When: Wednesday, April 30, 2008, from 4-6 pm
Where: Stanford Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Ave., Stanford

Dr. Moore's research interests are public management and leadership, civil society and community mobilization, and criminal justice policy and management. His recent publications include Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government and Creating Public Value Through State Arts Agencies.

Space is limited. If you plan on attending the seminar, please RSVP to nataliec@stanford.edu as soon as possible.

PACS is a program of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences.

When: Thursday, April 24, 3pm
Where: Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (Woods Institute for the Environment), Room 102

In explaining variability in tropical deforestation, land change scientists have focused almost exclusively on in situ (or “on-farm”) resource use, while population scholars have largely ignored rural-to- rural migration. The ways in which household responses to the human and physical environment in one place may affect land cover change in another place have been inadequately explored. This lecture investigates the primary proximate and underlying causes of deforestation in the humid tropics with a case study from Guatemala.

To investigate the first cause of this phenomenon, farmer land use, Professor Carr collected data from over 500 farmers in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR). To address the second cause of deforestation in the MBR, migration, he conducted interviews with community leaders in twenty-eight communities of MBR settler origin. Evidence suggests that space and place remain essential heuristics to understanding the deforestation process in the tropics. Results from the MBR revealed several factors positively related to forest clearing at the farm level including family size, secure land title, duration on the farm, agricultural intensification, ethnicity, and farm size. Results from areas of origin of migrants to the MBR suggest that larger families, Q’eqchí Maya, landless households, families with small or environmentally degraded plots, households with poor access to labor and produce markets, the least educated, and the exceptionally poor run the greatest risk for migration to the frontier. Evidently, attention to both migration origin and destination areas enhances options for policy interventions aimed at sustainable rural development and forest conservation.

David Carr has served as principal investigator on grants from NASA, NIH, and NSF, enjoyed collaborations with the IHDP, USAID, WWF, TNC, CI, and the IPCC, and has authored over fifty publications on land use/cover change, protected areas, migration, fertility, and health in the tropics.

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Special Interest Group @ Stanford (http://gissig.stanford.edu) is formed around a common interest in GIS, particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our mission is to facilitate a multidisciplinary network of faculty and students who apply or will be applying GIS, spatial technologies and methods.

Date/Time: Tues. 4/8, 5:30-6:30pm (reception to follow)
Location: Schwab Residential Center, Vidalakis Dining Room, 680 Serra Street, Stanford

Sir Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (UCL) and the Director of the UCL International Institute for Society and Health. He will lead participants in a discussion about socio-economic issues affecting the quality of health care throughout the world, covering topics such as:

--How does socio-economic status (SES) impact health care outcomes?
--What are the policy and clinical implications of the relationship between SES and health?

A noted research leader in health inequalities for 30 years, Sir Marmot won the Balzan Prize for outstanding achievements in Epidemiology in 2004. Internationally respected, he was knighted in 2000 by the Queen of England for services in Epidemiology and understanding health inequalities.

** Sir Michael Marmot visit is sponsored by the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Haas Center, Stanford Center on Ethics, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, and Department of Medicine **

For more information, contact Natalie Chang at nataliec@stanford.edu

Wednesday, April 2 at 5pm
Room 370, Building 370, Main Quad

This event is free and open to the public. It is hosted by the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (SCPI) and underwritten by the Mellon Foundation. SCPI is a center of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences.

When: 3/13 from 4-6 pm
Where: Haas Center for Public Service, 562 Salvatierra Walk

The event is free and open the public--please arrive early for optimal seating. The event is part of 2007-2008 Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society Seminar Series. For details, visit: http://haas.stanford.edu/index.php/item/1687

Wednesday, March 12
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Room 370, Building 370, Main Quad

The event is free and open to the public.

Stephen Macedo is the Director of the University Center for Human Values and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at Princeton University. This lecture is part of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality's John E. Sawyer Seminar Series on the Dynamics of Inequality, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. For information, contact Randy Michaud at rmichaud@stanford.edu

Bernholz is a special fellow of the Synergos Institute and a member of the International Network of Strategic Philanthropy. She is also on the Advisory Boards of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equality, YouthGive, Social Venture Partners Bay Area, the National Philanthropic Trust, and The Grantmaking School. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Directors of CompuMentor and is an Advisory Fellow on the Markey Steering Committee of Impact Manager at the Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy at the University of Southern California. She holds an MA and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Space is limited. Please RSVP to nataliec@stanford.edu

Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University
Inequality and Attitudes Toward Inequality

Wednesday, February 6
Pre-event reception: 4pm, Bldg. 80, Main Quad
Talk: 5pm (Bldg. 370, Lecture Room 370, Main Quad)

The Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality continues its Sawyer Seminar series with a presentation by Professor Benjamin Friedman. The lecture, “Inequality and Attitudes Toward Inequality,” and pre-event reception are free and open to the public.

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, and formerly Chairman of the Department of Economics, at Harvard University. His latest book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, published in 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf. Mr. Friedman's best known previous book is Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and After, which received the George S. Eccles Prize, awarded annually by Columbia University for excellence in writing about economics.

Mr. Friedman's current professional activities include serving as a director and member of the editorial board of the Encyclopedia Britannica, a director of the Private Export Funding Corporation, a trustee of the Standish Mellon Investment Trust, a director of the National Council on Economic Education, and an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is a member of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity and the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality is a program of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. For additional information, contact iriss-info@stanford.edu.

Robert D. Putnam is the Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. He is member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. In 2006, Putnam received the Skytte Prize, one of the world's highest accolades for a political scientist. He has written a dozen books, translated into seventeen languages, including the best-selling "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community," and more recently "Better Together: Restoring the American Community," a study of promising new forms of social connectedness. His previous book, "Making Democracy Work," was praised by the Economist as "a great work of social science, worthy to rank alongside de Tocqueville, Pareto and Weber." Both "Making Democracy Work" and "Bowling Alone" rank high among the most cited publications in the social sciences worldwide in the last several decades.

Freeman is the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

For additional information, contact iriss-info@stanford.edu