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He discusses The Responsible Globalist, a LSE Executive Friday 6, 6.30-8pm TICKET manifesto for building an inclusive global Old Theatre, Old Building nation. #LSEGlobalist Education Narrative Economics Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Intensive programmes Robert J Shiller is Sterling Professor of Hosted by the Institute of Global Affairs and the School Economics, Yale University, a Nobel Prize of Public Policy, as part of the “Shape the World” series for visionary thinkers winner and New York Times bestselling author. Shiller will discuss his new book, arguing that Tuesday 17, 5.30-7pm looking at viral stories’ impact on the economy Old Theatre, Old Building or “narrative economics”, gives forecasters better tools for predicting a recession. #LSEShiller Challenges Facing the Euro Info: Tickets available from Thursday 29 August François Villeroy de Galhau is the Governor at lse.ac.uk/events of the Bank of France. Hosted by the Centre For Macroeconomics The Governor will discuss the tangible assets that the euro has provided to the Tuesday 10, 6.30-8pm TICKET euro area and the efforts needed to build a stronger Europe, resilience, growth and LSE campus, venue TBC sovereignty. #LSEFrance to ticketholders Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Social Integration and Inequality Hosted by the European Institute and the in London Dahrendorf Forum, a project of LSE ideas Afua Hirsch is a writer, barrister, former social affairs editor at Sky News and former Wednesday 18, 6.30-8pm journalist at The Guardian. Sadiq Khan is the Auditorium, Basement, Centre Building Mayor of London and former MP for Tooting. Led by Children: designing an In discussion with Afua Hirsch, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will state why it’s essential inclusive city that London is a city for All of Us. #LSELondon Erion Veliaj is an Albanian politician and Info: Tickets available from Tuesday Mayor of Tirana. 3 September at lse.ac.uk/events Respondent: Amica Dall is one of the Hosted by the Marshall Institute directors of Assemble, an architecture, art and design practice. Monday 16, 6.30-8pm The Albanian capital’s recent transformation into a more walkable, more sustainable, less Auditorium, Basement, Centre Building car-dependent city was inspired by its children SEPTEMBER Advance your career with our open enrolment What Citizens of the World Can and conceived by its mayor. #LSETirana Learn from Nationalism Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6972. courses in business and management, Hassan Damluji leads the Middle East team Hosted by LSE Cities, as part of the “Shape the at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He World” series economics, finance and global public policy. is a co-founder of the $2 Billion Lives and Livelihoods Fund, the largest multilateral EVENTS GET BUSY! WE ADVISE development fund based in the Middle East. YOU TO ARRIVE 20 MINUTES EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT Discover more at www.lse.ac.uk/execed 7 SADIQ KHAN FRANÇOIS VILLEROY DE GALHAU NAOMI ORESKES TUESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
Thursday 19, 5-6.30pm TICKET Thursday 19, 7-8.15pm TICKET Auditorium, Basement, Centre Building Old Theatre, Old Building Populism: causes and responses Understand Today, Shape Tomorrow Michael Ignatieff is President and Rector, Minouche Shafik, LSE Director, and high Central European University. Pippa Norris is a profile guests will discuss how LSE can shape comparative political scientist who has taught the world in turbulent times of economic at Harvard for more than a quarter century. uncertainty, political divisions and social A populist wave has swept across the transformations. #ShapeTheWorld democratic world. What are the economic and Info: Tickets available from Wednesday social causes of this wave, and how should 11 September at lse.ac.uk/events democratic leaders respond? #LSEPopulism Hosted by the London School of Economics Info: Tickets available from Thursday and Political Science 12 September at lse.ac.uk/events TICKET Hosted by the London School of Economics Monday 30, 6.30-8pm and Political Science LSE campus, venue TBC to ticketholders Thursday 19, 6.30-8pm The IMF and the Greek Crisis: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building myths and realities Why Trust Science? Poul Thomsen is Director of the European Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Department, IMF. Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Ten years after the Greek crisis, the role of Planetary Sciences, Harvard University. the IMF, its coordination with the EU and the She offers a bold and compelling defense of lessons to be learned for the future will be science, revealing why the social character of examined. #LSEGreece scientific knowledge is its greatest strength, Info: Tickets available from Monday and the greatest reason we can trust it. 23 September at lse.ac.uk/events #LSEOreskes Hosted by the Hellenic Observatory and the Info: [email protected] or call 020 7107 5865. Hellenic Bankers Association UK Hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
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Tuesday 1, 6.30-8pm Discussants: David Lammy is Labour MP for Tottenham. Caroline Lucas MP served as Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building leader of the Green Party of England and Wales Messengers: who we listen to, who from 2008-12, and co-leader from 2016-18. we don’t, and why Britain’s commons have been slashed by Joseph Marks is Doctoral Researcher, privatisation, austerity and colonisation. University College London. Steve Martin is the Guy Standing’s new book proposes an CEO of Influence At Work and author of Yes! ecological Commons Charter, with a 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion. Commons Fund and Dividends to Messengers is a ground-breaking study of how compensate commoners. #LSEWealth people get their message across. In a world Info: Tickets available from Wednesday of ambiguity and fake news it is increasingly 25 September at lse.ac.uk/events the Messenger who is the message. Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute #LSEMessengers Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Thursday 3, 6.30-8pm Hosted by the Department of Psychological Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building and Behavioural Science, as part of the “Shape the World” Series Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: national action Tuesday 1, 6.30-8pm plans and beyond Old Theatre, Old Building Laura J Shepherd is Professor of International Relations, University of Sydney and Visiting Multiculturalism and Animal Ethics Professor, Centre for Women, Peace and David Grummet is Senior Lecturer in Security, LSE. Theology and Ethics, University of Edinburgh. What trends and emerging issues arise in the Angie Pepper is Lecturer in Philosophy, National Action Plans aimed at addressing University of Birmingham. Varun Uberoi is gendered inequalities, exclusions and harms Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Public in conflict-affected settings? #LSEWPS Policy, Brunel University. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. What should we do when different cultural and religious traditions disagree about animal Hosted by the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, as part of the “Shape the World” series welfare? Can we protect animal rights while avoiding cultural imperialism? #LSEForum Thursday 3, 6.30-8pm Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Old Theatre, Old Building Hosted by the Forum for Philosophy OCTOBER No Longer Special? The Death Wednesday 2, 6.30-8pm TICKET of Anglo-America? Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building G John Ikenberry is Albert G Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Plunder of the Commons: a Princeton University. Kori Schake is Deputy manifesto for sharing public wealth Director-General at the International Institute Guy Standing is Professorial Research for Strategic Studies. Linda Yueh is Visiting Associate, SOAS, and a founder and Professor, LSE IDEAS and Chair of the co-President of BIEN Economic Diplomacy Commission, LSE.
