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Topic |
Speaker |
| 2011 |
"The Great Recession: How We Got Here and Prospects for Recovery" |
Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, D.C. |
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| 2010 |
"Health Reform, Public Health and the Surgeon General's Priorities" |
Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States |
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| 2008 |
"The FDR Coalition, 1936-2008" |
William Leuchtenburg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina |
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| 2007 |
"Building a Constituency for Quality Public Education" |
Wendy Puriefoy, President of the Public Education Network
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2006
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"What Makes a Good Neighbor? Upholding Values of Human Rights and Security in Latin American Immigration to the United States |
Luis Alberto Cordero, Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, Costa Rica |
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| 2005 |
"The FCC and the Media" A Fireside Chat and Four Freedoms Roundtable |
Karen Gibbs, moderator; Panelists: Newton Minow, Sr. Counsel, Sidley Austin; Carol Marin, NBC5 News and Chicago Sun Times; Professor John C. Roberts, DePaul School of Law |
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| 2004 |
Working with Women and Children in Post-War Countries: The Liberian Situation |
Krubo Kollie, University of Liberia |
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| 2002 |
Corporate Accountability in an Age of Doubt |
Nell Minow, Editor, The Corporate Library |
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| 2001 |
World Hunger: A Human Rights Issue |
Stephane Hessel, Ambassadeur de France |
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| 2000 |
Remembering Eleanor Roosevelt Through Music and History |
Allida Black, ER Papers Project, and performance of cello concerto, “Eleanor’s Gift” |
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| 1999 |
Celebrating the Legacy of New Deal Housing Policy |
Gail Radford, SUNY-Buffalo, & Julia Stasch (Chief of Staff to Mayor Daley) |
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| 1998 |
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
Felice Gaer, Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights |
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| 1997 |
FDR & the Arts: The Federal Theater |
Studs Terkel, after a student performance of “The Cradle Will Rock.” |
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| 1996 |
FDR & the Holocaust |
Ambassador William vanden Heuvel |
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| 1995 |
Refugees: The Dilemmas of Global Dislocation |
Ambassador Morton Abramowitz |
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| 1994 |
Preventing Family Violence |
Esta Soler, Family Violence Prevention Fund |
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| 1993 |
Public v. Private Responsibility: Families & Children in the 21st Century |
Panelists including Cong. Richard Durbin, Mary Davidson, Thomas Roeser, Delores Holmes,Michael Warder. Moderated by John Callaway |
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| 1992 |
Women in Politics |
Cokie Roberts |
