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Day/Time |
Room |
Topic |
Presenter |
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Monday 10/27 |
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9:30-10:45 |
578 |
Risk, Speculaton, and Economic Bubbles: Are Markets Rational? |
Shaharokhi |
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11:00-12:15 |
575 |
Liberal / Conservative Debate |
Cummings |
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and McGann |
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12:30-1:45 |
575 |
The Depiction of Women in Advertising |
Braunwarth |
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2:00-3:15 |
583 |
Vote No on Yes: How Power to the People Became Power to the |
Jennings |
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Powerful |
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4:00-5:15 |
577 |
Buddhhist Politics |
Myers |
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5:30-6:45 |
578 |
Uprooted: Refuugees of the Global Economy - |
Alvarez |
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DVD and Discussion |
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7:00-8:30 |
585 |
The Politics of Oil |
Speckmann |
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Tuesday 10/28 |
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8:00-9:15 |
577 |
One Party Rule: North Korea or the U.S.? |
Jennings |
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9:30-10:45 |
577 |
The Great Depression: Video and Discussion |
Alvarez |
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11:00-12:15 |
575 |
Health Care Puzzle: Lessons from Economics |
Shahrokhi |
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12:30-1:45 |
575 |
Unfair and Unbalanced: Fox News and Election 2008 |
Cummings |
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2:00-3:15 |
578 |
Can Confucianism Keep China Together? |
Myers |
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5:00-6:15 |
551B |
The Great Depression: Is It Happening Again? |
Wienke |
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7:00-9:00 |
Student |
52nd Congressional District Candidate Debate with Duncan |
Mercurio |
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Center |
D. Hunter, Mike Lumpkin, and Michael Benoit |
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Wednesday 10/29 |
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9:30-10:45 |
578 |
Welfare Economics: Is There a Market Value for Happiness? |
Shahrokhi, |
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Myers, and |
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Alvarez |
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Wednesday 10/29 |
10/29 Continued |
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Day/Time |
Room |
Topic |
Presenter |
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11:00-12:15 |
575 |
Slacker Uprising: Michael Moore Film and Discussion |
Cummings |
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12:30-1:45 |
575 |
The Choice 2008: Frontline Documentary About McCain and |
Jennings |
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Obama with Discussion |
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2:00-3:15 |
583 |
Is Marriage Threatened Because People Want To Get Married? |
Jennings |
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The Case for Same Sex Marriage |
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3:30-4:45 |
578 |
A Manga God's Reflections on Science, Religion, and Politics |
Myers |
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5:00-6:30 |
577 |
The Rights of the Non-human: Economic Growth |
Alvarez |
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and the Environment |
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7:00-8:15 |
575 |
An Economy in Distress: Student Debate and Discussion of |
McGann |
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Current Economic Issues |
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Thursday 10/30 |
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8:00-9:15 |
577 |
Who Should We Tax? Tax Policy in the U.S. |
Jennings |
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9:30-10:45 |
577 |
What Do This Year's Propositions Mean? An Overview of |
Braunwarth |
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the Propositions on November's Ballot |
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11:00-12:15 |
575 |
Sustainable Development: Is There an Ecological Crisis? |
Shahrokhi |
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12:30-1:45 |
575 |
Strange Fruit: The Music of Social Protest |
Braunwarth |
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2:00-3:15 |
578 |
A Decade of Decadance: An Analysis of the 1920s and the |
McGann |
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Great Depression |
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4:00-5:15 |
585 |
Consumerism in America: Video (Affluenza) and Discussion |
McGann |
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5:30-6:45 |
577 |
Dirty Politics: The History of Negative Campaigns |
Ficken |
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7:00-8:15 |
583 |
The Politics of Transportation: Getting It Green |
Speckmann |
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Guest Speaker Sharon Cooney: Metropolitan Transit System |
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Director of Government and Community Relations |
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8:15-9:50 |
583 |
"Who Killed the Electric Car?" DVD and Discussion |
Speckmann |
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Day/Time |
Room |
Topic |
Presenter |
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Friday 10/31 |
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9:30-10:45 |
578 |
World Financial COLLAPSE - Causes, Solutions, and What |
Cummings |
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You Should Do to Save Your … |
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11:00-12:15 |
578 |
America's Multilateral Engagement with China and Japan |
Myers |
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12:30-1:45 |
578 |
San Diego Housing Market: From Boom to Bust |
McGann |
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