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Symposium, Reception, and Tributes Honoring Professor Charles Hirschman LOOKING BACK TO FIND THE FUTURE: REFLECTIONS FROM SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR A CHANGING WORLD Symposium, reception, and tributes honoring Professor Charles Hirschman November 16, 2018 University of Washington Seattle, WA Compiled by the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology (CSDE) Contents Symposium and Reception Program ........................................................................................ 1 Symposium Panels ..................................................................................................................... 4 Welcome ......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Robert Stacey ............................................................................................................................................. 6 American Social Science in the Asian Century: What Role for Area Studies? ...................................... 7 Patrick Heuveline ...................................................................................................................................... 8 Maria-Giovanna Merli ............................................................................................................................ 13 Understanding and Responding to Rising Inequality ............................................................................. 17 Marta Tienda............................................................................................................................................ 18 Mark Long ............................................................................................................................................... 32 Human Science: In a Hole and How to Climb Out ............................................................................... 53 Kenneth Prewitt ...................................................................................................................................... 54 Adrian Raftery ......................................................................................................................................... 59 Prospects for Compassionate Futures: Insights from Immigration & Area Studies ............................... 65 Alejandro Portes ..................................................................................................................................... 66 Daniel Chirot ........................................................................................................................................... 84 Reception ................................................................................................................................. 87 Jerry Herting ............................................................................................................................................ 88 Stew Tolnay ............................................................................................................................................. 88 Tributes for Charlie ............................................................................................................... 100 Steve Harrell .............................................................................................................................................. 101 Amy Kate Bailey ....................................................................................................................................... 102 Morrison Wong ......................................................................................................................................... 103 Peter J Donaldson .................................................................................................................................... 104 David L Brown ......................................................................................................................................... 105 David Featherman .................................................................................................................................... 106 Jennie Romich ........................................................................................................................................... 106 Erin McAuliffe .......................................................................................................................................... 107 Richard Campbell ..................................................................................................................................... 107 Fran Goldscheider .................................................................................................................................... 107 Calvin Goldscheider ................................................................................................................................. 108 Jennifer Edwards ...................................................................................................................................... 108 Adaurennaya C. Onyewuenyi .................................................................................................................. 108 Michael L. Spittel ...................................................................................................................................... 109 Gunnar Almgren ....................................................................................................................................... 110 Doug Massey ............................................................................................................................................. 110 Llilda Barata ............................................................................................................................................... 111 Blair Daly ................................................................................................................................................... 111 Maya Magarati ........................................................................................................................................... 111 Allison Dunne ........................................................................................................................................... 111 Mark VanLandingham ............................................................................................................................. 111 Puk Teerawichitchainan ........................................................................................................................... 112 Jacqueline E Darroch ............................................................................................................................... 112 Thomas K Burch ...................................................................................................................................... 112 Judah Matras .............................................................................................................................................. 112 Mary M Kritz ............................................................................................................................................. 113 Michael White............................................................................................................................................ 113 Marta Tienda ............................................................................................................................................. 113 April Greek ................................................................................................................................................ 114 Chua Yan Piaw .......................................................................................................................................... 114 Sara Curran ................................................................................................................................................ 115 Symposium and Reception Program 1 2 3 Symposium Panels 4 Welcome Robert Stacey, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences Sandra Archibald, Dean of the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance Katherine Stovel, Chair of the Department of Sociology 5 It is a pleasure to be invited to say a few works about our friend and colleague Charlie Hirschman, to kick off this Symposium and celebration in his honor. Charlie and I have been colleagues at UW for 30 years; he arrived here in 1987 as a full professor, just a year before I came as an assistant professor. I cannot remember when we first met; it may have been in the late 1990s, when Charlie was chairing the Sociology Department and I was Chair of History – but we have known each other for a long time. And like all of you, I’ve admired him for as long as I’ve known him. Charlie is a Midwesterner. He was raised in Lisbon, Ohio, a small town of fewer than 3000 people in eastern Ohio, about midway between Akron and Pittsburgh. Lisbon, for those who do not know it, is the county seat of Columbiana County, Ohio; and among its other claims to fame, Lisbon is where the modern drinking straw was invented and patented. When Charlie graduated from high school, he stayed in Ohio to attend Miami University of Ohio, from which he graduated in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He then spent a couple of years in Malaysia, working with the Peace Corps, thus beginning a lifelong connection to Southeast Asia. When he returned to the US, he returned to the Midwest, enrolling in the Sociology PhD
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