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Previous Lectures and Events

'Everyone is entitled…' The global struggle for women's human rights

11 Dec 14

Shirley Williams on Vera Brittain

10 Dec 14

Poverty, Inequality and the Political Economy of Measurement

9 Dec 14

The European Debt Crisis: the Greek case

9 Dec 14

The Tyranny of Experts

8 Dec 14

Democracy, decency and devolution

8 Dec 14

IPSO and the Future of UK Press Regulation

4 Dec 14

Anarchism and Sexuality

4 Dec 14

Open Government in the Age of Total War

2 Dec 14

Ready for Hillary? Portrait of a President in Waiting

1 Dec 14

Pressed for Time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalism

27 Nov 14

The Languages of Migration

26 Nov 14

Power Politics and the Humanitarian Impulse: the United Nations in the post-Cold War era

26 Nov 14

The Global Public Sphere

26 Nov 14

Foreign Policy in a time of turmoil

25 Nov 14

In Conversation with the Lord Chief Justice

25 Nov 14

More Women Can Run: why women remain underrepresented in politics

24 Nov 14

Museum Madness

24 Nov 14

The War that Was Lost

20 Nov 14

Poverty and the Pope

19 Nov 14

The Scale-up Manifesto: why scale-ups will drive the global policy agenda for the next generation

18 Nov 14

What Europe?

17 Nov 14

How Finance is Tackling Sustainability: a roadmap to the future

17 Nov 14

Economy Beyond Economics: time for a paradigm shift

13 Nov 14

Good Times, Bad Times: the welfare myth of them and us

12 Nov 14

Changing Lives: the welfare myth of them and us

12 Nov 14

The Greek Orthodox Church and the Economic Crisis

12 Nov 14

War and Moral Stupidity

12 Nov 14

The Need to Censor Our Dreams

11 Nov 14

The Limits of Transformation from Above: Turkey since 1914

11 Nov 14

The Fourth Revolution: the global race to reinvent the state

10 Nov 14

What is the Welfare State? A Sociological Restatement

10 Nov 14

EVENT CANCELLED: European challenges and the French economic strategy

7 Nov 14

Planetary Economics: macroeconomic and international implications

6 Nov 14

On Fantasy Island: British politics, English judges and the European Convention on Human Rights

6 Nov 14

A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine

6 Nov 14

Shared Responsibility: the importance of international partnerships to homeland security

5 Nov 14

Structural Opportunities in the US Economy

5 Nov 14

Food Policy: ethics for your kitchen and beyond

4 Nov 14

EVENT CANCELLED: A Lecture by the Slovakian Prime Minister, Robert Fico

30 Oct 14

Afghanistan: the transition

30 Oct 14

Names: the long shadow of war and remembrance, 1914-2014

29 Oct 14

The Vietnam Wars Reconsidered

28 Oct 14

Nominal Democracy? Prospects for Democratic Global Governance

28 Oct 14

A speech by Minouche Shafik, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

27 Oct 14

A Lecture by the Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vučić

23 Oct 14

The Social Life of Money

23 Oct 14

Global News Media: the next horizon

23 Oct 14

The Real Story Behind the Invisible Hand

23 Oct 14

Art & Activism: reflections on the anti-apartheid struggle & two decades of South African democracy

23 Oct 14

The Lakatos Award Lectures

22 Oct 14

Happiness by Design

22 Oct 14

A Changing World and China

22 Oct 14

Do We Need to Shake Up the Social Sciences?

21 Oct 14

The Radical Transparency of the American Republic

21 Oct 14

Buying Time: the delayed crisis of democratic capitalism

20 Oct 14

In Search of Human Uniqueness

20 Oct 14

The Outlook for Global Financial Stability

16 Oct 14

Rationality and Irrationality in Government

16 Oct 14

Hand to Mouth: the truth about being poor in a wealthy world

16 Oct 14

The Summit: the biggest battle of the Second World War – fought behind closed doors

15 Oct 14

Liability, Proportionality and the Number of Aggressors

15 Oct 14

Women in Public Life: above the parapet

15 Oct 14

Structural Reform for Growth with Equity

14 Oct 14

'Secure the Borders!' The Cost and Consequences of Europe's 'Fight Against Irregular Migration'

14 Oct 14

'The Politics of Climate Change 2014: what cause for hope?

