EVENTS | Conferences | April 2009

What Just Happened? What's Next?
An Interdisciplinary Examination
of our Current Economic Crisis

April 15, 2009

The Meeting Room at Two Arrow Street
Same building as the Zero Arrow Theatre Building, Harvard Square.

Sponsored by the Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics, Harvard University

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Program

9:00–9:30 AM Opening Remarks
Walter Johnson, Harvard University and Drew Gilpin Faust, President, Harvard University

9:30–11:30 AM

“Debt, Depression and Development”
Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University

“New Deal Rights and Wrongs”
Linda Gordon, New York University

Chair: Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University

11:30 AM–1:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00–3:00 PM

“The Crisis as an Opportunity for Structural Change: Where should we focus our political energy?”
Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University

“Nationalize the Banks, Democratize the Nation”
A.J. Julius, University of California, Los Angeles

Chair: TBA

3:15–5:15 PM

“Intellectual Value at Risk”
Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

“A Nation of Jailers? What Does the Phenomenon of 'Mass Incarceration' Say about the Quality of American Democracy at this Historical Moment?”
Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University

Chair: Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School

Contact information:
Jessica Barnard, Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics
Email: jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu