Since the early 1800s, epidemiologists have been aware of socioeconomic differences in health and illness. But it is only in the last twenty years or so that, across western Europe, politicians have taken up the issue of health inequalities as a way or reframing the issue of social inequality more broadly. In the book project on which this talk draws, I show that shifting from economic to medical framings of inequality in political discourse leads to policies that make it harder to reduce either health inequalities or the socioeconomic inequalities that are their fundamental causes.

Come to exchange ideas and network!
Meet at 1245 at the lodge of St Antony’s.
Lunch in Hall (if you are late, please proceed to hall where we will have a table reserved): 1245 to 13:15
Coffee and discussion in the Combined Common Room 13:15 to 14:15.

Professor Stasavage will be presenting work from his exciting new book project that explores the history of government by consent in a global setting, charting the long rise of democracy in Europe in comparison with China, the Middle East, and other world regions.

A sandwich lunch will be available at the session and is booked according to numbers. If you would like to order lunch for this session, please reply to aoife.dudley@politics.ox.ac.uk no later than noon on Friday 2nd June.

For more information, please visit: https://oxfordpoliticaltheory.wordpress.com/

**Conference Schedule**

Friday, June 2

9 – 9:30 am | Manor Road Building Lobby

Registration + coffee & tea

* * * *

9:30 – 11 am | Seminar Room A

Panel 1: Emancipatory Possibilities under Late Capitalism

Discussant: Dr. Dan Butt (Oxford)

Helge Petersen (Glasgow) & Hannah Hecker (Goethe University Frankfurt)

“A Critique of Left-Wing Populism”

Leonardo Sias (Southampton)

Political radicalism and extremism no longer constitute marginal phenomena in European societies and politics. The consecutive financial crises, the Eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis, religious terrorism and geopolitical uncertainties create a multifaceted setting that exacerbates insecurity, anxiety and fears among European citizens.