Daniel Yankelovich

Daniel Yankelovich has been a supporter of the Division of Social Sciences for many years and currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council.  Mr. Yankelovich is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University and the Rantoul Fellow in Clinical Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  He holds honorary doctorates from Washington University, George Washington University, and St. Bonaventure University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. 

Mr. Yankelovich is a director of Loral Space and Communications, Inc. and director emeritus of CBS, US West, the Meredith Corporation, Diversified Energies, and ARKLA.  He is a trustee of the Kettering Foundation, the Japan Society, and the Fund for the City of New York, and Special Advisor to the Aspen Institute and Trinity Church.  He is trustee emeritus and former Chairman of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and trustee emeritus of Brown University.  He was a founding President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.  His academic affiliations include Harvard, NYU, the New School for Social Research, UC Irvine, and UCSD's Civic Collaborative.

 

The UCSD Department of Sociology is pleased to present a series of talks on Social Thought as envisioned by Daniel Yankelovich, a Division of Social Sciences benefactor and sponsor of the newly created Endowed Chair on Social Thought.

We start the series with a talk by Mike Davis, an author of 20 books on social criticism, urban history, and political theory, including City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Under the Perfect Sun: the San Diego Tourists Never See, and Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Working Class.  Among his many awards and honors are a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 and the Lannan Literary Award for Non-fiction in 2007. He is currently a Professor of History at UC Irvine. 

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Mike Davis
Professor of History, UC Irvine

"Governments of the Poor:
The Politics of the Informal Economy"

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Reception immediately following

Robinson Complex Auditorium
UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS)
* Note Room Change *

For more information on Professor Davis, see his faculty web page at http://www.hnet.uci.edu/history/faculty/davis/

For more information on this talk or the colloquium series, please contact Beverly Bernhardt, bbernhardt@ucsd.edu, (858) 534-2779.

Complimentary parking permits will be provided to guests of this talk at the entrance to the Pangea parking structure the hour before the event.  

For directions and parking information, click here.

Sponsored by the UCSD Department of Sociology

This colloquium series is made possible by
a gift from Nora and Alan Jaffe.