SEMINAR

Malcolm Wiener Center
Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series

SPRING 2013

MONDAYS, NOON to 1:45 PM
Note: Presentation begins at 12:15 pm

SEMINAR LOCATION | Spring 2013
Allison Dining Room | Taubman building, 5th floor
Harvard Kennedy School | 79 JFK St, Cambridge, MA

 

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JAN 28, 2013 (UPDATED)

JAL MEHTA, Harvard Graduate School of Education

"The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling"

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No paper available

 

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FEB 4, 2013
in Malkin Penthouse, Littauer building, 4th Fl, HKS | map

MARIA KRYSAN, Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Community Attraction and Avoidance in the 'City of Neighborhoods' and Its Suburbs: What's Race Got to Do With It?"

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No paper available

 

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FEB 11, 2013

STEVEN RAPHAEL, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

"Incarceration and Crime Control:  A Classic Case of Diminishing Marginal Returns"

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No paper available

 

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FEB 18, 2013

PRESIDENTS' DAY HOLIDAY - No seminar

 

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FEB 25, 2013

MEIRA LEVINSON, Harvard Graduate School of Education

"Educating at the Limits of Democracy"

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:: Paper

 

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MAR 4, 2013

ROBIN ROGERS, Sociology, The City University of New York

"The New Billionaire Philanthropists: When Does Giving Become Governing?"

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:: Paper 1 | 2

 

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MAR 11, 2013

ADAM GALINSKY, Columbia Business School

"From Power Differences to Sex and Racial Differences"

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No paper available

 

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MAR 18, 2013

SPRING BREAK - No seminar

 

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MAR 25, 2013 (UPDATED)

CHRISTOPHER JENCKS, Harvard Kennedy School

“What Schools Can and Can't Do (at Least in America)”

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APR 1, 2013

TIM R. SASS, Economics, Georgia State University

"Value Added of Teachers in High Poverty Schools and Lower Poverty Schools" (Rescheduled from Fall 2012)

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:: Paper

 

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APR 8, 2013

NO SEMINAR

 

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APR 15, 2013

BART BONIKOWSKI, Sociology, Harvard University

"Varieties of Popular Nationalism"

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APR 22, 2013

SUSAN FISKE, Psychology, Princeton University

"Varieties of Inequality: Universal Dimensions of (De)Humanization"

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APR 29, 2013

BETSEY STEVENSON, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

"Growth in Income and Subjective Well-Being over Time"

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:: Paper | 2

 

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MAY 6, 2013

JAMES SIDANIUS, Psychology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University

"The Interactive Nature of Patriarchy and Arbitrary-set Hierarchy and the Theory of Gendered Prejudice: An Evolutionary and Social Dominance Perspective"

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