Regional Economic & Social Development Seminar Series

Seminar Series Fall 2009
Regional Economic and Social Development
Center for Industrial Competitiveness
“Crises, Prospects and Responses: Local, Regional, National, and Global”

All seminars are at noon in the RESD Seminar Room 500 O’Leary 5th Floor, 61 Wilder Street, Lowell, MA unless otherwise noted. Buffet lunch is provided. For directions go to http://www.uml.edu/maps/ Queries and Questions contact Kathryn_Hackett (at) student.uml.edu

September 14, 2009
William Mass and Georges Grinstein, RESD and Computer Science, UMass Lowell
“Open Indicators: New Tools for Data Visualization and Analysis from the Local to the Global”

September 21, 2009 (UML Inn and Conference Center, 50 Warren Street, Lowell, MA)
Teresa Ghilarducci, Professor of Economics and Director of Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New School for Social Research
“The Plot Against Pensions, the Plan to Save Them, and Why It Matters for Everyone”
Co –sponsored by the Tsongas Industrial History Center and Middlesex Community College

September 28, 2009
Ann Eldridge Malone, Executive Director, Alliance to Defend Healthcare
“Healthcare Reform in Massachusetts and US: Covering Everyone Well While Cutting Costs”

October 5, 2009
Geoff Beckwith, Executive Director, Massachusetts Municipal Association
"The Reform Imperative: Changing State & Local Policy to Reflect the New Fiscal Reality"

October 19, 2009
Paul Ryan, College Lecturer in Management and Project Leader on Industrial Clusters, Research Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, National University of Ireland
"Cluster Strategies and Responding to the Crisis in Ireland"

October 26, 2009 (UML Inn and Conference Center, 50 Warren Street, Lowell, MA)
Gerald Epstein, Professor of Economics and Co-Director of Political Economy Research Institute,
University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Preventing Future Financial Meltdowns: What's Needed? What's Likely?"
Co –sponsored by the Tsongas Industrial History Center and Middlesex Community College
Co –sponsored by the Economics Department

November 2, 2009
Perry Mehrling, Professor of Economics, Barnard College of Columbia University
"Credit Crisis of 2007 to ?: Fundamental Causes and Policy Responses"
Co –sponsored by the Economics Department

November 9, 2009
Cynthia Enloe, Professor, International Development, Community and Environment, Clark University
“Gender, Militarization, and Development: At Home and Abroad"
Co –sponsored by the Center for Women and Work

November 16, 2009
Tea Petrin, Chair of the European Commission's European Cluster Policy Group and Professor of Economics, University of Ljubljana
"Responding to the Crisis: The role of business clusters"

November 23, 2009
Joe Kriesberg, President, Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations
“Building Communities: Continuity and Crisis”

November 30, 2009 (UML Inn and Conference Center, 50 Warren Street, Lowell, MA)
Robert Forrant, RESD, UMass Lowell
“Global Economy - Local Woes: Lowell and the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009”
Co –sponsored by the Tsongas Industrial History Center and Middlesex Community College

December 7, 2009
Michael Hilliard, Professor of Economics, University of Southern Maine
"Labor Law Reform in Historical Context: American Employer Exceptionalism"