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Upcoming Lectures and Events

The Empathic Civilization

19 Mar 10

The Future of Capitalism and Globalisation: Global Perspectives and a European Agenda

22 Mar 10

Max Weber, Charisma and Nationalism

12 Apr 10

Mandela's Way – Lessons on Life

12 Apr 10

Previous Lectures and Events

Europe as a Global Actor? A Conversation with Javier Solana

18 Mar 10

Religion and Pluralism in a Divided World

18 Mar 10

Friendship and Poetry

18 Mar 10

Beyond Copenhagen

16 Mar 10

Phoenix Cities – surviving financial, social and environmental turmoil in Europe and the US

16 Mar 10

Radicalisation and Counterradicalisation

16 Mar 10

A Lecture by Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator

12 Mar 10

Sustainable Business Innovation

11 Mar 10

The Risks of Genetically Modifying Human Embryos or Gametes

10 Mar 10

Mind-Body Problems: Science, Fiction, and God

10 Mar 10

The Brahimi Panels: Future Options in Afghanistan

9 Mar 10

Biomedical Enhancement and the Ethics

9 Mar 10

The Brahimi Panels: The Goldstone Report and the Peace Process

8 Mar 10

The Future Development of International Criminal Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach

5 Mar 10

Independent Prosecutors and Democratic Accountability

4 Mar 10

Risk Versus Responsibility in the Regulation of the Company

4 Mar 10

Education for Sustainable Development

4 Mar 10

Driving Change while Maintaining Momentum

3 Mar 10

Hamlet Without the Prince of Denmark: how development has disappeared from today’s ‘development’ dis

25 Feb 10

Prosperity without Growth

25 Feb 10

Chasing Science: laboratory inquiries, children’s brains, family labours

25 Feb 10

Risk-Based Regulation: rethinking from a lawyers’ perspective

25 Feb 10

Geopolitics and Imperialism: the British Empire and Halford Mackinder 1890-1940

25 Feb 10

Gender, Race, and Religion in the Spectacle of Citizenship

24 Feb 10

Remapping Social Inequalities in the Age

24 Feb 10

Civil Society, Aid and Security

24 Feb 10

The Importance of Alternative Financing: global perspectives on Islamic finance

24 Feb 10

Barack Obama and the Muslim World

23 Feb 10

This Sporting Planet: global sport and

18 Feb 10

Jimmy Stewart Is Dead -- Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking

17 Feb 10

The Rule of Law

17 Feb 10

Counter-Composition: conversations on ethics

17 Feb 10

21st Century Challenges: how global crises provide the opportunity to transform the world

16 Feb 10

Renewing the Left's ideology: what should be the principles and goals of the centre-Left today?

15 Feb 10

Authority, Enjoyment and the Spirits of Capitalism

12 Feb 10

Badke String Quartet

11 Feb 10

Out of the Bretton Woods: Building a World Bank for the 21st Century

10 Feb 10

Uncertainty and Ambiguity in American Fiscal and Monetary Policies

10 Feb 10

A Broken Middle East: a wasted decade of war on terror

10 Feb 10

Out of the Bretton Woods: Building a World Bank for the 21st Century

9 Feb 10

Sustainable Housing: how can we save 80 per cent of our energy use in existing homes?

9 Feb 10

Freefall

8 Feb 10

From Double-Consciousness to Public Diplomacy: the changing value of African-American culture

8 Feb 10

Online and Offline Risk: getting young people’s experience of the internet into perspective

4 Feb 10

Climate Crunch: making the economics fit the science

4 Feb 10

Economics 0-Reality 1

4 Feb 10

Philip Higham (cello), Simon Lane (piano)

4 Feb 10

Women and War in the Middle East: transnational perspectives

3 Feb 10

Eastern Europe and the Balkans: what now?

3 Feb 10

Delivering a Low Carbon London

2 Feb 10

You are not a gadget

2 Feb 10

The Portrait Anatomised

2 Feb 10

Uninhibited, Robust and Wide-Open: a free press for a new century

1 Feb 10

Think – Before it’s too late

1 Feb 10

New Economics

28 Jan 10

Risk, Ethics and Public Sensitivities

28 Jan 10

Slava Sidorenko (piano)

28 Jan 10

Crossing Boundaries

27 Jan 10

Not By Reason Alone

26 Jan 10

Why Aid is Not Working and How There Is Another Way for Africa

26 Jan 10

Speaking with the Speaker

25 Jan 10

Alexandra Dariescu (piano)

21 Jan 10

Why Should Social Scientists Be Interested in the Cold War?

21 Jan 10

Time for a New Policy Paradigm: resources, technology and human well-being

21 Jan 10

Europe after the European Age: historical reflections

20 Jan 10

The Making of the Golden Road

20 Jan 10

Modernity and the Meaning of Life

18 Jan 10

The War on Drugs: an upper or downer for development?

16 Jan 10

Julian Byzantine (guitar)

14 Jan 10

Crisis as Motivation? The Challenges of Sustaining Growth in Southeast Asia

14 Jan 10

Getting fiscal consolidation right: Lessons from Sweden

14 Jan 10

When China Rules the World

13 Jan 10

Muslims in Modern Europe

12 Jan 10

The Fabrication and Fragility of Courts in Democracies: from Renaissance town halls to Guantanamo Ba

12 Jan 10

What Makes Heroes?

25 Dec 09

Electoral Reform in the Wake of the Economic Crisis

17 Dec 09

Marina Nadiradze (piano)

8 Dec 09

The End of Lawyers?

