CLOSUP Events

CLOSUP sponsors conferences, seminars, workshops and other events designed to bring together researchers from across the University along with scholars from off-campus, policymakers, and the public to focus on various policy issues at the state and/or local level. Upcoming events are listed below. Links to past events can be found in the right-side column.

Upcoming Events

CLOSUP events for academic year 2009-2010 are now being planned and will be announced here as soon as possible. Currently scheduled events are listed below:

• 11/13/2009 and 11/14/2009 Midwest v2.0: New Innovations, Re-energized Workforce, Sustainable Future. Hosted by the University of Michigan Chapter of the Roosevelt Institution, co-sponsored by CLOSUP. The 2009 Midwest Fall Policy Workshop brings students from across the region together for an exciting day of creativity, learning, networking, and innovative ideas. Held at the University of Michigan Detroit Center, the Midwest's fall event will give Roosevelt Institute Campus Network members the opportunity to take the next step in policy development toward the regional initiative: Midwest v2.0: New Innovations, Re-energized Workforce, Sustainable Future.
  
  Experts in the new economy public policy field will join students this November to answer questions such as: What will it take to avoid a brain drain of students leaving the Midwest after pursuing higher education? How can cities and urban centers cope with chronic unemployment? What jobs can replace the thousands lost with the decline of industrial centers? And ultimately, how can we make the Midwest a place our generation wants and is able to live in?
  
  See the agenda, or visit the Roosevelt Institution website.
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• 11/30/2009:
  Panel Discussion: Food System Governance: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities for Michigan
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• 12/2/2009:
  Panel Discussion: Beyond Cape Wind: The Challenge of Siting Renewable Energy Facilities
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• 12/10/2009:
  Panel Discussion: Higher Education in Michigan: Looking Back and Looking Ahead on the Fifth Anniversary of the Cherry Commission (free and open to the public)
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• 12/10/2009 and 12/11/2009:
  Conference: Higher Education in Michigan: Looking Back and Looking Ahead on the Fifth Anniversary of the Cherry Commission (by invitation only)
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• 2/5/2010 and 2/6/2010: Reinventing the Wheel: Why Broken Cities Stay Broken and New Ways Civil Rights Attorneys Can Fix Them. Hosted by the Law School's Michigan Journal of Race and Law, co-sponsored by CLOSUP. This symposium serves as a vehicle to explore our nation's past in the fight for civil rights, to analyze how and why attorneys chose to address those problems, and to use that knowledge to create strategies to address the problems that our urban environments face today. As the country has evolved, expanded, and advanced, many cities still face problems that have yet to be solved, and a charge of this symposium will be to come up with new solutions to these problems. This symposium will examine civil rights struggles and why the traditional remedies worked, what the newer or existing problems are and why such solutions don't work, as well as developing concrete solutions to such problems through a focus on Detroit.

Past Events

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Policy-relevant Events
Across U-M

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