The Global Inequality Conference is envisioned as a three-day program open to the Washington University community.
The goals are:
- To facilitate productive dialogue between the students and both academic and seasoned practitioners who are experts in global inequality and interventions
- To consider the structural and social causes of inequality as well as how different groups and individuals experience it and what we can do to mitigate its effects
- To incorporate a variety of perspectives, thereby leaving conference participants with a transdisciplinary understanding of this wicked problem
- To discuss the history and current research of interventions in order to align them with the framework of evidence-based practice
- To engage students in a practical exercise of conflict resolution among stakeholders through an environmental justice case competition
- To foster collaboration and connection among Washington University undergraduate and graduate students as well as alumni and other professionals in the field
Format: Thursday October 26th: Keynote, Brown Lounge
- 5:30 – 7:00pm Interventions to Address Global Inequality
- Professor James Midgley, University of California – Berkeley
- 7:30 – 9:00pm Dinner for panelists and organizers (invite only), Goldfarb 132
Friday October 27th: Panel Conversations and Poster Session, Women’s Building Formal Lounge
- 10:00-11:30am Roots of Global Inequality: Structures, Processes and Practices Student Moderator from IAS Panelists:
- Joana Breidenbach, Founder, Betterplace Lab
- Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Researcher, IFPRI
- Nancy Jernigan, Executive Director, Partners in Sustainable Development
- 11:45-12:45pm Student Poster Presentations of Research and Practice
- Lunch provided
- 1:00-2:30pm Social Identities and the Experience of Inequality Student Moderator from Brown Panelists:
- Anne Toba, CEO, Ripples Foundation
- TBC, Caitlin Collins, Assistant Professor, Sociology/WGSS – TBC
Saturday October 28th: Environmental Justice Case Competition, Goldfarb 132
- 8:30-11:30am Teams prepare case
- 11:30-1:00pm Presentations begin
- 1:00 – 2:00pm Lunch