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On March 30 and 31, the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America presents a conference, "Social Justice in Transatlantic Perspective." The conference will examine the history, present trajectory and future agenda of social justice in the light of changing global relationships. Among the questions panelists will explore are: How do we think about social rights now that the era of the welfare state has passed? In what form will they survive the rapid turn to globalization? Will they outlive the new brand of conservatism in the United States and Europe? How do we imagine political, institutional and economic practice changing in response to the demise of the social democratic model?
The event will be held at the Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue. The conference is supported by the History Department, the Office of the Provost, the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History at Columbia University and the Inter-university Center for European-American History and Politics.
Schedule of Events
Thursday, March 30
1:30 p.m. -- 2:45 p.m. Welcome and Opening Statements
David Freedberg (Columbia University)
Alan Brinkley (Columbia University)
Maurizio Vaudagna (University of Eastern Piedmont)
Keynote Address: Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University)
3:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m. 20th-Century Notions of Social Justice: Historical Views
Chair: Jean L. Cohen (Columbia University)
Federico Romero (University of Florence)
Linda Gordon (New York University)
Isaac Kramnick (Cornell University)
6:00 p.m. -- 7:30 p.m. Public Plenary
Chair: Alice Kessler-Harris (Columbia University)
Chiara Saraceno (University of Turin)
Frances Fox Piven (City University of New York)
Friday, March 31
9:30 a.m. -- 12.30 p.m. Contemporary Transformations in Social Rights
Chair: Volker Berghahn (Columbia University)
Goran Therborn (Swedish Academy of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences)
Nancy Fraser (New School University)
Dorothy Sue Cobble (Rutgers University):
12:30 p.m. -- 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m. The Politics and Prospects of Social Rights
Chair: Elisabetta Vezzosi ( University of Trieste)
Jane Lewis ( London School of Economics)
Carol Sanger ( Columbia University School of Law)
Julian Zelizer ( Boston University)
5:00 p.m. -- 7:00 p.m. Closing Reception
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