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A Conversation on Urban Poverty in Philadelphia and the United States
Round table discussion with audience participation
Wednesday, March 17, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

This lecture is part of a public programming series centered around the new photography exhibition Righteous Dopefiend: Homelessness, Addiction and Poverty in Urban America. In Righteous Dopefiend, anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and photographer-ethnographer Jeff Schonberg document the daily lives of homeless drug users. On view in the Merle-Smith Gallery on the first floor, the exhibition will remain open after hours, 4:30 to 9:00 pm, prior to and after each program.

Participants include scholars of urban America whose life work has been dedicated to a theoretical and practical understanding of intercity poverty, ethnic segregation, and the history of drug use and violence in the United States.

Participants
• Philippe Bourgois - Richard Perry, University Professor of Anthropology & Family and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
• Elijah Anderson - William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University
• Eric Schneider - Assistant Dean and Associate Director for Academic Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
• Michael Katz - Water H. Annenberg Professor of History, Research Associate in the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania