Symposium Logo

Schedule


  • Friday, November 4, 2011

  • 8:30
  • Registration and Check-in
  •  
  • Continental breakfast

  • 9:00
  • Opening remarks
  •  
  • Edward Feser, University of Illinois & Manchester School of Business
  •  
  • Robert Graves, Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts
  •  
  • Robert Hauser, Dean, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
  •  
  • Rob Olshansky, Acting Head, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
  •  
  • Paul Ellinger, Head, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics

  • 9:30
  • Presentations
  •  
  • David Boyce, A Memoir for Andrew
  •  
  • Shelby Gerking, Andy Isserman and the Early Years of the International Regional Science Review
  •  
  • Art Getis, Reflections on Andrew Isserman's Contributions to Economic Base Theory

  • 10:45
  • Break

  • 11:00
  • Presentations
  •  
  • Noah Isserman and Ann Markusen, Shaping the Future through Narrative with Evidence
  •  
  • David Plane, The Hoover Index of Population Concentration and the Demographic Components of
  •  
  • Change: A Paper in Memory of Andy Isserman

  • 12:30
  • Luncheon and Keynote Address
  •  
  • Luc Anselin, Andy Isserman's Regional Science

  • 2:00
  • Presentations
  •  
  • Stephan Weiler and Sarah Low, Measurement and Storytelling in Regional Science: An
  •  
  • Intergenerational Perspective on Lessons Learned from Andrew Isserman
  •  
  • Tschangho John Kim, Science in Urban and Regional Planning

  • 3:15
  • Break

  • 3:30
  • Presentations
  •  
  • John Parr, Perspectives on Regional Policy
  •  
  • Dowell Myers, Hope and Fear in Forecasts to Aid Democratic Decision Making

  • 5:00
  • Remarks from the Isserman family

  • 5:15
  • Reception in Bresee Lounge



  • Saturday, November 5, 2011

  • 9:00
  • Continental breakfast

  • 9:15
  • Panel discussion
  •  
  • Storytelling & Film in Teaching

  • 10:00
  • Break

  • 10:15
  • Presentations
  •  
  • Peter Batey, Integrated Forecasting of Population and Employment: An Historical Perspective
  •  
  • Roger Bolton, Habermas and Economists: Two Approaches to Social Capital
  •  
  • Richard Klosterman, New Perspectives on Planning Methods
  •  
  • Peter Schaeffer, Beyond the Urban-Rural Divide

  • 12:00
  • Concluding remarks
  •  
  • Geoff Hewings, Professor, Departments of Geography, Economics, and Urban and Regional Planning

  • 12:30
  • Closing luncheon







Hosted by —
  Department of Urban and Regional Planning • The family of Andy Isserman

Sponsored by —
  Department of Urban and Regional Planning • Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
  Institute of Government and Public Affairs • Department of Economics