Symposium: "Coping with Poverty: Theory and Practice"
The symposium will take place on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 09:30 a.m.
10 May 2016
The symposium will be open to the public, and take place at the Bar Shira Auditorium.
The chairperson will be Prof. Tammie Ronen Rosenbaum, dean of the Gershon Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences.
The planned scheduled is as follows:
09:30 Greetings:
Prof. Joseph Klafter
President, Tel Aviv University
09:40 Prof. François Bourguignon
Paris School of Economics, France
10:20 Prof. Zvi Eckstein
Professor Emeritus, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University
The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya – IDC
10:40 Dr. Ram Fishman
The Department of Public Policy, Tel Aviv University
11:00 Prof. Dan Ben David
The Department of Public Policy, Tel Aviv University
11:20 Discussion
11:45 Lunch Break
12:20 Prof. James J. Heckman
University of Chicago, USA
13:00 Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg
The Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University
Knesset Member
13:20 Prof. Idit Weiss-Gal
The Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University
13:40 Prof. Gideon Kunda
The Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University
14:00 Prof. Tammie Ronen Rosenbaum
Dean, The Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University
14:20 Discussion
14:40 "Sulamot" – Music for Social Change