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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: A Two-Day International Workshop
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
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
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 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
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
Reception following the Keynote Address
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Atrium, Adolphus Busch Hall
Reception following the Keynote Address
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

Friday, November 18, 2016

Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: A Two-Day International Workshop
Session 4: Inclusionary Policies in Developing Countries
9:00am - 10:30am
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: An International Workshop — Session 4: Inclusionary Policies in Developing Countries
  • Lázaro I. Rodríguez – United Nations Consultant; Transformatorio Cultural para el Desarrollo
  • Ajantha Subramanian – Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Harvard University
  • Babatunde Omilola – Head of Development Planning and Inclusive Growth, United Nations Development Program, New York
  • Alberto D. Cimadamore – Scientific Director, Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, University of Bergen and International Social Science Council
  • Chair Brian Palmer-Rubin – Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Session 5: Rights as Inclusion Mechanism
10:45am - 12:30pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication: An International Workshop — Session 5: Rights as Inclusion Mechanism
  • John C. Mubangizi – Professor of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Lucie E. White – Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • Shreya Atrey – Max Weber Fellow 2016-2017, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
  • Frank Dobbin – Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Chair, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Maria Petmesidou – Professor of Social Policy, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
  • Chair Jacqueline Bhabha – Director of Research & Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, FXB Center of for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Adorno's Negative Dialectics at 50
9:00am - 6:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
International Conference - Day 1 Sessions — Adorno's Negative Dialectics at 50
  • Seyla Benhabib – Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University
  • ​Jay Bernstein  – Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research
  • Maeve Cooke – Associate Professor of German Social and Political Thought, University College Dublin
  • Konstancja Duff – Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex
  • Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
  • Brian O'Connor – Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin
  • Maxim Pensky – Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University; Co-Director, Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University
  • Michael Rosen – Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Harvard University
  • Welcome Remarks by Maxim Pensky – Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University; Co-Director, Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University and Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History; Faculty Affiliate , Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.
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