Schedule

Thursday, October 11

9:00am - 5:00pm Location: HHH Atrium Jointly with the Oslo Center	Registration/ Poster Check-in
9:30am - 10:00am Location: Cowles Auditorium Jointly with the Oslo Center	Welcome Senator Patricia Torres Ray, Humphrey School of Public Affairs Kevin Lindsey, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights Paul Pribbenow, President of Augsburg College
10:00am - 10:30am Location: Cowles Auditorium Jointly with the Oslo Center	Keynote Address "The Oslo Center: Building Social and Political Stability Through Collaborative Partnerships and Gender Engagement" Introduction: Orlyn Kringstad, Executive Director, Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights – US Foundation Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister of Norway and President of the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights
10:30am - 12:00pm Location: Cowles Auditorium Jointly with the Oslo Center	Panel Session "Setting the Stage for Dignity and Empowerment" Moderator: Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister of Norway and President of the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights Panel: Ingrid Stange, Founder, Partnership for Change; Co-Founder and Philanthropy advisor, Wealth Management, Inc., Oslo Norway Vigdis Vevstad, Independent consultant on international refugee- and asylum law, human rights law and EU developments Denise O'Brien, Founder of Women, Food, and Agriculture Network
12:10pm - 1:45pm Location: HHH Atrium Jointly with the Oslo Center	Lunch address "A Year After the Terror in Norway: Has Norway Changed?" Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister of Norway and President of the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights Q&A answered by: Ingrid Stange, Founder, Partnership for Change; Co-Founder and Philanthropy advisor, Wealth Management, Inc., Oslo Norway Vigdis Vevstad, Independent consultant on international refugee and asylum law, human rights law and EU developments Hanne Aaberg, Secretary General of Norwegians Worldwide
2:00pm - 3:30pm Location: Cowles Auditorium	Plenary Session "Intersections of Oppression" Panel Chair: Debra Fitzpatrick, Program Director, Center on Women and Public Policy, University of Minnesota Panel: Rose M. Brewer, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota Dara Z. Strolovitch, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota Sanford (Sandy) Schram, Visiting Professor, Bryn Mawr College
3:30pm - 3:45pm Location: HHH Atrium	Break
3:45pm - 5:00pm Location: Cowles Auditorium Jointly with the Oslo Center	Plenary Session "Business Models of Empowerment" Introduced by Ingrid Stange, Founder, Partnership for Change; Co-Founder and Philanthropy advisor, Wealth Management, Inc., Oslo Norway Panel: Edna Ogwangi, Manager, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, Land O’Lakes International Development Susan Sorensen Langer, Founder & Principal, Mosaic Mindshare, Inc.
3:45pm - 5:00pm Location: HHH180	Concurrent Session A "Ethnicity and China" Moderator: Joan Brzezinski, University of Minnesota Papers: "Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market" - Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Bates College "The Industrial Upgrading in Resource Depletion Regions for Minority Areas" - Xiuping Zhang, Minzu University of China "Assessing Ethnic Disparities in Income and Poverty in China – The Case of Han and Hui in Ningxia" - Ding Sai, Chinese Academy of Social Science; Bjorn Gustafsson, Göteborg University
