Romain Huret is a historian, research director and currently vice-president of the EHESS (School of Advanced Social Studies). He has extensively studied the evolution of economic and social inequalities in the United States. His publications include American Tax Resisters (Harvard University Press, 2014), The Experts' War on Poverty: Social Research and the Welfare Agenda in Postwar America (Cornell University Press, 2018). His latest research is focused on the relationship between celibacy and poverty in the United States, which he tries to put in comparative perspective with Europe and Japan. He is regularly invited to comment on political and social current affairs on French radio. On October 16th and 18th, he will give three lectures on the relation between inequalities and being single in the modern and contemporary eras, focused on the United States but with a comparative perspective.

1) One in French (with simultaneous translation in Japanese) at the Maison franco-japonaise on Wednesday 16th, evening, discussed by Prof. Adachi Mariko: https://www.mfj.gr.jp/agenda/2019/10/16/romain_huret/
2) "A Job Market for Unmarried People ?", an open seminar at the SSJDA, Tokyo University, on October 18th (11.00 - 12.00 am). Link to the event: https://csrda.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/international/ssjda-seminar/
3) "Tax the Unmarried ! Single's Tax Penalty in Historical Perspective", a lecture given at the Waseda Research Institute of Business Administration, on October 18th (6.00-7.30 pm), with Prof. YAGO Kazuhiko. Further information on : https://www.waseda.jp/fcom/riba/news/1020

I thank you in advance for your attention. With warm regards,

Adrienne Sala
Research Fellow, French Research Institute on Japan
Maison franco-japonaise (UMIFRE 19, MoFA-CNRS)
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