Program
[Each session = 4 panelists @ 15 minutes each + 1 hour discussion]
9:00-9:30 — Coffee & Welcome
9:30-11:30 — Morning Session — The Present Crisis Listen to this session 
[Chair: Michael Reich, Berkeley]
Financial Bloat — Neil Fligstein, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Housing Bubble & Bust — John Quigley, Economics & Public Policy, Berkeley
The Woeful Economy — Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer, New York
Financialization & Reform — Rob Johnson, Senior Fellow and Director of the Global Finance project, Roosevelt Institute
11:30-1 — Lunch [Buffet @ IRLE]
1-3:00 — Afternoon Session — Learning from the New Deal
[Chair: Dick Walker, Berkeley]
Putting a Nation Back to Work — Kirstin Downey, biographer of Frances Perkins
Rebuilding a Nation — Gray Brechin, Geography, UC Berkeley
The Payoff of Public Works — Jason Scott Smith, History, University of New Mexico
Transformation of American Federalism — Margaret Weir, Sociology, Berkeley
3:30-5:30 — Late Afternoon Session — Stimulus & Response Listen to this session
[Chair: Neil Fligstein, UCB]
Bailouts & Financial Reform — Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy Research, W.D.C.
Is a New Financial Order Possible? — Barry Eichengreen, Economics, UC Berkeley
Battered but Not Beaten — Brad DeLong, Economics, Berkeley
>Job Creation & Destruction — Jesse Rothstein, Public Policy, UC Berkeley
6-7 — Dinner [Buffet @ IRLE]
7-9:00 — Evening Session — Hope in the Dark?
[Chair: Kim Voss, Sociology, UCB]
What is to Be Done? — Robert Reich, Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Which Way Out? — Fred Block, Sociology, UC Davis
Where's the Social Movement? — Barbara Epstein, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Is California Salvageable? — Richard Walker, Geography, UC Berkeley