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Celina Su: Redemocratizing Democracy, or Affirmative Governmentality? New York’s Recent Experiences with Participatory Budgeting

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Celina SuAssociate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College and the inaugural Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies (with an appointment in Critical & Environmental Psychology), Graduate Center, CUNYCelina Su's work focuses on how everyday citizens engage in policy-making. Her publications include Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (2009), Our Schools Suck: Young … Continue reading "Celina Su: Redemocratizing Democracy, or Affirmative Governmentality? New York’s Recent Experiences with Participatory Budgeting"

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Andrew Stauffer: Traces in the Stacks: The Troubled Archive of Nineteenth Century Print

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Andrew Stauffer - Pinetree Foundation Fellow Professor of English, University of Virginia Andrew Stauffer directs the NINES digital initiative and teaches in the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge UP, 2005) and the editor of works by Robert Browning (Norton, 2006) and H. … Continue reading "Andrew Stauffer: Traces in the Stacks: The Troubled Archive of Nineteenth Century Print"

Nicole Marwell: Patronage and Political Exchange in a Municipal Legislature: New York City Council Discretionary Spending

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Nicole MarwellAssociate Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology, Baruch College and the Graduate CenterNicole Marwell is the Academic Director of the Baruch College Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management.  Marwell has published articles in the American Sociological Review, the Annals of the American Society of Political and Social Sciences, City and Community, Social Service Review, … Continue reading "Nicole Marwell: Patronage and Political Exchange in a Municipal Legislature: New York City Council Discretionary Spending"

Karen Phalet: The Children of Muslim Immigrants in School: Comparative Perspectives from Europe

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Karen PhaletProfessor of Social Psychology & Education/Social Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium and Utrecht University in FlandersKaren Phalet's recent work develops comparative perspectives on school diversity and ethnic inequality and on the religious identities of Muslim immigrant youth in European societies. Her current project studies the interplay of social boundaries in European schools with the … Continue reading "Karen Phalet: The Children of Muslim Immigrants in School: Comparative Perspectives from Europe"

Ruth Milkman: Immigrants, Precarity, and Low-Wage Labor Organizing

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

This talk will offer an overview of the relationship between the growth of low-wage immigration to the United States since the 1970s and the restructuring of the nation’s labor market in the same period. The central claim is that migration patterns have been shaped by, and at the same time helped to shape, broader political-economic … Continue reading "Ruth Milkman: Immigrants, Precarity, and Low-Wage Labor Organizing"

Naomi Murakawa: The Perils of Policing Reform

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Since the high-profile killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, the Obama administration has launched policing reforms to heal racial “mistrust” through a renewed commitment to “community policing” and “procedural justice.” Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing and the new National Center for Building Community Trust and Justice showcase the hope of racial repair … Continue reading "Naomi Murakawa: The Perils of Policing Reform"

Richard Drayton: European empires and the origins of modern inequality

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Inequality between nations and inequality within societies are almost always examined as two distinct problems. To the extent that we have addressed the global history of inequality, as in the work of Acemoglu, Atkinson, Milanovic or Piketty, we have drawn on comparative methods, defined, and limited by, the logic of national accounting. The focus has … Continue reading "Richard Drayton: European empires and the origins of modern inequality"

Legacies of the Slave Past in the Post-Slave Present

The Skylight Room, 9th floor, room 9100 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) and the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University present a two-day event: Legacies of the Slave Past in the Post-Slave Present. Professor Catherine Hall (University College London) will speak at 4:30 on Thursday October 1st in the Skylight Room. Events on Friday, October 2nd will take place at … Continue reading "Legacies of the Slave Past in the Post-Slave Present"

David Howell: Lousy Jobs in the Rich World: What Happened to Shared Growth?

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The US experienced a dramatic ideological shift towards ‘neoliberalism’ around 1980, which featured deregulation of labor, product and financial markets; shrinking or eliminating social protection and redistributive programs to the nonelderly; and giant tax cuts for top income households. Predictably, income and wealth inequality skyrocketed, the middle class share of total income collapsed, and worker … Continue reading "David Howell: Lousy Jobs in the Rich World: What Happened to Shared Growth?"

James Livingston: The American Anomaly, 1870-1950: Testing Thomas Piketty’s Comparative History

ARC Conference Room 5318 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The so-called Gilded Age of the late-19th century was not a moment of increasing income inequality. In fact, capitalists and their allies in journalism, academia, and Congress claimed on solid empirical grounds that the benefits of economic growth accrued mainly to workers, turning capitalists into public servants. Piketty's formulae for the Belle Epoque cannot, then, … Continue reading "James Livingston: The American Anomaly, 1870-1950: Testing Thomas Piketty’s Comparative History"