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ESB Members and Friends Invited to Participate in Northeastern University’s FREE Open Classroom
Session topics have been announced for the Open Classroom series sponsored by Northeastern University’s Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, directed by Barry Bluestone, our 2010 Humanist of the Year. Dr. Bluestone invited ESB members and friends to participate in this series of FREE lectures dedicated to connecting academia with community members.
The sessions will be held on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. in West Village F Room 20
use the entrance away from Huntington Ave.
go down the basement
(the building is about 3 blocks from the nearest side street)
(See below to links for directions).
January 12 Demographic Change: From the Family to the World
Barry Bluestone and John Sarvey
January 19 What’s Happening to the American Family?
Kathryn Edin (Harvard) and Kenneth Johnson (Harvard)
January 26 Prismatic Communities/Diverse Neighborhoods
Richard Chacon (Mass. Office of Refugees and Immigrants)
and Mary Waters
February 2 The Changing American Workplace: Part I
Osborne Jackson (Northeastern) and
Robert Triest (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
February 9 The Changing American Workplace: Part II
Joseph Quinn (Boston College) and Phyllis Segal (Civic Ventures)
February 16 Demographic Change and our Public Schools
John Logan (Brown)
February 23 Visualizing the Evolving American City
Johanna Londono (Northeastern) and
Peter Vandervarker (photographer)
March 9 Is there a Future for Older Industrial Cities?
Dan Okrent (Time magazine) and
Teresa Lynch (Initiative for a Competitive Inner City)
March 16 Will Demographics Bankrupt Massachusetts?
Alan Clayton-Matthews (Northeastern) and
Alicia Sasser (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
March 23 Demographic Change, Politics, and National Security
Speaker TBD
March 30 Can America Afford an Aging Society?
Deborah Banda (American Association of Retired Persons)
April 6 Demographic Change and the Affluence of Nations
Martin Whyte (Harvard) and David Bloom (Harvard)
April 13 Population Growth and National Stability
Larry Lowenthal and Denis Sullivan (Northeastern)
January 12 to April 13, 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Demography is Destiny – How Aging, Gender Relations, Racial and Ethic Diversity, and Immigration are Changing Everything
Registration is required for the series, but you may elect to attend ONLY those sessions of interest to you. To register and to access directions to the classroom (West Village F, Room 20), go to: