UMBC Social Sciences Forum announces spring lecture series

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Social Sciences Forum
Spring 2011 Lecture Series

Wednesday, February 9 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Reading and Discussion of Not In My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

Antero Pietila, Author and Former Reporter for The Baltimore Sun
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and The Retriever Weekly

Thursday, February 24 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th floor

Baltimore School Desegregation and the Challenges of Understanding Race

Howell Baum, Professor, School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, University of Maryland, College Park

Monday March 14 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th floor

The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Mullen Lecture
Sponsored by the Department of Economics

Wednesday, March 16th at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Negotiating Contaminated Identities: Gender, Water, and Development in Altered Waterscapes

Farhana Sultana, Professor of Geography, Syracuse University; Chair and Organizer of the 'The Right to Water' conference

Korenman Lecture
Co-sponsored by the Gender and Women's Studies Program

Monday, April 25 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th floor

Being Face-to-Face But Not Seeing Eye-to-Eye: Divergent Goals and Experiences During Interracial Interactions

J. Nicole Shelton, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University

Second Annual Distinguished Lecture in Psychology
Sponsored by the Department of Psychology

Wednesday, May 4 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Sing Out! Pete Seeger and American Reform

Allan M. Winkler, Distinguished Professor of History, Miami University in Ohio

Low Lecture
Co-sponsored by the Department of History