3:45pm - 5:00pm Location: HHH 215	Concurrent Session B "Family Structure" Moderator: Kathy Quick, University of Minnesota Papers: "The Effects of the Supply of Marriageable Males on Black Family Structure Revisited" - Terry-Ann Craige, Connecticut College; William Darity, Duke University; Samuel Myers, University of Minnesota "The Impact of Federal Tax Policy on Family Formation in the United States" - Robert Cherry, Brooklyn College, CUNY "Does it Matter Who I Work For and Who I Work With? The Impact of Owners and Coworkers Birthplace and Race on Hiring and Wages" - Monica Garcia-Perez, St. Cloud State University
5:00pm - 5:15pm Location: HHH Atrium	Break
5:15pm - 6:30pm Location: HHH 215	Concurrent Session C "Criminal Justice" Moderator: Charles L. Betsey, Howard University Papers: "Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Concentration, Social Disadvantage, and Homicide Risk: An Ecological Analysis of 10 U.S. Cities" - Rhonda Jones-Webb, University of Minnesota, Melanie Wall, University of Minnesota "The Glass Ceiling and Relative Arrest Rates of Blacks Compared to Whites" - Linda A. Bailey, College of Staten Island, CUNY "Race, Control, and Resistance: Community Empowerment and the Struggle Against Police Repression in Late-Twentieth Century Los Angeles" - Max Felker-Kantor, University of Southern California
5:15pm - 6:30pm Location: Cowles Auditorium	Concurrent Session D "Minority Economic Development" Moderator: D. Craig Taylor, University of Minnesota Papers: "Examination of Threshold Effects in Race-Neutral Goal-Setting Process" - Inhyuck "Steve" Ha, Western Carolina University
6:30pm - 7:30pm Location: Humphrey Forum	Poster Session, Book Signing & Reception Cash bar and light refreshments "The Effect of Income Inequality on Price Dispersion" -Babak Somekh, University of Haifa "From Moral Suasion to Reciprocity: The Case of Operation Breadbasket" - Enrico Beltramini, Notre Dame de Namur University "Racial and Economic Inequality in the Academe: Faculty of Color in Predominantly White Universities and Colleges" - Alankaar Sharma, University of Minnesota; Valandra, University of St. Thomas "The Maturation of a Democratic South Africa: Institutionalizing Gender Equality" - Jessica Nicole Casimir, Florida A&M University "Evaluating Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: The Revolution will Not be Culturally Competent" - Vidhya Shanker, University of Minnesota "On Familiar Society beyond Ethnic Relationship between Hui and Han through a Funeral of Han Family in Zhangjiachuan County" - Gao Xiaoyan, Peking University; Quan Meiying, Tsinghua University "The Deterrent Effect of Reverse Discrimination Litigation on Public Procurement and Contracting " Merone Meleken, University of Minnesota, Yuan Gao, University of Missouri, Patrick Walker, University of Minnesota “Caste Opposition and Sanskritization: A Shift from Ritual to Politico-economic Power” — Indra Karki, Administrative assistance at the Nepal Rural Development Forum "Determinants of Spatial Inequality in Costa Rica" — Rafael Arias, Institute of Research in Economic Sciences, Costa Rica
Thursday, October 11 6:30pm - 7:30pm Location: Humphrey Forum The 4th World Conference will hold a booksigning event at the Humphrey Forum. Included among authors are Joe Soss and Sandford (Sandy) Schram, Ashwini Deshpande, john powell, and Trista Harris. BATO BATO!, Breck School’s acclaimed marimba ensemble will perform. The band plays music that comes from Africa and Latin America, as well as music that comes from the streets they walk. They groove and interpret. They create. They grow. They inspire. Bato Bato has performed at such venues as: Minnesota’s Orchestra Hall, The Walker, The 2012 MN State Fair, the prestigious International Marimba Festival, and innumerable fundraisers for great social causes. Special appearance: Breck a’ pella, the exciting new a capella performing group from the Breck School, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Friday, October 12

