Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to mass-produced products as an important business model.

Join Principal John Bowers KC in conversation with Ambassador Andrzej Antoszkiewicz, who is Director, OSS, at the Centre for International Dialogue, and prior to this worked at the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), at FIFA on the World Cup in Qatar, and at NATO.

Ethnic inequalities in health are entrenched and persistent in the UK. This seminar explores the role of racism, experienced over the life course, in structuring ethnic inequalities in health in later life. Anchored around key tenets of life course theory, this presentation will discuss findings from recent and upcoming publications that centre racism as the root cause of ethnic inequalities, exploring life course mechanisms that pattern stark ethnic inequities in later life.

PROFESSOR JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
DISTINGUISHED SANJAYA LALL VISITING FELLOW
University Professor at Columbia Univeristy

Chief Economist of The Roosevelt Institute
Co-founder and President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
Co-Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Photographer Ishiuchi Miyako (b. 1947) began photographing cloths and artifacts left by Hiroshima’s nuclear bomb victims and survivors in 2007. Published as three separate volumes and exhibited at numerous venues both inside and outside Japan, her Hiroshima photos have powerfully represented the absent presence of bodies that used to wear and touch these objects garnering critical acclaim from art critiques. Their bright colors and high aesthetic quality separate her works from other preceding photographic—often monochromatic—representations of life after the nuclear attack in Hiroshima.

Lead Speaker Professor Joe Stiglitz; Panellist Professor Lord Stern; Panellist Michael Liebreich