8 Dec 09

Happiness around the World: the paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires

3 Dec 09

Social Theories of Risk and Economic Life

3 Dec 09

Jazz Trio

3 Dec 09

Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for Christmas

3 Dec 09

Climb the Green Ladder: How to achieve astonishing results

3 Dec 09

1989 - 2009: from democracy to democratic fatigue in East-Central Europe

3 Dec 09

Can Europe Pay its People?: policy options for a continent in transition

2 Dec 09

The Future of Global Capitalism, Convergence or Divergence Across the World

2 Dec 09

How China Tackles Climate Change in its Wider Development Agenda

2 Dec 09

Confronting Corporate Complicity in International Human Rights Abuses

1 Dec 09

Media and Identity: reporting the Rwandan genocide

1 Dec 09

The Value of Nothing

1 Dec 09

Deciding our Future in Copenhagen: will the world rise to the challenge of climate change?

1 Dec 09

The 2010 Spanish EU Presidency: Challenges and Opportunities

30 Nov 09

The Global Economics Crisis: one year in

30 Nov 09

MTV, Music Media and Morality

30 Nov 09

Who Ended the Cold War?

26 Nov 09

Creating the Organisms that Evolution Forgot: an 'any questions?' debate on synthetic biology

26 Nov 09

Chiarascuro Quartet featuring Alina Ibragimova (violin)

26 Nov 09

Social Science Perspectives on Risk Regulation

26 Nov 09

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

26 Nov 09

Managing Risk and Behaviour in Financial Markets

25 Nov 09

Sociology and the Financial Crisis: which crisis, and which sociology?

25 Nov 09

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The Double Death of Neoliberalism and the Idea of Communism

25 Nov 09

The Role of Arbitration in the Emergence of Transnational Regulation

24 Nov 09

The Silverstone Panel on Digital Natives: A Lost Tribe?

24 Nov 09

Jihad: the trail of Political Islam

24 Nov 09

Climb the Green Ladder: how sustainability can make you and your company more successful

23 Nov 09

How Markets Fail: The Problem of Rational Irrationality

23 Nov 09

A Lecture by Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway

20 Nov 09

Can we eliminate nuclear weapons?

20 Nov 09

The Road to Copenhagen: a global deal on climate change

19 Nov 09

Risk Sharing and the Employment Relationship

19 Nov 09

Jadran Duncumb (guitar) Jun Sasaki (cello)

19 Nov 09

What Next? Surviving the 21st Century

18 Nov 09

Are Europeans Heading Toward the Same Economy?

18 Nov 09

The Future of Christianity

18 Nov 09

Obama and the Arabs: the historical context

17 Nov 09

Emotional Prosperity: biomarkers, economics and the Stiglitz commission on human progress

17 Nov 09

Cities, Design and Climate Change

17 Nov 09

Bodies

16 Nov 09

People Power and the End of the Cold War

16 Nov 09

Rethinking Marxism: The Philosophy of Art

13 Nov 09

Hiv/Aids In Indonesia: Pathologies Of Power, Profit, And Policy

12 Nov 09

Should management be a social science or a design science?

12 Nov 09

Sulki Yu (violin) Chiao Ying Chang (piano)

12 Nov 09

Research for a World in Transition

12 Nov 09

The social and psychological framework of argumentation

11 Nov 09

Technologies Place In our Economic Future

11 Nov 09

Them and Us: how capitalism without fairness is capitalism without a future

11 Nov 09

Rules of Evidence

10 Nov 09

The First Legacy Games: the physical and socio-economic transformation of East London

10 Nov 09

Broke: voices from the edge

10 Nov 09

Superfreakonomics

9 Nov 09

Learning How to Cite Judith Butler

9 Nov 09

The New Economic Settlement: building sustainable growth

28 Oct 09

The Politics of Media and Cultural Policy

28 Oct 09

The International economy, and the process of the citizen's revolution in Ecuador

27 Oct 09

Building the Centre-right in Europe: impressions from a lifetime's experience

27 Oct 09

Climate Change Policy: why has so little been achieved?

27 Oct 09

Building the Centre-right in Europe: impressions from a lifetime's experience

27 Oct 09

The International economy, and the process of the citizen's revolution in Ecuador

27 Oct 09

When China Rules the World

27 Oct 09

How to Control and Change Individual Behaviour: the world as installation

26 Oct 09

Skyful of Lies and Black Swans: the new tyranny of shifting information power in crises

23 Oct 09

In Conversation with George Alagiah

23 Oct 09

Global Health Security: the nexus of international relations, public health and anthropology

22 Oct 09

Stuff White People Like - How to find social success with the urban-dwelling middle classes

22 Oct 09

The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World

22 Oct 09

A Year after the Collapse of Lehmans: where does global capitalism go now?

22 Oct 09

How the arts made the Velvet Revolution

21 Oct 09

The Crisis of Global Capitalism: ten years on

21 Oct 09

Revolution 1989: what exactly happened?

21 Oct 09

Predictioneer: How to predict the future with game-theory

21 Oct 09

The Crisis of Global Capitalism: ten years on

21 Oct 09

Revolution 1989: what exactly happened?

21 Oct 09

UN Ideas that Changed the World

20 Oct 09

Why I Grew to Love America and You Should Too

20 Oct 09

Beijing Inside Out: Caochangdi

19 Oct 09

The Future of Banking and Financial Regulation

19 Oct 09

What is Europe? Where is Europe?

