Tuesday, February 27, 2024 From 6:00 PM To 8:00 PM Add to Calendar 2024-02-27 18:00:00 2024-02-27 20:00:00 Explore the systemic gender inequality in capitalism with sociologists Céline Bessière, Sibylle Gollac and Michèle Lamont The French Library is pleased to welcome Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac, on tour in the United States with Villa Albertine, to promote the US release of their book The Gender of Capital - How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality. They will be in discussion with Michèle Lamont, professor at Harvard University. The French Library, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, Massachusetts, United States America/New_York
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About the authors
Céline Bessière is a professor of sociology at Paris Dauphine University (PSL University) and a senior member at the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focuses on the material, economic and legal dimensions of family, especially through the analysis of inheritance and marital breakdown. Her work is at the crossroads of several fields: economics, sociology, sociology of law and justice, sociology of gender, class and family. Céline Bessière is also the co-author of Au tribunal des couples, published in 2013 by Odile Jacob, and the author of De génération en génération, published by Raison d’Agir in 2010.
Sibylle Gollac is a research fellow in sociology at Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). After completing her dissertation on the family dynamics of housing and real estate, she studied inheritance and marital separations to analyze the construction of economic inequalities in the family. A member of the JustineS team (Justice and inequalities through the prism of social sciences), she studies the role of justice and the law in the perpetuation of inequalities.
About Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. A cultural sociologist who studies boundaries and inequality, she has tackled topics such as dignity, respect, stigma, racism, class and racial boundaries, and how we evaluate social worth across societies. Her most recent book is Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World (Simon and Schuster, 2023). Her other books include: Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class (1992), The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (2000), How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (2009), as well as the coauthored Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel (2016).Lamont is a leader in the study of culture and inequality in the United States and beyond, helping to redefine the field of sociology as we know it today. Her many awards include the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems for The Dignity of Working Men, the 2014 Guttenberg Award, the 2017 Erasmus Prize, and honorary doctorates from six countries. She served as President of the American Sociological Association in 2016, was a Carnegie Fellow in 2021-2022, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and the British Academy. She co-chaired the advisory board to the 2022 United Nations Human Development Report, “Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a World in Transformation.”
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