Events
Rising Powers / Inequalities: China and India
A Round Table Discussion
22 May 2013
1.00 - 4.40 pm
Samuel Alexander Building A202
(Sandwich Lunch 1-2pm)
AHRC Research Network on Inequality, Social Science and History
and
Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester
Despite their differences, India and China's transition to the status of middle-income countries sees them facing an identical challenge: coping with significant increases in levels of income inequality. This roundtable will explore the dynamics of inequality in both countries in interdisciplinary perspective, with a particular focus on asking how do the distinct (but related) historical trajectories of China and India have contributed to shaping contemporary inequalities in both, and their implications for the future.
Round-table speakers:
Prof. Vivienne Shue, Emeritus Professor of Contemporary China Studies and Fellow of St. Antony's College
Prof. Kunal Sen, Professor of Development Economics and Policy, IDPM and BWPI, Manchester
Dr. Eleanor Newbigin, Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies
Dr. Pierre Fuller, Lecturer in East Asian History, Manchester
Moderation: Dr. Pedro Ramos Pinto, Lecturer in International History, Manchester
TO REGISTER: Please email Kat Bethell
History, Consumption & Inequality
6 June 2013
This one-day workshop will be hosted by the Centre and organised in collaboration with the AHRC funded Inequality, Social Science and History Research Network at the University of Manchester. The workshop will aim to explore the relationship between consumption as a form of human action and inequality as a consequence of human interaction (and a conditionant of such exchanges). It will bring together historians and social scientists developing new questions and approaches in these themes. For further information, please contact the organiser, Pedro Ramos Pinto.
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