Events

III events bring some of the world's biggest academic names to LSE to explore the challenge of global inequality.

Upcoming Events

niyathi

Narrative Ethnography of Interstate Seasonal Migrant Women in Punjab, India

Closed event hosted by International Inequalities Institute

Thursday 25 April 2024, 11.00am to 12:30 am. In-person event. Centre Building, Room 2.06.

Speaker:

Dr. Niyathi R. Krishna, Sir Ratan Tata Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow, III, LSE

Chair: 

Dr. Ruth Kattumuri, Co-Founder, India Observatory, III, LSE

In this seminar, Dr. Niyathi R. Krishna will be presenting her research on interstate seasonal migrant women in Punjab, India, conducted as part of Sir Ratan Tata fellowship 2023-24 at the International Inequalities Institute. This qualitative study attempts to unravel the gender order induced experiences in the lives of interstate seasonal labour migrant women in Punjabat various levels in the post pandemic period, as labourers, migrants, and people possessing multiple binds in terms of caste, class, and gender. Concurrently, the study also analyses the causes, process, and consequences of interstate, seasonal migration of women in India and reviews existing policy gaps.

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climate change

Workshop on climate change and inequality

Workshop hosted by International Inequalities Institute, and Queen Mary's, University of London

Friday 10 May 2024, 9.00am to 6.00pm. In-person and online event. Fawcett House, Room 9.04.

The Research Circle for the Study of Inequality and Poverty (QMUL) and the International Inequalities Institute (LSE) will host a workshop on climate change and inequality on the 10th of May 2024 at the London School of Economics. The keynote speaker for the workshop will be Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the Department of Economics and Chair of Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics.

Researchers are invited to submit long abstracts (1000 words) or complete papers by 23rd February 2024. Authors selected for the workshop will present their full papers in a workshop on 10th May 2024.

Please find the full call for papers here.

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wealth inequality matters

Why wealth inequality matters: an expert roundtable

Workshop hosted by International Inequalities Institute

Monday 13 May, 2.00pm - 5.30pm. In-person and online event. Marshall Building, Room 2.04 (MAR.2.04).

This closed roundtable event presents new and cutting-edge research from the LSE International Inequalities Institute demonstrating the systemic problems that wealth inequality is generating in the UK. The aim to equip policymakers, journalists and civil society groups with key insights that can be used for campaigning work and in spreading awareness so that the issues can inform campaigning in the run up to the General Election.

Researchers at the III have a powerful impact on policy developments, marked for instance in the recent abolition of the ‘non-dom' tax clause which drew on underpinning research by Dr Advani and Dr Summers. We want our new research to also inform emerging policy agendas.

Five panels will introduce new findings on (i) the extent and nature of wealth inequality in the UK, focusing especially on the rich; (ii) how wealth inequalities is shaping the social mobility prospects of Britons; (iii) the entrenched nature of gendered wealth divides; (iv) the scale and significance of the racial wealth divide and (v) how political perceptions amongst the disadvantaged are being shaped by fundamental wealth divides.

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campaign around inequality

How do we campaign around wealth inequality?

Hosted by International Inequalities Institute

Monday 13 May, 6.00pm - 7.30pm. In-person event. Marshall Building, Room 2.04 (MAR.2.04).

Speakers:

Professor Mike Savage, Martin White Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, LSE; Faiza Shaheen, Visiting Professor in Practice, International Inequalities Institute; Shabna Begum, Interim CEO of the Runnymede Trust

In the shadow of a UK general election, this public event takes stock of the politics of wealth inequality and reflects on how to build political awareness and expand campaigning action. Mindful that divisive ‘culture war’ agendas are being used to fragment and distract campaigning which centres fundamental socio-economic inequality, panelists will consider how to shift political debate to more progressive directions. The recent abolition of the non-dom status, informed by III research and campaigning, shows that change is possible.

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Labour

Labour Inequalities Bound In Histories Of The Colonial And Postcolonial: A Workshop On Impact And Knowledge Exchange

Hosted by International Inequalities Institute

Monday 20 May, and Tuesday 21 May 2024, 9.30am to 5.00 pm. In-person and online event. Marshall Building, Room 1.07.

This workshop aims to deepen theoretical knowledge of the impacts of colonialism by exploring marginalized and disadvantaged cohorts who remained invisible at the formal close of empire in South Asia (1947 onwards) and the aftermath. Categories who have gone unnoticed, unaccounted, and remained hidden or have escaped our attention. What was the relationship of these groups to the colonial state, economy, and civic society? How did they confront colonial practices? What kind of knowledge systems, skill sets, labour and world views were they able to offer that met with biases and omissions? Did they see the later as transformational? Did the postcolonial moment alter their circumstances by opening new economic pathways, identities, resistance, migration avenues, social mobility, and a diverse set of experiences? Or did the postcolonial moment deepen existing inequalities that remain bound up in colonial histories? Crucially, the workshop aims to explore approaches that prioritize decoloniality, coloniality and postcoloniality. We seek papers that can offer new insights to discuss and advance debates through fresh ideas, rigorous knowledge exchange, and impactful evidence. 

Researchers are invited to submit abstracts (150 - 200 words) or complete papers by 29th February 2024

Please find the full call for papers here.

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