19 Oct 09

The Cocaine Wars: The Mess We're in and How to Get Out of it

15 Oct 09

The Power of Comparison in History

15 Oct 09

The Government of Uncertainty: how to follow the politics of oil

15 Oct 09

The Defence of the Realm

15 Oct 09

Islam: what I believe

14 Oct 09

Cities and the Environment

14 Oct 09

Drawing and Portraiture

13 Oct 09

EVENT CANCELLED: Potty Politicians, Loony Letters, and Wonderful Wines

13 Oct 09

Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: the future of the Middle East

13 Oct 09

China and Financial Reform

13 Oct 09

Optimal Financial Structure and Economic Development

12 Oct 09

Justice and the Moral Limits of Markets

12 Oct 09

The Tsar Liberates Europe? Russia against Napoleon, 1807-1814

8 Oct 09

Matthew Schellhorn (piano)

8 Oct 09

Terrorism: How to Respond

8 Oct 09

The Strange Friendship of Pauli and Jung: when physics met psychology

7 Oct 09

How to be Humanitarian? UN Intervention in Post-Conflict Societies

7 Oct 09

Keynes and the Crisis of Capitalism

7 Oct 09

The Consolations of Economics

6 Oct 09

She's Normal. She's an Artist

6 Oct 09

Bringing the Penal State Back In

6 Oct 09

The Global Emerging Market and its role in a time of crisis

5 Oct 09

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment public lecture

1 Oct 09

LSE India Observatory public debate

30 Sep 09

Gendering the Social Sciences Gender Institute, the Department of International Relations and STICER

30 Sep 09

International Growth Centre Growth Week public lecture

24 Sep 09

International Growth Centre Growth Week public lecture

24 Sep 09

International Growth Centre Growth Week public lecture

23 Sep 09

International Growth Centre Launch Event for Growth Week

22 Sep 09

LSE European Institute public lecture

17 Sep 09

LSE public lecture

15 Sep 09

LSE public lecture

14 Sep 09

New thinking for Britain’s next decade – Progress lecture series in partnership with LSE

14 Sep 09

LSE public lecture

28 Jul 09

The Idea of Justice

27 Jul 09

LSE public discussion

13 Jul 09

Communication Power

9 Jul 09

The Museum of the 21st Century

7 Jul 09

LSE Director’s Dialogue with Stephen Green

2 Jul 09

The Post-American World and the Rise of the Rest

30 Jun 09

Is America in Decline?

29 Jun 09

Darwin and Philosophy

25 Jun 09

Capitalism 3.0

16 Jun 09

A New Energy Policy for Portugal

15 Jun 09

The Lebanese Elections and Middle Eastern Democracy

11 Jun 09

The Return of Depression Economics Part 3

10 Jun 09

The Return of Depression Economics Part 2

9 Jun 09

The Return of Depression Economics Part 1

8 Jun 09

A Conversation between Bill Gates Sr. and A Conversation between Bill Gates Sr. and Howard Davies

4 Jun 09

The Future of Picturing the World: filming and imaging in a global era

3 Jun 09

Religion and the Market: are they in conflict?

1 Jun 09

Picturing Poverty: London past and present

27 May 09

How Obama Could Fix Labour Law

26 May 09

The Failure of both Multiculturalism and Assimilation, and the New Path of Omniculturalism

21 May 09

Multilingualism: a policy for uniting Europeans

19 May 09

Opening up ‘Illiberal’ Regimes: do media and communications matter?

19 May 09

Bulls or Bears in the China Shop? Global Crises, Global Linkages and Asian Manufacturing

18 May 09

A World Without Particles or Forces

14 May 09

Consolodating Kosovo's European Future: tracing next steps

13 May 09

Declining Hegemon? The United States and the World Crisis

13 May 09

The Global Financial Crisis Revisited

11 May 09

Voodoo Histories: from the protocols to 9/11

7 May 09

Human Rights after Darwin: is a general theory of human rights now possible?

7 May 09

The International Politics of Minority Issues: could the early 1900s return?

7 May 09

The Tycoon and the Tough: towards a comparative anthropology of urban marginality

7 May 09

Controversies in the Economics of Climate Change

6 May 09

How 'the Poor' Became 'Poor': debating global civil society and constructions of poverty

6 May 09

Rising Asia in the World Crisis

5 May 09

Reflections on the Revolutionin Europe: can Europe be the same with different people in it?

5 May 09

Do Tax Havens Cause Poverty?

30 Apr 09

Fool's Gold

30 Apr 09

Gray's Anatomy: thoughts on politics, religion and the meaning of life

30 Apr 09

European Integration in the Era of the Market -State

30 Apr 09

Wars, GUns and Votes: democracy in dangerous places

29 Apr 09

Friedrich Engels: the man who made Marxism

29 Apr 09

The State between Migration and Dojourning: the China difference

28 Apr 09

The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 years on

28 Apr 09

On the New Supreme Court

28 Apr 09

Progressive Governance: Greece and the New International Order

27 Apr 09

Architecture as Investment

27 Apr 09

Imagining India: ideas for the new century

22 Apr 09

Imagining India: ideas for the new century

22 Apr 09

A Blueprint for a Safer Planet

21 Apr 09

LSE public lecture

3 Apr 09

Changing Values for a Just and Sustainable World

1 Apr 09

Empire and Ethnicity in the Modern World

30 Mar 09

In praise of weak incentives

26 Mar 09

Nudge: improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness

23 Mar 09

Social Justice and Sustainability: arguments from political theory

19 Mar 09

Majority Judgement: a completely new voting system Part Two. The Principal Properties of Majority Ju

18 Mar 09

The Significance of 1949 in Chinese History

17 Mar 09

The Brain That Changes Itself: The Neuroplasticity Revolution and its implications

17 Mar 09

Howard Davies in Conversation with Lord Goldsmith QC

17 Mar 09

Energy Security in South East Europe

16 Mar 09

Extraordinary Times Demand Extraordinary Actions

13 Mar 09

Flexible Employment, Stable Society?