9 A panel of experts will discuss “Anglo-America”, Yamin, is an author and activist and Visiting what the US-UK relationship has meant for the Professor, UCL. world in the 20th century, and how a retreat by Can climate activism bring about the radical both will influence the international system. change in government and business that is #LSEPopulism needed to stop runaway global warming? Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. #LSEClimateProtest Hosted by LSE IDEAS and the Department of Info: Tickets available from Wednesday International Relations 2 October at lse.ac.uk/events Hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Tuesday 8, 6.30-8pm Climate Change and the Environment, as part of the “Shape the World” series Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Ending Wars and Making Peace: Thursday 10, 6.30-8pm the Paris Peace Conference of Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building 1919 re-examined Labour and Brexit Margaret MacMillan is Professor of History, University of Toronto and Emeritus Professor, Clive Lewis is Labour MP for Norwich South University of Oxford. and Shadow Minister for the Treasury. Deborah Mattinson is a founding partner of Why is moving from war to peace so difficult and Britain Thinks. what can we learn from the challenges faced by With the Brexit deadline fast approaching, a peacemakers in 1919? #LSEMakingPeace leading politician and a prominent pollster Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. discuss what Labour can and should do now. Hosted by the Department of Law, as part of the #LSEBrexit “Shape the World” series Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Wednesday 9, 6.30-8pm Hosted by The Ralph Miliband Programme Old Theatre, Old Building Thursday 10, 6.30-8pm Philosophy as Therapy? Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Beverley Clack is Professor in Philosophy, Parents, Poverty and the State Oxford Brookes. Molly Macdonald is Lecturer Naomi Eisenstadt and Carey Oppenheim in Literary Theory, QMUL. John Skorupski is are visiting senior fellows, International Professor of Moral Philosophy, St Andrews. Inequalities Institute, LSE and authors There is a rich tradition of claiming therapeutic of Parents, Poverty and the State. Ryan powers for philosophy, but if philosophy Shorthouse is Director of Bright Blue. is the love of wisdom, what if ignorance What do children need from parents, how is bliss? #LSEForum is poverty a barrier to meeting needs, and Info: [email protected] or call what has Government done – and should 020 7955 7539. do – about it? #LSECare Hosted by the Forum for Philosophy Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute Wednesday 9, 6.30-8pm TICKET Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Friday 11, 6.30-8pm Protest and Power: can climate Old Theatre, Old Building activism save the planet? Prospects for Democracy in Sudan
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Programme, LSE and Executive Director of the Tuesday 15, 6.30-8pm World Peace Foundation, Tufts University. Old Theatre, Old Building This event will focus on the dynamics of the Sudanese revolution: non-violent A Right to a Home? civic mobilisation and the fast-evolving Cara Nine is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, transnational political marketplace. #LSECRP University College Cork. Yousif M Qasmiyeh Info: [email protected] or call 020 7107 5711. is Writer-in-Residence, Refugee Hosts, and Creative Encounters Editor, Migration and Hosted by the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit Society. Beth Watts is Senior Research Fellow, Heriot-Watt University. Monday 14, 6.30-8pm “Home” means more than a roof over our Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building head; it’s crucial to our well-being. What might Managing Risk in a More it mean to have a right to a home? #LSEForum Uncertain World Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Allison Schrager is an economist, author and Hosted by the Forum for Philosophy journalist who specialises in retirement and more exotic risks. Wednesday 16, 6.30-8pm An uncertain world requires us to manage risks Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building we could never have imagined. But tools exist that can help. What can we learn from sex The Price of Risk: planning, workers, studs, and surfers? #LSESchrager infrastructure and community building Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Peter Freeman is co-founder of Argent, a UK- Hosted by the Centre For Macroeconomics and based property developer responsible for the Financial Markets Group redevelopment of King’s Cross. He will argue that long-term, institutional Monday 14, 6.30-8pm investors should support mixed-use, master- planned developments because their social
Old Theatre, Old Building OCTOBER and commercial aims create value and reduce Margaret Thatcher: herself alone risk. #LSEFreeman Charles Moore is a journalist and former Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Editor of the Daily Telegraph. Hosted by the Department of Geography He will speak about the third and final in his series and Environment of biographies of Margaret Thatcher, focusing on her last period in office. #LSEThatcher Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Hosted by the Department of Government
11 Thursday 17, 6.30-8pm Tuesday 22, 6.30-8pm Old Theatre, Old Building Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Trading Across the Globe: an Ending the US Overdose Crisis: analysis of the political economy lessons from other times and places of China and Europe Ruth Dreifuss is former President of Switzerland. Robert Basedow is Assistant Professor in Kasia Malinowska is the Director of the Global International Political Economy, European Institute, Drug Policy Program, Open Society Foundations. LSE. Chun Ding is Professor in Economics, Fudan Katherine Pettus is Advocacy Officer, International University. Yu Jie is Senior Research Fellow on Association for Hospice and Palliative Care. China, Chatham House. Thomas Sampson is The US is in the midst of a public health crisis. Associate Professor of Economics, LSE. Tens of thousands of deaths are directly Key trade issues between China and the EU attributable to overdose over the past two