December 5, 2019

Middlesex University, UK

Symposium and a plenary session will be open to the public. If you would like to attend the plenary session, please book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/media-and-economic-inequality-tickets-76877274999

Plenary session, HG19, Middlesex University, Hendon, London.

5.30-6.30pm.

• Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in economics.
• Vince Cable, Lib Dem leader 2017-19.
• Ben Chu, economics editor, BBC's Newsnight.

Limited places are still available for the symposium; please email Sophie Knowles S.Knowles@mdx.ac.uk if you wish to book a place.

Symposium, Barn 1 and 2, Middlesex University, Hendon, London.

10am-4.30pm

Panel 1 Interrogating Economic Inequality.

10am-12pm

• John Hills, Professor, Social Policy, LSE.
• Robert Joyce, Deputy Director, Institute of Fiscal Studies.
• Carys Roberts, Head of Economic Justice, IPPR
• Duncan Exley, Author, The end of aspiration? Former Head of Equality Trust.
• Martin Schuerz, Head of Monetary Unit, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna.

Discussant: Steve Schifferes, Professor emeritus, City Uni

Panel 2 Representations of Inequality in the Press

1pm-2.30pm

• Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Author Poor News. Professor, Northwestern University, Qatar.
• Joanna Mack, Author, Breadline Britain. Open University.
• Peter Golding, Author of many titles including Public attitudes to poverty. Professor Emeritus, Northumbria University.
• Andrea Grisold, Professor, WU Vienna. Head of Institute for Institutional and Heterodox Economics.

Discussant: Anya Schiffrin, Director of Technology, Communications, Columbia University.

Panel 3 Political and Public Discourse on Inequality

3pm-4.30pm

• Mike Berry, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University School of Journalism.
• Aaron Reeves, Associate Professorial Research Fellow, LSE and Oxford.
• Elizabeth Clery, Research Director, Nat Cen.
• Jonathan Mijs, Associate Professorial Research Fellow, LSE and Harvard.

Discussant: Aeron Davis, Professor, Political Communication, Goldsmiths.