12 Mar 09

Hecklers to Power? The Waning Tools of Liberal Rights and Challenges to Feminist Activism in South A

11 Mar 09

China in International Society: can 'peaceful rise' succeed?

10 Mar 09

Will the Rich Man's Crisis Crush the Emerging Economies?

10 Mar 09

An EU 'Fit for Purpose' in a Global Age

9 Mar 09

Unjust Rewards: Exposing Greed and Inequality in Britain Today

5 Mar 09

A Lecture by Jack Straw MP

3 Mar 09

Parliament and the Evolution of Property Rights in Britain

3 Mar 09

What should the next G20 meeting do?

3 Mar 09

Dreams of Rivers and Seas

1 Mar 09

New Audiences

1 Mar 09

Religious Defamation

1 Mar 09

Biography Writing: Lives in Context

1 Mar 09

I Shall Die by Inches: Contemporary Approaches to Death and Dying

1 Mar 09

Poetry and Choices

28 Feb 09

The Financial Crisis, Climate Change and Energy

28 Feb 09

Ben Okri Showcase

28 Feb 09

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

28 Feb 09

In Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

28 Feb 09

Designing Spaces for Thought

28 Feb 09

Roundtable on Migrant Literature

28 Feb 09

ReaLITy: creative responses to social realities

27 Feb 09

The Founders' Tradition: literature as social commentary

27 Feb 09

Islamic Finance in the United Kingdom: current initiatives and challenges

26 Feb 09

The Story of the Euro: past, present and future

26 Feb 09

Climate for Change: global warming as political opportunity

25 Feb 09

Many Voices: understanding the debate about preventing violent extremism

25 Feb 09

Asia and Russia in the Age of Globalisation: the impact for Europe's future

24 Feb 09

Demoncacy in America: Jefferson, Tocquerville and Lincoln

24 Feb 09

Who Owns Fairtrade? A dbeate on who benefits, influences and controls Fairtrade

24 Feb 09

The Islamic Republic of Iran After 30 years

23 Feb 09

Individual and Corporate Responsibility

19 Feb 09

IHL and International Human Rights Law in Non-International Armed Conflicts

19 Feb 09

Lessons from the credit crisis

19 Feb 09

Thinking Like a Social Scientist: public economics and pub economics

18 Feb 09

Fighting the Banana Wars

17 Feb 09

The Global Economic Crisis – Meeting the Challenge

17 Feb 09

“Russian Railways” as the locomotive of the Russian Economy

17 Feb 09

Political Reform in the Gulf States

16 Feb 09

European Democracy and the Language Question

12 Feb 09

Reforming Pensions in Europe: four policies in search of a politician

11 Feb 09

A Good Childhood: searching for values in a competitive age

11 Feb 09

Internet and Its Myriad Ways: an Asian perspective

10 Feb 09

Keeping Score: new approaches to the standard of living

10 Feb 09

French Bonapartism: good or bad for Europe?

9 Feb 09

Why 2009 is a crucial year for Europe

5 Feb 09

From a federal entity to a state at the helm of the EU

5 Feb 09

Obama and the Empire of Liberty

5 Feb 09

Celebrities and Aid: new humanitarians or just another fad?

5 Feb 09

Europe in the World

4 Feb 09

After the Good Life, the Impasse: human resources, time out, and the precarious present

4 Feb 09

Here Comes Everybody: how change happens when people come together

3 Feb 09

Russia After Georgia

3 Feb 09

On the New Supreme Court

3 Feb 09

The Element: how finding your passion changes everything

2 Feb 09

Bad Science

28 Jan 09

Political Satire

28 Jan 09

Is Global Democracy Possible?

28 Jan 09

Liberal Fascism: the uses and abuses of the F-word

27 Jan 09

The Shifting Distribution of World Economic Activity: China and global imbalance

27 Jan 09

The Great Transformation: how China changed in the long 1970s

22 Jan 09

Designing Policies for Growth

21 Jan 09

Georgia: has Europe let Russia off the hook?

21 Jan 09

World War Two: behind closed doors

20 Jan 09

Designing Policies for Growth

20 Jan 09

Designing Policies for Growth

19 Jan 09

State Terrorism - A Thing of the Past?

15 Jan 09

A Tea-Time Tutorial

15 Jan 09

The Stamp Memorial Lecture

13 Jan 09

Does the Euro-Zone experience show ‘one size fits all’ has been a failure?

10 Dec 08

Ethics, Politics, and the State of Israel

4 Dec 08

Human Rights Day Event: The Right of Rights 1948-2008

4 Dec 08

The New Photojournalism and Revolution: Susan Meiselas in Nicaragua and Gilles Peress in Iran

4 Dec 08

Thirty Years of China's Reform: opening-up and looking forward

3 Dec 08

The role of banks in a globalised economy: balancing innovation and stability

3 Dec 08

In Conversation with Cherie Blair

3 Dec 08

China After the Olympics

2 Dec 08

21st Century Challenges: the management of climate change and the movement to a new low carbon econo

1 Dec 08

Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations

27 Nov 08

Are We Winning the War on Drugs?

27 Nov 08

What's Wrong with the EU Budget?

27 Nov 08

The Age of Mobility: Can we make migration work for all?

