Coming to You Live
We regularly host colloquia, readings, conferences, and workshops. You can find all upcoming events here.
Bites of Inequality – Silke van Dyk
The concept of social property deals with asymmetries in decision-making power and control. How social rights can be rethought from this perspective is discussed in this talk.
Bites of Inequality – Sascha Münnich
Stratification and embedded markets. Patterns and legitimacy of primary inequality: The presentation highlights how the social foundations of markets determine who benefits, who does not — and why primary inequality persists.
Who owns the city?
A reading and discussion about the housing crisis with non-fiction author Lara Schulschenk and inequality researcher Lena Radau.
Bites of Inequality – Miriam Rehm
How can gender-specific wealth inequality be investigated in the context of macroeconomic dynamics and the socio-economic transformation?
Bites of Inequality – Julia Jirman
Wealth tax, but how? Julia Jirman from Netzwerk Steuergerechtigkeit talks about various options for structuring such taxes.
Bites of Inequality – Christopher Swader
Has loneliness become a market? On the commodification of social integration and its implications for social inequality.
Munich Inequality Day
SAVE THE DATE! On May 18, ISI is hosting Munich Inequality Day for the first time. Here is the program.
Bites of Inequality – Zach Parolin
Poverty is surprisingly persistent in the USA. The article explores the question of whether government investments for children could weaken the cycle.
Bites of Inequality – Isabel Feichtner
As space is increasingly becoming the scene of commercial and colonial interests, international space law is also changing. The presentation traces these developments and asks how the understanding of space and celestial bodies as common property and as the common heritage of humanity is changing.
A Friday afternoon with Christina Cross. Origins, opportunities, reality.
Christina Cross shows how much origin shapes our everyday lives and why the same family forms can still lead to completely different opportunities. In Inherited Inequality, she makes visible why Black and White children in the US often grow up in two different realities. Her book reading event at the "Lost Weekend" invites everyone to join in the discussion and take away new perspectives.
Bites of Inequality – Anette Fasang
Is the intergenerational contract currently being lost when it comes to assets? A transatlantic comparison shows how wealth creation and inequality have shifted for baby boomers, Gen X and millennials. And why it has political explosive power.
Bites of Inequality – Fabian Kalleitner
The Tax-Welfare Nexus: Explaining Support for Reform in Times of Fiscal Stress