Archive for March, 2002
Music and Theft
Date: 3/30/2002
Title: Music and Theft
Speaker(s): James Boyle, Daphne Keller, David Lange, Paul Miller, Fred Koenigsberg, Dick Hebdige, David Sanjek
Location: Duke Law School
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)
March 30, 2002
Rajmohan Gandhi @ Illinois
Date: 3/27/2002
Title: Conflict in South Asia
Speaker: Rajmohan Gandhi
Location: University of Illinois
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player) high bandwidth, low bandwidth, Streaming audio (Real Player)
March 27, 2002
From the Archives: George Akerlof @ Yale
Date: 3/25/2002
Title: Economics and Identity (1:26:09)
Speaker(s): George A. Akerlof
Location: Yale
Presentation Type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)
Akerlof delivers the 2002 Arthur Allen Leff Fellowship Lecture.
March 25, 2002
From the archives: Cass Sunstein @ Illinois
Date: 3/14/2002
Title: Republic.Com (1:01:23)
Speaker(s): Cass Sunstein, Thomas Ulen and Bruce Smith
Location: University of Illinois
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player) high bandwidth, low bandwidth, Streaming audio (Real Player)
The Effects of the Internet on Democracy, and Sunstein’s book Republic.com
March 14, 2002
From the archives: Theda Skocpol’s 2002 Storrs Lectures @ Yale
Date: 3/11/2002 – 3/14/2002
Title: Civic Engagement in American Democracy:
- How America Became Civic (1:24:49)
- Recent Shift From Membership to Management (1:21:40)
- Reinventing American Civic Democracy (1:32:57)
Speaker(s): Theda Skocpol
Location: Yale
Presentation Type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)
Theda Skocpol delivered the 2002 Storrs Lectures. Discussion follows each of the lectures, beginning roughly at the 1 hour mark. From the announcement:
Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, will deliver the Storrs Lectures at YLS on Monday, March 11, Tuesday, March 12, and Thursday, March 14. The subject of her lectures is “Civic Engagement in American Democracy,” and each talk will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Room 127. The talks are free and open to the public.
Civic organizations have become a prominent subject of discussion in America. Scholars and media columnists debate whether Americans’ participation in voluntary associations has declined, and whether group membership reflects the health of the nation. But there is widespread agreement that such participation has long been central to American democracy.
Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard, will use the three speeches of the 2002 Storrs Lectures to “trace the origins and development of the United States as a nation where citizens join voluntary membership organizations.”
In her first lecture, subtitled “How America Became Civic,” Skocpol will look back to the origin of civic associations in the United States, which was concurrent with the development of the nation itself. Many of the largest associations had a structure like the federalist U.S. government, with local chapters in many communities linked through a national organization. Skocpol explains that groups such as the Elks, unions, the PTA and morality movements urged people into active citizenship and helped form communities around shared goals. Skocpol’s description will be augmented by illustrations and pictures of the membership ribbon-badges that she collects as a hobby.
Since the 1960s, however, Skocpol notes that there has been a “startling change” in the nature of civic associations in the U.S.–and her second lecture (“The Recent Shift from Membership to Management”) will describe this shift. Many of the older associations are in decline, while “professionally managed” advocacy organizations are growing. The members of these latter groups are often just “mailing list members,” who do not meet in person. Skocpol names the Children’s Defense Fund, Common Cause, and trade interest groups as examples of such organizations.
Her third lecture, “Reinventing American Civic Democracy,” will consider “what this all means for the health and vitality of American democracy.” Skocpol will join the debate about the meaning of civic associations in American society today. She will also “suggest what the analysis implies for the ills in American democracy and some possible solutions.” But Skocpol emphasizes that she doesn’t have all of the answers and hopes to invite others into the discussion.
Skocpol is a political scientist and sociologist, and she is currently president-elect of the American Political Science Association. In thinking about speaking before a Yale Law School audience, she says: “I’m sure I’ll get a lot of tough questions. . . . But I like to argue, too, so I’m not worried.”
The lectures are derived from Skocpol’s forthcoming book, Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life (University of Oklahoma Press).
March 14, 2002
From the archives: Republic.com @ Illinois
Date: 3/14/2002
Title: Republic.com
Speaker: Cass Sunstein
Location: University of Illinois
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player) high bandwidth, low bandwidth, Streaming audio (Real Player)
March 14, 2002
From the archives: Robert Reich @ Boston College
Date: 3/6/2002
Title: Law and Society: Commonwealth at the Crossroads
Speaker: Robert Reich
Location: Boston College
Presentation Type: Streaming video (Real Player)
Note: presentation loads in the web page; right-click on the video frame will bring up an option to play in the Real Player.
Sponsored by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy; Reich is introduced by Kent Greenfield.
March 6, 2002
