Events

Job Insecurity, Savings and Consumption: an Italian experiment

Part of the Inequalities Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 May 12.30pm to 1.30pm. Online and in-person public event. The Marshall Building - MAR 1.09.

Speaker:
Professor Conchita D’Ambrosio, Professor of Economics, Université du Luxembourg 

Chair:
Professor Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director, LSE III

Job insecurity has consequences outside of the labour market. Using the 2012 Fornero reform as a natural experiment, a difference-in-differences framework based on a firm-size discontinuity and individual data coming from the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth, our results suggest that greater job insecurity reduces consumption and increases savings. We also show that the changes in consumption and savings are a function of the family structure and of the rank in the household income distribution. Last, greater job insecurity reduces all types of consumption except food expenditures and the extra-savings are either invested in safe assets or kept on savings account.

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Patriarchy: where did it all begin?

Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute and the Wollstonecraft Society

Wednesday 24 May 6.30pm to 8.00pm. Online and in-person public event. Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.

Speakers:
Angela Saini, Journalist and Author
Bee Rowlatt, Author and Programmer of Events, Wollstonecraft Society

Chair:
Professor Alpa Shah, Professor of Anthropology, LSE Department of Anthropology and Research Programme Leader, LSE III

Award-winning writer Angela Saini gives this year’s Wollstonecraft Society Lecture, sharing from her hotly-anticipated book The Patriarchs. Join us as Angela reveals the true roots of gendered oppression, and the complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies across the globe. Travelling to the world’s earliest known human settlements, and tracing cultural and political histories from the Americas to Asia, she overturns simplistic universal theories to show that what patriarchy is and how far it goes back really depends on where you are. Despite the push back against sexism and exploitation in our own time, even revolutionary efforts to bring about equality have often ended in failure and backlash.

To attend in-person: No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

To attend online: Register for this event via LSE Live at Patriarchy: where did it all begin?

Aid and the Transnational Extraction of Care

Part of the Inequalities Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 May 12.30pm to 1.30pm. Online and in-person public event. The Marshall Building - MAR 1.09.

Speaker:
Dr Dinah Hannaford, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Houston

Chair:
Dr Shalini Grover, Research Fellow, LSE III

Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Though nearly every expat aid worker in the developing world has local people working within the intimate sphere of their homes—as maids, nannies, security guards, gardeners, and chauffeurs—these relationships are seldom, if ever, discussed in analyses of the development paradigm and its praxis. Examining aid workers as employers of domestic labor provides an opportunity to reach a deeper understanding about the function of development both as an industry and as an orienting framework in our contemporary world, as well as a means to consider the role of aid workers as post-colonial subjects in Africa.

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Uncomfortably off: Why the top 10% of earners should care about inequality

Hosted by the Department of Social Policy and the International Inequalities Institute

Wednesday 31 May 6.30pm to 8.00pm. Online and in-person public event. Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building.

Speakers:
Dr Marcos González Hernando, Honorary Research Fellow, UCL Social Research Institute
Dr Gerry Mitchell, social researcher, campaigner and community activist
Anook Chakelian, Britain Editor, the New Statesman
Dr Arun Advani, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Warwick and Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE III

Chair:
Dr Tania Burchardt, Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and Associate Professor, LSE Department of Social Policy

Media attention is often focused on the very richest, the 1%, and their capacity to influence politics and shape society. But they are not the only ones who drive politics, the public conversation and much of the private sector. The focus of this book is on the larger top 10%, the managers and professionals of our media, business, the third sector, political parties and academia and who are just as influential. Drawing attention to this powerful section of society, this book, Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality, (Policy Press) explains why, even if you are relatively near the top, it is in your interest that inequality is reduced.

To attend in-person: No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

To attend online: Register for this event via Zoom at Book Launch: Uncomfortably off: Why the top 10% of earners should care about inequality

Domestic Mobilities and Colonial Legacies: A Colloquium

Hosted by LSE International Inequalities Institute and LSE Department of International History

Thursday 1 June 2023, 12.00 to 1.30pm. In-person public event. The Marshall Building - MAR 1.10.

Speakers:
Professor Victoria Haskins, University of Newcastle, Australia
Associate Professor Claire Lowrie, University of Wollongong, Australia
Professor Swapna Banerjee, CUNY (Brooklyn College and Graduate Center), USA

Chair:
Dr Shalini Grover, Research Fellow, LSE III

In this special colloquium, three historians present highlights from their current research from the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, Ayahs and Amahs: Transcolonial Servants in Australia and Britain 1780-1945. Throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, South Asian and East Asian women travelled extensively as careworkers for elite European and Asian families around the circuits of the British empire. Indeed, so extensive was their travel that “the travelling ayahs and amahs” became a recognizable occupational category. Their transcolonial journeys both complicate and illuminate the long history of international inequalities in carework. They might even, perhaps, be regarded as a prototype for 21^st century global domestic workers. In this discussion we address the legacies – archival and cultural – of this history that continue to reverberate in our world today.

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Black Ghost of Empire: failed emancipations, reparations, and Maroon ecologies

Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute

Wednesday 7 June 6.30pm to 8.00pm. Online and in-person public event. Old Theatre, Old Building.

Speakers:
Professor Kris Manjapra, Professor, Department of History, Tufts University
Professor Hazel Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Professor Emeritus of American Studies, Yale University

Chair:
Professor Alpa Shah, Professor of Anthropology, LSE Department of Anthropology and Research Programme Leader, LSE III

To understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the way that it ended. In this public event Kris Manjapra considers the implications of his book Black Ghost of Empire for climate justice. Manjapra argues that during each of the supposed emancipations from slavery – whether Haiti after the revolution, the British Empire in 1833 or the United States during the Civil War – Black people were dispossessed by the moves meant to free them. Emancipation codified existing racial-colonial hierarchies - rather than obliterating them, with far-reaching consequences for climate colonialism and for environmental justice.

To attend in-person: No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

To attend online: Register for this event via LSE Live at Black Ghost of Empire: failed emancipations, reparations, and Maroon ecologies.

Can people change the world? Activists, social movements, and utopian futures

Hosted by LSE Festival: People and Change

Saturday 17 June 11.00am to 12.00pm. Online and in-person public event. Marshall Building.

Speakers:
Dr Armine Ishkanian, Associate Professor, LSE Department of Social Policy and Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme, LSE III
Dr Faiza Shaheen, Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE III and Program Lead on Inequality and Exclusion, NYU Center on International Cooperation
Georgia Haddad Nicolau, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and Co-founder and Director of Instituto Procomum

Chair:
Dr Maël Lavenaire, Research Fellow in Racial Inequality at the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme, LSE III

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, inequality is on the rise, but so is grassroots activism. More and more individuals and groups are taking action and using their voices to tackle the growing social and economic inequalities. Looking beyond just forms of resistance, this panel will discuss the role of activists and social movements in today’s world and examine their agency in imagining utopian futures and creating change. How are social movements providing creative spaces for not only challenging inequalities but also coming up with alternative ideas for solutions to address the problems they are fighting against? And how and to what extent are these ideas informing policy changes?

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This is Not America: why black lives in Britain matter

Hosted by LSE Festival: People and Change

Saturday 17 June 12.30pm to 1.30pm. Online and in-person public event. Marshall Building.

Speakers:
Tomiwa Owolade, Writer and Critic

Chair:
Professor Mike Savage, Martin White Professor of Sociology LSE Department of Sociology and Research Programme Leader, LSE III

In This is Not America, Tomiwa Owolade argues that too much of the conversation around race in Britain is viewed through the prism of American ideas that don't reflect the history, challenges and achievements of increasingly diverse black populations at home. If we want to build a long-lasting and more effective anti-racist agenda - one that truly values black British communities - we must acknowledge that crucial differences exist between Britain and America; that we are talking about distinct communities and cultures, distinguished by language, history, class, religion and national origin.

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What Would a Fairer Society Look Like?

Hosted by LSE Festival: People and Change

Saturday 17 June 6.00pm to 7.00pm. Online and in-person public event. Marshall Building.

Speakers:
Daniel Chandler, Economist and Philosopher, LSE
Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, LSE
Swatee Deepak, Practitioner in Residence, Marshall Institute, LSE
Lord David Willetts, President of the Resolution Foundation

Chair:
Professor Neil Lee, Professor of Economic Geography, LSE Department of Geography and Environment and Faculty Associate, LSE III

Have inequalities become so entrenched that we can no longer imagine a fairer society? Whilst many are dissatisfied with the status quo, it is surprisingly hard to find a coherent vision of what a better and fairer world would look like. In the Festival’s closing event, leading thinkers put forward their suggestions.

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Know Your Place: how society sets us up to fail – and what we can do about it

Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute

Monday 19 June 6.30pm to 8.00pm. Online and in-person public event. Auditorium, Centre Building.

Speakers:
Dr Faiza Shaheen, Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE III and Program Lead on Inequality and Exclusion, NYU Center on International Cooperation
Kimberly McIntosh, Writer and Researcher
Gary Stevenson, Inequality Economist and former Trader
Professor Gary Younge, Author and Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester

Chair:
Professor Mike Savage, Martin White Professor of Sociology, LSE Department of Sociology and Research Programme Leader, LSE III

This event marks the launch of Know Your Place: how society sets us up to fail – and what we can do about it, the new book by Faiza Shaheen – part memoir, part polemic, this is a personal and statistical look at how society is built, the people it leaves behind, and what we can do about it. Our panel of speakers will discuss the prospects for social mobility in Britain today, and how we can create opportunities for all.

To attend in-person: No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

To attend online: Registration will open after 10am on Tuesday 30 May 2023.