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Things are 4 Headline news a sobering, if not happening. There is a new LSE Alumni necessarily a sober, Association, a significant new Chair, new 6 A matter of power, not religion month. The end of a halls of residence and much more. Fred Halliday, International Relations calendar year is a time We welcome your feedback and contributions, 8 Aspire to be more to review, and often a especially the lively stories from alumni groups Raihan Alfaradhi, LSESU anti-racism time to look ahead and and individuals. We may not be able to officer 2005-06 set new goals. squeeze them all in – and we know you’ll press 9 Health in a bottle This issue of LSE us to do so, being LSE alumni! – but we will do and Magazine invites you to think about some what we can, aware of our wide readership, Dr David Boyd Hancock , Economic History serious questions for 2006. Where does the age range and subject interest. You are one Dr Patrick Wallis world stand on big dilemmas such as security, of more than 70,000 people on our worldwide 10 China, 2006 and beyond fighting terrorism and extremism, encouraging database, and we thank you for keeping Howard Davies, director, and debate and trusting each other? in touch. Dr Linda Yueh, Economics But, alongside these major themes, I hope Best wishes for a happy, safe and 13 Exploring the mind this issue also gives you a sense of the prosperous 2006. Ruth Maclennan, BIOS artist dynamic LSE community you remember, Judith Higgin in residence 14 Do we trust U? Professor Robin Mansell, Media and Communications 13 16 16 100 years of LSE sociology Dr Christopher Husbands, Sociology 18 Helping the poor and the planet Nicholas Bayne, Shinichiro Uda and Dr Heidi Ullrich, International Relations Regulars 20 Letters 18 21 Rodent’s Rambles 22 Campaign for LSE 27 News 33 Reunions 35 Alumni groups 40 Where are they now? 43 Obituaries 46 Book notes FRONT COVER: THE HOPE FOR PEACE MEMORIAL, BEIRUT. PICTURE BY MORRIS LSE Magazine is published twice a year by the Press and Information Office at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Tel: +44 CARPENTER/PANOS PICTURES (0)20 7955 7060. Fax: +44 (0)20 7852 3658. 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I Winter 2005 I LSE Magazine I 3 HEADLINE NEWS New Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdog˘ an announced a new Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, to be based in the European Institute at the School. The Chair will be the first of its kind in Europe. Moreover, no other European university has endowed chairs in the social sciences on both Greece and Turkey. LSE director Howard Davies said: ‘We were delighted the prime minister was able to launch this significant new Chair in person. It is a tremendous boost to the School, and allows us to expand our research and teaching into a vital new area.’ See page 23 LSE Asia Forum More than 300 people attended the School’s Asia Forum in Hong Kong in September. The event, on the theme of Managing the Dynamics of Growth, was jointly organised with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), headed by LSE alumnus and honorary fellow Charles Lee GBS, JP. Alumna Dr Rosanna Won, DBE, JP was the Forum’s honorary chair. Opening the Forum was Stephen Ip (pictured), HKSAR acting financial secretary. See pages 24 and 25 Alcoa Foundation programme LSE is one of five academic partners in Alcoa Foundation’s US $8.6 million Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship programme that will support the study of global conservation and sustainability issues. The programme will be based in the Centre for Environmental Policy and Governance. Centre director Professor Yvonne Rydin welcomed launch speakers Kathleen Buechel, Alcoa Foundation president; Philippe Royer, president of Alcoa Europe Mill Products; and guest speaker John Elkington of SustainAbility. See page 23 Hamlyn lectures Professor Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, gave the prestigious Hamlyn Lectures this November. His lectures considered whether the subject of human rights could survive in this current age, and what is needed for it to prosper. The three lectures were at LSE, in Durham and in Belfast. The series first began 56 years ago in 1949, when Lord Denning spoke on freedom under the law. Other speakers have included Lord Woolf, Lord Scarman, LSE emeritus professor Michael Zander and last year’s lecturer Sir Bob Hepple QC FBA. See page 27 4 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2005 I HEADLINE NEWS 1 2 3 6 4 5 Many eminent speakers have visited recently: 1 Wild Swans author Jung Chang talked about her new book Mao: the unknown story, with co-author Jon Halliday. Lord Patten, former European commissioner for foreign 8 2 relations 1999-2004 considered Europe’s future. 3 Christine Lagarde, French minister for foreign trade, focused on Europe and the Doha world trade round. 7 4 Jack Welch, chairman and CEO of the General Electric Company 1981-2001, talked about his career and new book Winning. 5 Polish prime minister Marek Belka, a former economics professor, was welcomed by the School and the LSESU Polish Society. 6 Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway’s foreign minister, gave his first international public speech at the School. 7 Simon Schama, professor of history at Columbia University, New York, gave the International History annual lecture around the theme of his book Rough Crossings – the story of slaves and their fight for freedom around the time of the American revolution. 8 Tariq Ramadan, a visiting fellow at St Anthony’s College, Oxford, spoke about the place of Islam in non-Islamic societies, at a joint lecture with the Young Foundation. I Winter 2005 I LSE Magazine I 5 A matter of power , not religion After London suffered its July bombings, Adam Holm (BSc Economics 1983), of the Danish weekly political magazine Opinion, interviewed Fred Halliday. An extract follows. AH: Has the war against terrorism been successful? AH: Do you agree with the British Muslim writer Ziauddin Sardar who suggested recently that Islam FH: The USA has had some success in capturing leaders of Al Qaida, but this has to change fundamentally? is not an index as to how the overall conflict is going: the war in Iraq, which, on my reading now, the USA cannot win, and the continued failure to establish FH: There is no simple, or necessary, relationship between terrorism and a viable Palestinian state, along with Chechenya and other issues, mean that religion.