BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:William Julius Wilson Retirement Symposium PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1222461_0 SUMMARY:William Julius Wilson Retirement Symposium DESCRIPTION:

Harvard Gazette: Symposium celebrates career of William Julius Wilson

September 11, 2019 | Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

6pm-8pm | Welcome & Reception

6:00pm | Welcome Remarks | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , Harvard University
6:15pm | Keynote Address | Cornel West, Harvard University

Reception will follow keynote address.

September 12, 2019 | Gutman Conference Center, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

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7:45am – 8:30am | Registration

8:30am – 9:15am | Opening remarks by Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay, & Harvard University Dean of the Social Sciences Lawrence D. Bobo

9:15am–10:45am | Panel 1

Race Relations/Inequality in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Chair, Mary Waters, Harvard University
Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University
Glenn Loury, Brown University
Orlando Patterson, Harvard University
Thomas Sugrue, New York University
Loic Wacquant, University of California, Berkley

11:00am–12:30pm | Panel 2

The Continued Significance of Race, Class, and Culture

Chair, Michèle Lamont, Harvard University
Elijah Anderson, Yale University
Lawrence Bobo, Harvard University
Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University
Alford Young, University of Michigan

12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch Break

1:30pm–3:00pm | Panel 3

Place Matters: The Abiding Influence of Neighborhoods on Life Chances

Chair, Sandra Smith, University of California, Berkeley
Raj Chetty, Harvard University
Paul Jargowsky, Rutgers University-Camden
Robert Sampson, Harvard University
Patrick Sharkey, Princeton University

3:15pm-4:45pm | Panel 4

The Economy, Work, and Welfare

Chair, Jason Beckfield, Harvard University
Sheldon Danziger, Russell Sage Foundation
Kathryn Edin, Princeton University
David Ellwood, Harvard University
Lawrence Katz, Harvard University

September 13, 2019 | Gutman Conference Center, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

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8:30am-8:45am | Opening Remarks by Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, Douglas Elmendorf

8:45am-10:15am | Panel 5

Political Framing, Public Policy, and Political Coalitions

Chair, Tommie Shelby, Harvard University
Michael Dawson, University of Chicago
Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Theda Skocpol, Harvard University
Margaret Weir, Brown University

10:30am–12:00pm| Panel 6

Xs and Os: Mass Incarceration, Community Reentry, and Economic Opportunity

Phillip Atiba Goff, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Khalil Muhammad, Harvard University
Bruce Western, Columbia University

12:15pm-1:00pm | Reflections and Wrap-up

William Julius Wilson – reflections on his career and the event

Event organizers (Harvard University): The Office of the President, Faculty of Arts and Sciences/Division of Social Science, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Department of African & African American Studies, Department of Sociology, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education Office of Development and Alumni Relations

LOCATION:Harvard University, Cambridge, MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20190911T040000Z DTEND:20190913T040000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR