Events
III events bring some of the world's biggest academic names to LSE to explore the challenge of global inequality.
Upcoming events
If not government, then what? A three-part typology of redistributive preferences
III Event for The III at 10: New Directions in Inequality ResearchThursday 18 September, 9.15am to 10.30am. In-person and online event. Auditorium, LSE Centre Building.
Speaker:
Professor Leslie McCall, Presidential Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY and Associate Director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic InequalityChair:
Professor Fran Tonkiss, Professor of Sociology, LSEEconomic inequality is rising or at high levels in many countries across the globe. This has prompted a large, interdisciplinary and international body of research on public demands for government redistribution through income taxes and transfers. It is typically assumed – but not explicitly tested – that any opposition to government redistribution reflects acceptance of inequality or an individualistic belief in the undeservingness of the poor. We test this assumption directly and add a largely unexamined third possibility (besides government redistribution and individual responsibility): that major institutions and actors in the market sphere should reduce inequality in labor earnings. We find substantial support for this third market responsibility option, especially in advanced market economies such as the United States and Switzerland, where support for government redistribution is comparatively low. In contrast, we find the least support across all countries for the idea that inequality levels are acceptable or mainly the responsibility of the poor.
New directions in inequality research
III Event for The III at 10: New Directions in Inequality ResearchThursday 18 September 2025, 5.30pm - 6.45pm. In-person and online event. Auditorium, LSE Centre Building.
Speakers:
Professor Facundo Alvaredo, Professorial Research Fellow, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics;
Professor Steven Durlauf, Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, University of Chicago
Professor Larry Kramer, President and Vice-Chancellor, London School of Economics
Professor Anne Phillips, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government, London School of EconomicsChair:
Professor Armine Ishkanian, Executive Director, Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, London School of EconomicsGlobal inequality in historical and comparative perspective
III Event for The III at 10: New Directions in Inequality ResearchFriday 19 September 2025, 3.30pm - 4.30pm. In-person and online event. Venue TBC to ticketholders.
Speakers:
Professor Thomas Piketty, Professor of Economics, EHESS and the Paris School of EconomicsChair:
Professor Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies, LSE IIIIn this lecture, Thomas Piketty will discuss recent trends in global inequality and analyze the historical movement toward equality and future prospects for more redistribution. He will present new research produced by the World Inequality Lab.
This will include preliminary results from the Global Justice Project. Combining comparative historical data series from the World Inequality Database with global input-output tables, environmental accounts, labour force surveys and other sources, the Global Justice Project explores what a just distribution of socio-economic and environmental resources could look like at the global level from 2025 to 2100 – both between and within countries – in a way that is compatible with planetary boundaries. The project partly builds on the analysis and proposals set out in Thomas Piketty’s Brief History of Equality, extending them into a broader and more comprehensive global framework.
Racism and racial justice: 40 years on from the Broadwater Farm riots
Hosted by the London School of Economics and Political Science and LSE Students' UnionWednesday 1 October, 6.30 to 8.00pm. In-person and online event. Venue TBC to ticketholders.
Speakers:
Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Associate Professor in Film, Culture and Society, UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society
Dr Roxana Willis, Assistant Professor in Law, LSEChair:
Professor Coretta Phillips, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, LSE Department of Social PolicyJoin us to explore the legal, political and community-based racial justice work that emerged 40 years ago from the Broadwater Farm riots, examining methods of resistance that continue to address present-day questions of race, racism and social inequality.
On 6 October 1985, The Broadwater Farm Estate in Tottenham became the site of one of the most significant moments of civil disobedience in British history. Three men, known as the Tottenham 3, were wrongly convicted and later acquitted for the murder of PC Keith Blakelock after a long campaign for justice.
Four decades after the Broadwater Farm uprising, the events of October 1985 continue to resonate in the ongoing struggle against systemic racism. Marking the riots as a significant moment in Black British history, the event explores the Broadwater Farm Riots in the context of politics, community activism, law and criminology, the media and Black injustice.
Not just lines on a map: borders in a changing world
Hosted by the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity and the International Inequalities InstituteWednesday 8 October, 6.30 to 8.00pm. In-person and online event. Venue TBC to ticketholders.
Speakers:
Dr Tarsis Brito, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of International Relations, LSE
Dr Maya Goodfellow, Presidential Fellow in the Department of International Politics, City St George's University of London
Nousha Kabawat, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and the Head of the Syria Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice
Dr Luke de Noronha, Associate Professor in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies, Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, UCLChair:
Professor Armine Ishkanian, Executive Director, Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity and Professor, Department of Social Policy, LSEIn this panel discussion we will be joined by Maya Goodfellow, Tarsis Brito, Nousha Kabawat, and Luke de Noronha who will each draw on their areas of expertise to discuss the implications of borders in a changing world.
Borders are not just lines on a map marking geographical boundaries but are important for maintaining countries’ nationhood, identity, and security. Due to their importance, borders are also increasingly politicised to define who belongs and who does not, who is legally allowed to enter, and who has the right to own or live in a certain piece of land. Borders are connected to many of the debates of today and challenges of tomorrow, from the refugee crisis to decolonisation and global conflicts. So, how can we better understand how borders are connected to inequalities? Should we re-evaluate how we think about borders altogether? And what will the future of borders look like?
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