2015-2016 Seminar Schedule
For more information, or if you would like to present your work at the seminar, please contact the organizers, Jana Grittersova (jana.grittersova@ucr.edu) and Matthew C Mahutga (matthew.mahutga@ucr.edu).
The Political Economy seminar meets from 3:10 PM–5:00 PM in HUMANITIES 1500, unless otherwise noted.
Schedule |
Speaker |
|---|---|
| Thursday, January 15th, 2015 | Lane Kenworthy, Yankelovich Endowed Chair Professor, Sociology, University of California, San Diego. “In Search of a Decent and Rising Income Floor.” |
| Thursday, February 11th, 2016 | Fred Block, Research Professor, Sociology, University of California, Davis. “Does Capitalism have its own DNA?” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, March 3rd | Ho-Fung Hung, Professor, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University “The China Boom: where did it come from, how is it ending?” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, March 10th 4:00PM, INTS 1128 |
Jeffry Frieden, Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University “Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty |
| Thursday, May 19th | Andrew Schrank, Olive Watson Professor of Sociology and International & Public Affairs, Brown University “A Second Regulatory Divide? Workplace Regulation in Europe and the Americas” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty |
Seminars sponsored by the Departments of Political Science and Sociology