SEMINAR LUNCH SPEAKERS

Fall 1999-Spring 2000

September 16, 1999 Phil Pomper, History The Evolution of Power:  The Russian Case
September  30, 1999 Doug Foyle, Government Counting the Public In:  Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy
October 7, 1999 Dick Vann, History Does American History Need a Synthesizer?
 November 4, 1999 Jonathan Cutler, Sociology A Slackers' Paradise: American Labor and the Shorter Work Week
November 18,1999 Gil Skillman, Economics The Third Era of Labor Economics
December 2, 1999 Rich Adelstein, Economics, and Gary Wasdin and Alex McLane, Olin Library The Electronic Classroom and
Electronic Reserve  (joint session with ITS)
February  3, 2000 Bill Barber, Economics The Origins of Professionalized Social Science
March 2, 2000 Jim McGuire, Government Social Policy and Development Progress in East Asia and Latin America
March 30, 2000 Basil Moore, Economics The Theoretical Case for Low Interest Rates
April 6, 2000 Charles Lemert, Sociology The Race of Time:  Du Bois and Reconstruction
April 20, 2000 Bruce Masters, History Where Thousands Suffered Sore’:  Intercommunal Violence at the End of the Ottoman Empire
May 4, 2000 John Bonin, Economics Banking Reform in China: Gradually Strengthening Pillar or Fragile Reed?