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Talks
The Center sponsors and cosponsors a wide range of talks on issues of poverty and inequality.
Microfinance, CA
May 28, 2009
- Presented by Opportunity Fund, Kiva, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Principal Sponsorship by Chevron and Wells Fargo.
Arrested Development: Urban Schooling in the Era of Mass Incarceration
May 22, 2009
- Carla Shedd, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Understanding Segregation Dynamics
April 24, 2009
- Elizabeth Bruch, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Complex Systems, University of Michigan
Gender Inequality: Why Some Things Are Changing So Much More Than Others
April 14, 2009
- Part of the Berkeley-Stanford Inequality Seminars
- Paula England, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Heterogeneous Effects of College Education
April 3, 2009
- Jennie Brand, Department of Sociology, UCLA
The Geography of Economic Insecurity and Regional Resilience
March 10, 2009
- Part of the Berkeley-Stanford Inequality Seminars
- Karen Chapple, Faculty Director, Center for Community Innovation
- Theodore Bo Lee and Doris Shoong Lee, Chair in Environmental Design, City & Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley
Functional Communities, Social Networks, and Achievement in High School
March 6, 2009
- Stephen Morgan, Dept. of Sociology, Cornell University
The Legacy of Disadvantage: Neighborhood Effects across Generations
January 16, 2009
- Patrick Sharkey, Dept. of Sociology, New York University
Lessons from Texas for Higher Education
November 7, 2008
- Marta Tienda, Professor of Sociology and Demography, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Does Philanthropy Shortchange the Poor? Does Charity Help the Poor? Should We Care if it Doesn't?
May 22, 2008
- Part of the Controversies About Inequalities Debates
- Robert Reich, Stanford University
- Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia University
- Audio Available Here
Is Microlending the Answers?
May 13, 2008
- Part of the Controversies About Inequalities Debates
- Eric Weaver, Lenders for Community Development
- Tracey Pettengill Turner, Microplace
- Audio Available Here
Delivering Equality: How the Provision of New Public Services Helps Equalize Life Chances
May 7, 2008
- Part of the John E. Sawyer Seminar Series: The Dynamics of Inequality
- Charles Sabel, Professor of Law and Social Science, Columbia University
- Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation
- Audio Available Here
Inequality and the Beautiful People: What Should be Done About Discrimination by Beauty?
April 22, 2008
- Part of the Controversies About Inequalities Debates
- Deborah Rhode, Professor of Law, Stanford University
- Robert T. Ford, Professor of Law, Stanford University
- Audio Available Here
Beyond Institutional Fundamentalism
April 10, 2008
- Part of the The Idea of Justice series
- Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
- Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia, Program in Global Justice, Center on Ethics, Aurora Forum, Program in Ethics in Society, Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute, and Office of the President
Impartiality: Contracts versus Voice
April 9, 2008
- Part of the The Idea of Justice series
- Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
- Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia, Program in Global Justice, Center on Ethics, Aurora Forum, Program in Ethics in Society, Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute, and Office of the President
Adding Injury to Insult: Why Do the Poor Get Sick?
April 8, 2008
- Part of the Controversies About Inequalities Debates
- Sir Michael Marmot, University College of London
- Ralph Catalano, UC - Berkeley
- Audio Available Here
Indignation and Room for Reason
April 8, 2008
- Part of the The Idea of Justice series
- Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
- Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia, Program in Global Justice, Center on Ethics, Aurora Forum, Program in Ethics in Society, Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute, and Office of the President
Gender Inequality: Continuing Progress?
April 2, 2008
- Part of the John E. Sawyer Seminar Series: The Dynamics of Inequality
- Francine Blau, Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics,
- Cornell University
- Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation
- Audio Available Here
Immigration and Inequality: An Egalitarian Case for Closed Borders?
March 12, 2008
- Part of the John E. Sawyer Seminar Series: The Dynamics of Inequality
- Stephen Macedo, Professor of Politics and Director of the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
- Audio Available Here
Making Capital Markets Work for the Entrepreneurial Poor
March 6, 2008
- Gil Crawford, CEO MicroVest
Diversity and Distrust
March 5, 2008
- Part of the John E. Sawyer Seminar Series: The Dynamics of Inequality
- Stephen Macedo, Professor of Politics and Director of the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
- Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation
- Audio Available Here
Inequality and Attitudes Toward Inequality/The Economy and Inequality
February 6, 2008
- Part of the John E. Sawyer Seminar Series: The Dynamics of Inequality
Benjamin Friedman, Professor of Economics, Harvard University - Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation
- Audio Available Here
E Pluribus Unum: (Civic/Civil) Engagement in a World of Diversity
January 24, 2008
- Part of the John E. Sawyer Seminar Series: The Dynamics of Inequality
- Robert Putnam, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
- Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation
- Audio Available Here
(Some) Inequality is Good For You
December 5, 2007
- Part of the John E. Sawyer Seminar Series: The Dynamics of Inequality
Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair, Dept. Of Economics, Harvard University - Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation
- Audio Available Here
Rescuing Equality from Rawls
November 7, 2007
- Part of the John E. Sawyer Seminar Series: The Dynamics of Inequality
- Gerald Allan Cohen, Chicele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford University
- Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation
- Audio Available Here
Equality, Inequality and the Dynamics of Capitalism
October 10, 2007
- Part of the John E. Sawyer Seminar Series: The Dynamics of Inequality
William H. Sewell, Jr., Professor of History and Political Science, University of Chicago - Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation
- Audio Available Here
The Sources of Gender Inequality
May 31, 2007
- Barbara Reskin, Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
- Trond Peterson, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
- Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology
Class, Cohort, and Expected and Achieved Fertility
May 24, 2007
- Kelly Musick, Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC
- Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology
Incarceration, Race, and Poverty
May 10, 2007
- Part of the Controversies About Inequalities Debates
- Larry D. Bobo, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
- Christopher Uggen, Chair of Sociology, University of Minnesota
- Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology
China Talk
May 10, 2007
- Gary Hamilton, Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
- Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the Shorenstein Center
Fighting Poverty with Microlending
April 24, 2007
- Eric Weaver, Lenders for Community Development
- Mathew Flannery, CEO and co-founder of Kiva.org
- Jessica Flannery, co-founder of Kiva.org
- Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology
Toward a New Guilded Age? Class-Biased Institutional Change and Rising Income Inequality
April 19, 2007
- Kim Weeden, Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell
- Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology
Inequality and the (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
March 13, 2007
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Co-sponsored by The Stanford Center on Ethics
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