About the 2012 Conference
May 2-4, 2012
Download: Agenda (PDF: 100KB)
Location (unless otherwise noted): East Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
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.
Wednesday, May 2
4:30–5:30 Registration/Reception
East Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
5:30–6:00 Keynote Speaker
John Logan, Brown University
6:15–8:00 Group Dinner, Keynote Speaker
David Hulchanski, University of Toronto
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 Faculty 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
5:00–6:30 Wrap-up discussion for the day and free time
6:30–8:30 Group Dinner, Keynote Speaker
UpStairs on the Square, 19 Winthrop Street, Cambridge
- 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