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Taubman Center Announces Spring 2018 Speaker Events

December 7, 2017

Dara Kay Cohen, Jennifer Chudy, and Scott Allard are among the spring 2018 speaker lineup

Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy (book panel)
Domingo Morel, Rutgers University
January 26, 4:00 p.m. • Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St., Joukowsky Forum
Presented as part of the Anton Lippitt Conference on Urban Affairs
Moderator: Marion Orr, Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science and  Urban Studies, Brown University
Panelists:

  • Vesla Weaver, Michael Bloomberg Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
  • Jeffrey Henig, Professor of Political Science and Education at Teachers College and Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
  • Michael Jones-Correa, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty (book panel)
Scott Allard, University of Washington
February 12, 4:30 p.m. • Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St., Joukowsky Forum
Moderator: Susan Moffit, Director, Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Panelists:

  • Margaret Weir, Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, Brown University
  • Michael White, Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies; Professor of Sociology and Director of Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University
  • Roberto Gonzales, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Who Supports War and Why? Sources of the Gender Gap in Support for War
Dara Kay Cohen, Harvard Kennedy School
March 1, 12:00 p.m. • Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St., McKinney Conference Room

Alexander Meiklejohn Lecture (Title TBA)
Martha Minow, former dean, Harvard Law School
March 6, 4:00 p.m. • Location TBA

Food, Fish and Sustainability
Anna Lappé, Small Planet Institute
March 16, 12:00 p.m. • Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St., Joukowsky Forum

Racial Sympathy in American Politics
Jennifer Chudy, Wellesley College
March 20, 4:00 p.m. • Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St., McKinney Conference Room