http://www.plymouth.edu/events/sidore Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:47:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.plymouth.edu/events/sidore/325/2011-2012/ Michael Kraus, University of California, San Francisco Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7 p.m. Smith Recital Hall, Silver Center for the Arts In his talk, Michael Kraus advocates for an alternative cultural perspective on social class, suggesting that the contexts of lower- and upper-class individuals create reliable and sometimes surprising differences in prosocial tendencies, such as empathy and generosity, among lower- and upper-class individuals.]]> http://www.plymouth.edu/events/sidore/295/%e2%80%9csocial-class-solipsism-and-contextualism-why-the-rich-are-different-from-the-poor%e2%80%9d/ Paul Leighton, Eastern Michigan University Monday, March 12, 2012 at 7 p.m. Smith Recital Hall, Silver Center for the Arts In his talk, Leighton discusses the link between the distribution of economic resources and crime, based on famed criminologist John Braithwaite’s argument that inequality worsens both crimes of poverty, which are motivated by need and structural humiliation, and crimes of wealth, which are motivated by greed and unaccountability.]]> http://www.plymouth.edu/events/sidore/292/%e2%80%9cthe-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-prison-inequality-corporate-power-and-crime%e2%80%9d/ Joseph Tulchin, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 7 p.m. Smith Recital Hall, Silver Center for the Arts Tulchin discusses inequality and citizen security in Latin America, the major “tectonic” changes that have taken place in Latin America since the end of the Cold War, and how inequality and insecurity are further exacerbated by these changes. ]]> http://www.plymouth.edu/events/sidore/357/latin-american-and-its-discontents/ Robert Kuttner, Cofounder and Coeditor, The American Prospect Monday, November 7, 2011 at 7 p.m. Smith Recital Hall, Silver Center for the Arts The current recession has only exacerbated a three-decade inequality trend. To restore a more equal distribution of income, opportunity, and wealth, we need to rebuild a managed form of market economy. ]]> http://www.plymouth.edu/events/sidore/282/%e2%80%9cincome-inequality-in-the-us-what-are-the-facts-what-difference-does-it-make-and-what-can-be-done-about-it%e2%80%9d/ Judy Taylor, Artist Monday, October 24, 2011, at 7 p.m. Smith Recital Hall, Silver Center for the Arts Maine artist Judy Taylor will discuss the creation of the Maine Labor Mural, the history of the individual panels, and the recent controversy over the removal of the panels under Governor Paul LePage’s orders.]]> http://www.plymouth.edu/events/sidore/280/%e2%80%9cthe-maine-labor-mural-controversy%e2%80%9d/ Sarah Bigney, Organizer, Maine Fair Trade Campaign Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 7 p.m. Smith Recital Hall, Silver Center for the Arts In her talk, Sarah Bigney will explain how sharing stories of the survivors of free trade and a corporate war economy can help build a movement of people committed to working together for a democratic and just economy.]]> http://www.plymouth.edu/events/sidore/273/%e2%80%9cwho%e2%80%99s-winning-who%e2%80%99s-losing-and-who%e2%80%99s-writing-the-rules-jobs-immigration-and-the-trade-rulebook-of-corporate-globalization%e2%80%9d/ http://www.plymouth.edu/events/sidore/185/%e2%80%9cintegral-ecology-things-are-simultaneously-getting-worse-getting-better-and-are-already-perfect%e2%80%9d/ http://www.plymouth.edu/events/sidore/181/%e2%80%9cinterfaith-leadership-in-a-time-of-global-religious-crisis%e2%80%9d/ http://www.plymouth.edu/events/sidore/179/%e2%80%9cdo-we-need-the-death-penalty%e2%80%9d/