Dear RSF, Please join us on Wednesday, May 8, at 11:00 in the library for a presentation by Visiting Journalist Larissa MacFarquhar entitled “Homeplace: Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay, and Those Who Go Back.” Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her profile subjects have included John Ashbery, Barack Obama,… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, May 8: Larissa MacFarquhar

Dear RSF: Please join us Wednesday, 5/1, in the library at 11:00, for a presentation by Eric Verhoogen entitled “Employment Contracts and Technology Adoption.”  Verhoogen has a joint appointment as Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia’s School of International Affairs.  He is also co-director of Columbia’s… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, May 1: Eric Verhoogen

Dear RSF, Our seminar series will resume on Wednesday, April 17, when we welcome guest speaker Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, speaking on The Role of Higher Education in Addressing Problems of Growth, inequality and Opportunity.  Black is an internationally-respected economist who also has spent time in Washington, D.C., working in… Read More Guest Speaker Seminar, Apr 17: Rebecca Blank

Dear RSF: Please join us on Wednesday, April 3, at 11:00 in the library for a presentation by Jen Heerwig entitled “The Shifting Political Strategies of America’s Corporate Elite, 1980-2008.” Heerwig received her Ph.D in sociology from NYU in 2013.  She is assistant professor of sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook and a former postdoctoral fellow at… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Apr 3: Jen Heerwig

Dear RSF: Please join us on Wednesday, March 27, at 11:00 in the library for a presentation by Tonya Brito entitled “Access to Justice in Family Court.” Brito is the Jefferson Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a Faculty Affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Mar 27: Tonya Brito