[URPE] Mapping Global Inequalities - conference announcement and call for papers

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Mapping Global Inequalities - Beyond Income Inequality
December 13th and 14th at University of California Santa Cruz

For several years there has been debate in the academic and popular 
media about the implications of globalization for poverty and 
inequality. The debate has, however, become stalled partly because it is 
too narrowly conceived, being focused almost exclusively on income 
inequality and on the national scale. The conference will expand this 
debate by both mapping global inequality at various scales and by 
deploying multidisciplinary perspectives to take the debate beyond 
income inequality.

Commissioned papers will cover the latest trends in health inequalities 
and social outcomes, migration and inequality, wealth and other material 
inequalities, gender inequalities as well as aspects of globalization 
and culture. Prior to the conference, online maps, figures, animations 
will be developed based on commissioned papers. Both online 
presentations and a print atlas will be published based on the conference.

The goals of the conference are

* to advance the debate about global integration, inequality and poverty,

* to present workshops on the latest techniques in mapping global inequality

* to make the results of discussion promptly available through 
accessible online maps, figures and interactive utilities.

Speakers will include: Goran Therborn (Cambridge University), Tony 
Shorrocks (UN WIDER), Peter Tugwell (Center on Global Health, University 
of Ottawa), Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development), Helmut 
Anheier (UCLA Center for Globalization and Policy Research), Devesh 
Kapur (University of Pennsylvania), Giovanni Andrea Cornia (University 
of Florence), CIESIN (Columbia University) sponsored workshop on poverty 
mapping.

Who Should Attend?
The conference is intended for academics, policy-makers, and graduate 
students concerned with issues of global inequality. Scholarships are 
available for students.

Date and place
December 13-14 2007 UC Santa Cruz.

Submitting Papers

The UC Atlas is currently accepting abstracts for paper sessions. Paper 
presentations will be fifteen minutes long covering our five conference 
topics.

Please submit a title, abstract, name and affiliation, to Conference 
Submissions (mapinequality at ucsc.edu).

More details can be found at: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/flyer.html

Thanks very much,

Ben Crow
-- 
Ben Crow, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, 
Santa Cruz.
Phones: 831 459 5503 (W); 650 245 6769 (Mobile).

Website: http://sociology.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=4
Atlas: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/