7:00am - 8:00am Location: HHH Atrium	Registration/ Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:30am Location: Cowles Auditorium	Welcome Remarks Senator Amy Klobuchar (invited) Congressman Keith Ellison Micah Hines, General Counsel, Office of Governor MarkDayton and Lieutenant Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon Eric Schwartz, Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
8:30am - 10:00am Location: Cowles Auditorium	Plenary Session "Summary and Synthesis of Remedies Around the World" Panel Chair: Samuel L. Myers, Professor, Chair of Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, University of Minnesota Panel: William A. "Sandy" Darity, Professor, Chair of Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, University of Minnesota Ashwini Deshpande,Professor, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi Graham Hingangaroa Smith, Distinguished Professor of Education, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi: indigenous-university, New Zealand
10:00am - 10:15am Location: HHH Atrium	Break
10:15am - 11:45pm Location: Cowles Auditorium	Plenary Session "Human Rights as Civil Rights" Panel Chair: Eric Schwartz, Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Panel: Barbara Frey, Director of Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota Judge LaJune Lange(retired), International Leadership Institute, Senior Fellow, Roy Wilkins Center Juan Mendez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
12:00pm - 1:30pm Location: HHH Atrium	Luncheon and Keynote Address Introduction: Hyon T. Kim, Former Regent, University of Minnesota, CEO, MN Best, Inc. Bernard Anderson, Professor, Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania and Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor
1:45pm - 3:15pm Location: Cowles Auditorium	Plenary Session "Place vs. Race" Panel Chair: Myron Orfield, Director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, University of Minnesota Panel: Katherine Kersten, Senior Fellow, Center of the American Experiment john powell, Director, Haas Diversity Research Center (HDRC), University of California, Berkeley Paul Williams, Deputy Mayor, City of Saint Paul Bill Wilson, Executive Director, Higher Ground Academy
3:15pm - 3:30pm Location: HHH Atrium	Break
3:30pm - 5:00pm Location: Cowles Auditorium	Plenary Session "Human Capital and Early Childhood Education" Panel Chair: Karen Kelley- Ariwoola, Children’s Strategy Consultant/ Former VP, Minneapolis Foundation Panel: Art Rolnick, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Human Capital Research Collaborative at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Judy Temple, Associate Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs and Applied Economic Analysis, University of Minnesota Charles Nelson, Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School

