Moving Forward with Radical Hope
Moving Forward with Radical Hope
8-9 May 2025
Thursday, May 08, 2025
All sessions will take place in the Williams Room, Spangler Center.
8:10 AM
Shuttle Buses
Shuttle Pick Up, Hyatt Regency entrance (Drop off at HBS)
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration and Breakfast
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Welcome and Introductions
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Keynote
- Joel Westheimer, University of Ottawa
Democracy, Disillusionment, and the Practice of Hope
10:00 - 10:15 AM
Break
10:15 - 11:45 AM
Panel: Scholars Studying Hope
- Judith Clair, Boston College, Carroll School of Management
Hope in Desperate Times - Farnaz Ghaedipour, York University
Metrics as Identity Baits: Perpetuating Hope Labor Through Quantified Evaluation - Carol Graham, The Brookings Institution
Hope, Despair, and Other Emotions in Economics
11:45 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 - 1:10 PM
Afternoon Remarks
- Laura Morgan Roberts, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
1:10 - 2:50 PM
Flash Talks
- Kira Banks, Saint Louis University
- Siri Chilazi, Harvard Kennedy School
- Vanessa Conzon, Boston College
- Robin Dembroff, Yale University
- Sanaz Mobasseri, Boston University
- Ivuoma Onyeador, Northwestern University Kellogg
- Banu Özkazanç-Pan, Brown University
- Ting Zhang, Harvard Business School
2:50 - 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Panel: Personal Reflections on Hope
- Reshmaan (Reshma) Hussam, Harvard Business School
Hope as Resistance - kihana miraya ross, Northwestern University
Beyond Hope: Antiblackness on the Joy/Pain Line - Susan Sturm, Columbia Law School
Building the Architecture of Paradoxical Possibility
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Keynote
- Yarran Homminh, Bard University
We Are the Only Hope We Have: Interpersonal Hope in Hopeless Times
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Dinner, Yi Ren Room, Chao Hall
*Cocktail reception between 6:00-7:00
9:00 PM
Shuttle Buses
Shuttle pick up at HBS, drop off at Hyatt Regency
Friday, May 09, 2025
All sessions will take place in the Williams Room, Spangler Center.
7:40 AM
Shuttle Buses
Shuttle Pick Up, Hyatt Regency entrance (Drop off at HBS)
8:00 - 8:30 AM
Arrival & Breakfast
8:30 - 8:35 AM
Welcome
8:35 - 9:15 AM
Keynote
- John Holloway, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
The Center Cannot Hold. So Where Do We Take Our Hope, Our Desperation?
9:15 - 9:30 AM
Break
9:30 - 11:00 AM
Panel: Hope for the Future
- Katina Sawyer, University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
Hope for Social Justice: Where Do We Go from Here? - Gulika Reddy, Stanford Law School
Hope as a Human Rights Practice: Cultivating and Sustaining Transformative Hope to Advance Social Change - Caroline Elkins, Harvard Business School
Empire on Trial: Historic Injustice and the Complexities of Hope
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Roundtable Discussions: How are you navigating through these uncertain times?
12:15 - 12:30 PM
Break
12:30 - 1:15 PM
Keynote (Virtual)
- Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD
Hoping in Despair: Musings on Hope and The Work of Humanizing Leadership and Institutions
1:15 - 1:30 PM