2003 Fall Poverty


November 18, 2014

Film Series

September 11 Stranger with a Camera (Elizabeth Barret, 2000. 62 minutes) Introduction and Q&A with Professor Susan Seizer Scripps College Humanities 204 7:00 p.m. October 8 Life and Debt (Stephanie […]

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Women and Poverty in the U.S.

Speakers:  Frances Fox Piven Political Science and Sociology, CUNY Why Poor Women Are At the Vortex of American Neo-Liberalism Carol Stack Social and Cultural Studies in Education, UC Berkeley Doing […]

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The Other America: The Hiddenness of Poverty in the U.S.

4:15 pmMaurice Isserman, History, Hamilton CollegeMichael Harrington: “The Man Who Discovered Poverty” 7:30 pmAlex KotlowitzAuthor of There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other […]

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Empty Pockets: Images of Children in Poverty

An exhibition of photographs curated by Ellie Irons ’03. Includes works by Manuel Carillo, Lewis Hine, Helen Levitt, Irving Penn, Sebastio Salgado, Steve Shapiro, Marion Post Wolcott, and Max Yavno.

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