to follow
Sponsor: The Newkirk Center
There is no cost for attending, but seating is limited.
RSVP to newkirk@uci.edu or 949-824-9336
Master Plans and Model Communities: Rationalities of Planning in Contemporary China
Featuring: David Bray, PhD, University of Sydney, Department of Chinese Studies
Date: January 20, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm, SE I, Room 306(**Note rooom change)
Sponsored by PPD
Design/Build and Construction Management
Featuring: Barbara Wagner, Senior Vice President, Clark Construction and Presiden, Design/Build Institure of America, Western Pacific Region
Date: January21, 2009, 11:30 - 12:20 pm, Social Ecology I, Rooom 200
Sponsor; The Center for Organizational Research (COR)
Region Aroused
Featuring Frank Osgood, AICP, regional planner and author of "Region Aroused"
Date: January 22, 2009, 12:30 - 1:45 pm, Social Ecology I, Room 112
Sponsored by PPD
The Value of Options: Statistics, Historical Models and the Path from El Salvador to Iraq
Featuring: David Pedersen, Asst. Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCSD
Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 3:30-5:00 PM
Location: Room 4250, SSPB (Anthropology Library)
Sponsored by: CUSA, Dept of History and the Center for Ethnography
Foreclosures: Causes, Impacts, and Responses
Featuring: Kerry Vandell, Director, Center for Real Estate at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine; Clemente Mojica, Homeownership Director, Neighborhood Housing Services of Orange County; and Arlene Granadosin, Urban Planner, RBF Consulting
Date: February 12, 2009, Reception 6-7:00pm, Lecture 7-8:30pm, University Club
Sponsor: Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC), Changing Face of Orange County Lecture Series; Co-Sponsored by Department of Planning, Policy and Design, UCI Paul Merage School of Business Center for Real Estate, and Neighborhood Housing Services of Orange County.
Please RSVP to rsvpcopc@uci.edu or 949-824-9337
Symposium: Housing after the Fall - Reassessing the Future of the American Dream
Date: Februrary 19-20, 2009, Hotel Laguna, Laguna Beach
Featuring:Kerry D. Vandell (Principal Investigator), Deans Professor of Finance and Director, Center for Real Estate, The Paul Merage School of Business; Jan K. Brueckner, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Academic Fellow, Center for Real Estate; and Marlon Boarnet, Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design and Economics, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, Academic Fellow, Center for Real Estate. For more information, please see the Center for Real Estate website.
COR Seminar
Featuring: Ann Majcharzak, Marshall School of Business, USC
Date: TBA
Sponsors: The Center for Organizational Research (COR) and Informatics
Harnessing Global Trade to Promote Human Security: Social Entrepreneurship and the Africa Endego Model
Date: February 24, 2009, 11:30 am
Location: The Pacific Club, 4110 MacArthur Blvd, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Sponsored by CUSA
More information: http://www.cusa.uci.edu.matthew_mitro.htm
Please RSVP to (949) 760-4310 or mscherer@samueli.org
Planning and Governance: An Integrated Approach
Featuring: Greg Devereaux, City Manager, Ontario, CA
Date: February 25, 2009, 11:00-12:20pm, Social Ecology I, Room 306
Sponsor: The Center for Organizational Research (COR) and PPD
The Great Park: Irvine Design, a design symposium hosted by UC Irvine and the Great Park Studio
Date: February 25, 2009, 1:00-5:00 pm
Location: The UCI Student Center, Pacific Ballroom D
Sponsors: UC Irvine Extension, The UCI Design Alliance,The Humanities Center, PPD, the Orange County Great Park Corporation, and the Great Park Studio
For more information: UnexArts@uci.edu or (949) 824-5592
Please register at www.extension.uci.edu/events. Event is free and open to the public.
Engaging Community: Re-imagining the Research University
Civic Engagement Conference
Featuring as the keynote speaker: Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Syracuse University
Date: February 26, 2009, 11:30-5:00pm, UCI Student Center Doheny Beach Conference Room
(Lunch will be provided. Please register on the site.)
