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HREF="id86_m.htm#michael_niman" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="2011 Conference Speakers and Program"><U>Michael Niman,Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Buffalo State College</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id86_m.htm#download_registration_form" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="2011 Conference Speakers and Program"><U>Download Registration Form</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id86_m.htm#program_highlights" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="2011 Conference Speakers and Program"><U><B>Conference Program</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> 2011 Conference Speakers and Program</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>37th Annual Conference</B></div> <div> <B>Eastern Community College Social Science Association</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="27fad1a0.gif" border=0 width="173" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="4d435280.jpg" border=0 width="565" height="296" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.buffaloconvention.com/downtown.html " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.buffaloconvention.com/downtow"><U>Buffalo Convention Center-City Guide</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.visitbuffaloniagara.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.visitbuffaloniagara.com"><U>The Official Travel Resource for Buffalo and Niagara Falls</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="27fad1a0.gif" border=0 width="173" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I>The ECCSSA Board of Trustees and the Program Committee at Erie Community College are pleased to announce the</I></div> <div> <I><B>37th Annual Conference of the Eastern Community College Social Science Association. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I>We invite you to join us!</I></div> <div> <I>Scholarships are Available for Conference Registrations!</I></div> <div> <I>ECCSSA has received funding to award partial scholarships for those desiring to attend the conference. </I></div> <div> <I>For further information, contact Dr. Gene Grabiner at </I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri" ><A HREF="mailto:grabiner@ecc.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:grabiner@ecc.edu"><U><U>grabiner@ecc.edu</U></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>Join us for our Friday evening gourmet dinner with speaker in the Statler Dining Room </I></div> <div> <I>on the ECC-City Campus--a Culinary Arts Program Restaurant!</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Pre-Conference Session, Keynote Speakers and Program Highlights are below!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="6155e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="6175e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="6195e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="61b5e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" 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NAME="pre_conference_program"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Pre-Conference Program</B></I></div> <div> Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5:30pm – 10:00pm</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Welcome Reception- Statler Dining Room</B></I></div> <div> 5:30pm-7:30pm</div> <bR> <bR> <div> 7:30pm</div> <div> <I><B>Documentary Film and Discussion</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Film: ‘Capitalism—A Love Story’ by Michael Moore</B></I></div> <div> Moderators: </div> <div> Paul Kochmanski, Adjunct Professor, Social Science and  Mary Altair, Assistant Professor, Social Science, </div> <div> Erie Community College</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="keynote_speakers"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Keynote Speakers</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="464ca230.jpg" border=0 width="202" height="291" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="robert_borosage"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Robert Borosage</B></I></div> <div> Founder and President</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ourfuture.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ourfuture.org"><U>Institute for America's Future</U></A></div> <div> Washington, DC</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Topic Overview: “America’s Economic Future”</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Opening Keynote Address, Friday, April 1, 2011, 9am, Auditorium, City Campus</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Robert Borosage is founder and president of the Institute for America’s Future and co-director of its sister, Campaign for America’s Future. He writes regularly on politics and economics.  He is a contributing editor of The Nation and a regular blogger on The Huffington Post.  Borosage is founder and board chair of Progressive Majority.  He is co-founder and board chair of ProgressiveCongress.org, and a member of the board of Working America.  He previously founded and directed the Campaign for New Priorities, a non-profit coalition of over 100 organizations calling for post-Cold War reinvestment in America. He served as director of the Institute for Policy Studies where he remains as a board member. He has also served as an issues advisor to progressive political campaigns, including those of Paul Wellstone, Barbara Boxer and Carole Moseley Braun. He was senior issues advisor for the 1988 Jesse Jackson Campaign. Borosage is a graduate of Yale Law School and holds a master’s degree in International Relations from George Washington University.  