Tuesday, May 6, 2003

CONTACT: Bonnie Brinegar, (706) 425-3223, bbrinegar@geron.uga.edu

UGA GERONTOLOGY CENTER SPONSORS "DEATH AND TAXES:
TOWARD AN INTERDISCIPLINARY GERONTOLOGY"

ATHENS, Ga. – The University of Georgia Gerontology Center will sponsor a guest faculty colloquium titled "Death and Taxes: Toward an Interdisciplinary Gerontology." Brian K. Gran will deliver the lecture at the UGA Gerontology Center, 255 E. Hancock Avenue on Monday, May 19, from noon to 1 p.m. Free parking is available in the rear lot.

Gran’s lecture will examine the retirement-income programs of Denmark and New Zealand from 1973-95 to evaluate the components of pension programs, both public and private, that underwent change. This presentation evaluates the explanatory frameworks scholars employ to study social policy development and retrenchment by examining the parts of pension programs that were maintained and those that were reduced.

Gran is an assistant professor of sociology and faculty associate of the Center for Policy Studies and University Center on Aging and Health, Case Western Reserve University. He is a research affiliate of the Joint Center for Poverty Research of Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Gran's current research focuses on comparative social policy as it is formed in the intersection of the public and private sectors.

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