DATE: 3:30-5 p.m. Jan. 15, 2007.

EVENT: “Communities at Risk” Symposium in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

PLACE: Institute for Social Research Room 6050. Central Campus map: http://www.umich.edu/news/Maps/ccamp.html

BACKGROUND: Phil Bowman, director of the U-M National Center for Institutional Diversity, serves as chair of the symposium. Speakers include: Ruth Peterson, Ohio State University sociologist, speaking about the interrelationships among segregation, concentrated disadvantage, and urban crime, and how and why these relationships vary for different racial and ethnic groups; Alford Young, Jr., U-M sociologist, discussing his qualitative research on low-income, urban African American men; and Sean Joe, U-M social work and psychiatry, and a research affiliate at the ISR Program for Research on Black Americans, speaking on self-destructive behaviors among young African American males.

SPONSORS: The Institute for Social Research, the ISR Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, and the ISR Diversity Committee.