DIGCLASS Project Social Classes in the Digital Age

The DIGCLASS seminar series is expected to facilitate the exchange of cutting-edge ideas and debates between JRC researchers and social science academics from research institutions worldwide. With the DIGCLASS seminar series, they want to push this discussion beyond the boundaries of the JRC community by attracting external scholars, policy-makers and a general audience.

Areas of interest:

• Social inequality, social stratification
• Labour economics
• Political economy, political behaviour

Seminars take place once monthly on Tuesdays from 15.00 to 16.00 CET in a fully open-access online format. They will publish further details on sessions’ access and contents on the DIGCLASS seminar series website and the JRC EU Science Hub events in due time.

If you want to subscribe to the DIGCLASS seminar series mailing list to stay tuned, please drop them an email to JRC-CAS-DIGCLASS@ec.europa.eu

Schedule

Session 1. October 25th, 2022 - 15:00-16:00 (CET)

• Topic: "Challenges to the welfare state"
• Speaker: Silja Häusermann, University of Zurich
• Link to the session

Session 2. November 29th, 2022 - 15:00-16:00 (CET)

• Topic: "Global carbon inequality"
• Speaker: Lucas Chancel, World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics
• Link to the session

Session 3. December 20th, 2022 - 15:00-16:00 (CET)

• Topic: "School choice and segregation"
• Speaker: Caterina Calsamiglia, Institute of Political Economy and Governance
• Link to the session

Session 4. January 24th, 2023 - 15:00-16:00 (CET)

• Topic: "Health inequities"
• Speaker: Michael Marmot, University College London
• Link to the session

Session 5. February 21st, 2023 - 15:00-16:00 (CET)

• Topic: "Technological change and new tasks"
• Speaker: Anna Salomons, Utrecht University & IZA
• Link to the session

Session 6. March 28th, 2023 - 15:00-16:00 (CET)

• Topic: "Technological change and (un)employment"
• Speakers: Carl Frey, Oxford Martin School
• Link to the session

Session 7. April 26th, 2023 - 15:00-16:00 (CET)

• Topic: "Legal and ethical issues in AI and robots"
• Speaker: Aída Ponce Del Castillo, European Trade Union Institute
• Link to the session

Session 8. May 30th, 2023 - 15:00-16:00 (CET)

• Topic: "Wealth and opportunity"
• Speaker: Fabian Pfeffer, University of Michigan
• Link to the session

Session 9. June 20th, 2023 - 15:00-16:00 (CET)

• Topic: "Deindustrialisation and political consequences"
• Speaker: Anne-Marie Jeannet, University of Milan
• Link to the session