14.30: Opening

Marie Duru-Bellat (Sciences Po/ OSC), Nonna Mayer (Sciences Po/CEE, CNRS), Laurence Tubiana (Sciences Po, IDDRI), “Inequalities in a context of global recession”

15.00-17.30:   Session 1. Political economy of inequalities

- Alice J. Wuermli (Children and Youth Unit, Human Development Network, World Bank), “The (Re)production of (In)equality: Poverty, Social Policy, and Human Development from Conception to Adulthood”

- Bruno Palier (Sciences Po/CEE, CNRS), “The age of dualization: how labour market and social policies create inequalities in European Societies”

- Joshua Guetzkow (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Poverty and crime in the American congressional discourse: how welfare and criminal justice policies can feed inequalities”

Discussant: Nicolas Sauger (Sciences Po/CEE)

9.30-12.30:     Session 2. Compared perceptions of inequalities and justice

- Camille Bedock (IUE, Sciences Po,/CEE), Marie Duru-Bellat (Sciences Po/ OSC), Elise Tenret (Sciences Po/ OSC), “Compared perceptions of justice in a globalized world”

- Frédéric Gonthier (IEP Grenoble), “Explaining the changing attitudes of Europeans towards economic liberalism and inequalities”

- Leslie McCall (Northwestern University), “Americans’ beliefs about income inequality, economic opportunity and redistribution, in a context of rising inequality”

Discussant:  tbc

12.30-14.30:   Lunch break

14.30-17.30:   Session 3. Reactions to inequalities in the South: case studies

- Laurence Louër (Sciences Po/ CERI), “The reciprocal politicization of socioeconomic and religious inequalities in Bahrein”

- Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros (Federal University Pernambuco), “Why are strong inequalities accepted in Brazil?”

- Moustapha Sene (University Rennes 1), “Hunger riots and social anger in Senegal”

Discussant: Elise Huillery (Sciences Po / Department of Economics)

9.30-12.30:  Session 4. The subjective experience and reactions to poverty and inequality

- Nissim Mizrachi (Tel Aviv University), Hanna Herzog (Tel Aviv University), Joshua Guetzkow (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Participatory destigmatisation strategies among Palestinian citizens of Israël, Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi Jews”

- Michèle Lamont (Harvard University), Crystal Fleming (Harvard University), Jessica Welburn (Harvard University), “Responses to discrimination and social resiliences under neoliberalism (Brazil, Israël, US)”

- Jennifer M. Silva (Harvard University), “American working class selfhood in an age of economic uncertainty: and neoliberal ideology  (the contrasted effects of race, class and gender)”

- Graziella Moraes da Silva (Federal University Rio de Janeiro), Elisa Reis (Federal University Rio de Janeiro), “Perceptions of racial and class inequalities among Brazilian Blacks”

Discussant: Daniel Sabbagh (Sciences Po/CERI)

12.30-13.00: Wrapping up intervention

Marie Duru-Bellat (Sciences Po/OSC), Nonna Mayer (Sciences Po/ CEE, CNRS), Laurence Tubiana (Sciences Po/IDDRI)