CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (Printable schedule in PDF)

8:30-9:15 Continental Breakfast: Room 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 61 High Street

9:15-9:30 Welcome
Steven Teles, Project Co-Director, Visiting Fellow, Yale University

9:30-10:00 Conservatives and APD: The Nature of the Problem
Brian J. Glenn, Project Co-Director, Government, Hamilton College

10:00-11:30 Period One: The New Deal to the Great Society

Environment: Mark Eisner, Political Science, Wesleyan University

Education: Kevin Kosar, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Social Security: Edward Berkowitz, History, George Washington University, and
Larry DeWitt, Historian, U.S. Social Security Administration

Discussant: Beverly Gage, History, Yale University

11:30-1:15 Lunch

1:15-2:45 Period Two: The Great Society to the 1980s

Environment: Richard Harris, Political Science, Rutgers University-Camden

Education: Patrick McGuinn, Political Science, Drew University

Social Security: Nancy Altman, Director of the Board, Pension Rights Center, and
Ted Marmor, Yale School of Management

Discussant: Peter Schuck, Yale Law School

2:45-3:15 Break

3:15-4:45 Period Three: The 1980s to Present

Environment: Judith Layzer, Urban Studies, MIT

Education: Jeff Henig, Teachers College & Political Science, Columbia University

Social Security: Martha Derthick, Politics, University of Virginia, Emeritus , and
Steven Teles, Visiting Fellow, Yale University

Discussant: David Mayhew, Political Science, Yale University

4:45-5:00 Break

5:00-6:00 Concluding Comments and Discussion
Moderator: Stephen Skowronek, Political Science, Yale University

6:00 Adjournment