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A DIARY OF EVENTS OPEN TO THE LSE COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLIC 25 April – 18 July 2019 Finance Most finance professionals can drive the car... But do they understand how the engine works? At LSE, we believe in understanding why things work. We take you below the surface to understand the fundamentals of finance, giving you the tools to accelerate your career in a changing marketplace. MSc Finance (Part-time) The MSc Finance (Part-time) is LSE’s most established Executive Master’s programme. Taught in the evenings, it provides a unique opportunity for busy professionals to combine a full-time career with the opportunity to study a world-class MSc Finance programme that is grounded in academic depth and rigour. Sign up for a Masterclass and Information Evening: Wednesday 22 May 2019 | Wednesday 17 July 2019 Register at lse.ac.uk/finance 19_0228 FinanceAdvert_Events.indd 1 04/04/2019 11:59 Finance WELCOME Everyone is welcome to attend LSE’s public events, where some of the most Most finance professionals can drive the car... influential figures in the social sciences can be heard. Events are generally free and open to all, with entry on a first come, first served But do they understand basis – unless otherwise stated. It does get busy so we advise people to turn up 20 minutes before the advertised time. For ticketed events, please go to lse.ac.uk/events and fill in the online booking form to request a ticket. how the engine works? Allocations of tickets are set aside for LSE staff and students. Transcripts, podcasts and videos of an increasing number of LSE events are available online after the event at lse.ac.uk/lse-player. If you fancy grabbing a bite to eat before an event, or you want to sit and discuss the event with friends afterwards, there are a range of LSE catering outlets on campus. To see the different venues and their opening times please visit lse.ac.uk/cateringservices Just economics and politics? Think again. While LSE does not teach arts or music, there is a vibrant cultural side to the School – from weekly Thursday lunchtime free music concerts in the Shaw Library and an LSE orchestra and choir with their own professional conductors, to various film, art and photographic student societies and artist-in-residence projects. For more information please visit lse.ac.uk/arts Alan Revel, Head of Events At LSE, we believe in understanding why things work. We take you below the surface to understand the fundamentals of finance, giving you the tools to accelerate your career in a changing marketplace. MSc Finance (Part-time) The MSc Finance (Part-time) is LSE’s most established Executive Master’s TICKETING INFORMATION programme. Taught in the evenings, it provides a unique opportunity for busy professionals to combine a full-time career with the opportunity to study a Events are generally free and open to all, with entry on a first come, first served basis – unless otherwise stated. If a ticket world-class MSc Finance programme that is grounded in academic depth and rigour. TICKET is required this will be indicated with the following symbol: Sign up for a Masterclass and Information Evening: Wednesday 22 May 2019 | Wednesday 17 July 2019 Register at lse.ac.uk/finance 3 19_0228 FinanceAdvert_Events.indd 1 04/04/2019 11:59 SUMMER TERM HIGHLIGHTS Some highlighted events from this term’s programme The Politics of Equality, the “Populist Moment“ and the Power of New Technologies Katrín Jakobsdóttir Thursday 2 May Page 7 Clear Bright Future: a radical defence of the human being Paul Mason Monday 13 May Page 8 Global Health: inequalities, interventions and biases Amartya Sen Tuesday 18 June Page 13 FULL LISTINGS AT lse.ac.uk/events 4 JEAN-MICHEL BLANQUER KARINE BONNEVAL ZSUZSANNA SZELÉNYI THURSDAY 25 APRIL TUESDAY 30 APRIL TUESDAY 30 APRIL Tuesday 30, 5-6.45pm TICKET APRIL Old Theatre, Old Building Contemporary Challenges in Health and Social Care Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2018, will give a keynote speech followed by Thursday 25, 6-8.30pm TICKET a roundtable discussion led by LSE Director LSE campus, venue TBC Minouche Shafik, with Sally Davis, UK Chief to ticketholders Medical Officer, Senait Fisseha, Chief Advisor Reforming and Strengthening to the Director General, WHO, Alistair McGuire, Education in Europe in Times Chair in Health Economics, LSE, and Christos of Uncertainty Stylianides, EU Commissioner, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management. Jean-Michel Blanquer has been the French Minister of National Education, Youth and Info: Tickets available at Community Life since May 2017. From 2009 lse.ac.uk/health-policy/events. to 2012, he served as director of ESSEC Department of Health Policy launch event business school. Info: Tickets available from Thursday 11 April Tuesday 30, 6.30-8pm at lse.ac.uk/events. Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Hosted by the London School of Economics and The Generation that Built and Political Science Cut Down Democracy Tuesday 30, 6.30-8pm Zsuzsanna Szelényi is a Hungarian Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building psychologist and politician. Plants What is happening in Hungary? How has a party of dissident young democrats Karine Bonneval is an artist. Paco Calvo become a vehicle for illiberal and semi- APRIL is Director of the Minimal Intelligence Lab, authoritarian rule, and what does this University of Murcia. Thomas Greaves is mean for contemporary politics in Europe? Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, UEA. #LSEHungary Plants process information, solve problems, Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. and communicate. But do they think? We Hosted by the Ralph Miliband Programme explore the minds of plants. #LSEForum Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7539. Hosted by the Forum for Philosophy 5 LSE FESTIVAL PODCASTS A collection of podcasts from the 2019 LSE Festival on the theme of New World (Dis) Orders. lse.ac.uk /festival 6 #LSEFestival 19_0049 FestivalPodcasts Advert.indd 1 27/03/2019 11:07 MAY Thursday 2, 6-8.30pm TICKET Tuesday 7, 6-8.30pm LSE campus, venue TBC Old Theatre, Old Building to ticketholders The Economica Phillips Lecture The Politics of Equality, the “Populist Carmen M Reinhart is Minos A Zombanakis Moment“ and the Power of New Professor of the International Financial Technologies System at Harvard Kennedy School. Katrín Jakobsdóttir has been the Prime The Annual Economica Phillips lecture is jointly Minister of Iceland since November 2017 and sponsored by the journal Economica and the the Leader of the Left-Green Movement since Department of Economics. #LSEPhillips 2013. She is Iceland’s second female Prime Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Minister and served as Minister of Education, Hosted by Economica and Department of Economics Science and Culture as well as Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2009 to 2013. Tuesday 7, 6.30-8pm Katrín Jakobsdóttir will discuss democratic Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building challenges stemming from social inequalities, authoritarian politics and new technologies. Schopenhauer She makes the case for a democratic renewal Christine Battersby is Reader Emerita in based on social justice, gender equality and Philosophy, University of Warwick. Chris the green economy. Janaway is Professor of Philosophy, University Info: Tickets available from Thursday 25 April of Southampton. Christopher Ryan is Senior at lse.ac.uk/events. Lecturer in Philosophy and Education, London Hosted by the Institute of Global Affairs, International Metropolitan University. Inequalities Institute and Systemic Risk Centre Arthur Schopenhauer's work dealt with Eastern philosophy, human suffering, art, and much Thursday 2, 6.30-8pm more. We discuss his life, thought, and continuing Old Theatre, Old Building relevance in the 21st century. #LSEForum Info: [email protected] or call Is the Presidency of Donald Trump 020 7955 7539. a Political Aberration? Hosted by the Forum for Philosophy Stephen Skowronek is Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science, Wednesday 8, 6.30-8pm Yale University. Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Professor Skowronek examines long-running patterns in the politics of presidential From the “End of History” to the MAY leadership to sort out what is new, and what is Crisis of the Liberal Order: rethinking not, in the Trump phenomenon. #LSEUSTrump the end of the Cold War Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. John Ikenberry is Albert G Milbank Professor Hosted by the United States Centre of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University. Mary Kaldor is Director of the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit, Department of EVENTS GET BUSY! WE ADVISE International Development, LSE. Peter Trubowitz YOU TO ARRIVE 20 MINUTES is Head of the Department of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at LSE. EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT Vladislav Zubok is Professor of International 7 CHRISTINE BATTERSBY MARY KALDOR JOHN IKENBERRY TUESDAY 7 MAY WEDNESDAY 8 MAY WEDNESDAY 8 MAY History and author of The Idea of Russia: The Friday 10, 6.30-8pm Life and Work of Dmitry Likhachev. Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building The world is once again being turned upside The Global Distribution of Income down – by a major threat to the liberal order itself. How has this happened? And how worried should and the Politics of Globalisation- liberals be? #LSEEndOfColdWar embedded Liberal Capitalism Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Sara Hobolt is Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Professor in the Department Hosted by LSE IDEAS of Government, LSE. Branko Milanovic is Visiting Presidential Professor and LIS Senior Wednesday 8, 6-8.30pm Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University Old Theatre, Old Building of New York. Paul Segal is Senior Lecturer The Meritocracy Trap in Economics, Department of International Development, Kings College London and Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Visiting Senior Fellow, International Inequalities Professor of Law at Yale Law School.