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WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy, 2007 - 08

Economic Security in the 21st Century: Workplace, Family and Policy

The West Coast Poverty Center Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy brings prominent national and local faculty to the UW campus to present their cutting-edge research on poverty and public policy. Approximately five seminars are offered each quarter and are open to faculty and graduate students from all disciplines who are interested in research on issues of poverty and inequality and related public policies.

Seminars entail a generally brief (30 minute or so) presentation by the speaker, sometimes a formal response by a discussant, and in all seminars an extended open and lively dialog between the speaker and the seminar participants for the remaining time of the seminar. Particular emphasis is placed on illuminating the ways in which poverty knowledge is informed by a diversity of disciplinary perspectives. Most of the seminars occur on Monday afternoons from 3-4:30 PM in either the Parrington Hall Commons or the Forum (located on the third floor of Parrington Hall).

New this year will be an additional, student-oriented session each quarter for enrolled graduate students. These sessions will provide opportunities for students to network with other students and with U.W. faculty from a variety of disciplines who are working on topics relating to poverty and inequality.

Topical Areas: Seminars will be presented by faculty from a variety of disciplines addressing a diversity of topics that relate to the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality in the U.S. and to the development and evaluation of public policy responses.

View information, videos, PowerPoints, and abstracts for the 07-08 series here.

WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy, 2006 - 07

The West Coast Poverty Center Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy provides a forum for nationally prominent poverty researchers as well as local faculty engaged in cutting-edge research on poverty and its implications for public policy. The seminars are open to faculty and graduate students from all disciplines having an interest in poverty research and policy issues.

Seminars entail a generally brief (30 minute or so) presentation by the speaker, sometimes a formal response by a discussant, and in all seminars an extended open and lively dialog between the speaker and the seminar participants for the remaining time of the seminar. Particular emphasis is placed on illuminating the ways in which poverty knowledge is informed by a diversity of disciplinary perspectives. Most of the seminars occur on Monday afternoons from 3-4:30 PM in either the Parrington Hall Commons or the Forum (located on the third floor of Parrington Hall).

View the information for the 06-07 series

Fall 2006 (pdf)
Winter 2007 (pdf)
Spring 2007 (pdf)

WCPC Inaugural Conference - "Local Contexts and the Prospects for the Second Generation"

October 19-20, 2006

The West Coast Poverty Center’s inaugural research conference, "Local Contexts and the Prospects for the Second Generation", was held at the University of Washington on October 19 and 20. The conference was one of the first multi-disciplinary efforts to address issues of local context in the economic and social progress of second-generation immigrants. (Click here for more information)