Inequality: Conditions, Consequences, Solutions
The 2015 UChicago Summer Teacher Institute
June 29 - July 1, 2015
This three day professional development workshop incorporates interdisciplinary perspectives on one of the world’s greatest problems: inequality. With an eye toward curriculum development, presentations and discussions will draw on comparative and international examples to explore causes and possible remedies to social and natural disparity.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. An acclaimed public intellectual, Prof. Sassen's latest book, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy, analyzes the motor forces of inquality in the new economy.