14 Oct 14

Transatlantic Free Trade: the final push? British, French and US perspectives on a TTIP agreement

13 Oct 14

The Establishment and How They Get Away With It

13 Oct 14

Art and Politics Now

13 Oct 14

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in the Twenty First Century

9 Oct 14

Improving Basic Services for the Bottom Forty Percent: lessons from Ethiopia

8 Oct 14

The History Manifesto

8 Oct 14

The Paradox of China's Peaceful Rise

7 Oct 14

Inequality and the 1%: what goes wrong when the rich become too rich

7 Oct 14

Trails of the Great War – 1914-2014

3 Oct 14

Human Rights Diplomacy: inside the United Nations

2 Oct 14

Gender, Inequality and Power

1 Oct 14

Giving Guidance On Future Monetary Policy In A Very Uncertain World

30 Sep 14

How to Build the Future

26 Sep 14

Growth, Policy and Institutions: lessons from the Indian experience

25 Sep 14

Ten Facts about Energy and Growth

24 Sep 14

Financing Africa's Future: infrastructure, investment and opportunity

23 Sep 14

South Africa's Democracy — Mandela's "Cherished Ideal"

23 Sep 14

The Shifts and The Shocks: What we've learned – and still have to learn – from the financial crisis

16 Sep 14

Jo Fidgen interviews Michael Pollan

3 Sep 14

Formality Bias: the habits holding Africa back

2 Sep 14

Emerging Africa: how the global economy's 'last frontier' can prosper and matter

23 Jul 14

Thrive: the power of evidence-based psychological therapies

10 Jul 14

Deleuze's Migrants and Nomads: the European Union in 2014

1 Jul 14

Philosophy Challenge

26 Jun 14

The Plot Against the Generals: Gülenists, intellectuals and the fraud that transformed Turkish polit

25 Jun 14

Good Morning, Mr Mandela

24 Jun 14

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

16 Jun 14

The Evolution of Culture in Monkeys, Apes and Humans

12 Jun 14

Mandela, The Lawyer

12 Jun 14

Mandela, the Lawyer

12 Jun 14

Housing: Where Will We All Live?

9 Jun 14

Shaping Tastes: attitude campaigns and persuasion as tools of public policy

5 Jun 14

The Polish Roundtable Talks and the End of the Cold War

4 Jun 14

What Future for Pan-Arabism? The Case of Egypt

3 Jun 14

England: a nation defined by dissent

29 May 14

Reflections on Leadership: a bank CEO's perspective

28 May 14

From Subsidy to Strategic Investment: what can the EU's new, reformed regional policy do for growth

28 May 14

Poverty, Justice and Development

22 May 14

The Social Conditions for Innovation: dissonance for discovery

22 May 14

An Economy of Temporary Possession

22 May 14

Risk Savvy: how to make good decisions

21 May 14

A lecture by Charlie Bean, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

20 May 14

The Future of the BBC

14 May 14

Expulsions: brutality and complexity in the global economy

13 May 14

Imagining Global Health with Justice

8 May 14

Borders and Interests: should the workers of the world unite?

8 May 14

The Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy

7 May 14

Practice Makes Progress: the multiple logics of continuing innovation

7 May 14

Looking Backward to Posterity: the statistics of crisis

6 May 14

Scaling Up Excellence

6 May 14

Fault Lines and Silver Linings in the European Social Model

5 May 14

Harnessing the Power of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Fight to Eradicate Sexual Violence in

5 May 14

The State of Freedom in Britain

3 May 14

Human Rights, Globalisation and How to Save the World

1 May 14

Economics, But Not as You Know It

1 May 14

The Public Philosopher - Why Vote?

30 Apr 14

A Typical Latin American Country: the United States

30 Apr 14

The EU Economy After the Great Recession

29 Apr 14

The EU Economy After the Great Recession

29 Apr 14

War: what is it good for?

10 Apr 14

Freedom in Forgiveness

3 Apr 14

Cosmopolitanism: some lessons from modern Indian history

3 Apr 14

The 17 Contradictions of Capitalism

2 Apr 14

Reflections

31 Mar 14

Bourgeois Dignity: why economics can't explain the modern world

24 Mar 14

Economic Growth and Convergence

20 Mar 14

Sulki Yu (violin), Chiao-Ying Chang (piano)

20 Mar 14

Is Everything You Hear About Macroeconomics True?

19 Mar 14

EVENT CANCELLED: European Parliament Elections and Elections to the EU Top Posts: will citizens deci

19 Mar 14

The Unknown Known

18 Mar 14

LSE Choir and Orchestra Spring Concert

18 Mar 14

Will China Dominate the 21st Century?

18 Mar 14

Excel at Your Job, Be Home for Dinner

17 Mar 14

Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?: how Europe must now choose between econom

13 Mar 14

Word Power: written constitutions and the definition of British borders since 1787

13 Mar 14

Access to Justice and Extractive Industries

13 Mar 14

Tackling Global Injustice in a World of Climate Change: punishing the innocent?

