“Rising Inequality at the Dawn of the New Millennium”
Monday, April 21, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center
This event is free and open to the public.
WHAT:
A lecture entitled “Rising Inequality at the Dawn of the New Millennium.”
This event is sponsored by the Poverty and Solidarity Program and Program in Applied Ethics at John Carroll University.
WHO:
William Julius Wilson, Ph.D., Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University.
Wilson is a university professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Sociological Association and, recipient of the National Medal of Science.
He is the author of Power, Racism, and Privilege; The Declining Significance of Race; The Truly Disadvantaged; and When Work Disappears. His most recent book, The Bridge over the Racial Divide, is a call for inter-racial coalition-building to effect social change.
Wilson received his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1966. He has earned honorary doctorates from Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. In June 1996 he was selected by Time magazine as one of America's 25 Most Influential People.
WHEN:
Monday, April 21, 2008
7:30 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public.
WHERE:
Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center
John Carroll University
20700 N. Park Blvd
University Heights, OH 44118
CONTACT:
The Poverty and Solidarity Program
John Carroll University
www.jcu.edu/poverty
Or 216.397.4980
