Conference Presented with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford to Commemorate 40 Years since the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968), the Aurora Forum joins with Stanford’s King Institute to host a day-long conference on the struggle for economic justice, arguably Dr. King’s primary concern throughout the whole of his life.
AMARTYA SEN (KEYNOTE), Lamont University Professor at Harvard
Amartya Sen, a citizen of India, studied in Calcutta and at Trinity
College at Cambridge University where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D
degrees. Before assuming his present position as Lamont University
Professor at Harvard, he was a professor at Delhi University, the
London School of Economics, Oxford, and Cambridge, where he was Master
of Trinity College from 1998-2004, the first Asian academic head of an
Oxbridge College. His books, which have been translated into more than
thirty languages, include Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), On Economic Inequality (1973, 1997), Poverty and Famines (1981), Choice, Welfare and Measurement (1982), On Ethics and Economics (1987), The Standard of Living (1987), Inequality Reexamined (1992), Development as Freedom (1999), Rationality and Freedom (2002), The Argumentative Indian (2005), and Identity and Violence (2006).
His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics,
philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory,
welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, public
health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the
economics of peace and war. He has received honorary doctorates from
major universities in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1998
CLAYBORNE CARSON, Founding Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Research and Education Institute and Professor of History at Stanford
Clayborne Carson, Founding Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Research and Education Institute and Professor of History at Stanford,
has devoted his professional life to the study of Martin Luther King,
Jr. and the movements King inspired. Since 1975, he has taught at
Stanford University, where he is now professor of history and founding
director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education
Institute. Under his direction, the King Papers Project, a component
of the Institute, has produced six volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.—a
projected fourteen-volume comprehensive edition of King’s speeches,
sermons, correspondence, publications, and unpublished writings. An
honorary degree from Morehouse College granted in 2007 is among his
many academic honors and awards.
http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson
DAVID GRUSKY, Director of the Center
for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and Professor of Sociology at Stanford
David Grusky is engaged in
research that addresses issues of inequality and takes on such
questions as whether and why gender, racial, and class-based
inequalities are growing stronger, why they differ in strength across
countries, and how such changes and differences are best measured. He
is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
recipient of the 2004 Max Weber Award, founder of the Cornell
University Center for the Study of Inequality, and a former
Presidential Young Investigator. His recent books include Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men and Mobility and Inequality. He is coeditor of the Stanford University Press Social Inequality Series.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/soc/people
DEBORAH L. JOHNSON, Founding Minister and President of Inner Light Ministries in Soquel California
Deborah L. Johnson, Founding Minister and President of Inner Light
Ministries in Soquel, California feels particularly called to heal the
sense of separation between those adhering to conservative and
progressive ideologies. She is the successful co-litigant in two
landmark cases in California: one set precedent for the inclusion of
sexual orientation in the state's Civil Rights Bill, the other defeated
the challenge to legalizing domestic partnerships. She is an inductee
into the Board of Preachers of the Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel at
Morehouse College, which honors clergy for their lifetime work in
social justice. Her most recent book, Your Deepest Intent, was published last year.
http://www.innerlightministries.com
THOMAS NAZARIO, Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law
Thomas Nazario, an attorney and assistant professor at the
University of San Francisco School of Law, is creating The Forgotten
International, a new non-profit organization, which works to introduce
or bring together large donor groups with projects serving impoverished
women and children around the world in an effort to help ameliorate the
great disparities that exist between the world’s rich and the world’s
poor.
ANANYA ROY, Associate Professor of City and Reigional Planning and Associate Dean of Academic
Affairs in the Division of International and Area Studies at the University of California at Berkeley
Ananya Roy serves as Curriculum Director of the Blum Center for Developing
Economies. She is the author of City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty and co-editor of Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America. Her forthcoming book is entitled Poverty Experts: Truth and Capital in the New Global Order of Development. She was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest teaching honor UC Berkeley bestows on its faculty, in 2006.