THURSDAY, APRIL 20

Morning Session
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street
G-06 Auditorium

8:30 - 9:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
Paul Allison, Chairman, Sociology Department, University of Penn
Ronald Daniels, Provost, University of Pennsylvania

9:15 - 10:00 Introduction and Overview
“Poor, Young, Black, and Male: The Case for National Action”
Elijah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania

10:00 - 11:00
“The Shape of Identity: Pre- and Post-Civil Rights”
Aldon Morris, Northwestern University
Imani Perry, Rutgers Law School
Scott Brooks, University of California, Riverside

11:00 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:30
“Inequality, Discrimination, and Job Opportunity”
William Julius Wilson, Harvard University
Devah Pager, Princeton University

Lunch Session
Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street
Class of '49 Auditorium, 2nd Floor

12:45 - 1:45 Luncheon: “Strong Men Keep Coming”
Cornel West, Princeton University

Afternoon Session
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street
G-06 Auditorium

2:00 - 3:00 “Urban School Life: Ethnographic Accounts”
Raymond Gunn, University of Pennsylvania
L. Janelle “Tomni” Dance, University of Maryland
Luke Anderson, Northwestern University, NFTE

3:00 - 4:00 “Community and Family Life”
Lawrence Katz, Harvard University
Vivian Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Alsbrook, MCW (Miracle Corners of the World)

4:00 - 4:15 Break

4:15 - 5:30 "Young Black Men and the News"
Acel Moore, Philadelphia Inquirer
William Raspberry, Washington Post
Bob Herbert, New York Times

5:30 - 6:30 Reception (8th Floor)

Evening Session
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street
G-06 Auditorium

6:30 - 7:30 Race, Sports, and the Media: A Conversation with...
Stephen A. Smith, Philadelphia Inquirer, ESPN
Kenneth Shropshire, University of Pennsylvania
Camille Z. Charles (moderator)

7:30 Reception (8th Floor)

FRIDAY, APRIL 21

Morning Session
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street
G-06 Auditorium

8:30 - 9:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
Rebecca Bushnell, Dean, SAS, University of Pennsylvania
Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania

9:15 - 10:15 “Immigration, Race, and Joblessness”
Douglas Massey, Princeton University
Gerald Jaynes, Yale University
Harry Holzer, Georgetown University

10:15 - 11:15 “Random Violence and Available Guns”
Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania
David Kairys, Temple University
Douglas Wiebe, University of Pennsylvania

11:15 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:45 “The Long Arm of the Law”
Waverly Duck, Community College of Philadelphia
Robert Hill, Death Penalty Expert
Jamie Fader, University of Pennsylvania

12:45 - 1:00 Break

Lunch Session
Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street
Class of '49 Auditorium

1:00 - 2:00 Luncheon: “Brothers Gonna Work It Out?”
Michael Eric Dyson, University of Pennsylvania

Afternoon Session
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street
G-06 Auditorium

2:15 - 3:15 “Black Male Suicide and Resilience”
Sean Joe, University of Michigan
Margaret Spencer, University of Pennsylvania
Ellis Cose, Newsweek

3:15 - 4:15 "Race, Poverty, DNA and Crime”
Troy Duster, New York University
Bernard Anderson, University of Pennsylvania
Lawrence Sherman, University of Pennsylvania

4:15 - 4:30 Break

4:30 - 6:30 “What Should and Can Be Done?”
John Dilulio, University of Pennsylvania
Ronald Mincy, Columbia University
Walter Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
Sylvester Johnson, Police Commissioner, Philadelphia
Peter Edelman, Georgetown University
Susan Wachter, Penn Institute for Urban Research

6:30 - 7:30 Reception (8th Floor)

Evening Session
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street
G-06 Auditorium

7:30 Sidewalk: The Film And A Panel Discussion
Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University
Hakim Hasan, Metropolitan College
Vaughn Taylor, Eastern University
Keith Brown, University of Pennsylvania
Joan Maya Mazelis, University of Pennsylvania
Alice Goffman, Princeton University