 

Friday, October 12 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
6:00pm - 7:00pm - Reception
7:00pm - 0:00pm - Dinner
Location: HHH Atrium

20th Anniversary Celebration Reception/ Dinner
Keynote Speaker: Benjamin Jealous, President and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
* Tickets available at registration desk or online at http://z.umn.edu/worldconferencedinner

Saturday, October 13

7:00am - 8:00am Location: HHH Atrium	Registration/ Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 10:00am Location: Cowles Auditorium	Plenary Session "Community Transformation" Co-Panel Chair: Gary Cunningham, VP of Programs, Northwest Area Foundation Trista Harris, Executive Director, Headwaters Foundation for Justice Panel: john powell, Director, Haas Diversity Research Center (HDRC), University of California, Berkeley Victoria Woodards, President/CEO Tacoma Urban League (AALF—Tacoma, WA) Tony Hopson, President and CEO Self Enhancement, Inc. (AALF—Portland, OR) Teree Caldwell-Johnson, CEO, Oakridge Neighborhood and Oakridge Neighborhood Services (AALF—Des Moines, IA) Chris Stewart, Founder, Action For Equity (AALF—Twin Cities, MN)
10:00am - 2:00pm Location: Humphrey Forum	Book Signing The 4th World Conference will hold a book-signing event. Included among authors are Joe Soss and Sandford (Sandy) Schram, Ashwini Deshpande, john powell, and Trista Harris.
10:00am - 10:15am Location: HHH Atrium	Break
10:15am – 11:45am Location: Cowles Auditorium	Plenary Session “Local Economic Development” Moderator: Hussein Samatar, African Development Center Panel: Toni Carter, County Commissioner (District 4) Ramsey County, Minnesota Micah Hines, General Counsel, Office of Governor Mark Dayton and Lieutenant Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon Nekima Levy-Pounds, Associate Professor of Law, University of Saint Thomas; Director, Community Justice Project Angelique Kedem, Director, Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood, Wilder Foundation
10:15am - 11:45pm Location: HHH 180	Concurrent Session A "Community, Development, Youth and Entrepreneurship" Moderator: Yingling Fan, University of Minnesota Papers: " Integrating Entrepreneurship into Workforce Development: Who is doing it and How?"- Elsie Harper-Anderson, Virginia Commonwealth University; Susan T. Gooden, Virginia Commonwealth University "Cornering the Black Market: The Role of the Corner Store in Community Development" - Seneca Vaught, Kennesaw State University
10:15am - 11:45pm Location: HHH 215	Concurrent Session B "Health, Children and Inequality" Moderator: Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, University of Minnesota Papers: "Does Ethnicity Matter For Access To Childhood And Adolescent Health Capital In China? Evidence From The Wage-Height Relationship In The 2006 China Health And Nutrition Survey"- Gregory Price, Morehouse College "Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?" - Greg Duncan, University of California, Irvine; Aaron Sojourner, University of Minnesota and IZA "Inequality of Opportunity in Child Health in the Arab World and Turkey" - Ragui Assad, University of Minnesota "The Quality of Time Spent with Children among Mexican Immigrants" - Daniel Kidane, Texas Tech University; Andres Vargas, Texas Tech University
12:00pm - 1:00pm Location: HHH Atrium	Networking lunch
1:15pm - 2:45pm Location: HHH 186	Concurrent Session A "School Desegregation and Housing" Moderator: Cecilia Martinez, Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy Papers: "City Lines, County Lines, Color Lines: School and Housing Segregation in Four Southern Metro Areas, 1990-2010" - Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Virginia Commonwealth University "Is School Policy Housing Policy? Evidence from the End of Desegregation in Charlotte-Mecklenburg" - David Liebowitz, Harvard University; Lindsay Page, Harvard University "The effects of State Fair Housing Laws on Residential Segregation" - Jeffrey Zax, University of Colorado at Boulder; Veronika Furst, Fort Lewis College
1:15pm - 2:45pm Location: HHH 180	Concurrent Session B "Color and Ethnicity" Moderator: Katherine Fennelly, University of Minnesota Papers: "Bilingual and ESL Programs on Academic Achievement of English Language Learners" - Timothy Gronberg, Texas A&M University; Dennis Jansen, Texas A&M University; Noelia Paez, Hawaii Pacific University "Within Income Inequality Characteristics of Immigrants in the United States: Social Mobility and Adaptation" - Mehmet E. Yaya, Eastern Michigan University "Colorism: A Policy Analysis of Ethnic and Racial Skin Shade Stratification" - Darrick Hamilton, The New School
1:15pm - 2:45pm Location: HHH 215	Concurrent Session C "Inequality Across Diverse Groups" Moderator: Emorcia Hill, Harvard University Papers: "The Crisis of African American Unemployment Requires Federal Intervention" - Algernon Austin, Economic Policy Institute "Reducing Educational Inequity among Community College Students: Perspectives on Fostering Latino Student Success" - Susan T. Gooden, Virginia Commonwealth University; Kasey J. Martin, Virginia Commonwealth University "Community Transformation: Karen Refugees in Minnesota" - Barbara Stone, University of Minnesota; Dagim Gemeda, Lifetrack Resources; Amy Twe, Lifetrack Resource; Diane Heldt, Lifetrack Resources " Faculty Women of Color: The Critical Nexus of Race and Gender" - Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, California State University, Sacramento; Juan Carlos Gonzalez, California State University, Fresno; Kathleen Wong (Lau), Western Michigan University
2:45pm - 3:00pm Location: HHH Atrium	Break
3:00pm - 4:30pm Location: Cowles Auditorium	Summary and Synthesis: "Where Do We Go from Here?" Panel Chair: Margaret Simms, Institute fellow and director of the Institute's Low-Income Working Families project, The Urban Institute Panel: Ashwini Deshpande, Professor, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi Graham Hingangaroa Smith, Distinguished Professor of Education, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi: indigenous-university, New Zealand Joe Soss, Professor, Cowles Chair for the Study of Public Services, University of Minnesota Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Professor, Chair of Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, University of Minnesota

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* Sessions subject to change