A Conversation with Thomas F. Remington
Professor of Political Science at Emory University

Monday, March 3, 2008
4:30―6:00 p.m.
Ford Auditorium, Allen Medical Library
Case Western Reserve University

A Presentation of the Center for Policy Studies at Case Western Reserve University

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What has Russia become, and where is it going? Join us on the day after Russia's Presidential election (or selection) as the Center for Policy Studies hosts three groundbreaking scholars of post-Soviet affairs. Tom Remington, Professor of Political Science at Emory University, is the author of two books on the Russian Parliament and a basic text, Politics in Russia, now in its 5th edition. Andrew Barnes, Associate Professor of Political Science at Kent State University, has authored numerous studies of the new Russian economy, including Owning Russia: The Struggle Over Factories, Farms, and Power. Kelly McMann, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University, studies democratization in Russia and other ex-Soviet states, and is the author of Economic Autonomy and Democracy: Hybrid Regimes in Russia and Kyrgyzstan.

This event was made possible by the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin.

Thomas J. Sugrue

Thursday, October 18, 2007; 4:30 p.m.
Wolstein Research Building (Auditorium
Case Western Reserve University

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A Presentation of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities

Thomas J. Sugrue is a Baker-Nord visiting fellow from the University of Pennsylvania and author of "The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit" (1966.)

Thomas J. Sugrue is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, and race relations, Sugrue was educated at Columbia; King's College, Cambridge; and Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1992. He is author of "The Origins of the Urban Crisis" (1996), which won the Bancroft Prize in American History, the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History, the President's Book Awards of the Social Science History Association, among other awards. In 2005, Princeton University Press selected The Origins of the Urban Crisis as one of its 100 most influential books of the past one hundred years and published a new edition of The Origins of the Urban Crisis as a Princeton Classic.

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Moderator:

Joe White, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, Director of the Center for Policy Studies, and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University.

Panelists:

Joe Hallett joined The Columbus Dispatch in 1999 as politics editor. Before then, Hallett was chief political writer for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland for three years and Statehouse bureau chief for The Toledo Blade for 12 years. John R. Corlett is currently Senior Fellow and manages the Public Policy and Advocacy team at The Center for Community Solutions. The team works on a bipartisan basis on a number of complex issues, including tax and fiscal policy, early care and education, health care, primary and secondary education, and welfare reform at the local, state and national level. He serves as chair of a statewide health and human services coalition as well as co-chair of a statewide budget coalition. In 2006 he served as Campaign Manager for the Coalition for Ohio's Future successful effort to defeat the TEL constitutional amendment, and authored a report for the Brookings Institution on the implementation of welfare reform in Ohio. He has been the primary and or contributing author of a number of articles, presentations, and reports and analyses on key state and federal policy issues. Recently he served as a healthcare policy resource to the Strickland-Fisher transition team. Mr. Corlett has served as campaign manager for two successful Cuyahoga County Health and Human Services Levies. He also served as a Health Policy Fellow in the Washington, D.C. offices of U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown. Previously Mr. Corlett was director of government affairs and advocacy for the Center for Families and Children. In addition, Mr. Corlett's commentaries have been published in newspapers across Ohio. Mr. Corlett is a resident of the City of Cleveland. James P. Trakas, served 4 term terms in the Ohio General Assembly as the legislator, from the 17th District, Independence, Ohio. Mr. Trakas reintroduced the Third Frontier Legislation and is a staunch proponent of economic development in Ohio. He served on the Economic Development and Environment Committee, the Finance and Appropriations Committee (including the Higher Education Subcommittee) and was Vice Chair of the Elections and Ethics Committee. Jim Trakas was voted Bioscience Legislator of the Year in 2004.

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Moderator:

Joe White, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, Director of the Center for Policy Studies, and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University.

Panelists:

Dr. Gregory Eastwood is the interim president of Case Western Reserve University, having taken the helm June 2, 2006, following the resignation this past spring of Edward M. Hundert, M.D. Insoo Hyun received his BA and MA in philosophy from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University. Most of his early training in philosophy focused on ethical theory and epistemology; under the direction of his dissertation supervisor, Dan Brock, he later came to develop a predominant interest in biomedical ethics. The research in Horst von Recum's lab is on tissue engineering blood vessels either for use as small diameter implants, or for pre-vascularizing polymer scaffolds for other tissue engineering applications. To this end he examines the differentiation of stem cells, both embryonic and hematopoietic to become the various components of blood vessels. Stem cells show great promise as tissue engineering tools both in their unlimited replication potential and plasticity. Recent progress has shown that stem cells can be differentiated into circulating endothelial precursors, and it is these cells which cause repair and regeneration of large vascular defects.

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Moderator:

Alexander P. Lamis, Associate Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University.

Panelists:

Robert Dykes, principle and CEO of the Triad Research Group and one of the most respected consultants in the Northeast Ohio market research community; Lee Weingart, founder and president of LNE Group, a leading professional services firm specializing in Advocacy, Campaign Management and Fundraising solutions.

Original Event Description

Wednesday November 1, 2006
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Thwing Center-1914 Lounge

The Case Center for Policy Studies is proud to present a forum on the critical races, inside and outside Ohio, that will be decided in the crucial 2006 midterm elections.

Our panel of distinguished guests will be moderated by Case Associate Professor of Political Science Alexander P. Lamis and feature two prominent campaign consultants, Robert Dykes and Lee Weingart, who will provide their expert analysis and observations on some of the more competitive electoral races occurring in the November elections. The forum will also include reports on several hotly contested races around the country by undergraduate students in Professor Lamis's Mid-Term Elections course.