# A Prospective Retrospective | The Successful Societies: Mobilizing the Social Sciences to Understand Collective Well-Being ## November 1–2, 2019 **This conference is closed to the public.** This closed meeting (by invitation only) is an occasion for those who have been affiliated with the program to reconnect with old friends, share their research, and exchange around the intellectual impact of this interdisciplinary program on their work, past, present, and future. On Thursday at noon, there is a public launch of a special issue of *Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences*, which features the work of the program around the theme “Inequality as a Multidimensional Process” (coedited by Program Directors Michèle Lamont and Paul Pierson). Chaired by Jennifer Hochschild, this session stimulates conversation between members of our academic community and policy makers. *Cosponsored by CIFAR, Toronto, Ontario.* ## Contact **Sarah Banse** *Events Manager.* 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K217 Cambridge, MA 02138 \[ [Map](http://goo.gl/maps/GxyRd) \] p: (617) 495-9006 f: (617) 495-8292 ## Conveners [### Michèle Lamont ](/people/michele-lamont) [michele\_lamont@harvard.edu](mailto:michele_lamont@harvard.edu)Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor, Departments of Sociology and African and of African American Studies, Harvard University. **Research interests:** Culture and inequality; racism and stigma; academia and knowledge; social change and successful societies; and qualitative methods. ![Michele Lamont](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/wcfia/files/lamont_michele_1.jpg?itok=Zu-84bxB) ### Paul Pierson **John Gross Endowed Chair, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley.** See also:- [ Conferences ](/content-types/conferences) - [ 2019 ](/content-types/2019)