October 11
Revisiting the Feminization of Poverty:
The Dark Side of the Market
Fred Block, Sociology, UCD

October 18
Distinguished Women in Science Series
Women in Science Lecture: 
What Women in Science Want
Research Lecture: Chemistry in Living Systems: Tools for Studying Cell Surface Sugars
Carolyn Bertozzi,
 T.Z. & Imgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, UCB

October 26
Film Screening and Discussion
Maquilapolis (City of Factories)
Julie Wyman, Technocultural Studies, UCD
Vicki Funari, Director
jesikah maria ross, Women and Gender Studies
UCD
Tere Loyola, Factory Worker/Co Founder
Women's Rights Advocates, Tijuana

November 1
Women and the New Labor Organizing
Ruth Milkman, Sociology, UCLA
Katie Quan, Associate Chair and Director of the John F. Henning Center for International Labor Relations, UCB

November 9
Men, Masculinity, and Joblessness
Jennifer Sherman, Sociology, UCB
 “Men without Sawmills”
Sandra Smith, Sociology, UCB
 “Lone Pursuit:  How Poor Black Men Look for Jobs

November 30
Gender, Migration, and Labor:
From Rural Mexico to the U.S.
Lisa Pfeiffer, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UCD
Susan Richter, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UCD

January 10
Poverty Among American Women Since 1970: What Has Changed,
What Has Not Changed, and Why
Ann Huff Stevens, Economics, UCD
Marianne Page , Economics, UCD

January 24
Welfare Radio, Eco-Equity, and
Green-Collar Jobs:
New Strategies in the War on Poverty
Ian Kim, Policy Director, Ella Baker Center for
human Rights, Oakland
Kimberly Alvarenga, Director of Economic Justice
and Human Rights Program, Women of Color
Resource Center, Oakland

January 31
Is Your Future Secure? What Young and
Middle-Aged Women (and Men) Should Know
Now - About Retirement and Social Security
Doug Orr, Economics
Eastern Washington University

February 7
Women and Rural Poverty
Lisa Pruitt, Law School, UCD
"Toward a Feminist Theory of The Rural (or, How the
Law Fails Poor Rural Women"
Don Villarejo, Ph.D., Founder and Director, Emeritus, California Institute for Rural Studies
"The Health Status of Mexican Immigrant Women Farm Workers"

February 21
Marriage, Reproduction, and the Legacy
of Welfare Reform
Carole Joffe, Sociology, UCD
 “The Legacy of Welfare Reform: The 'Two Worlds' of Sexual and Reproductive Behavior”
Jane Mauldon, Public Policy, UCB
 “Talking Back: How Welfare Recipients Look at Marrying
and Having Children"

April 11
Category 5:
Rumor, Race, and Hurricane Katrina
Patricia A. Turner, African American and African Studies and American Studies; Vice Provost, Undergraduate Studies, UCD

April 17
Thinking Outside the Box: Non-Academic
Careers in the Sciences
Sunny Bishop, Medical/Technical Sciences Writer, SBTechComm
Pat Marrone, CEO/Founder of Marrone Organic Innovations, Inc.
Linda M. Hall, Ph.D., Staff Toxicologist, Department
of Pesticide Regulations, CAL-EPA
Organized by Women and Science and Engineering
Cosponsored by The Consortium for Women and Research

April 25
Strategy Salon: Poverty, Health, and Health Care
Ellen Gold, Public Health Sciences, UCDMC
Joy Melnikow, Family and Community Medicine, UCDMC
Lisa Ikemoto, School of Law, UCD

May 9
Venezuela -- Now
Margarita Lopez-Maya, Historian, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas

May 10
Panel Discussion and Dinner
How Women are Reinventing Social Movements
Luz Mena, Women and Gender Studies, UCD
Francesca Miller, Historian, author of Latin America
Margarita Lopez-Maya, Historian, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas

May 16
Strategy Salon: Poverty, Food Security, and Obesity
MRC Greenwood, Nutrition, UCD
Marilyn Townsend, Nutrition, UCD

May 21
Engendering a New Working Class: Social
Trauma and Labor Resistance in China
Pun Ngai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology