#  Conference | Law, Inequality and the Politics of Moral Worth 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 3, 2019** 

 09:00AM - 09:00AM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 ***Presented by the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. Please [RSVP here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxMY-wvfqiU0GnmesqtIR-Mg9SiGdga1VUqpjMTF5AeRXXEA/viewform).***

###  8:30–9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast (provided)

###  9:00–9:30 a.m. Introductory remarks

 **Michèle Lamont**, *Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Department of Sociology, and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.*

 **Talia Shiff**, *Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University.*

###  9:30–11:00 a.m. Session I: Law and Social Inequality at Multiple Registers

 Commentator: **Paige Sweet**, *Postdoctoral Fellow with the Inequality in American Initiative, Harvard University.*

 “Rights, Proceduralism and Social Inequality”  
**Heather Schoenfeld**, *Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Boston University.*

 “The Road to Recognition: Afro-Uruguayan Struggle for Visibility, Equality, and Reparation”  
**Debbie Sharnak**, *Lecturer, History and Literature, Harvard University.*

 “Race, Place, and Crime: How Violent Crime Events Affect Employment Discrimination”  
**Sanaz Mobasseri**, *Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.*

###  11:00–12:30 p.m. Session II: Perceptions of the Social World, or Seeing in and through Legal Categories

 Commentator: **Anna Skarpelis**, *Postdoctoral Fellow, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University.*

 “Gender Neutral Pronouns, Cultural Inclusion and Social Equality”  
**Abigail Saguy**, *Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Department of Sociology, UCLA.*  
**Juliet Williams**, *Professor of Gender Studies and Chair of the UCLA Social Science Interdepartmental Program, UCLA.*

 “In the Shadow of the State: Symbolic Power, Social Inequality, and the Institutionalization of Social Categories”  
**Ellis Monk**, *Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.*

 “The Judicial Politics of Religious Difference in Western Europe: Socio-Legal Field Dynamics and the Standardization of Justificatory Repertoires”  
**Matthias Koenig**, *Professor of Sociology, University of Göttingen. Max Planck Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.*

###  12:30–1:30 p.m. Lunch break (CGIS Knafel Building, Room K354)

###  1:30-3:30 p.m. Session III: Law and Notions of Worth

 Commentator: **Susan Silbey**, *Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences, Sloan School of Management, MIT.*

 “Transformative Effects of Immigration Law in Hostile Contexts”  
**Cecilia Menjívar**, *Professor and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair, Department of Sociology, UCLA.*

 “Legal Standards and Moral Worth in Frontline Decision-Making: Evaluations of Deservingness in US Asylum Determinations”  
**Talia Shiff**, *Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University.*

 “Can Law Mitigate the Motherhood/Leavetaker Penalty?”  
**Catherine Albiston**, *Professor of Law and Sociology, Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program, UC Berkeley School of Law.*

###  3:30–4:00 p.m. Coffee break (provided)

###  4:00–5:30 p.m. Session IV: Legal Cynicism and Everyday Reliance on Law’s Promises

 Commentator: **Michèle Lamont**, *Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Department of Sociology, and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.*

 “The Particular Disadvantages of Universal Rules: How the Legal Turn in Medicine Creates Winners and Losers”  
**Carol Heimer**, *Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University; Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation.*

 “Recognition Gaps and Economies of Worth in Police-Resident Encounters”  
**Ron Levi**, *George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology; Director of Global Strategy, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.*

 “Law’s Exclusions and Affordances”  
**Sally Merry**, *Silver Professor of Anthropology, NYU College of Arts and Sciences; Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York University School of Law.*

###  5:30–6:00 p.m. Concluding remarks

###  6:30 p.m. Dinner for workshop participants



 

 



 

 

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