Dilemmas of Inequality

Dilemmas of Inequality Lecture Series 2007 - 2008

Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Place: Library of Prospect House

FALL 2007

October 16
Jacob Hacker, Professor of Political Science, Yale University "The Great Risk Shift"

November 13
Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard, "The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005"

December 4
Tory Higgins, Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology, Columbia, "Where Does Value Come From?"

SPRING 2008

February 12
David Soskice, Research Professor of Political Science, Duke, "Distribution and Redistribution: The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century"

February 19
James Heckman, The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, Chicago Title: TBD

February 26
Kay Deaux, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies,CUNY Graduate Center, "Immigration, Generation, and Social Location"

March 11
Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology, Berkeley
"Rationing Opportunity: How Colleges and Universities are Slowing the Growth of U.S. B.A.’s"

April 8
William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard "There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods."

May 6
Paul Pierson, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley Title TBD