Standing Out: Transgender Candidates Around the World
4 November 2015
Standing Out is the first report to address the phenomenon of transgender people running for office around the world. Read the report.
At this event, held at the LSE on 4th November 2015, transgender candidates from around the world shared their experience of politics and elections, and academics discussed how increased visibility increases acceptance.
Speakers:
Bemz Benedito is a founding member and chairperson for the Ang Ladlad Party in the Philippines, the first party in the world dedicated solely to advancing justice and human rights for LGBT members of society.
Logan Casey is a doctoral candidate in the University of Michigan's Department of Political Science.
Andrew Reynolds is Director of the LGBTQ Representation and Rights Research Initiative and a Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Social Class in the 21st Century
2 November 2015
Speakers: Mike Savage, Niall Cunningham, Fiona Devine, Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, Lisa McKenzie, Andrew Mile, Helene Snee, Paul Wakeling
Social class has re-emerged as a topic of enormous scholarly and public attention. Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey discussed their findings and proposed a new way of thinking about social class in Britain today, arguing that while the class war was over the new politics of class are only just beginning.
Watch video recording here.
Too Many Children Left Behind: the US achievement gap in comparative perspective
21 October 2015
Speaker: Jane Waldfogel
Discussant: Dr Lee Elliot Major
Jane Waldfogel of Columbia University explains her work as part of a team of social scientists who compared educational outcomes and their link to family socio-economic status across the English speaking world.
Video recording available here.
Elite and Urban Dynamics: New Perspectives Conference
22 July 2015
Supported by the ESRC as part of their Alpha Territory project researching London's 'super-rich' Neighbourhoods.
A one-day seminar was organised by Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield), Roger Burrows (Goldsmiths) and Mike Savage (LSE), taking place at LSE on Wednesday 22nd July 2015 in three sessions:
1. The resurgence of elite sociology
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Elites Without Hierarchies: Intermediaries, 'Agency' and the Super-rich
Will Davies
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Life in the Alpha Territory, results from a two-year study
Rowland Atkinson and Roger Burrows, Luna Glucksberg, Caroline Knowles and David Rhodes
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Elites in the Great British Class Survey
Daniel Laurison and Sam Friedman
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Getting Ahead? Meritocratic Elites and the Gendered Body in the Age of Egg Freezing and Wearables
Charis Thompson
2. Urbanism and Wealth
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London and Hong Kong
Hang Kei Ho
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A New City for Croesus
Simon Parker, Rowland Atkinson and Roger Burrows
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Conflicts of Taste and Values in an Elite London Suburb
Richard Webber - View Presentation Slides
3. New agendas and Future Research
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Elite Research and the LSE International Inequalities Institute
John Hills, Tania Burchardt and others.
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The Gentrification of Gentrification
Luna Glucksberg, Rowland Atkinson, Tim Butler and Dave Rhodes
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The Elite London Vortex
Niall Cunningham and Mike Savage - View Presentation Slides
The Great Divide
19 May 2015
Speaker: Joseph Stiglitz
Chair: John Hills
Joseph Stiglitz talked about his new book, The Great Divide, expanding on the diagnosis he offered in The Price of Inequality, and suggesting ways to counter this growing problem.
Watch video recording here.
Inequality in the 21st Century
11 May 2015
Speakers: Stuart Corbridge, David Soskice, Wendy Carlin, Bob Rowthorn, Diane Perrons, Stephanie Seguino, Lisa McKenzie, Naila Kabeer, Thomas Piketty Laura Bear, Gareth Jones, Mike Savage, Julia Black, John Hills and Tony Atkinson
A day long conference with Thomas Piketty, Centenial Professor at the III whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been of global significance in shaping debates about inequality. The conference marked the official launch of the III.
Watch video recording here.
Inequality: what can be done?
Joint event with Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)
Speaker: Tony Atkinson
Discussants: Tom Clark and Baroness Lister
Chair: Nicholas Stern
Professor Sir Tony Atkinson argues that present levels of inequality are not inevitable and that there are concrete measures to be taken to tackle inequality.
Podcast available here.