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THE HARVEY J. LEVIN PUBLIC POLICY WORKSHOP
An enduring legacy of Dr. Levin is the Public Policy Workshop, which he founded at Hofstra University in 1975 and directed until his death in 1992. The Workshop has brought together a vast array of public figures and scholars of international reputation with the Hofstra and Long Island communities to dialogue on important policy issues facing society.
As the Workshop's director, Dr. Levin served as an organizer as well as its chief advocate, and ensured that it presented balanced and opposing views on the issues, in the tradition of academic and research integrity that was his hallmark throughout his career.
Upon his death, the Workshop was eliminated from Hofstra's budget but saved by his colleagues, friends and family through ongoing fundraising efforts, and renamed in his memory.
The Workshop's coordinator is Martin Melkonian, Professor of Economics at Hofstra and Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy.
Writer/lawyer Richard Goodwin, one of the Workshop's many distinguished participants (with Robert Kennedy in 1968.) The author of Remembering America, Goodwin was a former aide to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, and the Congressional investigator of the 1950s quiz shows scandal (as portrayed in the film Quiz Show.) It was Goodwin who, as Johnson's presidential speechwriter, coined the phrase "The Great Society", as Johnson's domestic agenda came to be known. Goodwin was a featured speaker at Dr. Levin's last Workshop on April 3, 1992, entitled Working Conference on Revitalizing Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Public Life. |
Partial list of featured speakers and participants, 1975-92
Alan Campbell, Chair, Civil Service Commission, Dean, LBJ School of Public
Affairs, on Civil Service Reform
CED Panelists, on CED policy report on broadcasting and cable TV
Noam Chomsky, MIT, on (1) the nuclear arms race as a form of collective
suicide, and (2) the Mideast the New World Order
Richard Cottam, University of Pittsburgh, on U.S. Middle East Policy
Robert Crandall, Brooking Institute, on (1) the break-up of AT&T and (2)
steel trigger prices
Doudou Dienne, on U.S. and UNESCO
George Eads, CEA/University of Maryland, on inflation and environment
Richard Falk, Princeton University Center for International Studies, on
postmodernism, politics and public policy
Robert Frank, CAB/Cornell University, on airline deregulation
Henry Geller, Duke University Washington Center/NTIA/FCC, on (1)
international communications policy and (2) alternatives to deregulation in
broadcasting (Hofstra TV Institute Inaugural Conference)
Richard Goodwin, author of Remembering America, on Revitalizing
Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Public Life
Mark Green, NYC Consumer Affairs Commissioner, on Revitalizing Democracy:
Engaging Citizens in Public Life
Thomas Hazlett, University of California-Davis, on Resisting the Governmental
Habit: Reflections on the
Herbert Kelman, Harvard University, on ethics in social research and bio-med
model
Michael Klare, Professor of Peace and World Studies, Hampshire College,
Beyond Desert Storm: U.S. Defense Policy in the Post-Cold War Period
Everett Ladd, Roper Center/University of Connecticut, on
general
Stephen Lukasik, Chief Scientist at
Martin Malsch, NRC Deputy General Counsel, panel on nuclear accidents
William Niskanen, CEA/Berkeley/Cato Institute, on federal automotive
regulation
Glen Robinson, FCC/University of Virginia Law School, on broadcasting and
first amendment
John Ruggie, Columbia University School of International Affairs, with
panelists from UN Secretariat and US Mission,
James Rule, SUNY-Stony Brook Sociologist, on Orwell in year 1984
Mark Sakitt, Senior Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, on arms
control issues
Murray Sidman,
Lester Thurow, MIT Sloan School, on Zero-Sum Solution
William Vickrey, Columbia University, on multiple externalities of highway
usage
Aaron Wildavsky, President of Russell Sage Foundation, Dean of Graduate
School of Public Policy at Berkeley, on constitutional amendment to limit
federal spending
"United States Ocean Policy in the 1990s: Straits,
Minerals,
"Living Wills and the Right to Die"
"Towards a New Policy on Hazardous Waste Disposal" (with Bill
Ginsberg, Hofstra Law School)
Public interest lawyer, writer and
consumer advocate Mark Green, a featured participant at Dr. Levin's last
Workshop on April 3, 1992, Working Conference on Revitalizing
Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Public Life. Then New York
City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Green was former Director of the
Democracy Project and Public Citizen's Congress Watch, and former
presidential campaign speechwriter for Senator Gary Hart. After
running for U.S. Representative and as Democratic nominee for Senator
against incumbent Alfonse D'Amato, Green was elected to two terms as New
York City's first Public Advocate, and as Democratic nominee for Mayor
against corporate billionaire Michael Bloomberg. The latter
campaign partially inspired Green's seventeenth book, Selling
Out -- How Big Corporate Money Buys Elections, Rams Through Legislation,
and Betrays Our Democracy.
Partial list of featured speakers and participants, 1992-present
Phillip Berrigan, antiwar activist and peacemaker, Reflections on War Today
Frederick Brewington, civil rights attorney, on Long Island peace efforts, costs and consequences of war and its impact on Long Island
Daniel Ellsberg, Director of Manhattan Project II at Physicians for Social Responsibility, on Stopping Nuclear Proliferation
Richard Falk, Princeton University Center for International Studies, on Resolving Conflicts in the Post-Cold War Era: The Role of Civil Society
William Hartung, World Policy Institute, Armed for Profit: the Selling of U.S. Weapons
Robert Heilbroner, New School for Social Research, on Balanced Budgets and America's Future
Mary Kaldor, University of Sussex and Helsinki Citizens Assembly, on Resolving Conflicts in the Post-Cold War Era: The Role of Civilized Society
Al-Haaj Ghazi Khankan, Islamic Center, on Long Island peace efforts, costs and consequences of war and its impact on Long Island
Jim Kiurfeld, editorial page editor for Newsday, The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now
Rev. Mark Lukens, Interfaith Alliance, on Long Island peace efforts, costs and consequences of war and its impact on Long Island
Robert Manoff, NYU, Center for War, Peace and the News Media, on Resolving Conflicts in the Post-Cold War Era: The Role of Civilized Society
Don Rojas and Bernard White, WBAI Pacifica Radio, on Long Island peace efforts, costs and consequences of war and its impact on Long Island
Jonathan Schell, editor for The Nation, columnist for Newsday, on Global Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Jonathan Schell, writer, The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now
Victor Sidel,
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, on the
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTB)
Marchers for peace in Memorial Day Parade, Garden City, New
York, May 1972
(Photos: Harvey J. Levin)
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WORK HJL Collections Bio Papers & Publications |
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VISION Main Page Invisible Resource Harvesting the Invisible Resource |
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MAN HJL Collection Exhibit Guide to HJL Collection Obituaries |
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LEGACY Tributes HJL Public Policy Workshop Additional Personal Materials |
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