will be discussed, marking the launch of the decades and no end is in sight. #OverdoseCrisis LSE European Institute and Fudan University Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Double Degree. #LSEChina Hosted by LSE International Drug Policy Unit and Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. LSE US Centre Hosted by the European Institute Wednesday 23, 6.30-8pm Friday 18, 6.30-8pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Old Theatre, Old Building 30 Years after the fall of the Berlin Extreme Economies: lessons Wall: German historical memory and from the world’s limits national identity Richard Davies is a British economist and Hope Harrison is Assistant Professor of journalist and Fellow, LSE. History and International Affairs, George LSE’s Richard Davies will speak about his Washington University. new book Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, She will examine the arc of memory politics in Future – Lessons from the World’s Limits. Germany since 1989, including the impact of #LSEExtremeEcon the far right and plans for the 30th anniversary Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7673. of the fall of the Wall. #LSEBerlinWall Hosted by the Centre for Economic Performance Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. TICKET Hosted by LSE IDEAS and the Department of Monday 21, 6.30-8pm International History Old Theatre, Old Building TICKET Can America Still Have a Successful Wednesday 23, 6.30-8pm Foreign Policy? Old Theatre, Old Building Stephen M Walt is Robert and Renée Belfer Capitalism, Alone: the future of Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy the system that rules the world School of Government, Harvard. Branko Milanovic is Visiting Presidential Since victory in the Cold War, US foreign policy Professor and LIS Senior Scholar, Graduate has largely failed. What would a more successful Center, City University of New York. foreign policy look like, and what needs to change For the first time the globe is dominated by one to implement it? #LSEUSWalt economic system. Branko Milanovic explains the Info: Tickets available from Monday 14 October reasons for this decisive shift. #LSEWealth at lse.ac.uk/events OCTOBER Info: Tickets available from Wednesday 16 October Hosted by the United States Centre at lse.ac.uk/events Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute
12 Thursday 24, 6.30-8pm Friday 25, 6.30-8pm Old Theatre, Old Building Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building The 1979 Revolution in Iran: Annual British Journal of important or not? Sociology Lecture Ervand Abrahamian is Professor Emeritus Marion Fourcade is Professor of Sociology, of History, City University of New York, and University of California at Berkeley. #LSEBJS author of Iran Between Two Revolutions. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. The Iranian Revolution shook the world, but Hosted by the Department of Sociology and the left little lasting impact outside Iran. Ervand British Journal of Sociology Abrahamian will address this puzzling paradox of modern Iranian history. #LSEIran Monday 28, 6.30-8pm Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Hosted by the Department of International History Imagine All The People: literature, Thursday 24, 6.30-8pm society and cross-national variation in education systems Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Cathie-Jo Martin is Professor at Boston The Ethical Human University and Director, BU Center for the Zanna Clay is Assistant Professor of Study of Europe. Anthropology, Durham University. Philip Pettit Cathie-Jo Martin examines differences in is LS Rockefeller University Professor of literary narratives on education, the individual Politics and Human Values, Princeton University. and society, and its influence on education Simone Schnall is Reader in Experimental policy choices in Britain and Denmark. #LSEIII Social Psychology, University of Cambridge. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Where do our ideas of right and wrong Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute come from? With perspectives from evolutionary anthropology, psychology, Tuesday 29, 6.30-8pm and philosophy, we discuss the emergence of Homo moralis. #LSEForum Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Greek Politics After the 2019 Hosted by the Forum for Philosophy Elections: future prospects Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos is Senior Lecturer, Thursday 24, 6.30-8pm Department of Politics, Birkbeck, University Shaw Library, Old Theatre of London. Maria Karaklioumi is Political Analyst at RASS. Spyros Kosmidis is Lecturer From Apology to Equality: making in the Department of Politics and International reparations for the harm done and Relations, University of Oxford. the damage to come This summer witnessed a momentous Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder election in Greece. What does it signify for OCTOBER Professor of Geography at Oxford and a Fellow Greece’s future? #LSEGreece of St Peters College, Oxford. Info: [email protected] or call What do we owe others in the face of mass 020 7107 5096. extinction and biodiversity loss given our great Hosted by the Hellenic Observatory responsibility? Professor Danny Dorling examines the repercussions of making reparations for environmental harm. #LSELaw SOME OF OUR EVENTS ARE LIVE Info: [email protected] or call 020 7055 7687. STREAMED – SEE THE FULL LIST Hosted by the Department of Law AT lse.ac.uk/live
