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01/02/2005
Equality issues on agenda for sixth-formers
Equality issues in Europe and further afield will be on the agenda when around 300 sixth-formers from schools throughout Northern Ireland attend a major lecture series at Queen's University today.
‘Worlds Apart: Why Inequality Matters’ is the theme of the 2005 Belfast Telegraph Lectures at Queen's which have been organised by the University's Faculty of Legal, Social and Educational Sciences and will be delivered by staff of the School of Sociology and Social Policy.
The series starts with a talk by Professor Mick Mann. Entitled ‘Is the World Becoming More Unequal?’ this lecture will discuss recent trends in inequality in countries around the world.
He will be followed by colleague Professor Dennis O'Hearn whose lecture, 'The Celtic Tiger and the Mayan Jaguar: Two Responses to Global Inequality', will compare Ireland's rapid economic growth with the Mayans' efforts to increase autonomy and democratic self-government.
Professor Mary Daly will then talk on ‘Social Exclusion in Europe’, while various dimensions of social inequality in the UK and Ireland and their implications for society will be examined by Professor Paddy Hillyard in ‘Islands Apart: Inequality in the UK and Ireland’.
The Belfast Telegraph Lectures are held annually at Queen's in memory of the late John E Sayers, the newspaper's editor-in-chief from 1961 to 1969.
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‘Worlds Apart: Why Inequality Matters’ is the theme of the 2005 Belfast Telegraph Lectures at Queen's which have been organised by the University's Faculty of Legal, Social and Educational Sciences and will be delivered by staff of the School of Sociology and Social Policy.
The series starts with a talk by Professor Mick Mann. Entitled ‘Is the World Becoming More Unequal?’ this lecture will discuss recent trends in inequality in countries around the world.
He will be followed by colleague Professor Dennis O'Hearn whose lecture, 'The Celtic Tiger and the Mayan Jaguar: Two Responses to Global Inequality', will compare Ireland's rapid economic growth with the Mayans' efforts to increase autonomy and democratic self-government.
Professor Mary Daly will then talk on ‘Social Exclusion in Europe’, while various dimensions of social inequality in the UK and Ireland and their implications for society will be examined by Professor Paddy Hillyard in ‘Islands Apart: Inequality in the UK and Ireland’.
The Belfast Telegraph Lectures are held annually at Queen's in memory of the late John E Sayers, the newspaper's editor-in-chief from 1961 to 1969.
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