[TheUWfarm] UW College Greens Spring Film Series: Inside Job

Greetings UW College Greens supporters!

 

The student organization, College Greens at UW, is holding its 2nd annual three-part film/speaker series dedicated to issues of environmental and social justice. 

We hope you'll join us this Thursday for the last event of our series, a screening of Inside Job. This Academy Award-winning documentary explores the convergence of events and financial practices that led up to the economic crisis of 2007.  After the film, Professor Yoram Bauman, economist and stand-up comedian, will speak to the audience about environmental economics, and how this film applies to us at UW and in Seattle.

Food will be provided, see below for more details:

What: Inside Job—Exposing economic crisis' shocking truths
Website: http://www.insidejob.com/
When:

Thursday, May 19th @ 5:30pm
Where: Savery 260
Speaker: Yoram Bauman

Film Description: Charles Ferguson examines the financial practices that laid the groundwork for the global economic crisis. Predatory lending, credit default swaps, and financial deregulation are subjected to close scrutiny and criticism in a exposé of America's economic practices. Narrated by Matt Damon. 

Speaker Bio: Yoram Bauman performs at comedy clubs, colleges, and corporate events around the world as "the world's first and only stand-up economist". Yoram is the co-author of The Cartoon Introduction to Economics and the organizer of the humor session at the American Economic Association annual meeting. He has appeared in TIME Magazine, on PBS and NPR, and on YouTube, where his videos have over 800,000 hits.

Yoram lives in Seattle and appears regularly at the Comedy Underground as part of a political comedy benefit show called Non-Profit Comedy that has raised over $75,000 for local non-profits. He has a BA in mathematics from Reed College, a PhD in economics from the University of Washington, and spends his non-comedy hours teaching in the UW environmental studies program, researching the economics of climate change, and campaigning for environmental tax reform.

We hope to see you there!

UW College Greens