23 May 2012
This one-day workshop will take place at the University of Manchester and bring together historians, social scientists and practitioners concerned with the study and understanding of inequality broadly understood.
Places are limited, but if you would like to attend the workshop,
please email inequality@manchester.ac.uk
10am – Welcome and Introduction
Pedro Ramos Pinto, Patrick Joyce and William O’Reilly
10.15 – 11.45 – Panel 1: New Histories of Inequality
Ben Jackson (Oxford) Ideologies of equality and inequality in historical
perspective
Emily Robinson (Nottingham) History and Inequality: It’s the Way You
Tell It
Phillip Reick (Freie, Berlin) The Logic of Inequality in Working Class
Berlin in the Mid-1870s
11.45 – 12.00 – Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.00 – Panel 2: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Manoela Boatca (Freie, Berlin) The Mark of the Non-Modern? Ascribed
Inequalities in the Global Age
Salvatore Morelli (Oxford) Economic Inequality and Macroeconomic
Shocks in Historical Perspective, 1911-2010
13.00 – 14.00 – Lunch Break14.00 – 15.30 – Panel 3: State, Society and Inequality in Britain
Pat Thane (KCL) Age and Inequality in Modern Britain
Kate Bradley (Kent) Anti-social behaviour before the ASBO
Simon Szreter (Cambridge) Educational Provision and Inequality 1922-
2012
15.30 – 15.45 – Coffee Break
15.45 – 16.45 – Panel 4: What do we want from a History of
Inequality? Non-academic perspectives.
David Price, The Equalities Trust – Inequality in Britain Today
Alex Dunedin, The Ragged University – The Ragged Project
16.45 – 17.30 – Roundtable Discussion: mapping new questions for
research in inequality in Historical Perspective
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