UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CENTER SACRAMENTO

The University Engaged: Upcoming Public Events

Inside Obama's Brain, Book Release
Tuesday December 3rd, 2009
12:00 - 1:30
Sasha Abramsky, Author

Cambodian Democracy and Human Rights Under Siege
Tuesday September 15th, 2009
11:30 -1:00 PM
Mu Sochua, Member of the Cambodian Parliament

The California Commission on the 21st Century Economy: Process, Final Report, Next Steps
Date TBA
3:30 -5:00pm
Featuring:
Mark Ibele, Executive Director, California Commission on the 21st Century Economy

PAST EVENTS

Energy in California: Where Next?
Thursday August 20, 2009
4:00-5:15pm
Featuring:
Peter Asmus with comments by V. John White, Executive Director, CEERT

The Housing Problem and the Economic Crisis: A Review and Evaluation of Policy Prescriptions
Thursday July 30, 2009
3:30 to 5:00pm
Featuring:
Cynthia Kroll, Ashok Bardhan and Robert Edelstein, Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Environmental Policy in California: Lessons Learned and Future Imperatives
Thursday July 23, 2009
3:30 to 5:00pm
Featuring:
V. John White, Executive Director, Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies

The 1996 CA Constitutional Revision Commission: Lessons Learned
Friday July 10, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm
Featuring:
Fred Silva, Senior Fiscal Policy Advisor, California Forward

California Water Policy and Environmental Justice
Friday June 26, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
David Feldman, Professor and Chair of Planning, Policy, and Design at UC Irvine

Smart Water Systems: A New Approach to Water Policy
Friday June 19th, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Yoram Cohen, Director, Water Technology Research (WaTeR) Center and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UC Los Angeles

Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger
Tuesday June 16, 2009
5:00-6:30pm; hors d'ouevres will be served
Featuring:
UCCS is proud to feature journalist and author Sasha Abramsky to celebrate the release of his latest work, Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger. Please join us for a reception and short program including a reading by the author. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

What's Next for California: Financing Government in the Golden State* NEW TIME*
Thursday, June 11th
3:00pm to 5:00pm; refreshments will be served.
Featuring:
Darien Shamske, UC Berkeley School of Law at Boalt Hall
David Gamage, , UC Hastings School of Law
Kirk Stark, UC Los Angeles School of Law
Mark Paul, New America Foundation

Global Health, California and the World
Monday June 8, 3009
8:30am to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Haile Debas, Executive Director of the School of Global Health Sciences at UC San Francisco
Sir Richard Feacham, Director of the Global Health Group at UC San Francisco and former Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Race and Entrepreneurship
Friday May 29, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Rob Fairlie, Professor and Director of the Masters Program in Applied Economics and Finance in the Departments of Economics and UC Santa Cruz

The Global Economic Crisis: Is the "New" New Deal in Sight? (NEW TIME AND DATE)
Cosponsored by the California Budget Project
Thursday May 27th, 2009
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Featuring:
James Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin

Reduced Socials Service Funding for California's Counties and the May 19th Election
Friday May 22, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Scott Graves, Senior Policy analyst, California Budget Project
additional speakers TBA

Key Examples from Australian Water Policies and Law - Creating a New Type of Resilience
with the UC Water Resources Center Archives
Friday May 8, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Jennifer McKay, Professor of Business Law at the University of South Australia and the recipient of a 2008 Fulbright Senior Scholarship

The Obama Plan & The Dual Crisis of Governance and the Economy
Thursday April 30, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Richard Parker, Professor, JFK School of Government at Harvard University

Going Local: The New Politics of Immigration in the United States
Friday April 17, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Karthick Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science at UC Riverside

Immigrant Integration: State and Local Challenges-with the University of Southern California
Thursday April 16, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Manuel Pastor, Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and co-Director of USC's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII)
Abel Valenzuela, Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies at UC Los Angeles

Examining Sexual Assualt in California Correctional Facilities
Friday April 3, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Valerie Jenness, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Sociology, UC Irvine

Housing Trusts and the Permanent Source Initiative
Friday March 6, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Jennifer Gress (Moderator), Consultant, Senate Transportation and Housing Committee
Mary Brooks, Project Director of Center for Community Change
Lynn Jacobs, Director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development
Rob Weiner, Executive Director at California Coalition for Rural Housing

Homelessness
Friday February 27, 2009
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Gary Blasi, Professor of Law at UC Los Angeles
Chris Glaudel, Vice President for Asset Management at Mercy Housing
Zach Olmstead, Policy Director on Homelessness at Housing California
David Snow, Professor of Sociology at UC Irvine

SB 375: Land Use, Regionalism and the Effects on Housing
Friday February 13, 2009
12noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Janet Ruggiero, FAICP, Former Director of Community Development for the City of Citrus Heights (retired)
Brian Augusta, Staff Attorney for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
Linda Wheaton, Assistant Deputy Director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development

Mortgage Foreclosures: Effects and Responses
Friday February 6, 2009 (UCCS Library)
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring:
Kerry Vandell, Professor of Finace and Real Estate and the director of the Center For Real Estate at UC Irvine
Archived Presentation
Rani Isaac, Economist with the California Reasearch Bureau
Archived Presentation
Paul Leonard, Director of the Center for Responsible Lending.
Archived Presentation

How Domestic Violence Affects Everyone’s Kids
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring: Scott Carrell, Assistant Professor in the UC Davis Department of Economics

Women and Criminal Justice in California: Challenges and Opportunities
Friday December 5, 2008
12noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring: Barbara Bloom, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies, Sonoma State

Governing Through Crime: Youth and Justice in California
Thursday December 4, 2008
12 noon to 1:30pm; lunch will be served.
Featuring: Jonathan Simon, Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law

Crime, Delinquincy and Youth in California: Challenges and Opportunities
Featuring: Barry Krisberg, PhD, President of the National Council on Crime and Delinquincy