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- Henry Maier State of Milwaukee Summit
- Videos of the 2007 Summit
Chuck Holloway, Urban Studies graduate, is the subject of a UWM News feature story. Read story
2007 Award Winners for Scott Greer Awards
The Scott Greer Award for Postgraduate Contributions to Urban Affairs was presented to alum Dr. Olmedo Varela. Alum Dr. Marie Wolff received the Scott Greer Award for Postgraduate Achievement in Advancing Understanding of Urban Social Institutions. The Scott Greer Award for Research in Urban Studies was presented to history student, Nicholas J. Hoffman for his paper entitled, "Miniature Demons: Transformations of the Unskilled in Milwaukee’s Glass Industry, 1880-1922."
Pictures of the winners
Professor Mark Levine, Urban Studies Program and Department of History, received the prestigious Ordre des francophones d'Amérique Award presented by the Conseil supérieur de la langue française. www.uwm.edu/News/PR/05.04/Levine_francophone.html
Upcoming Events 2008
April 30, 2008
Milwaukee Summit
Hefter Center, 3271 N. Lake Dr.
UW-Milwaukee
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The Urban Studies Programs at UW-Milwaukee will hold its second annual Henry W. Maier State of Milwaukee Summit on April 30, 2008. This year's topic is the relationship of health care to urban economic development. How do cities work to improve the health of residents? What is the impact of employment in the heath care industry on the urban economy? How do health care insurance costs limit business development? What do health care costs contribute to urban poverty and the urban tax burden? How effective are nonprofit health care clinics in reaching the urban poor? What are the particular health care needs of the urban poor?
This years' panel will feature experts in health care employment, economic development and health care, and the impact of health care clinics and nonprofits.
The Henry Maier summit is sponsored by the Urban Studies Programs, the Center on Urban Initiatives and Research (CUIR) and the Center for Economic Development (CED), and the UWM College of Letters and Science.
Previous Events
2008
April 12, 2008
13th Annual Student Forum
Hefter Center, 3271 N. Lake Dr.
Featuring Keynote Speaker: Professor Julian Agyeman, Tufts University, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
"Toward a 'Just' Sustainability"
Previous Events
2006-07
September 28-30, 2007
March on Milwaukee
www.marchonmilwaukee.org
May 10, 2007
Henry Maier State of Milwaukee Summit
3 - 7 pm
Hefter Center
UW-Milwaukee
The summit will feature academic and community researchers who will discuss strategies for enhancing Milwaukee's economy.
Scheduled Speakers are:
Tom Barrett, Mayor of Milwaukee; Marc Levine, Professor of History and Urban Studies; Tim Sheehy, President of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce; Richard Longworth, Executive Director of the Global Chicago Center and former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and author of a forthcoming book on globalization and Midwest cities; and Ryan Horton of the Public Policy Forum.
Sponsored by the Urban Studies Programs at UW-Milwaukee
April 14, 2007
12th Annual USP Student Forum
Hefter Conference Center, 3271 N. Lake Drive
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Colloquium Series
March 29, 2007
Contextualizing Care: Gender, Own and Spousal Employment, and Informal Care of Parents
Noelle Chesley and Kyle Poppie, UW-Milwaukee
3:00 pm
USP Conference Room, Bolton Hall 768 B, UWM Campus
Download flyer: (pdf - 56k)
Speaker Series
February 16, 2007
Urban Nightmares and Neoliberal Fantasies: The Media's Conservative Framing of Urban Issues
Dr. Steve Macek, Department of Speech Communication, North Central College
3:30 pm
Mitchell Hall 195, UWM Campus
Sponsored by Urban Studies Programs, Rhetorical Leadership, and Center for 21st Century Studies
Download flyer: (pdf - 14k)
http://stephen.macek.faculty.noctrl.edu/
Colloquium Series
December 1, 2006
Negotiating Poor Neighborhoods After Welfare's End
Dr. Lorna Dilley, UW-Milwaukee
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Spatial Theory in Organizational Analysis: The Case of Welfare Program Collaborations
Dr. James Harris, UW-Milwaukee
3:00 pm
USP Conference Room, Bolton Hall 768 B, UWM Campus
Download flyer: (pdf - 111k)
Speaker Series
Friday, November 10, 2006
Economic Growth and Poverty: Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats?