13 Wednesday 30, 6.30-8pm TICKET Wednesday 30, 6.30-8pm Auditorium, Basement, Centre Building Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building How to Speak Machine The View from the Bench: in John Maeda is the Head of Computational conversation with Supreme Court Design and Inclusion at Automattic. Justice, Lady Black of Derwent From data bias to political meddling – machines Lady Black was appointed to the UK are more powerful than ever in today’s society Supreme Court in 2017, only the second and it is essential to educate ourselves about the female judge to reach the position. laws of our digital age. #LSEMaeda Discussant: Zimran Samuel is a Visiting Info: Tickets available from Wednesday 23 October Fellow at LSE and a barrister at Doughty at lse.ac.uk/events Street Chambers. Hosted by the Department of Management Lady Black will speak about her work as a judge, reflecting on her career in the Wednesday 30, 6.30-8pm law. #LSELaw Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. The Europe Illusion? Britain, France, Hosted by the Department of Law and Department of Anthropology Germany and the Long History of European Integration Thursday 31, 6.30-8pm Stuart Sweeney is a visiting academic, Centre Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building for European History, University of Oxford. Tim Hochstrasser is Associate Professor, Brexit meets its Halloween: Department of International History, LSE. assessing the immediate future In The Europe Illusion, Stuart Sweeney considers for the UK and the EU Britain’s relationships with France and Prussia- Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Germany since the map of Europe was redrawn Union and Labour Law at Trinity College, at Westphalia in 1648. #LSEHistory University of Cambridge. Vicky Pryce is an Info: [email protected] or call 020 7107 5006. economist and former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service. Sir Ivan Rogers Hosted by the Department of International History is Former UK Permanent Representative to the EU. Tony Travers is Associate Dean of the Wednesday 30, 6.30-8pm School of Public Policy, LSE. Old Theatre, Old Building The latest developments and implications The Occult of the Brexit negotiations will be discussed Lauren Kassell is Professor of History of on exit-day. #LSEBrexit Science and Medicine, University of Cambridge. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Richard Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy, Hosted by the European Institute and the School University of Bristol. Nisha Ramayya is Lecturer of Public Policy in Creative Writing, QMUL. Join us as we delve into the mystic just in time for Halloween. How does philosophy contend with the mysterious and the inexplicable? #LSEForum MISSED AN EVENT? PODCASTS Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. AND VIDEOS OF MANY PAST LSE Hosted by the Forum for Philosophy OCTOBER EVENTS CAN BE DOWNLOADED ONLINE AT lse.ac.uk/events
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Monday 4, 6.30-8pm Tuesday 5, 6.30-8pm TICKET Old Theatre, Old Building Wolfson Theatre, Aristotle Now New Academic Building Joachim Aufderheide is Lecturer in William Beveridge and Social Philosophy, King’s College London. Sophie Biology at LSE Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy, Chris Renwick is Senior Lecturer in History, Open University. Sophia Connell is Lecturer in University of York. Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London. Aristotle may be well known, but is he still He will speak on the history of sociology in relevant? Almost two and a half millennia on, what Britain and why William Beveridge was interested can he tell us about modern life? #LSEForum in the role of biology within social science in the 1920s and 30s. #LSEBeveridge100 Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7539. Info: Tickets available at lse.ac.uk/library/events Hosted by the Forum for Philosophy Hosted by LSE Library TICKET Monday 4, 6.30-8pm Tuesday 5, 6.30-8pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building The Case for the Green New Deal Good Economics for Hard Times Ann Pettifor is Director of Prime, Honorary Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor Research Fellow, City University, Research of Poverty Alleviation and Development Associate, SOAS. Economics in the Department of Economics, To protect the systems that sustain life Massachusetts Institute of Technology. on Earth, we need to do more than just Info: Tickets available from Tuesday 29 October at reimagine the economy – we have to change lse.ac.uk/events everything. #LSEPettifor Hosted by the London School of Economics and Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Political Science Hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Wednesday 6, 6.30-8pm Department of Geography and Environment, as part of the “Shape the World” series Old Theatre, Old Building Data and Democracy: in conversation Tuesday 5, 6.30-8pm with the Information Commissioners Old Theatre, Old Building Elizabeth Denham is the UK’s Information
This Is Not Propaganda: adventures Commissioner. Jay Fedorak is the Jersey NOVEMBER in the war against reality Information Commissioner. Orla Lynskey is Associate Professor, LSE. Peter Pomerantsev is Co-Director of the Arena project and Senior Fellow, Institute Political micro-targeting; predictive policing; of Global Affairs, LSE. and algorithmic decision-making; are existing He will discuss his latest book This is Not data protection and privacy frameworks Propaganda – Adventures in the War Against up to the task of constraining State power? Reality with Sophie Gaston. #LSEDisinformation #LSEInformationCommissioners Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Hosted by the Institute of Global Affairs Hosted by the Department of Law 15 LSE-PKU Summer School in Beijing, China 3-14 August 2020
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Wednesday 6, 6.30-8pm Friday 8, 6.30-8pm Auditorium, Basement, Centre Building Old Theatre, Old Building Planning New York Unbound: how inequality Marisa Lago is Director of the New York City constricts our economy and Department of City Planning and the Chair of what we can do about it the City Planning Commission. Heather Boushey is President, Washington Respondent: Tony Travers is Visiting Center for Equitable Growth and former Chief Professor, Department of Government, Economist for Hillary Clinton. LSE and Director of LSE London. One of Washington’s most influential voices New York City’s Planning Department on economic policy argues that reducing works to make the city a better place to inequality is fair and key to delivering broadly live, to maintain what works and improve shared economic growth and stability. what doesn’t. How does it face today’s #LSEWealth challenges? #LSENYCplanning Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute Hosted by LSE Cities, the School of Public Policy and the United States Centre Monday 11, 6.30-8pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Thursday 7, 6.30-8pm Women vs Capitalism: why we can’t Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building have it all in a free market economy Tackling Britain’s Social Vicky Pryce is Chief Economic Adviser, Centre Mobility Problem for Economics and Business Research. Stephen Machin is Professor of Economics The free market as we know it cannot produce and Director of the Centre for Economic gender equality. This is the bold but authoritative Performance, LSE. Lee Elliot Major is argument of Vicky Pryce, the government’s NOVEMBER Professor of Social Mobility, University of former economics chief. #LSEPryce Exeter and Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. What can we do to improve Britain’s low Hosted by the School of Public Policy social mobility – one of the most pressing issues facing young people growing up today? #LSESocialMobility Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Hosted by the Centre for Economic Performance
