BUSSW Announces Fall 2006 Colloquium/Seminar Calendar

Thursday, October 19

3:00-4:30 pm

Conant Lounge

Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium

Presenter: Samantha Friedman; Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University

Wednesday, October 25

12:15- 1:45 pm

Conant Lounge

The Family Therapy Certificate Program colloquium.

Topic: “Clinical Work with LGBT Families”

Presenter: Tracey Rogers, Ph.D.

Wednesday, October 25

12:15- 2:00 pm

BUSSW Student Lounge

Racism Brown Bag Lunch

Topic: “Immigration Policy and Racism”

Presenting the video “Walking the Line”

Discussion facilitated by a representative from Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) and Humberto Reynoso; Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Social Work

Thursday, October 26

3:00-4:30 pm

Conant Lounge

Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium

Presenter: Margaret Lombe; Assistant Professor of Social Work, Boston College

Monday, October 30

12:15- 1:45 pm

Conant Lounge

Faculty Colloquium

Topic: “Compulsive Hoarding: Clinical Research Findings and Community Issues”

Presenter: Gail Steketee; Professor, Dean ad interim, Boston University School of Social Work

Wednesday, November 1 (Tentative)

12.15 – 1.45 p.m.

Conant Lounge

Student Organization / Clinical Practice Colloquium

Topic: “Interested in . . .International SocialWork? Ttrauma-based Interventions?”

Presenter: Kaethe Weingarten; Founder and Director of the Witnessing Project, Associate clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge

Thursday, November 2

3:00-4:30 pm

Conant Lounge

Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium

Presenter: Lisa Dodson; Professor of Sociology, Boston College

Thursday, November 9

3:00-4:30 pm

Conant Lounge

Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium

Presenter: Emily Barman; Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University

Wednesday,November 15

12:15- 2:00 pm

BUSSW Student Lounge

Diversity Committee Colloquium

Topic: "The Puerto Rican Experience: Students’ Group Presentation and Preliminary Research Findings from Interviews with Injecting Drug Users in the Field"

Presenter: Luz Lopez, Cate Solomon, Lisa Zerden, PhD student and MSW students

Thursday, November 16

3:00-4:30 pm

Conant Lounge

Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium

Presenter: Kelly Mills-Dick; Doctoral Candidate, Social Work and Sociology, Boston University

Tuesday, November 28

12:15- 1:45 pm

Conant Lounge

Faculty Colloquium

Topic: “Conservative Challenges in Social Work Education”

Presenter: Jim Ryczek; Current Executive Director of RI Coalition for the Homeless and former instructor of RI College, School of Social Work.

Thursday, November 30

3:00-4:30 pm

Conant Lounge

Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium

Presenter: Laurie Goldman; Lecturer, Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy Planning, Tufts University

For more information on the Colloquium and Seminar Calendar, please contact Anna Chuyeva at achuyeva@bu.edu