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Wednesday, April
2, 2008 |
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8:15-9:00 |
Register/Sign In:
Informal Greeting over Continental Breakfast |
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9:00-9:30 |
Formal Welcome |
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9:45-10:15 |
The Hourglass
Economy: The Reality Behind the Metaphor
Rachel E. Dwyer, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
Ohio State University |
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10:15-10:45 |
Structural
Sources of Inequality in Global City
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology,
Columbia University |
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10:45-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:30 |
Roundtable
Discussions |
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12:30-2:00 |
Luncheon
Keynote Presentation
American Economic Inequality: A Brief Tour of Some Facts
James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in
Government/Business Relations and Professor of L. B. J. School
of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin |
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2:00-2:15 |
Coffee Break |
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2:15-2:45 |
Filling the
Bottom of the Hourglass
Ruth Milkman, Professor of Sociology and Director,
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment |
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2:45-3:15 |
Starting Out at
The Bottom, Moving Ahead? Mexican
Immigrants in an Unequal America
Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor of Sociology,
UCLA |
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3:15-3:30 |
Coffee Break |
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3:35-5:00 |
Roundtable
Discussions |
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5:00 |
Evening Reception
and Hot Buffet |
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Thursday, April 3,
2008 |
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8:15-9:00 |
Informal Greeting
and 2nd Day Registration over Continental Breakfast |
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9:00-9:30 |
Widening
Inequality: Implications for Americans’ Attitudes and American
Society
Benjamin M. Friedman, William Joseph Maier
Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University |
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9:30-10:00 |
Economic
Inequality and the American Public
Benjamin I. Page, Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision
Making Northwestern University Political Science |
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10:00:10:15 |
Coffee Break |
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10:15-11:45 |
Roundtable
Discussions |
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11:45-1:15 |
Luncheon |
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1:15-1:45 |
Work Inequality
and Stagnation: Skill or Power Shortage?
Larry Mishel, President, Economic Policy Institute,
Washington, D.C. |
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1:45-2:15 |
Stratification
Economics: An Emerging Approach to Understanding Intergroup
Inequality
William Darity Jr., Arts and Sciences Professor of Public Policy
Studies, African and African American Studies, and Economics and
Director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic
Inequality, Duke University |
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2:15-2:30 |
Coffee Break |
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2:30-4:00 |
Roundtable
Discussions |
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4:00 |
Round-up, Final
Feedback, and Thank You |
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