Current Events

The CSI regularly sponsors focused symposia, workshops, and lecture series that draw attention to the most pressing problems and controversies in the field.

September 25-26, 2009

"Making Welfare States Work: Citizens, Workers, and Welfare States in Comparative Perspective"
Time and location tba
Co-Sponsored event with the Institute for European Studies

March 30, 2010

"More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City"
William Julius Wilson
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Sociology
Harvard University
7:00 p.m.;location tba
Co-Sponsored event with the ISS Poverty Team, CSI, BLCC, and University Lectures Program

ISS THEME PROJECT EVENTS

Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility

September 8

"Hunger and Food Insecurity in the US: History, Correlates and Dynamics"
Christine Olson, Poverty Team Member and Prof. of Nutritional Science
12:00-1:30 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)

September 9

"The Future of U.S. Poverty Policy and Research"
2:00-5:30 p.m., Biotech G10

September 15

"Poverty, Stress and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital"
Anna Aizer, Economics, Brown University
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)

September 22

"The Political Representation of the Poor"
Karen Jusko, Political Science, Stanford University
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)

September 29

Pat Sharkey, Sociology, NYU
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)

October 6

Parke Wilde, Nutritional Science & Policy, Tufts University
12:00-1:30 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)

October 13

"Current Frontiers in the Study of Economic Mobility in Developing Countries"
8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m., 423 ILR Conference Center

October 20

"Employer Market Power in the Low-Wage Labor Market"
Jordan Matsudaira, Poverty Team Member and Prof. of Applied Economics & Man.
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)

October 27

"Index Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya: Ex Ante Impact On Welfare Dynamics"
Chris Barrett, Poverty Team Leader and Prof. of Applied Economics & Management
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)

November 10

Nik Theodore, City & Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Chicago
12 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)

November 16-17

"Institutions, Behavior and the Escape from Persistent Poverty"
423 ILR Conference Center

November 24

Dan Lichter, Poverty Team Member and Prof. of PAM & Sociology
12:00-1:30 p.m., ISS Conference Room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)