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Event

Local Contexts of Discrimination and Well-Being

Info about event

Time

Thursday 28 May 2026,  at 10:45 - 17:30

Organizer

CEPDISC, Kim Mannemar Sønderskov


Programme

Time

Session

Duration

10:45 – 10:50

Welcome

5 min

10:50 – 11:25

Matias Engdal (AU) “It’s the (relative local) economy, stupid: Local income position is robustly linked to subjective well-being”

35 min

11:25 – 12:00

Matthias Gobel (Sussex) “The Psychological Immediacy of Inequality: How Local Contexts Shape Experience, Wellbeing and Social Division”

35 min

12:00 – 12:45

Lunch break

45 min

12:45 – 13:20

Nick Haas (AU) “Resisting National Narrative Change: The Role of Subnationalism” 

35 min

13:20 – 13:55

Amalie Kjærsgaard Zanani (AU) “Dual Loyalty and Religious Bias: Stereotypes about MENAPT Candidates in Denmark”

35 min

13:55 – 14:05

Break

10 min

14:05 – 14:40

Mathias Kruse (AU) “Childhood Interethnic Encounters and Adult Ethnic Out-group Aversion”

35 min

14:40 – 15:15

Wilson Merrell (AU) “’Bad’ Places Loom Larger among Those Who Perceive Greater Threat in Their Neighborhood”

35 min

15:15 – 15:35

Break

20 min

15:35 – 16:10

Lei Fan (AU) “Neighborhood in Mind’s Eye: Mapping Resident Needs into Perceived Urban Space”

35 min

16:10 – 16:45

Paula Bings & Victor Nordgaard (AU) “Does Affluence Shape Representation? The Relationship between Income and the Distribution of Public Goods”

35 min

16:45 – 17:20

Cem Mert Dalli (AU) “Estimating Local Welfare Effects of Chinese Development Finance in Africa”

35 min

17:20 – 17:30

Concluding remarks

10 min