(2) Public Symposium:
Is Japan an Equal Society? Policies against Poverty and Social Exclusion
Programme
What is Social Exclusion?
Lessons from the UK, Hopes for Japan
Venue: North Hall, Keio University, Tokyo
Time: January 7th, 2012 13:00～17:15
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13.00 — Opening Words
Dr Nishimura, Director, IPSS
13.15 — Keynote Speeches
David Gordon, University of Bristol:
Poverty and Social Exclusion Policies in the UK →
15.00 — Break
15.15 — Panel Discussion
Moderator: Aya Abe, NIPSSR
David Gordon, Bristol University →
Makoto Yuasa, Social Exclusion Unit Japan
Jonathan Bradshaw, York University
Christina Pantazis, Bristol University
Kohei Komamura, Keio University
Masami Iwata, Japan Women's University
Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Doshisha University
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17.15 — Close
David Gordon
David Gordon Dave is currently the Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol. The Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research is dedicated to multi-disciplinary research on poverty in both the industrialized and developing world. The Centre has been established by the University of Bristol in response to the United Nations First International Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006) and in recognition of the work of Professor Peter Townsend. Dave has published widely on social and distributional justice, social harm, the scientific measurement of poverty, child poverty and human rights, childhood disability, crime and poverty, area-based anti-poverty measures, the causal effects of poverty on ill health, and rural poverty.
Contact details: Dave.Gordon@bistol.ac.uk
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