CLUSTER WORKSHOP:
RECOGNITION AND CULTURAL PROCESSES
IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Presented by the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion
November 9, 2018
CGIS Knafel Building, Room K354
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
9:30–9:45 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, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
9:45–11:45 Session I: Immigration, Refugees, Asylum Seekers
“Recognizing the Immigrant Worker: Integration Policies in Canadian Provinces and Australia States”
Mireille Paquet, 2017-2018 cluster member. Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science; Concordia University Research Chair on the New Politics of Immigration, Concordia University.
“Reconfiguring the Deserving Refugee: Cultural Categories of Worth and the Making of Refugee Policy”
Talia Shiff, 2018-2019 cluster member. Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program.
“Religious Boundary Dynamics in European Immigration Societies – Legal Openings and Social Closures”
Matthias Koenig, 2018-2019 cluster member. Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Professor of Sociology, University of Göttingen; Max Planck Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
“The Determinants of Refugee Integration in the New International Migration Regime”
Çetin Çelik, 2018-2019 cluster member. Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
12:00–1:30 Keynote Address
“Valuation, Evaluation, Devaluation: Women and Scopic Capitalism”
Eva Illouz, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Please Note: the location of the keynote address will be in Williams James Hall Room 450, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
1:45–4:00 Session II: Ethno-racial Identities
“‘Whether She is White, Black, Yellow, Woman or Trans, I Don’t Care.’ Should Ethnic Minorites Be Represented by Minorities? Ordinary Representations of Representation in Contemporary France”
Camille Hamidi, 2017-2018 cluster member. Associate Professor of Political Science, Université Lyon II Lumière.
“Changing Ethnic Stratification in an Era of Demographic Decline”
Hilary Holbrow, 2017-2019 cluster member. Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies; Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
“The Struggle for Recognition of Domestic Workers in the Philippines”
Lorenza Fontana, 2017-2018 cluster member. Marie Curie Global Fellow.
“Majority Time- Minority Time: “The Sabbath of the Land” and Palestinian Citizens Agrarian Survival”
Natalia Gutkowski, 2017-2019 cluster member. Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
“The Difference that Makes A Difference: Black Political Mobilization and Policy-Making in Canada”
Anne-Marie Livingstone, 2018-2019 cluster member. William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Center Canada Program.
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel Building, Room K354, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20181109T143000Z DTEND:20181109T143000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR