Events

Scientific Events/Conferences

October 2025

In_equality Colloquium 2025

Konstanz, GERMANY

Charting the emotional landscape of economic inequality and its political correlates

Sonja Zmerli, Franco Bastias

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October 2025

September 2025

The International Inequalities Institute at 10: New directions in inequality research, London School of Economics

London, GREAT BRITAIN

Revisiting ‘Us vs Them’: The role of social comparison in perceptions of economic inequality

Daniel Walsh, Sonja Zmerli

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September 2025

July 2025

IPSA 28th World Congress of Political Science

Seoul, SOUTH KOREA

Redistributive preferences and the contact hypothesis: Assessing how emotions towards economic inequality are affected by loose and socio-economically diverse contacts and impinge on public policy preferences

Sonja Zmerli, Franco Bastias

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July 2025

XVII International Conference on Social Representations (CIRS)

Brest, FRANCE

Social representations of income and wealth inequality in representative samples from two European welfare regimes

Franco Bastias, Sonja Zmerli, Daniel Walsh

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Theories of social representation and communication and social policy: Economic inequality in the British media as example

Daniel Walsh, Sonja Zmerli, Shivani Kakkad

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Television and the politics of income and wealth perceptions in Britain

Daniel Walsh, Sonja Zmerli, Shivani Kakkad

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July 2025

International Society of Political Psychology 2025 Annual Meeting

Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

Television and the politics of income and wealth perceptions in Britain

Daniel Walsh, Sonja Zmerli, Shivani Kakkad

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Redistributive preferences, social dominance orientation, and emotional responses to economic inequality across welfare regimes

Franco Bastias, Sonja Zmerli

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July 2025

March 2025

University of Lausanne, conference organised by GREC and LAGAPE

Lausanne, SWITZERLAND

POLINEQUAL: Exploring representations of economic inequality and their implications in three European welfare regimes. An interim ‘tour d’horizon’

Sonja Zmerli

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March 2025

February 2025

The London School of Economics International Inequalities Institute Seminar

London, GREAT BRITAIN

POLINEQUAL: Exploring representations of economic inequality and their implications in three European welfare regimes. An interim ‘tour d’horizon’

Sonja Zmerli, Daniel Walsh

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February 2025

November 2024

MAGIC, McMaster – Grenoble International Colloquia

(Online)

Challenges in democratic societies: political polarization and economic inequality

Sonja Zmerli

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November 2024

October 2024

18th Conference on “Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe”: Fears, Worries, and Anxieties in Contemporary Europe

Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggi, ITALY

Explanations of economic inequality as a driver of emotional distress

Franco Bastias, Sonja Zmerli

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October 2024

September, 2024

5th Interdisciplinary 24 Hours of Political Psychology Conference, German Political Psychology Network

Vienna, AUSTRIA

Representations of economic inequality and redistribution in British party manifestos
(2005 -2024)

Daniel Walsh, Sonja Zmerli

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September, 2024

September 2024

ECPR Standing Group on Political Culture Online Seminar Series

(Online)

Facets of economic inequality and redistributive preferences. Assessing the role of emotions

Franco Bastias, Sonja Zmerli

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September 2024

120th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Philadelphia, USA

Representations of economic inequality and redistribution in British, French and Swedish party manifestos

Daniel Walsh, Sonja Zmerli

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September 2024

August 2024

ECPR General Conference 2024

Dublin, IRELAND

Representations of economic inequality and redistribution in British party manifestos (2005 – 2024)

Daniel Walsh, Sonja Zmerli, Blaise Mouton, Linnéa Sturmhoefel Warnberg

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Analyzing parliamentary speech using Chat-GPT to understand the politicization of economic inequality

Michael Webb, Sonja Zmerli

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August 2024

July 2024

International Society of Political Psychology 2024 Annual Meeting

Santiago, CHILE

Emotions towards economic inequality: Conducive or a hindrance to political action?

Franco Bastias, Sonja Zmerli

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July 2024

June 2024

SASE 2024 Annual Conference

Limerick, IRELAND

Representations of economic inequality and redistribution in British party manifestos (2005 – 2024)

Daniel Walsh, Sonja Zmerli, Blaise Mouton, Linnéa Sturmhoefel Warnberg

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June 2024

April 2024

In_equality Conference 2024

Konstanz, GERMANY

Participant : Sonja Zmerli

April 2024

September 2023

WAPOR 76th Annual Conference

Salzburg, AUSTRIA

The basis of distributive fairness perceptions: Deliberate ignorance of the rich or greater concerns for the poor?

Sonja Zmerli, Michael Webb

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September 2023

XVI International Conference on Social Representations (CIRS)

Bogotá, COLOMBIA

How might social representations theory innovate social and behavioural change programming?

Daniel Walsh

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September 2023

3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS)

Ingolstadt, GERMANY

Portrayals of income inequality in the UK House of Commons

Michael Webb

September 2023

119th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Los Angeles, USA

Does cross-class contact shape perceptions of inequality?

Michael Webb, Sonja Zmerli

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September 2023

July 2023

IPSA 27th World Congress of Political Science

Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

Exploring representations of economic inequality in three welfare states:
The cases of France, Great Britain and Sweden

Sonja Zmerli, Linnéa Sturmhoefel Warnberg, Hope Isabella Hunter

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July 2023

International Society of Political Psychology 2023 Annual Meeting

Montreal, CANADA

Fairness perceptions trump perceptions of disparities. Or income inequality in the minds of citizens: What they see matters but how they view it even more?

Sonja Zmerli

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July 2023

April 2023

80th MPSA Annual Conference

Chicago, USA

Exploring representations of economic inequality in three welfare states:
The cases of France, Great Britain and Sweden

Sonja Zmerli, Linnéa Sturmhoefel Warnberg, Hope Isabella Hunter

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April 2023

March 2023

POLINEQUAL Workshop

PACTE, Sciences Po Grenoble UGA, Université Grenoble Alpes

Grenoble, FRANCE

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March 2023

December 2022

First ISSP User Conference “Social Inequality”

(Online)

Fairness perceptions trump perceptions of disparities. Or income inequality in the minds of citizens:
What they see matters but
how they view it even more?

Sonja Zmerli

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December 2022

November, 2022

WAPOR 75th Annual Conference

Dubai, UAE

Fairness perceptions trump perceptions of disparities. Or income inequality in the minds of citizens: What they see matters but how they view it even more?