Spring 2003 SSF Events

February 10, 2003

John Rennie Short , UMBC

Going for Gold: The Olympics and Global Cities


February 12, 2003

John Stolle-McAllister, UMBC

Localizing the Global: The Cultural Politics of Mayan Social Movements


March 6, 2003

Nicole Lurie, RAND

The Public Health Infrastructure: Rebuild or Design?


March 18, 2003

Howard Ralsto, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Welfare Reform Experiments—Past, Present and Future


April 3, 2003

Michael Edwards, Ford Foundation

From ‘Past Imperfect’ to ‘Future Positive’: International Cooperation in the 21st Century


April 15, 2003

Karen Armstrong, Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism

The Battle for God


April 23, 2003

Interdisciplinary Studies Mosaic Roundtable

Royce Hanson, Ray Hoff, Ellssa Levine, Virgina McConnell

Air Quality and Human Health in Baltimore


April 24, 2003

Steven B. Larsen, Maryland Insurance Commissioner

The CareFirst Conversion


May 5, 2003

Phillip Rutledge, Indiana University

Social Equity as a Third Pillar of Public Administration—Some Challenges for Policy Sciences