17 Monday 11, 7.30-8.30pm Wednesday 13, 6-8pm Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Old Theatre, Old Building Sovereignty as Responsibility Code and Conduct: the future of Jennifer Welsh is Professor and Chair in legal professions International Relations, European University Christina Blacklaws is the immediate past Institute and Senior Research Fellow at president of the Law Society. Veerle Heyvaert is Somerville College, University of Oxford. Professor of Law, LSE. Orla Lynskey is Associate At the annual Martin Wight memorial lecture, Professor, LSE. Eva Micheler is Associate Professor Jennifer Welsh will talk about Professor, LSE. Lord Reed is incoming President Sovereignty as Responsibility, previewing her of the UK Supreme Court. Richard Susskind is new book on this theme. #LSEWightMemorial Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. How can we harness the transformative power of digitalisation without sacrificing law’s Hosted by the Department of International Relations humanity? #LSECodeandConduct Tuesday 12, 6.30-8pm Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Hosted by the Department of Law Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Anatomy of a Language Wednesday 13, 6.30-8pm TICKET Richard Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Linguistics, UCL. Guy Longworth is Reader Mobilising for Sustainable in Philosophy, University of Warwick. Hazel Pearson is Lecturer in Linguistics, QMUL. Peace in Afghanistan: a global mothers’ campaign There’s more to grammar than meets the eye. We probe the philosophical underpinnings of Anne-Claire de Liedekerke is President of Make Mothers Matter. Staffan de Mistura served as grammar and how it functions in communication, Special Envoy for Syria of the United Nations understanding, and even humour. #LSEForum Secretary-General from 2014 to 2018. Rahela Info: [email protected] or call Sidiqi is Founding Director of Farkhunda Trust 020 7955 7539. for Afghan Women’s Education. Marika Theros is Hosted by the Forum for Philosophy Research Fellow at the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit, LSE. Tuesday 12, 6.30-8pm As talks between the US and Taliban raise hopes Old Theatre, Old Building for peace in Afghanistan, mothers are mobilising inside and outside the country to hold on to their “We, the People?” Some Thoughts right to educate their daughters. #LSEMothers from Our Past on Contemporary Info: Tickets available from Wednesday European Populism 6 November at lse.ac.uk/events Michael Burleigh is the first Engelsberg Chair Hosted by the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit for 2019/20, LSE IDEAS. and the Department of International Development What can history contribute to an understanding of contemporary European Wednesday 13, 6.30-8pm populism, which is now as much in power as Auditorium, Basement, Centre Building insurgent? #LSEPopulism Despotic Data: how authoritarian Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. regimes are driving technology Hosted by LSE IDEAS and innovation Noam Yuchtman is Professor of Managerial
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From data collection to privacy perception, What do recent labour and student struggles in discover how authoritarian regimes – such China tell us about the potential for working class as modern-day China – are advancing the solidarity and left politics? #LSEChina frontiers of technology, innovation and artificial Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. intelligence. #LSEDespoticData Hosted by the Ralph Miliband Programme and the Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Department of Sociology Hosted by the Department of Management Tuesday 19, 6.30-8pm Thursday 14, 6.30-8pm Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Looking at Labour Markets from Britain and the Welfare State in a Multidimensional Perspective: the 21st Century: a more or less the quality of employment in “irresponsible society”? South America John Hills is Richard Titmuss Professor of Kirsten Sehnbruch is British Academy Global Social Policy, LSE. Professor and Distinguished Policy Fellow, DISCUSSANTS: Sonia Exley is Assistant International Inequalities Institute, LSE. Professor in the Department of Social Kirsten Sehnbruch re-examines employment Policy, LSE. Howard Glennerster is Emeritus from the perspective of the capability approach Professor of Social Policy, LSE. and discusses how this changes our perspective Sixty years on from Richard Titmuss’ famous of public policy in developing countries. #LSEIII lecture on “The Irresponsible Society” John Hills Info: [email protected] or call will discuss how to judge today’s society by the 020 7955 7308. same criteria. #LSEIrresponsibleSociety Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Hosted by the Department of Social Policy Tuesday 19, 6.30-8pm
Old Theatre, Old Building NOVEMBER Thursday 14, 6.30-8pm The Future of Football in Europe: Old Theatre, Old Building access and sustainability The End of Working-Class Alasdair Bell is Deputy Secretary General, Solidarity? The Chinese Workers FIFA. Ebru Koksal is Chair of Women and Students in Struggle in Football and Former FIFA and UEFA Pun Ngai is Professor of Sociology, University Consultant. Gabriele Marcotti is Senior Writer of Hong Kong. for ESPN and a correspondent for Italian sports newspaper Corriere dello Sport.
