Interdepartmental Research Group on Diversity and Discrimination is launching a series of public seminars

Interdepartmental Research Group on Diversity and Discrimination is launching a series of public seminars

The Diversity and Discrimination Research Group at Copenhagen Business School will be holding a series of public seminars during 2009 – 2010 at which they will present their current research.

Members of CBS research staff doing work in the areas of diversity management, discrimination and social inclusion/exclusion at the Departments of Law, Economics, Intercultural Communication, and Management, Politics and Philosophy, have formed the CBS Interdepartmental Diversity and Discrimination Research Group.

The seminar series will be launched on 15 September 2009 with a presentation of the research group and the seminar series followed by a lecture by Christian Dustman, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at University College London.

Lawyers, academics, students, business professionals and other stakeholders are welcome to attend the seminars. The presentations will be followed by refreshments and networking.

All seminars will be announced through e-mail invitations and www.cbs.dk.

To be added to the mailing list, contact Trine Buch at tb.jur@cbs.dk or Kim A. Jørgensen at kaj.jur@cbs.dk

15 September 2009 - Diversity and Discrimination Research at CBS: Public Seminar Series Launch

Seminar series launch and lecture by Professor, Ph.D. Christian Dustman in which he will present his research on gender, racial/ethnicity and economic factors in relation to migration.

Christian Dustman is Professor of Economics, University College London, where he is the Director of Centre for Research and Analysis on Migration (CReAM), Programme. He is also the Coordinator for the Research Programme, funded by the Anglo-German Foundation, The Economics and Politics of Employment, Migration and Social Justice, Research Fellow in the Center for Economic Policy Research and in the Institute for the Study of Labour, a non-profit research institute that includes economists from all over the world. Professor Dustman is also a research associate in the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a leading British private microeconomic research institute. He has published widely on the subjects of migration, economics of the family, health economics, education, wages and mobility, and auctions.

8 October 2009 - Diversity management in Denmark

Associate Professor Annette Risberg and Professor Anne-Marie Søderberg, Department of Intercultural Communication.

27 October 2009 - Diversity management discourse:Increasing or Limiting Diversity?

Associate Professor Sine Nørholm Just, Department of intercultural Communication

24 November 2009 - Identity and knowledge professionals: Negotiating identity after maternity/parental leave (to be confirmed)

Assistant Professor Robyn Remke, Department of Intercultural Communication:

February 2010 (exact date will be announced later) - Do attitudes towards immigrants matter?

Associate Professor Birthe Larsen, Department of Economics:

March 2010 (exact date will be announced later) - Powerful dichotomies: Inclusion and exclusion in the information society

Assistant Professor Ester Barinaga, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy:

April 2010 (exact date will be announced later) - Discrimination bans with regard to access to and supply of goods and services

Professor Ruth Nielsen, Department of Law.

May 2010 (exact date will be announced later) - Discrimination bans and the social psychology of oppression: Is current anti-discrimination law an effective way of dealing with social inequality?

Associate Professor Lynn Roseberry, Department of Law.