IAS Distinguished Lecture Series on Inequality and Poverty, 2010-2011

We are happy to announce that Institute for Advanced Study launches a Distinguished Lecture Series on Inequality and Poverty in Fall 2010 and Spring 2011. Scholars and experts on these topics are invited to give us a series of lectures. Details are as follows:


1. "IQ, Gender, and Mortality in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study"

Prof. Robert Hauser
Vilas Research Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Education, and the American Philosophical Society

August 3, 2010


2. "The 'Difference Between Heaven and Earth': Urbal-rual Disparities in Health and Well-being in China"

Prof. Donald Treiman
Visiting Professor, HKUST
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, UCLA

October 29, 2010


3. "The Economy, Public Policies and Poverty in the US: Implications for Hong Kong"

Prof. Sheldon Danziger
Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

December 16, 2010


4. "Market Failure and the Spectacular Rise in Inequality"

Prof. David Grusky
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Director, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University

February 17, 2011


5. "American Science on the Decline?"

Prof. Yu Xie
Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Research Professor in the Survey Research Center and the Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Academia Sinica

March 7, 2011


6. "Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fall Behind"

Prof. Jeffrey G. Williamson
Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University

March 21, 2011


7. "How to Become a Billionaire? Research on the New Rich in Central Europe, Russia and China"

Prof. Ivan Szelenyi
William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology
Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Foundation Dean of Social Sciences, New York University, Abu Dhabi
Fellow, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

May 26, 2011