UCLA Social Sciences Initiative (SSI)

Symposium Program

 

Thursday, October 12, 2006  

(Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History - Directions) 

2:00 pm                 Introduction
                              Arleen Leibowitz – Professor and Chair, Public Policy

2:15 pm                 Welcoming Remarks
                             Roberto Peccei – Vice Chancellor, Research

2:30 pm                       Diversity Challenged: Politics of Inclusion

                                    Presider: Linda Rosenstock - Dean, School of Public Health

• Vickie Mays – Professor, Psychology
• Franklin Gilliam - Associate Vice Chancellor, Community Partnerships
• Min Zhou – Professor, Sociology
• Cheryl Harris - Professor, Law

4:00pm                        Youth: Towards Engaged, Purposeful Lives

                                    Presider: Aimée Dorr, Dean, GSE&IS

• Sandra Graham – Professor and Chair, Education
  • "Racial Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System"
• Neal Halfon – Professor, Community Health Sciences
• Antronette Yancey – Associate Professor, Health Services

5:30pm                         Closing Session - Ruth Milkman - Professor, Sociology
                                               "L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement"

6:00 pm                       Film Festival – An Evening of Short Films on Social Inequalities

• Access Granted (?) -- Admissions Crisis. Here. Now. UCLA. -- Sean Murphy, UCLA Alumnus
• Student Voices -- Robyn Charles, UCLA Undergraduate
• Voices of Pain, Voices of Hope -- Jerome Rabow - Professor Emeritus, Sociology

6:00 pm                   Reception on the Terrace of Fowler Museum                        

Music provided by Keschia Potter Quartet

 

Friday, October 13, 2006  

(Korn Auditorium, Anderson School of Management, UCLA - Directions)

9:00 am                 Introduction
                              Walter Allen – Professor, Education and Sociology

9:20 am                 Welcoming Remarks
                              Norman Abrams – Acting Chancellor, UCLA

9:30 am                 Keynote Address

Robert Moses Civil Rights Leader and Founder, The Algebra Project "Quality Public Education as a Civil Right" The Algebra Project uses mathematics as an organizing force for ensuring quality public school education for every child in the USA.

10:15 am                Question & Answer Session

10:30 am                Plenary Address

Presider: M. Belinda Tucker - Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Saving Brown v. Board of Education "Fighting to Desegregate American Education at All Levels" Shanta Driver National Director, Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and Integration and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) Issamar Camacho Lead Student Intervenor Co-Defendant – American Civil Rights Foundation (ACRF) v. Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) includes slideshow on inequality in Los Angeles area schools

11:00 am               Discussion

11:30 am               Marked Bodies: The Faces of Inequality and Social Disparity
                              Presider: Scott Waugh – Dean, College – Social Sciences

• Jeannie Oakes – Professor, Education
  • "Roadblocks to College" (Report of racial disparities in K-12 educational opportunities in California)
• Darnell Hunt – Professor, Sociology
• Abel Valenzuela, Jr. – Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning

1:00 pm                 Buffet Lunch, Poster Sessions, Conversations

Presider: Steven P. Wallace – Professor, Community Health Sciences

2:00 pm                 Plenary Address

Presider: Roshan Bastani – Professor and Associate Dean of Research, SPH Alissa Anderson-Garcia Policy Analyst, California Budget Project (CBP) "Left Behind: Workers and Their Families in a Changing Los Angeles"

2:30 pm                   Discussion

3:00 pm                   Exercise Break - SPH Center to Eliminate Health Disparities (CEHD)

3:15 pm                  Coffee Break

 

3:30 pm                  Marked Spaces: The Places of Inequality and Social Disparity

                               Presider: Barbara Nelson – Dean, School of Public Affairs

• Michael Stoll – Associate Professor, Public Policy
• Zeke Hasenfeld – Professor, Social Welfare
  • "The Geography of Welfare Reform: How Local Welfare Offices Determine Social Rights"
• Judith Baca - Professor, Chicana/o Studies
• Anne Pebley – Professor, Community Health Sciences

5:00 pm                    Closing Session: Anne Gilliland – Chair and Professor, Information Studies

• Walter Allen – Professor, Education and Sociology
• Roshan Bastani – Professor and Associate Dean of Research, SPH
• Arleen Leibowitz – Professor and Chair, Public Policy
• Abel Valenzuela, Jr. – Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning

6:00 pm                     Reception on Alumni Plaza

Music provided by Son Del Sur Book Signing - Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project by Robert P. Moses

6:30 pm                        Film Screenings

FILMS BY YOUTH INSIDE - a series of short dramatic films written , directed, and performed by incarcerated youth. Films by Youth Inside (FYI) is an introductory filmmaking program developed and administered by writer/director Alex Muñoz.   The purpose of the program is to imbue youthful offenders with critical-thinking, cooperative learning and organizational skills and provide a medium for positive self-expression and personal transformation. (SONY PICTURES proudly supports FYI.) Dilemma - written and directed by Alex Muñoz, produced by the Black Hollywood Education Resource Center (BHERC) as part of the anti-gang initiative, Fight Back with Film