Doing/Debating Development

Fall 2009

Wednesdays, 12 noon- 1:00 pm

3201 Hart Hall

Theme:  The Many Dimensions of Community Development

September 30

Jeff Loux, Land Use and Natural Resources, UC Davis Extension

"Lessons from Across the Pond: Sustainable Urbanism in European Neighborhood Design"

October 7

Michael Lawler, Center for Human Services, UC Davis Extension

"Human Services in the Digital Age: New Challenges and Opportunities for Sharing Data and Information to Better Serve Vulnerable Children and Families"

October 14

Amy Dean, Former President, South Bay AFL-CIO, and Founder of Working Partnerships USA

“A New New Deal:  How Regional Activism will Reshape the American Labor Movement”

October 21

Carolyn Penny, Common Ground, UC Davis Extension, and

   Tara Zagofsky, Geography Graduate Group, UC Davis

“Difficult Conversations and Community Conflict: Oh My!”

October 28 

Yvette Flores, Chicana/Chicano Studies, UC Davis

“Intimate partner violence and depression among rural Mexican women”

November 4

Susan Handy, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis

“Getting Americans Back on Bikes:  What will it take?”

November 18

Carlos Jackson, Chicana/Chicano Studies, UC Davis

“Establishing the Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer in Woodland: A Collaborative Chicano Studies Art Center”

December 2

Deb Niemeier, Environmental Engineering, UC Davis

“Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled and the Built Environment: from planning to policy to action”