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ourfuture.org/users/robert-borosage" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ourfuture.org/users/robert-bo"><U>More on Borosage</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="27fad1a0.gif" border=0 width="173" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="465dcb40.jpg" border=0 width="220" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="manning_marable_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Manning Marable</B></I><I><B> </B></I></div> <div>  M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies </div> <div> and professor of history and public affairs at Columbia University. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4d970250.gif" border=0 width="624" height="37" ALT="Microsoft Office Word Document" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Saturday, April 2, 2011, 9am, Auditorium, City Campus</B></div> <bR> <div> Having either written or edited nearly 20 books and scholarly anthologies, Dr. Manning Marable is one of the most influential and widely read intellectuals in the United States. Dr. Marable’s books and anthologies include: <I>The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life</I>; <I>Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience</I>; <I>Freedom</I>; and <I>Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African-American Anthology</I>, including an upcoming biography on Malcolm X.</div> <div> A national leader in the fields of African American studies and ethnic studies, Dr. Marable is currently Columbia University's Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History, in addition to being the founder and director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. </div> <div> He received his BA from Earlham and his PhD from University of Maryland. Prior to joining the faculty at </div> <div> Columbia, Marable taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Ohio State University, where he was </div> <div> chairman of the Department of Black Studies. He also served as the founding director of the Africana </div> <div> and Hispanic Studies Program at Colgate University.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://worldhistory.columbia.edu/content/manning-marable-professor" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://worldhistory.columbia.edu/content"><U>More on Marable</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="27fad1a0.gif" border=0 width="173" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Join us for our Friday evening gourmet dinner with speaker in the </I></div> <div> <I>Statler Dining Room on the ECC-City Campus--a Culinary Arts Program Restaurant!</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="46ae9010.gif" border=0 width="233" height="257" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="paul_zarembka"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Paul Zarembka</B></I></div> <div> Professor of Economics</div> <div> State University of New York at Buffalo</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Topic: What Underlies Our Current Economic Crisis?</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dinner Speaker, Friday, April 1, 2011,6pm, Statler Dining Room, City Campus</B></div> <bR> <div> Paul Zarembka,  is general editor since 1977 of the annual hardback <I>Research in Political Economy</I> (Emerald Group, Bingley, UK, <A HREF="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0161-7230" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?"><U><U>www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0161-7230</U></U></A>). It addresses economic and political issues from the perspective of the social classes involved. He is the author of <I>Toward a Theory of Economic Development</I>, editor of <I>Frontiers in Econometrics </I>(with the Daniel McFadden chapter cited for his 2000 Nobel Prize), </div> <div> and co-editor of <I>Essays in Modern Capital Theory</I>.</div> <bR> <div>  Zarembka has been a senior researcher at the International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, and a Fulbright-Hayes lecturer in Poznan, Poland. Working within the marxist tradition, he has principally focused on issues surrounding the accumulation of capital. His recent edited book is <I>The Hidden History of 9-11</I> (Seven Stories Press, New York). He is professor of economics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. </div> <bR> <div> Paul Zarembka has been a activist in his faculty/professional staff union since 1981. He has served as campus president and grievance officer for academics, the office he currently holds. Currently, he is running for the statewide President of the union, the United University Professions.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.economics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/zarembka/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.economics.buffalo.edu/people/"><U>More on Zarembka</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="27fad1a0.gif" border=0 width="173" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4c28cb40.jpg" border=0 width="140" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="michael_niman"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Michael Niman</B></I></div> <div> Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies</div> <div> Buffalo State College</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Topic: “Naming the Crisis: Contextualizing Disaster”</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Closing Address, Saturday, April 2, 2011, 12:30-1:30pm, Auditorium, City Campus</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Michael I. Niman looks at what we commonly term an “Economic Crisis,” and </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>argues that what we are actually facing is a social and political crisis commonly contextualized by a compliant </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>media as a fiscal exigency.  