Divided Cities, Divergent Life Chances in Canada and the United States
About the 2012 Conference
Divided Cities, Divergent Life Chances in Canada and the United States
Unchecked growth in inequality in the wealthy countries of the world has negative consequences for well-being in the societies affected. In addition to broad trends in income inequality, new patterns and forms of spatial inequality in cities and changes have emerged, providing a new challenge for scholarship that seeks to understand how divided cities produce divergent life chances. The workshop seeks to understand the processes by which concentrated disadvantage (by income or ethnicity, for example) are linked to outcomes such as health, child development and crime. Moreover, it seeks to identify new approaches to action to redress urban inequality, in accounting for current geo-political realities.
May 2-4, 2012
Wednesday, May 2
4:30-5:30 Registration/Reception
East Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
5:30
- Keynote Speaker: John Logan, Brown University
6:15 Group Dinner
- Keynote Speaker: David Hulchanski, University of Toronto
All conference sessions, Thursday, May 3 and Friday, May 4, are in the East Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street
Thursday, May 3
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Differences that Matter
- Jim Dunn, Harvard University and McMaster University
- Dan Zuberi, Harvard University and University of British Columbia, Vancouver
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-12:30 Early Childhood Development
- Gary Evans, Cornell University
- Veronique Dupere, l’Université de Montréal
12:30-1:30 Lunch – Sandwich Buffet at the Club
1:30-3:00 Health
- Nancy Ross, McGill University
- Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Brandeis University
3:00-3:20 Coffee Break
3:20-5:00 Crime & Safety
- Sandra Bucerius, University of Toronto
- Ann Owens, Harvard University
5:00 Wrap-up discussion for the day
5:00-6:30 Free Time
6:30-8:30 Group Dinner UpStairs on the Square, 19 Winthrop Street, Cambridge
- Keynote Speaker: Xavier de Souza Briggs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, May 4
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30 What to do? Policy Content
- Neil Bradford, Huron College at Western University
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-12:45 Concluding Discussion
12:45 Lunch and Departure
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