Events Calendar
Danz Lecture: "The Great Recession: What Comes Next for our MetroNation"
October 13th, 2009
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Kane Hall, room 130
The Great Recession has dramatically disrupted the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of Americans through battered industries, lost jobs, foreclosed homes, declining incomes and diminished wealth. Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, will discuss the broad forces affecting our country and argue that metro economies like Seattle can lead the way forward to national prosperity that is sustained and shared. He will contend that Seattle and other metros need a new kind of partner in Washington, D.C. and their state capitals if the promise and potential of our MetroNation is to be realized.
Speaker: Bruce Katz, Jessie and John Danz Endowed Lecturer
Katz is a Vice President at the Brookings Institution and founding Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. The program seeks to redefine the challenges facing cities and metropolitan areas by publishing cutting-edge research on major demographic, market, development, and governance trends.
Sponsoring Departments:
The Graduate School
Department of Geography
Co-Sponsors:
Evans School of Public Affairs
School of Social Work
Center for Studies in Democracy and Ecology
West Coast Poverty Center
UW Alumni Association
For more information about this event, please contact University of Washington Alumni Association via email or by phone at 206-543-0540 or 800-AUW-ALUM.
Additional information may be available online.
This event is open to: students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors, general public.