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Conference Schedule

Thursday September 21, 2017
12:15-1:30 pm Teaching seminar with Elijah Anderson, sponsored by the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning
     - "Building an Inclusive Classroom"
     - Baker 102, First Floor of Baker Library
6:00-8:00 pm Community dinner at South House with Elijah Anderson
     - "The White Space"
     - 5 Sanborn Road, Hanover, NH
Friday September 22, 2017
12:00-1:00 pm Lunchtime conversation with Elijah Anderson, sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity
     - "Black Space / White Space"
     - Class of 1930 Room, First Floor of Rockefeller Center
4:00-5:30 pm Public keynote address by Elijah Anderson, sponsored by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy
     - "The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life"
     - Rockefeller 003, Basement Level of Rockefeller Center
5:30-6:00 pm Book signing with Elijah Anderson for The Cosmopolitan Canopy
     - Outside of Rockefeller 003, Basement Level of Rockefeller Center
6:00-8:00 pm Dinner (conference presenters only)
     - Pine Restaurant, Hanover Inn
Saturday September 23, 2017
8:30-9:00 am Breakfast, Class of 1930 Room, First Floor of Rockefeller Center
9:00-9:30 am Introductory remarks
9:30-11:00 am Panel 1: Community Diversity and Integration

Michael Bader, Assistant Professor of Sociology, American University
     - "Interpreting Inaction as a Negative Space of Social Interaction"

Michael Maly, Professor of Sociology, Roosevelt University
     - "Building Empathy, Trust, and Solidarity in Integrated Neighborhoods and Spaces"

Amanda Lewis, Professor of African American Studies and Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
     - Supporting Diversity and Racial Inequality: Opportunity Hoarding in a Desegregated School

Evelyn Perry, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rhodes College
     - "The Value of Discord"

Emily Walton, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
     - "Racial Democracy or Racial Domination? Revealing Whiteness in Multiethnic America"
11:00-11:15 am Break
11:15-12:00 pm Discussant Richard Wright, followed by conversation with panel
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-2:30 pm Panel 2: Interactional Processes

Murray Webster, Jr., Professor of Sociology, UNC Charlotte
     - "Cues and Interaction across Status Groupings"

Brent Simpson, Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina
     - "Moral Judgments, Trust, and Cooperation"

Karen Hegtvedt, Professor of Sociology, Emory University
     - "Justice Dynamics: Engendering Trust across Differences"

Kimberly Rogers, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
     - "Identity Meanings and Unequal Interaction"
2:30-2:45 pm Break
2:45-3:30 pm Discussant Kathryn Lively, followed by conversation with panel
3:30-3:45 pm Break
3:45-4:45 pm Group discussion, improving interactions across difference
4:45-5:00 pm Closing remarks
5:30-7:00 pm Reception and dinner for all conference participants, Dartmouth Outing Club House on Occom Pond
Sunday September 24, 2017
Morning Participants depart, breakfast on your own