You are invited to a presentation by
Professor Robert Putnam
Social Capital: Some Challenges for Policy Makers and
Practitioners
Monday 28 April
Tea from 5 for 5.30 start
Warwick Lecture Theatre, Main Building
Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham
We are delighted that Professor Robert Putnam has agreed
to come and
talk to an invited audience at Aston Business School while
he is on
sabbatical in the UK. This event is jointly sponsored by the
Social
Policy Association and the Voluntary Sector Studies
Network.
To secure a place, please send your full contact details
details to
Jo Cribb ([log in to unmask]) before 4 April 2003.
Confirmation by
email of availability of seats will be made soon after this
date (on a
first come first served basis). Please do invite interested
colleagues to make direct contact with Jo Cribb if they wish
to
attend.
Any queries can be directed to the Aston Business School
host,
Professor Margaret Harris ([log in to unmask]).
Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor
of Public
Policy at Harvard University, where he teaches American
politics,
international relations, comparative politics, and public
policy. He
has authored or co-authored eleven books and more than
thirty
scholarly works, including Making Democracy Work: Civic
Traditions in
Modern Italy (1993); Double-Edged Diplomacy: International
Bargaining
and Domestic Politics (1993); Bureaucrats and Politicians
in Western
Democracies (1981); and Comparative Study of Political
Elites (1976).
More recently, he has published the best-selling Bowling
Alone: The
Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000), along
with two
collective volumes, Disaffected Democracies: What's
Troubling the
Trilateral Countries? (2000) and Democracies in Flux: The
Evolution of
Social Capital in Contemporary Society. He is completing a
study of
promising new forms of social connectedness in
communities across
America and beginning research on the challenges of
building community
in an increasingly diverse society. Putnam is a member of
the US
National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British
Academy, and a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He
has been
consulted by the Clinton and Bush White Houses, the Blair
Government
in Britain, and national leaders in half a dozen other
countries.
Pete Alcock
Professor of Social Policy and Administration
Head of Department
Social Policy and Social Work
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
England
Phone: (0)121 414 5713
Email: [log in to unmask]
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