IISS Events

"Multi-Disciplinarity in Action" 2006 Colloquium Series

The School of Social Work's Institute on Inequality and Social Structure is pleased to announce a late Winter/Spring 2006 Colloquium Series, "Multi-Disciplinarity in Action". We are fortunate to have lined up a set of compelling presentations of work in progress from several of our own faculty, doctoral candidates, and faculty from the Evans School of Public Affairs. Each session will also feature a discussant whose work is in a somewhat contrasting but related area, and whose task is to illuminate the utility and implications of the presented work for other areas of scholarship and practice.

2006 Colloquium Series complete schedule

Past presentations:

• Wed., May 31st, 12:30-2:00 p.m., Room 306
  “The Structure of Opportunity: Child Care Subsidies and Work-Family Balance” presented by Lucy Jordan. more details
• Wed., May 17th, 12:30-2:00 p.m., Room 305A
  “Group Structure, Social Identity, and Access to Savings and Insurance in Informal Savings Groups in Kenya” presented by Mary Kay Gugerty. more details
• Wed., May 3rd, 12:30-2:00 p.m., Room 305A
  “Having a Friend in the World of Puzzles: Using Multiple Imputation to Handle Missingness in the Longitudinal Dataset” presented by Jung-Eun Lee. more details
• Wed., April 19th, 12:30-2:00 p.m., Room 305A
  “Investigating Health Care Provider Implicit Racial Bias, Explicit Racial Bias and Medical Care” presented by Janice Sabin. more details
• Fri., April 7th, 12:30-2:00 p.m., Room 305B
  “The Location Choices of Public Housing Residents Displaced by Redevelopment: Market Constraints, Personal Preferences, or Social Information?” presented by Rachel G. Kleit. more details
• Wed., March 8th, 12:30-2:00 p.m., Room 306AB
  “After the Storm: Ongoing Social Inequalities and Traumas as the City of New Orleans Recovers from Katrina” presented by Taryn Lindhorst. more details

"Wal-Mart” Movie Screening

Friday, November 18th, 2005, 6:30 to 8:45 p.m.
The Commons of the UW School of Social Work

“WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price”
Documentary takes you into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel, and act.

Featuring open audience discussion with shared thoughts from John Burbank, Director of the Economic Opportunity Institute; Heather Golden (MSW ’03), UFCW Local 21 union organizer; and Sandeep Krishnamurthy, Associate Professor, UW-Bothell School of Business.

Event co-sponsored by the UW School of Social Work’s Institute on Inequality and Social Structure, the Global-Local Community Action Institute, and students of SSW504 (evening); the Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development and Global Citizenship at the UW Evans School of Public Affairs; the UW Center for Labor Studies; the UW Comparative History of Ideas program; and PRAXIS: The College of Architecture and Urban Planning Lecture Series.

SSW Day of Reflection and Action

Hurricane Katrina: The Makings of an Unnatural Disaster

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005, 12:30 to 6:00 p.m.
The Commons of the UW School of Social Work

Sessions by the Institute on Inequality and Social Structure
Presenters: Taryn Lindhorst, PhD and Gunnar Almgren, PhD
Session 1— 2:10 – 3:10 p.m.
Session 2 — 3:20 – 4:20 p.m.

“When old problems meet new disasters: 
The consequences of health inequalities in the U.S.”

The Katrina disaster revealed in the starkest of terms the multiple dimensions of poverty and inequality, disparities in health care among them. The failure to evacuate Charity hospital and the deaths of patients that resulted are at once a manifestation and a parable the two tiered nature of the U.S. health care -one system for the middle and upper classes and another for the working poor and the poorest of the poor. This session will offer two perspectives on the lessons of Katrina that pertain to the structure of the U.S. health care system. Professor Gunnar Almgren, a scholar of health care policy and disparities in health, will discuss the role of "safety-net" hospitals like Charity and their imperiled status in the current U.S. health care policy environment. Professor Taryn Lindhorst, a former practitioner of medical social work in the New Orleans and an eighteen year resident of that city, will discuss poverty and health care in the context of the New Orleans health care system as it existed before Katrina struck.

Linda Marie Burton, PhD

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005, 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
The Commons of the UW School of Social Work

“The Place of Place in the Lives of America's Poor Families:
An Ethnographic Lens”

Prof. Linda Burton is a sociologist, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Sociology, and Senior Research Associate at the Population Issues Research Center at Pennsylvania State University. She is also the Director of the Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts. Among her many accomplishments, Professor Burton was responsible for the ethnographic methods portion of the three-city study of welfare reform and trained over 200 ethnographic researchers to conduct interviews.

Presentation sponsored by the Institute on Inequality and Social Structure, Endowed Professorship in Social Work Practice and Women's Health (Lew Gilchrist), and the Diversity Research Institute of the University of Washington.