The resultant discussion is generally limited to which draconian cuts we should make to</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>our social safety nets instead of examining broader policy alternatives and challenging the resurgent feudalism that he believes is actually at the root of this crisis.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Michael I. Niman is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at</div> <div> Buffalo State College and a syndicated columnist whose work has earned him two Project</div> <div> Censored awards. His writing regularly appears in The Humanist, Alternet, ArtVoice and</div> <div> Coldtype as well as in dozens of other venues in the US, Canada, Europe and South Africa.</div> <div> Niman, a trained ethnographer, is author of People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia (2nd</div> <div> edition in-press - Univ. of Tennessee Press), an ethnography of a nomadic utopian society</div> <div> stemming from qualitative research conducted in Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Minnesota,</div> <div> Vermont, Missouri, New York, California and Quebec, Canada. Niman’s research agenda</div> <div> currently focuses on propaganda, the impact of consumer culture, temporary autonomous</div> <div> zones, nonviolent conflict resolution and nonhierarchical societies. Niman formerly</div> <div> worked as a journalist based in Costa Rica and has conducted fieldwork in Canada,</div> <div> Guatemala, Nicaragua, the United Kingdom, Cuba and Belize</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://mediastudy.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://mediastudy.com/"><U>More on Niman</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="27fad1a0.gif" border=0 width="173" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="program_highlights"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>CONFERENCE </B></I><I><B>PROGRAM </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Historical Dimensions</B></I></div> <div> <B>Cultural Effects of Economic Collapse: the Janissary Example </B></div> <div> Anne Ruskiewicz, Associate Professor of History and Geography, Sullivan County Community College</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6255e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="6485e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Voices from the Past: Ancient Perspectives on a Modern Crisis </B></div> <div> Dustin Rollins, Northern Essex Community College</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Economic Impacts</B></I></div> <div> <B>Examining the U.S. Labor Market during the Great Recession</B></div> <div> Satarupa Das, Associate Professor of Economics, Montgomery College</div> <bR> <div> <B>Finance is Killing Us…Literally</B></div> <div> Ted Schmidt, Associate Professor of  Economics & Finance, SUNY Buffalo State</div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="6445e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Economy and Mental Health</B></I></div> <div> <B>America's Financial Dysfunction: Addiction to Debt</B></div> <div> Michael J. Confusione, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Suffolk County Community College</div> <bR> <div> <B>Personal Economic Crisis: Impact on Self View, Identity and Personality</B></div> <div> Sherry Ramberg & Chasity Hamilton, Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun Campus</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6275e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="6295e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Impacts on Health, Human Development and Psychological Well-Being</B></I></div> <div> <B>Long-term Impacts of Economic Collapse: Effects on Health, Human Development</B></div> <div> <B>and Overall Quality of Life</B></div> <div> Rosalyn King, Professor of Psychology and Students: Shriti Bhadel, Carmen Carnejo, </div> <div> Baffour Agyeman-Duah, Nilofar Moayyer, </div> <div> Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun Campus</div> <bR> <div> View Presentation Here: <a href="HTMLobj-1531/ECCSSA_Presentation_2011.Bhadel_etal_ppt.pdf"><u>ECCSSA_Presentation_2011.Bhadel_etal_ppt.pdf</u> </a>  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="62b5e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="62d5e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="62f5e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="6315e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6335e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Family Dimensions</B></I></div> <div> <B>Family Matters </B></div> <div> Omar Simpson, Rutgers University</div> <bR> <div> <B>The Effect of the Economic Recession on Violence in the Family </B></div> <div> Brandi Sutherland, Crisis Services</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Social Justice</B></I></div> <div> <B>Spatial Justice in the City: Isolation of the South Salina Neighborhood of Syracuse, NY </B></div> <div> John H. Giles Jr., Syracuse University</div> <div> <I><IMG SRC="6465e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <B>Social Justice for Equality in Nepal </B></div> <div> Hariom Timilsina, Nepal Bar