#   2024 Alumni Conference  

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 10, 2024** 

 All day 

 [ Virtual arrow\_circle\_right ](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckde2qrz0oGdXDrO7q__dWUfk0PYKTkkdF) 

 



 

 **Alumni Conference: Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion**

 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

 **Chair: Michèle Lamont**

 **Saturday, February 10, 2024**

 **William James Hall 1550**

 **and Virtual**

 **8:30–9:10 am: Welcome and Breakfast**

 **9:10–9:25 am: Introductions**

 **Michèle Lamont (Harvard University)**

 **9:25–11:00am: Panel 1: Taming unpredictability**

 **Chair: Luuc Brans (KU Leuven University), In-Person**

 **Lorenza Antonucci (University of Birmingham), In-Person**

 **“I have to thank whoever invented this – can I say that?” Examining the ambivalent effect of platform work on precarity and its role in reproducing inequality.**

 **Ioana Sendroiu (University of Hong Kong), On Zoom**

 **“An exciting future is one click away”: Environmental entrepreneurship and climate crisis action**

 **Elena Ayala-Hurtado (Harvard University), In-Person**

 **The Projected Futures of Insecure College Graduates in Spain and the United States**

 **11:00–11:20 am: Coffee Break**

 **11:20–12:25 pm: Panel 2: Meritocracy and inequality**

 **Chair: Luca Carbone (KU Leuven), In-person**

 **Elke Winter (University of Ottawa), In-person**

 **Middle Class Nation Building Through Immigration?**

 **Jonathan Mijs (Boston University), In-person**

 **The Social Life of Inequality: Why Unequal Countries Stay That Way**

 **12:25–1:25 pm Lunch**

 **1:25–3:00 pm: Panel 3: Classifying outsiders – immigrants and others**

 **Chair: Riva Kastoryano (National Center for Scientific Research and SciencesPO, Paris), In-person**

 **Talia Shiff (Tel-Aviv University), On Zoom**

 **Asylum Decision-Making under Trump: Shared Aspirations for Moral Realignment as Mechanisms of Moral Boundary Work in Times of Crisis.**

 **Anna Skarpelis (CUNY, Queens College), In-person**

 **The Moral Pixel: Troubling Genealogies of Composite Person Classification, from 19th Century Eugenics to Computer Vision**

 **Derek Robey (Harvard University), In-Person**

 **Memory Politics and the Struggle for Recognition**

 **3:00–3:20 pm: Coffee Break**

 **3:20–5:25 pm: Panel 4: Boundary management**

 **Chair: Maha Shehade Switat (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard), In-person**

 **Gökce Yurdakul (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), In-person**

 **Undoing one-dimensional immigrant: Revisiting difference through postmigrant paradigm in Germany**

 **Matias López (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva),**

 **On Zoom**

 **Democracy and land inequality: Urban elites in the making of agrarian politics in Brazil and beyond**

 **Yuval Feinstein (University of Haifa) and Ameer Fakhoury (Polonsky Academy, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), On Zoom**

 **How are political boundaries drawn in countries with trapped minorities? A new triangular approach based on the case of Arab-Palestinians in Israel**

 **Yossi Harpaz (Tel-Aviv University), On Zoom**

 **War and Solidarity: A Natural Experiment Following the October 7th Attack on Israel**

 **5:25–5:55 pm Closing**

 **Michèle Lamont (Harvard University)**



 

 

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