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