Events Calendar

The economics of gender stereotypes
Hosted by the Centre for Economic Performance and the Department of Social Policy

Thursday 25 May 2023. 12.00pm-6.30pm, MAR.1.09, Marshall Building, LSE

This half-day workshop offers an important and timely chance to explore cutting-edge research on discrimination and gender stereotypes in economics.

The event, which brings together industry experts, aims to push the limits of existing research and pave the way for new discoveries in the field.

This event is aimed at PhD and post-doc Economics students and economists at LSE.

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Book Launch: 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 2023, 6.30pm-8.00pm, in-person and online public event. The Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building

Speakers:
Dr Marcos González Hernando, Honorary Research Fellow at UCL Social Research Institute and affiliated researcher at Universidad Diego Portales and the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion in Chile.

Dr Gerry Mitchell, social researcher, campaigner and community activist. 

Respondents:
Dr Arun Advani, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick.
Anoosh Chakelian, Britain Editor of the New Statesman.

Chair: Dr Tania Burchardt, Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), Deputy Director of STICERD, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the LSE.

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.

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The Road to Net Zero: how to seize opportunities and manage change 

Hosted by LSE Festival: People and Change

Tuesday 13 June 2023 1.00pm to 2.00pm, in-person and online public event. The Marshall Building

Speakers:

Dr Liam F Beiser-McGrath, Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy in the Department of Social Policy at LSE. 

Chris Skidmore, MP for Kingswood since 2010.

Rain Newton-Smith, Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)

Dr Anna Valero, Senior Policy Fellow at LSE's  Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)

Chair: Professor Elizabeth Robinson, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. 

Tackling climate change requires significant and rapid economic and societal change.

As new ways to power our homes, workplaces and transport are developed there will be opportunities for sustainable, healthier economic growth. But there will also be costs for firms, workers and households. To date, climate action has faced challenges from the people, through protests and failed referenda, but has also been driven by public support and activism.

How we can ensure the net zero transition is an inclusive one, so that crucial public support can be maintained and built?  

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The Changing Inequalities of Citizenship

Hosted by LSE Festival: People and Change

Thursday 15 June 2023 1.00pm to 2.00pm, in-person and online public event. The Marshall Building

Speakers:

Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey, Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy in the Department of Social Policy, LSE.

Dr Kristin Surak, Associate Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Sociology, LSE.

Dr Eleanor Knott, a political scientist and Assistant Professor in Qualitative Methodology in the Department of Methodology, LSE.

Chair: Dr Armine Ishkanian, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy and the Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme at the International Inequalities Institute.

Citizenship is often seen as a great equaliser. Yet access to citizenship itself is not equally distributed, nor are the rights gained from citizenship equal for all. 

In this session three scholars from across the social sciences explore the varying, complex, and global nature of inequalities produced in and through citizenship in the 21st century. Drawing on their newly released books, our panel discuss new transformations in citizenship and (in)equality, ranging from contestations around dual citizenship for Liberia, to the sale of citizenship by microstates to millionaires, to the extra-territorial acquisition of citizenship in Crimea and Moldova. 

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

Hosted by LSE Festival: People and Change

Saturday 17 June 2023 11.00am to 12.00pm, in-person and online public event. The Marshall Building

Speakers:

Dr Armine Ishkanian, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy and the Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme at the International Inequalities Institute.

Dr Faiza Shaheen, Program Head for the Inequality and Exclusion Grand Challenge of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.

Georgia Haddad Nicolau, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and a Co-founder and Director of Brazilian commons-based organisation Instituto Procomum.

Chair: Dr Maël Lavenaire, Caribbean and Latin America historian and a Research Fellow in Racial Inequality at the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme.

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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