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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26

8:45 a.m.

Welcome

9:00 - 10:45

Session 1. Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

 

Plenary Speaker:
Race, Gender, and Unequal Citizenship in the United States
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California, Berkeley, Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies

 

Discussants:
Dwight McBride, UIC Departments of English and African-American Studies
Barbara Ransby, UIC Departments of History and African-American Studies
Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern  University School of Law and Institute for Policy Research
Moderator: Elena Gutierrez, UIC Departments of Latino and Latin American Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies

11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. 

Session 2. Race and Attitudes

 

Plenary Speaker:
Inequalities that Endure?: Racial Ideology, American Politics, and the Peculiar Role of Social Sciences
 Lawrence Bobo, Harvard University Department of Sociology

 

Discussants:
Tyrone Forman, UIC Departments of Sociology and African-American Studies
Cedric Herring, UIC Department of Sociology, and University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs
Andrew Rojecki, UIC Department of Communication
Moderator: Maria Krysan, UIC Department of Sociology

1:00 - 2:30
 

Luncheon Plenary—
Session 3. Changing Social Institutions

 

Plenary Speaker:        
Race, Gender, and Employment Discrimination
Barbara Reskin, Harvard University Department of Sociology

 

Moderator: William Bridges, UIC Department of Sociology

2:45 - 4:15

Session 4. Changing Social Institutions (Concurrent Sessions)

 

4a. Class and Labor Markets

 

Panelists:
William Bridges, UIC Department of Sociology
Sharon Collins, UIC Department of Sociology
Leon Fink, UIC Department of History
Robert L. Nelson, Northwestern University Department of Sociology and the American Bar Foundation
Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Northwestern University Departments of Sociology and African American Studies, and the Institute for Policy Research
Moderator: Pam Popielarz, UIC Department of Sociology

 

4b. Religion

 

Panelists:
Michael Emerson, Rice University Department of Sociology
Greg Jao, University of Chicago InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago Department of Sociology
Aldon Morris, Northwestern University Department of Sociology
Arlene Sanchez Walsh, DePaul University Department of Religious Studies
Moderator: R. Stephen Warner, UIC Department of Sociology

 

4c. Education

 

Panelists:
William Ayers, UIC College of Education
Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, UIC Departments of Sociology, and Latino and Latin American Studies
Valerie Johnson, UIC Department of Political Science
David Stovall, UIC College of Education
Moderator: Pamela Quiroz, UIC College of Education

4:30 - 6:00

Session 5. Changing Social Institutions (Concurrent Sessions)

 

5a. Criminal Justice

 

Panelists:
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University School of Law, and the Children and Family Justice Center
Darnell Hawkins, UIC Departments of African-American Studies,  Criminal Justice, and Sociology
Beth Richie, UIC Departments of Criminal Justice, and Gender and Women's Studies
Laurie Schaffner, UIC Departments of Criminal Justice, and Sociology
Moderator:Geoffrey Ward, Vera Institute, New York, NY

 

5b. Family and Social Welfare

 

Panelists:
Phillip Bowman, UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
Rachel Gordon, UIC Department of Sociology, and University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs
Ellen Scott, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Kent State University
Moderator: Constance Dallas, UIC College of Nursing

 

5c. Race, Ethnicity and the City: Comparative and Global Perspectives

 

Panelists:
Philip Garcia, Inter-University Program for Latino Research, University of Notre Dame
Anthony Orum, UIC Department of Sociology
Alice Palmer, UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
David Perry, UIC Great Cities Institute
Moderator:Jack Knott, University of Illinois Institute for Government and Public Affairs

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Session 6. Changing Racial Boundaries

 

Plenary Speakers:
We Are All Americans: The Latinoamericanization of Race Relations
in the USA
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Texas A&M University Department of Sociology

 

The End of the Traditional Racial Paradigm?: Multiple Race Reporting in the Census of 2000
Reynolds Farley, University of Michigan Department of Sociology

 

Discussants:
Richard Barrett, UIC Department of Sociology
Suzanne Oboler, UIC Department of Latino and Latin American Studies
Moderator: Amanda Lewis, UIC Departments of  Sociology and African-American Studies

11:15

Session 7. Wrap-Up

 

Plenary Speakers:
Joe Feagin, University of Florida Department of Sociology

 

Manning Marable, Columbia University Departments of History and Political Science, and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies

 

Moderator: To be announced

1:00 p.m.       

Adjourn