McGill –ISID Research workshop on Inequality
As part of ISID’s March conference on Inequality taking place from March 10 to 12, we are hosting a one-day multi-disciplinary research workshop on inequality, on Thursday March 10th, 2016. The program is outlined below. Academics and graduate students are invited to attend. The workshop is free of charge, but we ask that you register by February 24th at this address: Workshop Registration
March 10, 2016
Thompson House Ballroom
8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION
9:00-10:30 Clara Han (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University): “Poverty and Vulnerability:
The Specificity of Neighborhoods”
Discussant: Manuel Balán (Political Science & ISID, McGill University)
11:00-12:30 David Samuels (Political Science, University of Minnesota): “Inequality and
Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach"
Discussant: Francesco Amodio (Economics & ISID, McGill University)
12:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-3:00 Arthur Blouin (Economics, University of Toronto): “A Bridge over the (Ethnic)
Divide: Nation Building and Erasing Ethnic Identity in Rwanda”
Discussant: S.P. Harish (Political Science, New York University)
3:00-3:15 CLOSING REMARKS
ISID gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Dean of Arts Development Fund, the Department of Anthropology and CIREQ.
