# Conference | Changing Middle Classes: Comparative and Global Perspectives #### calendar\_today Date and Time **September 21, 2018** 09:00AM - 05:45PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)** *Presented by the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion* No registration required. Free and open to the public. Click [here](https://inequality.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/changing-middle-classes-comparative-and-global-perspectives?delta=0) or see below to view the Day 1 agenda. ### Contact: **Amy Stockton** Our cluster's goal is to gain a more fine-grained understanding of the many complex processes that feed both inequality and inclusion. We consider in particular how to reduce recognition gaps in advanced industrial societies. **Friday, September 21** 9:00–9:15 **Welcome** **Michèle Lamont**, *Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.* Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University. 9:15–11:00 **Session I: Middle Class Formation: State Capacity, Expertise, and Labor Markets in the Global South** Chair: **Jacob Olupona**, *Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Religion in Public Life in Africa and the African Diaspora.* Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. “Fearing Such a Lady: University Expansion, Economic Precarity, and the Hypergamy Ideal in Kampala, Uganda” **Margaret Frye**, *Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan.* “Renegotiating the Boundaries of Middle Class: First-Generation Black College Graduates in Brazil and South Africa” **Graziella Moraes Silva**, *Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.* “Urban Kenya’s Diverse ‘Middle Class’: Middle-Income Milieus and Symbolic Boundaries in Nairobi” **Florian Stoll**, *Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Development Sociology, Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Germany.* Discussant: **Alejandro de la Fuente**, *Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Afro-Latin American Studies*. Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Department of History; Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. 11:00–11:15 **Coffee Break** *(provided)* 11:15–1:00 **Session II: Spatial Segregation, Homophily, and Social and Symbolic Boundaries** Chair: **Joscha Legewie**, *Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.* “Work in London, Love in Paris” **Patrick Le Galès**, *Research Professor, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris.* **Christine Barwick**, *Postdoctoral Researcher, Sociology, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin.* “Elite Sociability, Segregated Inclusion, and Power Games in Delhi” **Jules Naudet**, *Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.* “Relocated Ethnicities: How Do National-Cultural Repertoires Shape the Ethnic Identities of Socially and Spatially Mobile Migrants? Evidence from Israeli Mizrahim Living in Germany, Israel, and the United States” **Avihu Shoshana**, *Senior Lecturer, Department of Counseling and Human Development; Department of Leadership and Policy in Education, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa.* Discussant: **Diane Davis**, *Faculty Associate.* Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism; Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. 1:00–2:15 **Lunch Break** 2:15–4:00 **Session III: Class Consolidation: Identity, Distinction, and Cultural Practices** Chair: **Matthias Koenig**, *Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program.* Professor, Department of Sociology, Göttingen University. “Transnational Human Capital and Social Class: How German Upper-Middle-Class Parents Prepare Their Children for Globalization” **Jürgen Gerhards**, *Chair of Macrosociology, Institute for Sociology, Freie Universitat, Berlin.* “One or Two Type(s) of ‘Concerted Cultivation’? The Educational Practices of (Upper-) Middle-Class French Parents” **Agnès van Zanten**, *Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Observatoire Sociologique du Changement, Sciences Po, Paris.* “Upper Middle Class Social Reproduction: Wealth, Schooling, and Residential Choice in Chile” **María Luisa Méndez**, *Director, School of Sociology, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.* **Modesto Gayo***, Professor, School of Sociology, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.* Discussant: **Natasha Warikoo**, *Faculty Associate*. Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education. 4:00–4:30 **Coffee Break** *(provided)* 4:30–5:45 **Keynote Address** “The Geopolitics of Inequality: The Remaking of Elites and Middle Classes” **Mike Savage**, *Martin White Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics.* 5:45 **Open Reception** --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf changing\_middle\_classes\_conference\_agenda.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/wcfia/files/changing_middle_classes_conference_agenda.pdf) --- See also:- [ 2018-2019 ](/academic-year/2018-2019) - [ Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion ](/event-categories/weatherhead-research-cluster-comparative-inequality-and-inclusion) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/node/1329678/event-feed.ics) Copy link link