POLITICAL ECONOMY WEEK SCHEDULE FALL 2008

 

Day/Time

Room

                                       Topic

Presenter

Monday 10/27

 

 

9:30-10:45

578

Risk, Speculaton, and Economic Bubbles: Are Markets Rational?

Shaharokhi

 

 

 

 

11:00-12:15

575

Liberal / Conservative Debate

Cummings 

 

 

 

and McGann

 

 

 

 

12:30-1:45

575

The Depiction of Women in Advertising

Braunwarth

 

 

 

 

2:00-3:15

583

Vote No on Yes: How Power to the People Became Power to the

Jennings

 

 

Powerful

 

 

 

 

 

4:00-5:15

577

Buddhhist Politics

Myers

 

 

 

 

5:30-6:45

578

Uprooted: Refuugees of the Global Economy - 

Alvarez

 

 

DVD and Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

7:00-8:30

585

The Politics of Oil

Speckmann

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 10/28

 

 

8:00-9:15

577

One Party Rule: North Korea or the U.S.?

Jennings

 

 

 

 

9:30-10:45

577

The Great Depression: Video and Discussion

Alvarez

 

 

 

 

11:00-12:15

575

Health Care Puzzle: Lessons from Economics

Shahrokhi

 

 

 

 

12:30-1:45

575

Unfair and Unbalanced: Fox News and Election 2008

Cummings

 

 

 

 

2:00-3:15

578

Can Confucianism Keep China Together?

Myers

 

 

 

 

5:00-6:15

551B

The Great Depression: Is It Happening Again?

Wienke

 

 

 

 

7:00-9:00

Student

52nd Congressional District Candidate Debate with Duncan

Mercurio

 

Center

D. Hunter, Mike Lumpkin, and Michael Benoit

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 10/29

 

9:30-10:45

578

Welfare Economics: Is There a Market Value for Happiness?

Shahrokhi,

 

 

 

Myers, and

 

 

 

Alvarez

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 10/29

10/29 Continued

 

Day/Time

Room

                                       Topic

Presenter

11:00-12:15

575

Slacker Uprising: Michael Moore Film and Discussion

Cummings

 

 

 

 

12:30-1:45

575

The Choice 2008: Frontline Documentary About McCain and 

Jennings

 

 

Obama with Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

2:00-3:15

583

Is Marriage Threatened Because People Want To Get Married?

Jennings

 

 

The Case for Same Sex Marriage

 

 

 

 

 

3:30-4:45

578

A Manga God's Reflections on Science, Religion, and Politics

Myers

 

 

 

 

5:00-6:30

577

The Rights of the Non-human: Economic Growth 

Alvarez

 

 

and the Environment

 

 

 

 

 

7:00-8:15

575

An Economy in Distress: Student Debate and Discussion of

McGann

 

 

Current Economic Issues

 

Thursday  10/30

 

 

8:00-9:15

577

Who Should We Tax? Tax Policy in the U.S.

Jennings

 

 

 

 

9:30-10:45

577

What Do This Year's Propositions Mean? An Overview of

Braunwarth

 

 

the Propositions on November's Ballot

 

 

 

 

 

11:00-12:15

575

Sustainable Development: Is There an Ecological Crisis?

Shahrokhi

 

 

 

 

12:30-1:45

575

Strange Fruit: The Music of Social Protest

Braunwarth

 

 

 

 

2:00-3:15

578

A Decade of Decadance: An Analysis of the 1920s and the

McGann

 

 

Great Depression

 

 

 

 

 

4:00-5:15

585

Consumerism in America: Video (Affluenza) and Discussion

McGann

 

 

 

 

5:30-6:45

577

Dirty Politics: The History of Negative Campaigns

Ficken

 

 

 

 

7:00-8:15

583

The Politics of Transportation: Getting It Green

Speckmann

 

 

Guest Speaker Sharon Cooney: Metropolitan Transit System

 

 

Director of Government and Community Relations

 

 

 

 

 

8:15-9:50

583

"Who Killed the Electric Car?" DVD and Discussion

Speckmann

Day/Time

Room

                                       Topic

Presenter

Friday 10/31

 

 

9:30-10:45

578

World Financial COLLAPSE - Causes, Solutions, and What 

Cummings

 

 

You Should Do to Save Your …

 

 

 

 

 

11:00-12:15

578

America's Multilateral Engagement with China and Japan

Myers

 

 

 

 

12:30-1:45

578

San Diego Housing Market: From Boom to Bust

McGann