Co-Sponsored by: Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs, UCI Center for Service in Action, UCI Urban Water Research Center, UCI Center for Educational Partnerships, Asian American Studies Department, School of Humanities, University of California Asian American Pacific Islander Policy Multi-Campus Research Program, California Campus Compact, Learn and Serve Higher Education, Department of Planning, Policy and Design
A Practice-Based View of Emotional Capabilities in Organizations
Date: February 27, 2009. 12:00-1:30pm, Social Ecology I, Room 306
Featuring: Monica Worline, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
Sponsor: The Center for Organizational Research (COR)
Web Based Solutions for Effective Planning
Featuring: Brian Judd, Vice President of Community Planning and Design, The Planning Center
Date: March 4, 2009, 11:30-12:20 pm, Social Ecology I, Room 306
Sponsor: The Center for Organizational Research (COR), PPD
Crafting Values, Giving Forms: The Politics of Design in Swedish Culture
Featuring: Keith Murphy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UCI
Date: March 13, 2009, 12:00-2:00 pm, Humanities Instructional Building 135, UCI
Sponsor: UCI Design Alliance
Free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Sanjoy Mazumdar or Julia Lupton.
Making Doubt Generative
Featuring: Martha Feldman, Department of Planning, Policy and Design School of Social Ecology, UCI, Karen Golden-Biddle, School of Managment, Boston University, and Karen Locke, Mason School of Business, College of William and Mary
Date: March 13, 2009, Social Ecology I, Room 306
Sponsor: Center for Organizational Research (COR)
What do Not-For-Profit Hospitals Maximize? Evidence from California's Seismic Retrofit Mandate
Featuring: Mireille Jacobson, PPD Professor, UCI
Date: March 31, 2009, Social Science Plaza B, Room 4208, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Sponsors: Dept of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and the Center for Demography and Social Analysis
Forensic Education Series Event- Neurolaw II-"Emerging Neurotechnologies: Manipulating Experiences, Dampening Memories and Customizing Punishment"
Featuring: Adam J. Kolber, JD, University of San Diego
Date: April 2, 2009, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, University Club
Sponsor: Newkirk Center
Please RSVP to newkirk@uci.edu or (949) 824-9336. No cost to attend, but space is limited.
How Tainted the Golden State? Assessing the Fallout of California's Economic Crisis
Featuring:Cynthia Kroll, Senior Regional Economist, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Date: May 7, 2009, Reception 6-7:00pm, Lecture 7-8:30pm, University Club
Sponsor: Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC), Changing Face of Orange County Lecture Series; Co-Sponsored by Department of Planning, Policy and Design.
Please RSVP to rsvpcopc@uci.edu or 949-824-9337
Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor and the Logistics Revolution
Featuring: Edna Bonacich, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside
Date: May 8, 2009, 11:00 am to noon
Sponsor: Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC), Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), and the Center for Inequality and Social Justice (CISJ)
Reflections on Choices in a Research Career in Science: Staying in a Groove without Getting in a Rut
Featuring F.Sherwood Rowland, UCI Professor, Chemistry and co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel prize in Chemistry
Date: May 11, 2009, 2:00 - 3:15 pm
Sponsor: Planning, Policy & Design
Green Development: A Search for Solutions, Business, Science and the University
Date: May 22, 2009, Beckman center for the National Academis of Sciences and Engineering, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Sponsor: The Newkirk Center
Please RSVP to newkirk@uci.edu or (949) 824-9336. No cost to attend, but space is limited.
PPD Seminar: Orange County Fire Authority
Date: May 15, 2009, 12:30 - 1:45pm, Social Ecology I, Room 112
Sponsor; Planning, Policy & Design
Symposium: Toward a Sustainable 21st Century
Date: October 9, 2009, All Day at the Beckman Center for Sciences and Engineering
Sponsor: Chapman University and The Newkirk Center
Please RSVP to newkirk@uci.edu or (949) 824-9336. No cost to attend, but space is limited.
Do bad kids do drugs, or are drugs bad for kids?
Featuring: Candice Odgers, PhD, UC Irvine
Date: October 22, 2009, University Club, 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Sponsor: The Newkirk Center
Please RSVP to newkirk@uci.edu or (949) 824-9336. No cost to attend, but space is limited.
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