URBAN POVERTY, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND THE CITY
Yale University · Becton Center · Davies Auditorium
April 26, 2008
As part of the 2008 Yale Urban Ethnography Conference, the Saturday afternoon sessions will focus on the cultural manifestations of urban inequality—and the challenge to clarify, understand, and represent these pressing issues ethnographically. Please join us for these open discussions and be a part of the ideas that can shape the future. Organized by Elijah Anderson, Paige Black, Waverly Duck, Esther Kim, and Taly Noam.
Event Location: Davies Auditorium, Becton Center, 15 Prospect Street.
Registration and Attendance: Saturday afternoon panels and Closing Reception at Davies Auditorium are open to the public. No advance registration is required to attend.
For more information on this event, please email Paige Black or Taly Noam.
Updated Friday, April 18, 2008 at 11:38 PM EDT
Participants · Abstracts · Directions
Saturday, April 26
1:30 pm–3:30 pm Urban Poor Young Black Men
Elijah Anderson, Moderator, Yale University
Beef: Explaining the Micro-Dynamics of Gun Violence in Philadelphia
Alice Goffman, Princeton University
The Making of a Drug Gang
Waverly Duck, Yale University
Playpen, StatePen, UPenn: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Survival!
Robert Alsbrooks, Miracle Corners of the World
Ethnography and Time
Sudhir A. Venkatesh, Columbia University
3:30 pm–3:45 pm Break
3:45 pm–4:45 pm Poverty and the Unhoused
Philippe Bourgois, Moderator, University of Pennsylvania
Eviction and the Reproduction of Inner-City Poverty
Matthew Desmond, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Crackhouse, the Visual Page and Other Urban Ethnographic Research Strategies
Terry Williams, The New School
4:45 pm–5:00 pm Break
5:00 pm–7:00 pm The Future of Urban Ethnography: A Conversation
Elijah Anderson, Moderator, Yale University
Scott N. Brooks, University of California, Riverside
Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University
Nikki Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara
Katherine Newman, Princeton University
Carol B. Stack, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Willis, Keele University, United Kingdom
William Julius Wilson, Harvard University
7:00 pm–8:30 pm Closing Reception
Davies Auditorium, Becton Center, 15 Prospect Street