19 A panel of high profile experts will discuss a fashion designer. Heather Widdows is John issues of access and equality, financial Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics, University sustainability, and the best ways of making of Birmingham and author of Perfect Me. the game future-proof. #LSEFootball What do clothes say about us? Can Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. judgements about beauty be ethically right or Hosted by the European Institute wrong? We explore the philosophy and politics of fashion and beauty. #LSEForum Tuesday 19, 6.30-8pm Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Hosted by the Forum for Philosophy Will the UK be the “Safest” Place TICKET Wednesday 20, 6.30-8pm in the World to Go Online? (And do we want it to be?) Shaw Library, Old Building Madeleine de Cock Buning is Professor of Virginia Woolf: killing the angel Media and Communications Law, University Pianist Elizabeth Marcus is Fellow and Professor of Utrecht. Robin Mansell is Professor of New of Harpsichord, Guildhall School of Music and Media and the Internet in the Department of Drama. Lucy Stevens is an actor and singer, who Media and Communications, LSE. Victor Pickard has recently been specialising in uncovering and is Associate Professor of Communication, performing music by women composers. Annenberg School for Communication. Lucy Stevens presents a performance of A year after the report of the LSE Commission extracts from her work in progress about on Truth, Trust and Technology, the panel will Virginia Woolf’s relationship to music and discuss policy developments in the UK and women’s activism. #LSEWomenWork internationally. #LSET3 Info: Tickets available at lse.ac.uk/library/events Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Being Human 2019 Festival event hosted by LSE Library Hosted by the LSE Commission on Truth, Trust and Technology Thursday 21, 6.30-8pm Wednesday 20, 6.30-8pm TICKET Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building Auditorium, Basement, Centre Building Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 Brexit and the Irish Border: is there a way forward? Paul Stock is Associate Professor of Early Modern International History, LSE. Conor Gearty is Professor of Human Rights His new book, Europe and the British Law, Department of Law, LSE. Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830, A discussion of possible solutions and explores what literate British people proposed alternatives to the most important understood by the word “Europe” in the late issue of the Brexit negotiations, the Irish 18th and early 19th centuries. #LSEHistory border. #LSEBrexit Info: [email protected] or call 020 7107 5006. Info: Tickets available from Wednesday Hosted by the Department of International History 13 November at lse.ac.uk/events Hosted by the European Institute and the School Thursday 21, 6.30-8pm of Public Policy Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Wednesday 20, 6.30-8pm Towards a new Euromissile Old Theatre, Old Building Crisis? Implications of the end Do Clothes Maketh the Human? of the INF Treaty
NOVEMBER Shahidha Bari is Fellow of the Forum for Luc-André Brunet is Co-Director of the Peace Philosophy and Professor of Fashion Cultures, and Security Project, LSE IDEAS. Sam Dudin UAL and author of Dressed. Yashka Moore is is UK Nuclear Policy Research Fellow, Royal 20 United Services Institute. Kate Hudson is General Tuesday 26, 6.30-8pm Secretary, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Old Theatre, Old Building In light of the American and Russian Universal Basic Income and withdrawals from the landmark 1987 INF Universal Basic Services: the Treaty, we discuss the implications for European security, transatlantic relations, case for radical change and nuclear disarmament. #LSEINF Anna Coote is Principle Fellow, New Economics Foundation. Louise Haagh is Info: [email protected] or call Professor in Politics, University of York. 020 7849 4918. What are the arguments for Universal Basic Hosted by LSE IDEAS Income and for Universal Basic Services? How do they relate to each other and what Friday 22, 6.15-7.45pm might the difficulties be? #LSEUBI Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Understanding Hosted by The Ralph Miliband Programme Scientific Understanding Henk W de Regt is Professor of Philosophy Wednesday 27, 6.30-8pm of Natural Sciences, Institute for Science in Auditorium, Basement, Centre Building Society, Radboud University Nijmegen. French Muslims in Perspective: The Lakatos Award is given for an outstanding nationalism, post-colonialism and contribution to the philosophy of science, marginalisation under the Republic widely interpreted, in the form of a book Fiona Adamson is Reader in International published in English during the previous five Relations, SOAS. Joseph Downing is Fellow years. #LSELakatosAward in Nationalism, European Institute, LSE. Esra Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Özyürek is Chair in Contemporary Turkish Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, Logic Studies, European Institute, LSE. and Scientific Method Joseph Downing will present his latest book on Muslims in France in a comparative social, Monday 25, 6.30-8pm political and media perspective. #LSEFrance Old Theatre, Old Building Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. The Philosophers’ Book Club: Hosted by the European Institute Under the Net by Iris Murdoch Thursday 28, 6.30-8pm Lucy Bolton is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House QMUL. Clare Mac Cumhaill is Assistant Professor in Department of Philosophy, Can Social Policy Work in Durham University. Rachael Wiseman is Dysfunctional Labour Markets? Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Liverpool. Dante Contreras is Professor, University To mark the centenary of novelist and philosopher of Chile and Director of the COES. Camille Iris Murdoch’s birth, we will be discussing her first Landais is Professor of Economics, LSE and NOVEMBER book, Under the Net. #LSEForum Director of CEPR Public Economics Program. Kirsten Sehnbruch is British Academy Global Info: [email protected] or call Professor and Distinguished Policy Fellow, 020 7955 7539. International Inequalities Institute, LSE. Hosted by the Forum for Philosophy Can social security systems based on individual savings accounts work in developing countries SOME OF OUR EVENTS ARE LIVE with precarious labour markets? #LSEIII Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. STREAMED – SEE THE FULL LIST Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute and the AT lse.ac.uk/live Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES) 21 CONOR GEARTY ANNE COOTE SIMONA BOTTI WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER
