#  Conference | Changing Middle Classes: Comparative and Global Perspectives 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 22, 2018** 

 09:00AM - 03:00PM 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) or see below to view the Day 2 agenda.

###  Contact:

 **Amy Stockton**  
<astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu>

 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.

 **Saturday, September 22**

 9:00–10:45 **Session IV: Class Trajectories and Mobility**

 Chair: **Jessica Welburn Paige**, *Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, Hutchins Center for African &amp; African American Research, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Sociology and African American Studies, University of Iowa.*

 “Paris’ Refounded Neighborhoods and the Refusal of Socio-Spatial Integration”  
**Bruno Cousin**, *Assistant Professor, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris.*

 “Class and Inequality in the Shadow of Law in China”  
**Ya-Wen Lei**, *Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.*

 “Global Security Strategies across the Pacific: Professional-Middle-Class Chinese Parents in Taiwan and the US”  
**Pei-Chia Lan**, *Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University.*

 Discussant: **Jason Beckfield**, *Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality.* Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

 10:45–11:00 **Coffee Break** *(provided)*

 11:00–12:45 **Session V: Politics and Social Movements**

 Chair: **Jennifer Hochschild**, *Faculty Associate.* Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government; Chair, Department of Government; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Harvard College Professor.

 “Becoming Gay-friendly: ‘Coming Out’ and the Production of Gay-friendly Attitudes amongst the Straight Upper Middle Classes in France and in the US”  
**Sylvie Tissot**, *Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Université de Paris 8.*

 “Middle Class Under Increasing Economic Risk in Russia and China”  
**Chunling Li**, *Professor, Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.*

 “How We Became Black: Racial Activism in Contemporary France”  
**Abdoulaye Gueye**, *Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa.*

 Discussant: **Ellis Monk**, *Faculty Associate*. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

 12:45–2:00 **Lunch** *(provided)*

 2:00–3:00 **Concluding Session: What We Have Learned**



 

 

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 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)
 
 

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