Cancelled : Open Lecture “Examining inequality—The mystery of the French uprising—”

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Speakers:: Dr. Toshiaki Kozakai is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.

Outline:
Demonstrations and riots in Hong Kong, Chile, Spain and the United States. What do people want when they revolt? The yellow vests movement in France peaked at 300,000 participants, with many injured since these demonstrations began in 2018. In this lecture, Professor Kozakai will use the protests in France to take a closer look at equality, inequality, and justice.

Speaker profile:: Dr. Toshiaki Kozakai is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.

Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1956, Dr. Kozakai emigrated to France in 1981 after serving as a Japanese-French technical interpreter in Algeria. He withdrew from Waseda before graduating in 1994 with a PhD in social psychology from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

His major publications include Zōho minzoku to iu kyokō (The fiction of ethnicity), Sekinin to iu kyokō (The fiction of responsibility), and Hito ga hito o sabaku to iu koto (How people judge other people).