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Robert M. La Follette
School of Public Affairs
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: 608.262.3581
Fax: 608.265.3233
Last updated:
August 18, 2011
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Calendar: 2003
May
May 1- 5:30pm - 7:30pm
PA 958 Community Meeting
Wausau, WI
May 6 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
PA 958 Community Meeting
Norwalk, WI
May 7
PA 958 Community Meeting
Lac Courte Oreilles, WI
May 7 - Noon
Virginia Hart Special Recognition Awards Ceremony
Wisconsin State Capitol
May 8
Policy Analyses Presented to Wisconsin Legislative Council
Madison, WI
May 9
PA 869 Policy Analyses Presented to Mayor Norquist
Milwaukee, WI
May 17 - 10:00am
La Follette Graduation Celebration
Wisconsin State Assembly Chambers
September
Wednesday, September 24 - 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Practitioner Perspectives
Katherine Lyall - President, University of Wisconsin Systems; Professor, Economics
and Public Affairs
494 Van Hise
Thursday, September 25 - 12:15-1:30 p.m.
Improving Public-Sector Performance Management: One Step Forward, Two Steps
Back?
Carolyn Heinrich - La Follette School of Public Affairs
Room 8417 Social Science Building
October
Wednesday, October 1 - 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Practitioner Perspectives
Nicholas Chiarkas - Director, State of Wisconsin Public Defender Agency; Founder,
Justice Without Borders
494 Van Hise
Monday, October 13 - 12:00-1:30 p.m.
The Cultures of Poverty: Preliminary Thoughts and Stories from Welfare Reform
Sharon Hays - Associate Professor of Sociology and Studies in Women and Gender,
University of Virginia
Room 8417 Social Science Building
Wednesday, October 15 - 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Practitioner Perspectives
Debby Anderson Meyer - Outreach Director, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
494 Van Hise
Wednesday, October 22 - 4:00 p.m.
Stone Symposium - "Facing Health Care Tradeoffs: Costs, Risks, and the Uninsured.
Rashi Fein - emeritus professor of the Harvard Medical School, and Mark
Pauly - Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Fluno Center (Full Release)
Thursday, October 23 - 12:15-1:30 p.m.
Filling the Poverty Gap, Then and Now
James Ziliak - Professor and Carol Martin Gatton Chair in Microeconomics, University
of Kentucky; Director, UK Center for Poverty Research
Room 8417 Social Science Building
Wednesday, October 29 - 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Practitioner Perspectives
David Reimer - Administrator, Division of Executive Budget and Finance; State
of Wisconsin Department of Administration
494 Van Hise
November
Monday, November 3 - 12:30-1:00 p.m.
Sub Saharan African Countries - Designing Results-Based Management
Systems
Jody Kusek - Advisor to the World Bank, Africa Region
La Follette School Conference Rm 110
Wednesday, November 12 - 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Practitioner Perspectives
Eng Braun - Administrator, Division of Research and Policy; State of Wisconsin
Department of Revenue
494 Van Hise
Thursday, November 13 - 12:15-1:30 p.m.
Impacts, Outcomes, and Management in Welfare-to-Work Offices
Carolyn Hill - Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University
Room 8417 Social Science Building
Friday, November 14 - 12:00 p.m.
Laos and America-How the Far World Came Near: Reflections of an Agent
Attempting Agency
Joel Halpern - Professor of History, University of Massachusetts
Room 206 Ingraham Hall
Wednesday, November 19 - 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Practitioner Perspectives
Joel Skornicka - Principal, Herndon, Mays, and Skornicka Partnership
494 Van Hise
December
Thursday, December 4 - 12:15-1:30 p.m.
The Color of Capital Punishment: Racial Context, Racial Prejudice, and the
Dynamics of White Support for the Death Penalty
Joe Soss - La Follette School of Public Affairs, Political Science
Room 8417 Social Science Building