26 Nov 08

The Subprime Crisis

26 Nov 08

Can France Seduce the New European Union?

26 Nov 08

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: law and liberty in the time of war

25 Nov 08

Ross Cranston, QC in Conversation with Lord Mackay of Clashfern

25 Nov 08

The Genetics of Common Human Diseases: Recent discoveries and their implications

24 Nov 08

Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies

20 Nov 08

Reforming the voting systems of the IMF and World Bank?

20 Nov 08

Marcus Garvey: demagogue or messiah?

20 Nov 08

A lecture by Alexander Stubb, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland

20 Nov 08

Opening Up Illiberal Regimes: do media and communications matter?

19 Nov 08

A lecture by Mary McAleese, President of Ireland

19 Nov 08

What Next? Surviving the Twenty-first Century

19 Nov 08

Howard Davies in Conversation with Lord Goldsmith QC

18 Nov 08

The Politics of Mobility

18 Nov 08

Revisiting Marx: is Marxism still relevant?

18 Nov 08

Can We Measure Democracy? The Political uses of Indexes of Democracy, Governance and Civil Society

13 Nov 08

Europe in the Global Economy

13 Nov 08

Fantasies Of Revolution

13 Nov 08

Our Urban Future: the death of distance and the rise of cities

13 Nov 08

Nations, States and Violence

12 Nov 08

The Prospect of Democratisation in Afghanistan

12 Nov 08

Financial Systems and Economic Development: the Chinese and Indian experiences

12 Nov 08

Free Trade: Why the Recent Critiques are Mistaken

12 Nov 08

The Future of Public Broadcasting and Telecommunications

12 Nov 08

Desiring Walls

12 Nov 08

Human Rights in United Nations Action: Norms, Institutions, and Leadership

12 Nov 08

Kosovo's Independence and the Balkans: regional implications and challenges

11 Nov 08

Did religion make a difference? The American elections and beyond

11 Nov 08

Navigating Global Economic and Financial Change

11 Nov 08

The Long Peace in Asia: explanation and projection

10 Nov 08

Where Now For the United States After the Election?

7 Nov 08

Black Panther, the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas

6 Nov 08

Time to Slaughter Some Sacred Cows? Confronting Failure in the War on HIV/AIDS

6 Nov 08

The Ascent of Money

6 Nov 08

China, America and India: the dragon, the eagle and the elephant - or stone, scissors and paper?

6 Nov 08

BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions at LSE

6 Nov 08

Big Ideas

4 Nov 08

Media's Last Diehard?

4 Nov 08

The Third Reich at War

4 Nov 08

SIPRI Yearbook 2008: international security, regional conflict, armament and disarmament in review

4 Nov 08

From War to Peace: Northern Ireland and its lessons for the 21st century

4 Nov 08

European Integration of Bosnia-Herzegovina: the challenges ahead

3 Nov 08

Screening of Naata (the Bond) and Ekta Sandesh

31 Oct 08

Inequalities in health in a global context

30 Oct 08

Urban Spaces On Screen: the challenges of Capturing Social Complexity

30 Oct 08

Central Banking and the Credit Crunch

30 Oct 08

An Appeal to Reason: a cool look at global warming

29 Oct 08

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), Man of Dissent

29 Oct 08

Britain since 1918: the strange career of British democracy

29 Oct 08

Joy Gerrard: works for public spaces

28 Oct 08

America’s Edge: A Global Country in a Global Century

28 Oct 08

Legal Scholarship, Legal Practice and Policy: bridging the unbridgeable?

28 Oct 08

In Sickness and In Power

27 Oct 08

The Cheney White House: Lessons for the Next U.S. President

26 Oct 08

Internet Beyond Myths: the record of scholarly research

24 Oct 08

Trial by Media, or by Courts? Contempt and Publicity

23 Oct 08

The Last Mughal

23 Oct 08

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Clarification Process on the Notion of Direct Pa

23 Oct 08

The Individual and Society: does the West have the balance right?

22 Oct 08

Women's Status, Men's States

22 Oct 08

The Politics of Climate Change

22 Oct 08

Running Cities: London in context

21 Oct 08

Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City: social order revisited

21 Oct 08

The EU and Migration: whom to admit, whom to exclude?

20 Oct 08

Gut Feelings: short cuts to better decision making

20 Oct 08

Is There Anything New to Say? Thoughts on European International History, 1919-1939

20 Oct 08

The Global Financial Crisis: Will Hutton and Martin Wolf in conversation with Professor David Held

20 Oct 08

Are We Going Back to Power Politics? Can Europe Cope?

17 Oct 08

Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: the words themselves

16 Oct 08

Reflections of a Working life in Asia on Conglomerates and the Transport and Logistics Sector

16 Oct 08

European Security Architecture - A Paradigm Shift?

