Short Talk: In Future #1 Wealth and In.Equality

What to do about wealth inequality in liberal democracies that are inheritance societies rather than meritocracies? Journalist  Adrian Schulz interviews SCRIPTS junior researcher Martyna B. Linartas on political and social challenges of rising and extreme inequality. Of unequal wealth — history or a story that still needs to be told in future?

Speakers

Martyna Berenika Linartas is political scientist and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Excellence Cluster Contestations of the Liberal Scripts (SCRIPTS). She holds an M.A. in Political Science and teaches in international political economy at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and Hochschule für Gesellschaftgestaltung in Koblenz. She worked as press officer referee for the Headquarters of the German Green Party during the federal elections in 2017 and thereinafter as social media referee for Annalena Baerbock. Martyna is founder of ungleichheit.info – a platform that transfers knowledge and information on inequality from academia to the general public – in order to comprehend, convey, and challenge inequality. Besides she is also involved in the Forum New Economy and the campaign by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on Erben verpflichtet!

Adrian Schulz is a journalist and editor for the interview pages "Im Gespräch" at the “Tagesspiegel”. Previously, he completed a traineeship at the Tagesspiegel and was an author and columnist at "taz", “Zeit Online”, “FAZ” and “Neues Deutschland”. He studied political science, comparative literature and aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main.

Attending the event

• This event will take place as part of the Berlin Science Week CAMPUS. Admission is free.

• Information about the physical accessibility of the Museum für Naturkunde can be found here.

• The event is taking place in the Collaborative Field. See ‚experimental field‘ for exact location on the map on the BSW Website.

An event of the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)“ at the Berlin Science Week 2023.