Workshop & Seminars

Dilemmas of Inequality Lecture Series 2009
Corwin Hall — Room 127 6:00 p.m.

September 21
Christopher Uggen, Distinguished McKnight Professor, Sociology Chair
University of Minnesota
"The Price and Promise of Justice Reform"

October 5
Roger Waldinger, Sociology
University of California
"A Limited Engagement: Sending States and "their" Diasporas"

October 12
Bernard Weiner, Psychology
University of California (UCLA)
"An Attributional Approach to Inequality"

October 19
Jere Behrman, Economics
University of Pennsylvania
"Early Life Nutrition, Brain and Brawn, and Wages in the Tropics: Estimates from Guatemala Using Over Three Decades of Data."

October 26
Robert W. Staiger, Economics
Stanford University
"What can Developing Countries Achieve in the WTO?: A View from Economics."

November 9
Stephen Wright, Psychology
Simon Fraser University
Title TBD

November 16
David Lindstrom, Sociology
Brown University
Title TBD

November 23
Bruce Western, Sociology
Harvard University
Title TBD

November 30
Sandra Smith
Berkeley University
"A Test of Sincerity: How Black and Latino Service Workers Make Decisions about Making Referrals."

December 7
Jean Decety, Psychology
University of Chicago
"The Neuroscience of Empathy: What do we really know? Where are we going?"

December 14
Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University "Obama and the Struggle to Transform U.S. Public Policy: The Case of Health Care Reform Redux."