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, we 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. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, for the time being, seminars are in a fully open-access online format. We will publish further details on access and content on this website in due time.
If you want to subscribe to the DIGCLASS seminar series mailing list to stay tuned, please drop us an email to JRC-CAS-DIGCLASS@ec.europa.eu
Download the programme:
2021/2022 Programme
Session 1. October 26th, 2021
- Topic: "The measurement of socioeconomic position" (click for more info)
- Speaker(s): Carlo Barone, Florian Hertel & Oscar Smallenbroek, Sciences Po & University of Hamburg
- Link to the recorded session
Session 2. November 30th, 2021
- Topic: "Intergenerational mobility and vote" (click for more info)
- Speaker: Macarena Ares, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB)
- Link to the recorded session
Session 3. December 21st, 2021
- Topic: "Genotyping technologies and social inequality" (click for more info)
- Speaker: Kathryn Paige Harden, The University of Texas at Austin
- Link to the recorded session
Session 4. January 25th, 2022
- Topic: "Rising income inequality and polarisation" (click for more info)
- Speaker: Markus Gangl, Goethe University Frankfurt
- Link to the recorded session
Session 5. March 29th, 2022
- Topic: "Ethnic and racial discrimination in employment" (click for more info)
- Speaker: Javier Polavieja, Universidad Carlos III
- Link to the recorded session
Session 6. April 26th, 2022
- Topic: "Intergenerational persistence of income" (click for more info)
- Speakers: Per Engzell, University of Oxford, and Carina Mood, Stockholm University
- Link to the recorded session
Session 7. May 31st, 2022
- Topic: "Technological change and political preferences" (click for more info)
- Speaker: Alexander Kuo, University of Oxford
- Link to the recorded session
Session 8. June 28th, 2022
- Topic: "Gender and social status ranking" (click for more info)
- Speaker: Klarita Gërxhani, European University Institute
- Link to the recorded session