Thursday 28, 6.30-8pm Thursday 28, 6.30-8pm Old Theatre, Old Building Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building From 1919 to 2019: pivotal lessons Who is the Middle Class, and what are from Versailles they up to? Reflections from Jakarta Barry Buzan is Emeritus Professor of AbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Professorial International Relations, LSE. Margaret MacMillan Fellow, Urban Institute, Sheffield. is Honorary Fellow, British Academy. David The making of an urban middle class across Stevenson is Professor of International History, Southeast Asia has been a wild ride of LSE. Linda Yueh is Visiting Professor, LSE IDEAS. practices and aspirations, and extremely A distinguished panel will discuss the legacy difficult to pin down. #LSEMiddle of the Versailles Treaty. This event will Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6952. also mark the relaunch of The Economic Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre Consequences of the Peace. #LSEVersailles Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Friday 29, 6.30-8pm Hosted by LSE IDEAS Auditorium, Basement, Centre Building Global Attack on Academia: Thursday 28, 6.30-8pm examples from Turkey, Egypt, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Hungary, and the UK How Freedom of Choice Influences Lori Allen is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Well-being SOAS. Ahmed Ezzat is a human rights lawyer. Simona Botti is Professor of Marketing, Katrin Kinzelbach is Associate Director, Global London Business School. Public Policy Institute, Berlin. Esra Özyürek is Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Does choice freedom always enhance Institute, LSE. Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir is satisfaction? Lab experiments help tackle this Fellow in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European question, but when should they be used and how Institute, LSE. Hyun Bang Shin is Director, Saw have techniques evolved over time? #LSEChoices Swee Hock South Asia Centre, LSE. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Academics from Syria, Turkey and Egypt are Hosted by the Department of Management deserting their homeland in search of intellectual refuge in Western universities while attacks against academic freedoms intensify in Europe and the UK. #LSEHumanRights Info: [email protected] or call 020 7107 5472 NOVEMBER Hosted by LSE Library, LSE Human Rights and LSE Centre for Contemporary Turkish Studies
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Monday 2, 6.30-8pm Wednesday 4, 6.30-8pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Old Theatre, Old Building SIMONA BOTTI The Rights of Aliens under January 31, 1953 and 9/11: THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER International Law: towards living with risk a critical history Paul Embrechts is Emeritus Professor of Antony Anghie is Samuel D Thurman Mathematics at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Professor of Law at SJ Quinney School Institute of Technology, Zurich) where he of Law, University of Utah. taught insurance and financial mathematics. The Annual Human Rights Day Lecture will be In its broad interpretation, “risk” is delivered this year by Professor Antony Anghie omnipresent in modern society. What does of the University of Utah. #LSEHumanRights science, in particular mathematics, have to Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. offer in a societal discourse on the topic? #LSEEmbrechts Hosted by LSE Human Rights and the Department of Sociology Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Hosted by the Department of Mathematics Tuesday 3, 6.30-8pm TICKET Old Theatre, Old Building Wednesday 4, 6.30-8pm Europe 2020: the European Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building year in review Is Progressive Capitalism an Swati Dhingra is Lecturer in Economics, Answer to America’s Problems? Department of Economics, LSE. Spyros Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor, Economides is Associate Professor in Columbia University and the winner of the International Relations and European Politics, 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. European Institute, LSE. Sara Hagemann As a minority of companies dominate is Academic Director, School of Public entire sectors we need to exploit the Policy, LSE. Sara Hobolt is Sutherland Chair benefits of markets while taming their in European Institutions, Department of excesses, so markets work for people Government, LSE. not against them. #LSEUSStiglitz This public discussion will take stock of Info: Tickets available from Wednesday political, economic, and social events in 27 November at lse.ac.uk/events Europe and the European Union during this Hosted by the United States Centre past year and try to look forward to the next.
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23 Thursday 5, 6.30-8pm Dr Takayanagi speaks on the “Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act”, which enabled Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building women to join professional organisations as part An IMF for the 21st Century of Women Legal Landmarks. #LSEWomenWork José Antonio Ocampo is Professor, Columbia Info: Tickets available at lse.ac.uk/library/events University SIPA and member of the Board of Hosted by LSE Library Directors, Colombian Central Bank. This talk will look at the different dimensions Thursday 12, 6.30-8pm TICKET of IMF reforms on its 75th Anniversary, based Old Theatre, Old Building on José Antonio Ocampo’s book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System. The Forward March of Capital Halted? #LSEIMFReforms John McDonnell is MP for Hayes and Harlington Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Hosted by the Department of International Development John McDonnell will speak about the challenges and the Latin America and Caribbean Centre facing British politics and economics and the prospects for socialism a decade on from the TICKET Wednesday 11, 6-7pm last Labour government. #LSEMcDonnell Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building Info: Tickets available from Thursday 5 December The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act at lse.ac.uk/events Hosted by The Ralph Miliband Programme Mari Takayanagi is Senior Archivist at the Parliamentary Archives and co-curator of the 2018 Voice and the Vote exhibition.
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ADAM HERON, PIANO THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 25 Concerts Thursday 24 October, 1.05-2pm Shaw Library, Old Building Thursday 3 October, 1.05-2pm Albion String Quartet Shaw Library, Old Building Walton String Quartet No.2 in A Minor Zoffany Ensemble Freya Waley-Cohen “Snapdragon” Beethoven Piano Trio in one movement in LSE is fortunate to catch this quartet with their Bb Major, WoO.39 busy commitments including broadcasts on Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major, Op.81 Radio 3, appearances at Wigmore Hall and Our season is opened by a welcome return Aldeburgh Festival, recording for Signum records to LSE of the Zoffany Ensemble, a group of as well as continuing residencies at the Cardiff distinguished professional chamber players Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. and teachers specialising in major works of Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. the chamber repertoire. LSE lunchtime concert Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. LSE lunchtime concert Thursday 31 October, 1.05-2pm Shaw Library, Old Building Thursday 10 October, 1.05-2pm Eleftheria Kotzia, guitar Shaw Library, Old Building Maximo Diego Paujol Three Preludes Milena Simovic, viola Ed McGuire Zalongos Dance Elegy Vitaly Pisarenko, piano Barbara, Trenet, Cabral/Dizeo Viola recital: Works by Brahms, Enescu Three French Songs and Shostakovich. Joaquin Rodrigo Invocacion y Danza Equally happy playing violin and viola, Milena Roland Dyens Fuoco has performed and broadcast internationally, and appeared as soloist with the Serbian “Eleftheria Kotzia plays superbly well, her Radio National Orchestra. She has been technique and interpretations are first class” the lead viola for the City of Birmingham Classical Guitar Magazine, July 2014 Symphony Orchestra. