The Penn-Wharton Conference on Race and Economics

10:30 AM

Welcome

• Erika James: introductory remarks
• Nina Banks: opening remarks on Sadie T.M. Alexander

11:00 AM

Paper Session 1: title TK

• Chair:
• Paper 1:
• Paper 2:

Noon

Panel discussion on racial inclusion in economics

• Chair: Lisa Cook
• Panelists:
  • Modibo Sidibe
  • Kory Kantenga

1:00 PM

Break

1:15 PM

Paper Session 2: title TK

• Chair:
• Paper 1:
• Paper 2:

2:15 PM

Lecture on the history of the black-white wealth gap and reparations

• Dr. William Darity, Jr.
• Moderator: Bernard Anderson
  Followed by Q&A

3:15 PM

Break

3:30 PM

Paper Session 3: title TK

• Chair:
• Paper 1:
• Paper 2:

4:30 PM

Lecture and panel discussion on how economics studies race

• Dr. William Spriggs
• Panelists:
  • Dania Francis
  • Omari Swinton

5:30 PM

Networking happy hour

• Co-hosted with the Sadie Collective
• Breakout rooms assigned to scholars