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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