Why are
more unequal societies socially dysfunctional? Darwinian
insights
Wednesday
31st March 2010 Time:
10.00 – 5.00 (followed by drinks)
Venue:
G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building,
UCL
Co-sponsored
by the UCL International Institute for Society and Health (IISH)
RSVP
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PROGRAMME
Morning: Chair: Paul Coombes, London Business School
10.00
Welcome and Programme Overview
10.05
–11.05 Professor Richard Wilkinson and Professor Kate E Pickett
More
unequal societies are socially dysfunctional: the evidence
11.05
–11.20 Questions
11.20–11.30
Short break
11.30–12.30
Professor Martin Daly
The
unequal effects of inequality: Darwinian
explanations
12.30–12.45
Questions
12.45
–1.45 LUNCH (available
to purchase from Roberts Building Foyer café)
Afternoon: Chair: Dr Richard Webb,
Darwin@LSE
1.45–2.45
Professor Stephen Suomi
Early
life mediators of inequality
2.45–3.00 Questions
3.00–3.15
Short break
3.15–5.00
Discussion; Questions and Answers Session
Discussants:
Professor Jay Belsky, Dr Oliver Curry, Professor Mark van
Vugt
Panel:
Richard Wilkinson, Kate E Pickett, Martin Daly, Stephen Suomi
5.00
Drinks - Roberts Building
Foyer