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. LSE lunchtime concert LSE lunchtime concert Thursday 7 November, 1.05-2pm Thursday 17 October, 1.05-2pm Shaw Library, Old Building Shaw Library, Old Building Lara Melda, piano Adam Heron, piano Chopin Barcarolle in F Sharp Major, Op.60 Mozart Sonata in F Major, K.280 Rachmaninoff Two preludes, Op.23 Bach English Suite No. 2 in A Minor Anatoly Lyadov Barcarolle in F Sharp Major, Op.44 Brahms Four Piano Pieces, Op.119 Chopin Sonata No.3 in B Minor, Op.58 Adam Heron at the age of 20 has already won Since winning the BBC Young Musician of the several piano competition prizes, participated Year competition in 2010 Lara has performed in major UK music festivals and performed as a soloist and with several famous widely abroad. orchestras, making her Wigmore Hall debut in Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. 2017 and her Proms Albert Hall Debut in 2018. LSE lunchtime concert Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. LSE lunchtime concert MUSIC / ARTS
26 ALBION STRING QUARTET ELEFTHERIA KOTZIA THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER
Thursday 14 November, 1.05-2pm Thursday 28 November, 1.05-2pm Shaw Library, Old Building Shaw Library, Old Building Li Siqian, piano Ariana Kashefi, cello Beethoven Sonata in C Major, “Waldstein”, Op.53 James Coleman, piano Chopin Etude No.5 in E Minor, Op.25 Beethoven 7 Variations in E Flat Major “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” Chopin Etude No.3 in E Major, Op.10 Shostakovich Sonata for cello and piano in Chopin Sonata No.2 in B Flat Minor D Minor, Op.40 Li Siqian, whose music making has been British cellist Ariana Kashefi is in high demand described by the great pianist Emmanuel Ax as a soloist and chamber musician having as “graceful and touching” was a semi-finalist performed at venues including Wigmore Hall, in the international Leeds Piano Competition Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin Philharmonie, the and has won several other international prizes Royal Albert Hall and the Southbank Centre. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. LSE lunchtime concert LSE lunchtime concert Thursday 21 November, 1.05-2pm Thursday 5 December, 1.05-2pm Shaw Library, Old Building Shaw Library, Old Building Isolde Piano Trio Lana Trotovsek, violin Shostakovich Piano Trio No.1, Op.8 Maria Canyigueral, piano Schubert Piano Trio in B Flat Major D 898 Beethoven Violin Sonata No.6 in A Major, Op.30/1 A supremely musical trio experienced as Beethoven Violin Sonata No.8 in G Major, Op.30/3 soloists and chamber players, recipients of major competition prizes and who have Violinist Lana Trotovsek has won admiration performed and broadcast internationally. for her expressive playing and unique musicality. Washington Post has described MUSIC / ARTS Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. her as “radiant” and praised her “clean, refined LSE lunchtime concert tone with musical sense of phrasing and impeccable intonation”. Since her debut with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in 2012, Lana Trotovsek has appeared EVENTS GET BUSY! WE ADVISE with some of the world’s finest orchestras. YOU TO ARRIVE 20 MINUTES Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT LSE lunchtime concert
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Thursday 12 December, 1.05-2pm Exhibitions Shaw Library, Old Building Greenwich Trio Beethoven Piano Trio in B Major, Op.95 “Archduke” “Never have I heard piano and stringed instruments meld together so seamlessly” – Bachtrack Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. LSE lunchtime concert
Thursday 12 December, TICKET 7-9.30pm St Clement Danes Church, Strand, London, WC2R 1DH Monday 23 September to LSE Christmas Concert Friday 20 December The LSE Choir will perform: LSE Library Gallery Choirmaster: Andrew Campling The Power of Influence: William Soloist: Poppy Beddoe Beveridge as public intellectual Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols and LSE Director Handel The King shall rejoice An exhibition marking the centenary of The LSE Orchestra will perform: William Beveridge’s appointment as Director of LSE and considering his impact during the Conductor: Matthew Taylor tumultuous inter-war period in both the LSE Rossini Overture “Italian Girl in Algiers” and the wider world. Arnold Clarinet Concerto No.2 Info: [email protected] or call 020 Beethoven Symphony No.5 7955 7229. Visitors are welcome Monday- Info: Tickets cost £7 and are available at Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday-Sunday 11am- lse.ac.uk/events 6pm. Tours available on request. Please see lse.ac.uk/library/exhibitions for details. Hosted by LSE Arts in association with the LSESU Music Society LSE Library public exhibition MUSIC / ARTS
28 LANA TROTOVSEK GREENWICH TRIO THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER THURSDAY 12 DECEMBER
Monday 7 October to Friday 8 November Atrium Gallery, Old Building Ambedkar-Gandhi Symposium Monday 11 November to 150 years after his birth Gandhi is exerting Friday 6 December his influence on yet another generation Atrium Gallery, Old Building demanding action on climate change and global inequity. Through this exhibition and a China: a dual image series of accompanying events we want to Modern China presents a dual image: a understand his influence and his relationship society transforming itself through economic to another giant in the formation of the Indian development and infrastructure investment; nation - Dr Ambedkar, an outcast and drafter and the world’s most populous country, with of the Indian constitution and an LSE graduate. multiple traditions in its economic, cultural Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. and political life. This photography exhibition Visitors are welcome Monday-Friday 10am- presents to you China’s old and new, rich and 8pm. Please see lse.ac.uk/arts for details. poor, order and disorder. LSE Arts public exhibition Info: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043. MUSIC / ARTS Visitors are welcome Monday-Friday 10am- 8pm. Please see lse.ac.uk/arts for details. LSE Arts public exhibition MISSED AN EVENT? PODCASTS AND VIDEOS OF MANY PAST LSE EVENTS CAN BE DOWNLOADED ONLINE AT lse.ac.uk/events
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All buildings have wheelchair access and lifts, except , 95A, KGS, KSW*, 5LF, 50L, POR* and SHF. *KSW 20 Kingsway (Language Centre only), *POR 1 Portsmouth Street (Shop only).
Disabled Access After 6.30pm, please call Security Control on 020 7955 6200 to ensure that any disabled access doors are open. Also see: Accessibility map [PDF] For access to 20 Kingsway, please call security staff on 020 7955 6200 to set up the portable ramp in the entrance foyer.
Access Guides to LSE buildings DisabledGo have produced detailed access guides to the LSE campus and residences, and route maps between key locations. These access guides, and route maps, are now available online. Are you ready to become a global business leader?
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