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If a ticket is required this will be indicated with the following symbol: Register at lse.ac.uk/finance TICKET 19_0577 FinanceAdvert_Events.indd 1 07/08/2019 15:29 LSE FESTIVAL SHAPE THE WORLD How can social sciences make the world a better place? 2020 2–7 MARCH 2020 #LSEFestival 4 lse.ac.uk/festival 19_0609 Festival 2020_A5_Advert_Events_AD.indd 1 21/08/2019 08:24 WINTER TERM HIGHLIGHTS Some highlighted events from this term’s programme Social Integration and Inequality in London Sadiq Khan Tuesday 10 September Page 7 Good Economics for Hard Times Esther Duflo Tuesday 5 November Page 15 © L BARRY HETHERINGTON © L BARRY MUSIC AND ART LSE Christmas Concert Thursday 12 December Page 28 FULL LISTINGS AT lse.ac.uk/events 5 LSE Executive Education Intensive programmes for visionary thinkers Advance your career with our open enrolment courses in business and management, economics, finance and global public policy. Discover more at www.lse.ac.uk/execed6 SEPTEMBER 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 SOME OF OUR EVENTS ARE LIVE STREAMED – SEE THE FULL LIST SEPTEMBER AT lse.ac.uk/live 8 OCTOBER 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.