Association</div> <bR> <div> <B>Geo-Political Ramifications of the Economic Crisis in Russia</B></div> <div> Elizabeth Wilcoxson, Former Division Dean and Adjunct Professor, Northern Essex Community College</div> <div> View Presentation Here: <a href="HTMLobj-1511/Socio-Political_Ramifications_of_the_Economic_Crisis_in_Russia_-Wilcoxson.pdf"><u>Socio-Political_Ramifications_of_the_Economic_Crisis_in_Russia_-Wilcoxson.pdf</u> </a>  </div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Urban Planning and Technology</B></I></div> <div> <B>Forever Auto: Transportation Joins the Smart Grid </B></div> <div> Monica Mallini and Students: Melanie Feliciano, Micah Poole, Gannon Haun, Brandon Hayes & Jason Bailey</div> <div> Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas Campus</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6405e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Social and Economic Recovery for Western NY via Renewable Energy </B></div> <div> David Bradley and Derek Bateman, Buffalo Wind Action Group/Erie Community College</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Technical Crisis, Technical Solution</B></I></div> <div> <B>Techno-Politics and the Current Economic Collapse </B></div> <div> Bruce Cosby, Erie Community College</div> <bR> <div> <B>Smart Town: an Urban Autonomous Transportation Test Bed </B></div> <div> Monica Mallini and Students: Melanie Feliciano, Micah Poole, Gannon Haun, Brandon Hayes & Jason Bailey</div> <div> Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas Campus</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6405e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Role of Higher Educational Institutions </B></I></div> <div> <B>The Leadership Role of Community Colleges: A Strategic Approach to Institutional </B></div> <div> <B>Effectiveness and Optimization of Students' Learning Outcomes</B></div> <div> Limsy Chan, Lecturer, Business and Law, Schenectady County Community College</div> <bR> <div> <B>Teaching Basic Economic Literacy</B></div> <div> Marianne Partee, Professor, Social Science, Erie Community College</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="63e5e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Professional Development</B></I></div> <div> <B>Fulbright Fellowships for Community College Faculty</B></div> <div> John Holian, Professor Emeritus and Fulbright Scholar, Cuyahoga Community College</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="63a5e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Generational Economics, Global Diets</B></I></div> <div> <B>Boomer Economics: The Concerns of an Aging Nation </B></div> <div> Susan Mason, Professor of Psychology & Gerontology and Students:Lindsay Nersinger, </div> <div> Krysten Kunzwiler, Chelsea King</div> <div> Niagara University</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6355e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="63c5e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Global Economics, Food Systems, and the Staple Diet: Mama, What’s for Dinner? </B></div> <div> Mary Altair, Assistant Professor of Social Science and Students: Andrew Stanek and Keri Marotta</div> <div> Erie Community College</div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="27fad1a0.gif" border=0 width="173" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>For more information on the 2011 ECCSSA conference, please contact:</B></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B>Dr. Gene Grabiner, Conference Chair, Erie Community College at: </B></I></FONT><A HREF="mailto:grabiner@ecc.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:grabiner@ecc.edu"><U><U>grabiner@ecc.edu</U></U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B><U> </U></B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Calibri" ><I><B><U>or (</U></B></I></FONT><I><B><U>716) 851-1089</U></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Dr. Rosalyn M. King, Chair, Board of Trustees at: </B></I><A HREF="mailto:roking@nvcc.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:roking@nvcc.edu"><U><U>roking@nvcc.edu</U></U></A><I><B><U> or (703) 450-2629</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="download_registration_form"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="id77_conference_registration_form.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="201137th Annual Conference"><U>Download Registration Form</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="27fad1a0.gif" border=0 width="173" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>“The National and Global Impacts of Economic Collapse: </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Perspectives from the Social Sciences”</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4d7787d0.gif" border=0 width="120" height="125" ALT="Microsoft Office Word Document" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4d8867f0.gif" border=0 width="134" height="127" ALT="Microsoft Office Word Document" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>March 31-April 2, 2011</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ecc.edu/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ecc.edu/"><U><B><IMG SRC="4bf5e440.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="68" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ecc.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ecc.edu"><U><B>Erie Community College, City Campus</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>State University of New York</B></div> <div> <B>121 Ellicott Street,</B></div> <div> <B> Buffalo, New York, 14203</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>