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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: A Two-Day International Workshop
Reception following the Keynote Address
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Atrium, Adolphus Busch Hall
Reception following the Keynote Address
Active Development: Using Social Theory to Improve Policy Practice for Poverty Reduction and Social Empowerment
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Keynote Address — Active Development: Using Social Theory to Improve Policy Practice for Poverty Reduction and Social Empowerment
  • Vijayendra Rao – Lead Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank
  • Michael Walton – Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Introduction by Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Session 3: Inclusion Policies and Anti-Poverty Programs in the European Union
2:00pm - 4:15pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: An International Workshop — Session 3: Inclusion Policies and Anti-Poverty Programs in the European Union
  • Nonna Mayer – Emeritus Director of Research, CNRS, Center for European Studies, Sciences Po
  • Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
  • Maria Petmesidou – Professor of Social Policy, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
  • Hilary Silver – Professor of Sociology, Urban Studies and Public Policy, Brown University; Visiting Scholar, Kennedy School of Government
  • Axel Cronert – Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Session 2: Caste, Indigenous and Racial Exclusion, Affirmative Action and Poverty: India
11:45am - 1:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: An International Workshop — Session 2: Caste, Indigenous and Racial Exclusion, Affirmative Action and Poverty: India
  • Sukhadeo Thorat – Chairman, Indian Council of Social Science Research; Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Lant Pritchett – Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Surinder S. Jodhka – Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
  • Rohini Pande – Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  • Chair Krishna Pendakur – William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Harvard University
Session 1: Stigmatizing, Shaming and Isolating the Poor
9:15am - 11:30am
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: An International Workshop — Session 1: Stigmatizing, Shaming and Isolating the Poor
  • Robert Walker – Professor of Social Policy, Oxford University
  • William Alford – Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
  • Nora Groce – Director, Leonard Cheshire Disability & Inclusive Development Centre, University College London
  • Kathryn Sikkink – Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Kim Samuel – Professor of Practice, Institute for Studies in International Development, McGill University
  • Sue J. Goldie – Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Global Health Education and Learning Incubator, Harvard University; Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Chair Christopher Jencks – Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Harvard University
Welcome Remarks
9:00am - 9:15am
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: An International Workshop — Welcome Remarks
  • Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
  • Hilary Silver – Professor of Sociology, Urban Studies and Public Policy, Brown University; Visiting Scholar, Kennedy School of Government
  • Alberto D. Cimadamore – Scientific Director, Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, University of Bergen and International Social Science Council
Alternative Dispute Resolutions from a Transatlantic Perspective
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
EU Law and Government Study Group — Alternative Dispute Resolutions from a Transatlantic Perspective
  • Henri Piffaut – Senior Advisor with the Directorate General for Competition, The European Commission; Civil Servant, DG Competition, European Commission
  • Francisco Málaga – Partner, Linklaters S.L.P.
  • Javier Íscar de Hoyos – Secretary General, European Arbitration Association
  • Chair José Manuel Martinez Sierra – Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government, Director General, UPF-Barcelona School of Management; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

The Financial Consequences of Mr. Draghi
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
CES Visiting Scholars Seminar — The Financial Consequences of Mr. Draghi
  • Benjamin Braun – Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2016-2017, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Arthur Goldhammer – Writer & Translator; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Monday, November 14, 2016

1989 in Global Perspective and the Rise of Neoliberalism
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall
New Directions in European History — 1989 in Global Perspective and the Rise of Neoliberalism
  • Philipp Ther – Professor of Central European History, University of Vienna; Visiting Scholar 1997-1998, CES, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 1997-1998, CES, Harvard University
2016 Summit on the Future of Europe — Europe and The Forces of (Dis)union
From Enlargement to Brexit: The Future of the European Union
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Summit on the Future of Europe — From Enlargement to Brexit: The Future of the European Union
  • George Alogoskoufis – Karamanlis Chair of Hellenic and European Studies, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Minister of Economy and Finance of Greece (2004-2009)
  • R. Daniel Kelemen – Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics, Rutgers University
  • Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Founding Director, Center for the Study of Europe, Boston University; Local Affiliate, CES
  • Sir Paul Tucker – Chair, The Systemic Risk Council; Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Former Deputy Governor, The Bank of England (2009-2013); Senior Fellow, CES
  • Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty Member, CES
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