HOW DO YOU BALANCE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND THE PUBLIC GOOD? WHAT IS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT?
How do you feel when someone steps on a city lawn? Indifferent? Annoyed? Have you ever thought about the social norms that influence you in such situations?
We are organizing a meeting where we will address the topic of the common and the individual. We will consider the personal and local scale, but also the European and global scale. We will view the alternative – common or individual – in the context of US politics.
Please join us on April 2 at 13:00 at EUROREG on the UW Main Campus for a meeting with two Professors from Indiana University (IU) in the United States. The meeting will be held in English.
Professor Ellen J. Szarleta has been Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Excellence (CURE) at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) since 2012. CURE is dedicated to building the university's collaboration with the surrounding regional community. It works with organizations in various sectors to promote continuous learning, solution-based interaction and mutually beneficial partnerships. Professor Szarleta’s research interests include community engagement, the potential for collective action, public decision-making, and sustainability. She is the author of numerous publications, a member of advisory and decision-making bodies on public issues, and a long-time lecturer and supervisor of student papers.
Professor Frank Nierzwicki worked for over 30 years in the planning and community development fields before joining Indiana University Bloomington full time in 2012. He retired from full-time teaching on the Bloomington campus in 2023 and is currently teaching part time as an instructor on the IU Northwest campus and continues to lead classes in community development both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Nierzwicki has led students in graduate capstone projects with clients ranging from Bedford, Mitchell, South Bend, Gary, Huntington and Jasper, Indiana, to Warsaw, Poland. He has also taken graduate and undergraduate students to Poland to study with Polish universities and local governments on urban issues. Professor Nierzwicki is currently a member of the executive committee of the Polish Studies Center at IU.