(pdf - 40k)
Dr. Gary Hoover, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Alabama
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Greene Hall 148, UWM Campus
http://cba.ua.edu/personnel/GaryHoover.html
Friday, September 22, 2006
Urban Studies Programs Fall Social and Book Signing
Urban Space, Globalization, and Global Boundaries
5:30 - 8 pm
Hefter Conference Center
This well-attended event celebrated the recent works of USP authors, Professors A. Aneesh, Jennifer Jordan, and Steven McKay. The evening also included a panel discussion on "Urban Space, Globalization, and Global Boundaries" which included Professors Jordan and McKay, and was moderated by John Schmid, economics writer for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Photographs
Colloquium Series
October 20, 2006
Nonviolence and Three Riots in Chicago: Bystanders, Victims, Children, and Counterrioters
(pdf - 48k)
Dr. Amanda Seligman, Department of History, UW-Milwaukee
4:00 pm
USP Conference Room, Bolton Hall 768 B, UWM Campus
Download flyer: (pdf - 111k)
Previous Events
2005-06
Saturday, April 29, 2006
11th Annual USP Student Forum
UWM Student Union
Keynote speaker, Dr. David Wilson, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will discuss "America's New Black Ghetto: Local Politics and the Global Trope."
More information
November 4, 2005
Urban Tsunami: Irregular Settlement Development
Professor Enrique Martin-Moreno, University of Iberoamericano, Mexico City
4:30 pm
School of Architecture and Urban Planning, AUP 170
Co-sponsored by the Urban Studies Programs, The School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
December 1, 2005
Speakers Series
"An Irony of Segregation" Exploring the Dependence of the Voting Rights Act on a Legacy of Injustice
Gabriela Sandoval, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz
4:30 pm
Greene Hall, UWM campus
Co-sponsored by the Urban Studies Programs, The Roberto Hernandez Center, and Department of Sociology
January 27, 2006
Speakers Series
Topic to be announced
dr. john powell, Executive Director, Professor of Law, Williams Chair, Moritz College of Law, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University
4:30 pm
UWM Union Ballroom
Co-sponsored by the Urban Studies Programs and the UWM Cultures and Communities Program
February 2, 2006
USP Authors to Hold Book-Signing
Urban Studies Programs Faculty:
Dr. Carrie Costello
Dr. Amanda Seligman
Dr. Frank Wilson
7:00 p.m.
Schwartz Bookstore, 2559 N. Downer Ave.
April 29, 2006
11th Annual Student Forum
America's New Black Ghetto: Local Politics and the Global Trope
Keynote Address: Dr. David Wilson, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:30 pm
UWM Student Union
Forum Agenda
Previous Events
2004-05
Symposium on Milwaukee History:
Current Understandings and Future Research
October 7-8, 2004
Golda Meir Library, Fourth Floor Conference Center
The Second Biennial Urban History Association Conference
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
October 7-10, 2004
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
School for Continuing Education
161 West Wisconsin Ave.
Speaker Series -- Dr. Ann Markusen, keynote speaker
"The Artistic Dividend: The Arts' Hidden Contribution to
Regional Economic Development"
March 2, 2005 at 4:30 p.m.
Greene Hall
www.hhh.umn.edu/people/amarkusen/
Fesler-Lampert Professor of Urban and Regional Affairs
Director, Project on Regional and Industrial Economics
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota
10th Annual Student Forum
May 7, 2005
Keynote Address: Dr. Douglas Rae, Yale University"
mba.yale.edu/faculty/professors/rae.shtml
"Cities after Urbanism"
4:15 p.m.
UWM Student Union
Wisconsin Room, E250 and E260
Forum Press Release
Forum Booklet (pdf-239k)
Photographs of 2005 Forum
Previous Events
2003-04
Authors Speak on Works Addressing Race in America
February 17, 2004
Speaker Series -- Sharon Zukin
Broeklundian Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College
April 1, 2004.
Ninth Annual USP Student Forum
Forum Theme: "Social Research and Urban Life"
Featured Speaker: John Logan, University at Albany
April 24, 2004
Speaker Series -- Susan Fainstein
Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University
October 2, 2003.
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