16 Oct 08

Towards a new response to climate change - perspectives from Australia

15 Oct 08

China and Financial Reform

15 Oct 08

Hot, Flat and Crowded

14 Oct 08

Economic Agendas in a Global Context: reflections on the role of Korea

14 Oct 08

From Digital to Analogue: copyright law as a threat to capitalism and democracy

13 Oct 08

The Challenge of Climate Change

13 Oct 08

Decisions, Probability and Beliefs: beware Mickey Mouse probability

13 Oct 08

Japan's Grand Strategy

13 Oct 08

Jurisdiction without Territory: from the holy Roman Empire to the responsibility to protect

9 Oct 08

The China Challenge as Myth and Reality

8 Oct 08

Managing International Financial Instability

7 Oct 08

The International Criminal Court ten years on: achievements and challenges ahead

7 Oct 08

The Role of the Regions in the EU: the Flemish case

7 Oct 08

Re-evaluating Tam Joseph’s ‘Spirit of the Carnival’

7 Oct 08

A Global Deal for Climate Change

6 Oct 08

The Two Faces of Asia: bridging the gap between high growth economies and the poor

2 Oct 08

Negotiating a new international response to Climate Change: the prospects for COP-15 in Copenhagen 2

1 Oct 08

The Future of U.S. Regulation

25 Sep 08

Tackling Climate Change: the view from Costa Rica as a Developing Country

4 Sep 08

Commodity Prices, Capital Flows and the Financing of Investment

3 Sep 08

The Post American World

30 Jun 08

The European Exception? The Public Intellectual in Britain

26 Jun 08

Skills, Rights and Resources in the East Asian Path to Development

18 Jun 08

Mexico’s Foreign Policy: Its role as an Emerging Power

16 Jun 08

Western Secularisation and Globalisation

16 Jun 08

The War for Wealth: The true story of globalization and how Western society can survive

10 Jun 08

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

9 Jun 08

LSE public lecture

3 Jun 08

Regional Developments: Thailand and Emerging Asia

2 Jun 08

Clearing a Space: reflections on India, literature and culture

29 May 08

What is Wrong with Secularism of all Sorts? Priority for Democracy

29 May 08

Fixing Failed States

22 May 08

Why Civilisations Can’t Climb Hills: a political history of statelessness in Southeast Asia

22 May 08

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means

21 May 08

Finance in East Asia: from crisis to integration – challenges of second generation reforms

21 May 08

Is there a European Foreign Policy?

21 May 08

Multicultural Citizenships: practices, policies, and theories

20 May 08

Why Economics Matters

20 May 08

The Pursuit of Justice

19 May 08

EU Competitiveness: Are we on the right track?

19 May 08

Multicultural Citizenships: practices, policies, and theories

19 May 08

Ontario's Place in the 21st Century

19 May 08

AIDS: exceptionalism revisited

15 May 08

Is the Middle East Europe’s Business?

13 May 08

Civil War: coping, conflict and criminal economies

12 May 08

McMafia: Crime without frontiers

12 May 08

Visibly Muslim: an anthropology of appearances

8 May 08

The Powers to Lead

8 May 08

Towards the French Presidency of the EU: a lecture by Jean-Pierre Jouyet

8 May 08

A lecture by David Miliband

7 May 08

Outsiders Inside and Insiders Outside: linking transnational and domestic public action

7 May 08

Two Challenges to Democratic Cititzenship:is the EU the solution or part of the problem?

7 May 08

Problems in US Democracy: the electoral college and gerrymandering

6 May 08

Telling the Story of a Peace Movement: 50 years of CND campaigning

6 May 08

Multiculturalism and Secularism

6 May 08

Common Wealth: economics for a crowded planet

2 May 08

Religious Faith and Human Rights

1 May 08

A World Economic Order Based on Cultural Comparative Advantage

1 May 08

The Single Monetary Policy and the Analytics of OCAs: what has the Euro area experience taught us?

30 Apr 08

Informalisation and Global Political Economy: the elephant in the room

29 Apr 08

The New Politics of Identity

29 Apr 08

Britain and the EU: are we truly bad or just the misunderst‘hoodies of Europe?

28 Apr 08

The Bin Ladens

24 Apr 08

Free and Fair: An Agenda for Democratic Transformation in Latin America

4 Apr 08

The New Asian Hemisphere

1 Apr 08

The New Asian Hemisphere

1 Apr 08

The Credit Crunch and the U.S. Economy

27 Mar 08

Behavioural Economics: Common Mistakes in Daily Decisions

17 Mar 08

Behavioural Economics: Common Mistakes in Daily Decisions

17 Mar 08

Behavioural Economics: Common Mistakes in Daily Decisions

17 Mar 08

Thinking Like a Social Scientist: a lecture by Professor John Sidel

13 Mar 08

Logic and Emotion in Chinese Economic Life

13 Mar 08

The New Enlightenment: how Muslim women are bringing religion out of the dark ages

13 Mar 08

A Counter-narrative: Islam and the first Europe

12 Mar 08

Infectious Disease Pandemics: social and economic factors in the development of public health policy

11 Mar 08

Illiberal Regimes and Global Civil Society: activism, ideas, and spaces

6 Mar 08

The Black Swan

6 Mar 08

American Economic and Military Imperialism: are they connected?

6 Mar 08

Beyond the Banality of Evil

28 Feb 08

Dialogue of Cultures or Clash of Civilizations?

27 Feb 08

Climate Change, Energy and the Way Ahead

27 Feb 08

Distant Suffering in the Media

27 Feb 08

The Nuts and Bolts of Empire

26 Feb 08

Is Islamic Law Ethical?

26 Feb 08

The $3 Trillion War: the true cost of the war in Iraq

25 Feb 08

Bringing Trans-Atlantic Security into the 21st Century

25 Feb 08

Building Intelligent Media Brands in a Global Market

21 Feb 08

Life and Death: a panel discussion

21 Feb 08

The Ideas that are Changing Politics

20 Feb 08

The Shrivelling of European Citizenship

19 Feb 08

Stelios on Brands, Serial Entrepreneurship, the Environment and Giving Something Back!

19 Feb 08

Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance: enlarging democracy or confirming hegemony?

18 Feb 08

The Single Monetary Policy and the Analytics of OCAs: what has the Euro area experience taught us?

18 Feb 08

Creating a World Without Poverty: how social business can transform our lives

15 Feb 08

Completing Europe: Integration with Neighbours and Engagement with Russia

14 Feb 08

Islam and Secularism in France and Turkey

14 Feb 08

God in Public: reflections on faith and society

14 Feb 08

A God of One’s Own: individualisation and cosmopolitanisation of religion

13 Feb 08

Can International Law change the World?

13 Feb 08

The Russian Elections

12 Feb 08

Access to prevention and treatment of AIDS in the developing world: evidence for hope

12 Feb 08

Where to Find European Values

12 Feb 08

Beauty and the Beast- Numbers and Public Policy

11 Feb 08

Advancements in Contemporary Islamic Finance: from practice to scholarship

7 Feb 08

Schooling and Growth

7 Feb 08

The UK and the EU: what has changed over 35 years?

7 Feb 08

The Logic of Life

6 Feb 08

The Politics of Aids Exceptionalism

6 Feb 08

Measuring American Power in Today's Fractured World

5 Feb 08

Talking Pictures

5 Feb 08

IAnother European Tradition: traceability of the social and the vindication of Gabriel Tarde

4 Feb 08

An Open Economy – the Progressive Response to Global Change

4 Feb 08

Iraq: The Way Out

31 Jan 08

Iraq: The Way Out

31 Jan 08

Thinking Like a Social Scientist: a lecture by Professor Saul Estrin

31 Jan 08

International Relations in a Post-Hegemonic Age

30 Jan 08

Sleeping Beauty: Awakening the American Dream

30 Jan 08

The Global Company 2020- what does the future hold?

28 Jan 08

New Industrial Centres and the Rise of the Justice and Development Party to Power in Turkey

28 Jan 08

Cover up: French gender equality and the Islamic headscarf

24 Jan 08

Thinking Like a Social Scientist: a lecture by Professor Danny Quah

24 Jan 08

Cyprus Enters the 'Euro-zone': challenges and implications

23 Jan 08

The Last Resistance

22 Jan 08

Russia and Europe: new neighbours defining a new neighbourhood

22 Jan 08

Towards the French Presidency of the EU: which priorities?

21 Jan 08

Transnational families: the globalisation of adoption norms and the kinning of strangers

17 Jan 08

Thinking Like a Social Scientist: a lecture by Professor Ron Anderson

17 Jan 08

The Significance of Reconstruction after the Civil War in American history

15 Jan 08

The Global State of Influenza Pandemic Preparedness

10 Jan 08

A Lecture by Jim Murphy, Minister for Europe

9 Jan 08

Oil, War and Geopolitics: the struggle over what remains

9 Jan 08

Providing Public Services in China: is it just a problem of scale?

9 Jan 08

Russia's Policy Towards Europe: aggressive retrenchment?

8 Jan 08

Social Science and the Middle East: myths, pitfalls and opportunities

7 Jan 08

Martin Wight’s Intellectual World

12 Dec 07

The Logic of Violence in Civil War

11 Dec 07

Europe Should Open its Doors to Immigrants

6 Dec 07

Human Rights in the 21st century: problems and prospects

6 Dec 07

Why is it Always ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: on the natural history of thinking through groups

6 Dec 07

The United States – Dangerous Nation?

5 Dec 07

Escaping the Prisoners’ Dilemma

4 Dec 07

Why Can’t the British Media Report the EU Accurately?

3 Dec 07

France and Britain in Europe and the World: let’s seize the opportunities

29 Nov 07

Launch of the LSE/National Centre for Social Research Joint Research Programme

28 Nov 07

Re-Writing the History of the Constitution: from the miraculous to the political

27 Nov 07

Crises in Democracy: constituency re-districting and gerrymandering in the UK and US

27 Nov 07

When David Meets Goliath: how globalisation is changing India

26 Nov 07

Turkey’s European Journey: on track or heading for derailment?

22 Nov 07

The Future of Broadcasting – Public Service in a Digital Age

21 Nov 07

The Psychology of Saving and Investment: Sticky Biases and the Curse of Education

21 Nov 07

The Psychology of Saving and Investment: Investment for Dummies

20 Nov 07

The Psychology of Saving and Investment: Intertemporal Choice

19 Nov 07

A Lecture by The Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown

15 Nov 07

Humanitarian Aid and Independence: do no harm?

15 Nov 07

Migration and Social Transformation

15 Nov 07

Knowledge Economies in China

14 Nov 07

Journalism and Hate Speech in South East Europe and the UK – Too Hot to Handle?

14 Nov 07

Is the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ For Real?

14 Nov 07

Iraq and the Law: what went wrong?

14 Nov 07

A Poisoned Chalice: the substantive and procedural defects of the Iraqi high tribunal

13 Nov 07

Past, Present and Future of Oil

13 Nov 07

Howard Davies in conversation with Peter Sands

13 Nov 07

Global Media System, Public Knowledge and Democracy

13 Nov 07

The Modern Commonwealth: challenges in the 21st century

12 Nov 07

Hungary in the 21st Century

12 Nov 07

The Human Adaptation for Culture

8 Nov 07

The Future of Impartiality – Is the Public Service Ethos Doomed?

8 Nov 07

Judging the Booker Prize: what concerns novelists in English today (and what does not)

6 Nov 07

The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy

6 Nov 07

Popperian Pathways: the demarcation between quack cancer cures and scientific remedies

6 Nov 07

Greece and Europe: a lecture by Dora Bakoyannis

5 Nov 07

International Humanitarian Law Project public lecture

1 Nov 07

Department of Management Business in the Global Age lecture series

31 Oct 07

The British Constitution

31 Oct 07

POLIS public lecture

31 Oct 07

Sexual Politics: the limits of secularism, the time of coalition

30 Oct 07

Gurukul public lecture

30 Oct 07

LSE public lecture in association with the Confucius Institute for Business London

29 Oct 07

European Institute public debate in association with FT Business

25 Oct 07

Centre for the Study of Human Rights panel discussion

25 Oct 07

LSE Law Department’s Legal Biography Project sponsored by Clifford Chance

24 Oct 07

BIOS public debate

24 Oct 07

Is Democracy in Crisis? Lessons from the Greek Experience

23 Oct 07

Europe, Migration and Globalisation – What About the Workers?

23 Oct 07

Destruction by Design: military strategy as urban planning

23 Oct 07

Crisis States Research Centre and International Humanitarian Law Project public lecture

22 Oct 07

Forum for European Philosophy – LSE European Institute Heart of Europe series

22 Oct 07

The Divergence of the Bottom Billion

18 Oct 07

FT Business – LSE European Institute The Future of Europe lecture series

18 Oct 07

LSE public lecture

18 Oct 07

LSE Law Department’s Legal Biography Project sponsored by Clifford Chance

17 Oct 07

Ralph Miliband public lecture

17 Oct 07

Public Space and the Body

16 Oct 07

Europe’s Emerging New Energy Policy

16 Oct 07

Positions, Activities and Organisations: strategy, from conception to implementation

15 Oct 07

Nigeria - Lifting the Resource Curse

11 Oct 07

Reforming the United Nations – Mission Impossible?

11 Oct 07

Litigating Human Rights in the Context of International Terrorism

11 Oct 07

A Life in Law

10 Oct 07

Communicative Power and Democracy

10 Oct 07

The Hubris Syndrome: the intoxication of power

9 Oct 07

Centre for the Study of Global Governance public debate

9 Oct 07

The Decline and Fall of the Napoleonic Empire

9 Oct 07

Media and Democracy in Post-Putin Russia: has the death of press freedom been exaggerated?

8 Oct 07

Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism public lecture

8 Oct 07

Centre for the Study of Global Governance public lecture

8 Oct 07

The Challenges of Development and Environmental Sustainability in Africa: the case of Rwanda

4 Oct 07

Cool It: global warming and getting our priorities straight

2 Oct 07

LSE Public Lecture

13 Sep 07

Launch Lecture of UNCTAD Trade and Development Report

5 Sep 07

LSE Public Lecture

10 Jul 07

Sustaining Growth and promoting inclusion in India's Economy and Society

26 Jun 07

Appropriation of Freedom: Freud’s conception of the individual self-relation

21 Jun 07

Federal Trust in association with the European Commission

14 Jun 07

Globalisation and Welfare

14 Jun 07

Israel and the Palestinians: Domestic Developments and Prospects for Talks

13 Jun 07

How Concepts Behave: the potential of the life sciences and their impact on society

11 Jun 07

Globalisation, Biotechnology and Democracy

5 Jun 07

American Policy Toward Israel: the power and limits of beliefs

30 May 07

Corruption in Judicial Systems

24 May 07

Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror

23 May 07

Gender Matters in Political Economy

23 May 07

Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano)

23 May 07

The Challenge of Affluence: self-control, well-being and future shock

22 May 07

Swords and Ploughshares

21 May 07

Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) Nigel Hutchison (piano)

17 May 07

Militarism and Hyperlegality: some common features in colonial and contemporary governance

17 May 07

International Military Interventions and the Constraints Facing the United Nations

17 May 07

Re-searching the Potential of Cultural-Historical Psychology

16 May 07

A 2020 Vision for the Public Services

16 May 07

On an Orwellian Path to Globalisation and Information Societies?

15 May 07

Globalisation, Labour Standards and Women’s Rights: dilemmas of collective (in) action in an interde

14 May 07

Affective Spaces, Objects of Violence: ruination and the production of anthropological knowledge

10 May 07

New Labour – Ten Years On

9 May 07

Can the European Economic Model be Transformed?

8 May 07

The Hydrogen Economy: preparing the world for a new energy era and the third industrial revolution

8 May 07

Trade and Inequality Revisited

4 May 07

Will Blair’s European Dream Be Brown’s British Nightmare?

3 May 07

Do War Crime Trials Do More Harm Than Good?

3 May 07

Smoot’s Ear: the measure of humanity

2 May 07

Watchdog of War: the media and NGOs in Russia – in memory of Anna Politkovskaya

2 May 07

From Kosovo to the Caucasus: lessons of conflict management in the Balkans and the CIS

1 May 07

British Foreign Policy - Challenges facing the next Prime Minister

30 Apr 07

Stamp Memorial Lecture: Economics and Identity

25 Apr 07

One Market, One Law, One Money? Unintended Consequences of EMU, Enlargement and Eurocentricity

24 Apr 07

The Ageing Society: challenges, opportunities and unnecessary scares

23 Apr 07

Public Diplomacy – Steps to the Future

23 Apr 07

Over to you, Mr Brown

28 Mar 07

Civilisational Dialogue: Islam and the West

15 Mar 07

What’s Wrong with the UN?

15 Mar 07

Out of the Pits: traders and technology from Chicago to London

14 Mar 07

European Union: the next 50 years

14 Mar 07

Children’s Media: More Harm than Good?

24 Jan 07

General Reflections

23 Jan 07

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