13 Mar 14

Cavaleri String Quartet

13 Mar 14

Transforming a City: from London's East End to the West End

11 Mar 14

The Origins of the Final Solution: Eastern Europe and the Holocaust

11 Mar 14

Rethinking Secularism: respect, domination and the state

10 Mar 14

Russia, Ukraine and Us

7 Mar 14

China's Urban Policies: dilemmas facing the world's largest urban population

6 Mar 14

Accountability and Efficiency in the European Union: 20 years of co-decision

6 Mar 14

The Manchester Piano Trio

6 Mar 14

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

5 Mar 14

A Question of Law

5 Mar 14

There is an Alternative! Lessons from Portugal

4 Mar 14

Money and Inequality

4 Mar 14

How Climate Change Might Save the World

27 Feb 14

The Fournier Trio

27 Feb 14

Fiscal Policy During Recessions and Recoveries

26 Feb 14

Surprise What Surprise?: The Old “new” nationalisms in Post-security Europe

26 Feb 14

EVENT CANCELLED Bringing Growth back to Europe: Liberalization, Open Markets and Trade

25 Feb 14

On Exploitation

20 Feb 14

EVENT CANCELLED: England: a nation defined by dissent

20 Feb 14

Martino Tirimo (piano)

20 Feb 14

Gujarat: human rights violations, impunity and the Indian general elections

19 Feb 14

An American Century or an Asian Century?

18 Feb 14

Is there a Sexual History? A Conversation with Jeffrey Weeks and Clare Hemmings

18 Feb 14

Social Movements, Political Violence and the State

17 Feb 14

Ethics and the Media: after the Leveson inquiry

13 Feb 14

Ethics Matters in War

13 Feb 14

Asaf Sirkis Trio

13 Feb 14

Risk Sharing and Cooperative Finance

12 Feb 14

Economics, the Enemy?

11 Feb 14

Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems

6 Feb 14

Should the Euro Survive? Economics in an Era of Political Extremism

6 Feb 14

Film screening

6 Feb 14

Evva Mizerska (cello), Emma Abbate (piano)

6 Feb 14

What Have You Got to Hide?

5 Feb 14

Nationalism, Internationalism and Global Sport

5 Feb 14

CANCELLED: The Making of Gendered Subjectivity

4 Feb 14

The Sports Gene: talent, practice and the truth about success

4 Feb 14

The Rise of Euroscepticism: causes and prospects

30 Jan 14

AIDS Drugs for All: social movements and market transformations

30 Jan 14

Mei Yi Foo (piano)

30 Jan 14

China's Role in the Global Economy: myths and realities

29 Jan 14

Pride and Propaganda: LGBT rights in Russia today

29 Jan 14

The Next Crisis

28 Jan 14

Brazil's Economic Outlook

27 Jan 14

The Ethics of 'Nudge'

27 Jan 14

The Future of the Liberal World Order

23 Jan 14

These European Elections Matter

23 Jan 14

Bartosz Woroch (violin)

23 Jan 14

Informal Governance in the European Union: how governments make international organisations work

22 Jan 14

Poverty and the Tolerance of the Intolerable

22 Jan 14

From Empire to Republic: China's struggle with modernity?

21 Jan 14

Feminism Then and Now

21 Jan 14

The Origins of Mass Killing: the bloodlands hypothesis

21 Jan 14

The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences: what can the brain tell us about the mind?

20 Jan 14

The true story about the geopolitical role of Cyprus: David or Goliath?

16 Jan 14

In Conversation with Joshua Rozenberg

16 Jan 14

Transient Solidarities: commitment and collective action in post-industrial societies

16 Jan 14

Ivana Gavrić (piano)

16 Jan 14

The Reproduction of People by Means of People

15 Jan 14

Measuring Happiness?

15 Jan 14

Is Europe Working?

12 Dec 13

In Conversation with the Hon Mr Justice Peter Jackson

12 Dec 13

Is Europe Working?

12 Dec 13

Feminism in the Media

10 Dec 13

From Moral Panics to States of Denial: a celebration of the life and work of Stan Cohen

10 Dec 13

Constitutional Interpretation in the USA

5 Dec 13

Is ASEAN Still Relevant?

4 Dec 13

Is there a Progressive Case for National Identity?

3 Dec 13

Approaches to Eradicate Poverty Over Next Generation

28 Nov 13

Dirty Wars

27 Nov 13

A Fractured Future: climate change in an age of fossil fuel abundance

27 Nov 13

The Body Economic: why austerity kills

27 Nov 13

The Future of EU Enlargement

26 Nov 13

EVENT CANCELLED Why Growth Matters

26 Nov 13

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon: writing Pakistan

25 Nov 13

Innovation - the Essence of Transforming Development Patterns

21 Nov 13

European competitiveness: is completing the single market the key?

21 Nov 13

The Old New Politics of Class

20 Nov 13

The Idea of Order in Ancient Chinese Political Thought: a Wightian exploration

20 Nov 13

The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences: children's pathologies

19 Nov 13

Power Shift? The Rise of the Rest and the Decline of the West: facts, myths and economists

19 Nov 13

Peace, Security and Development in the Africa Great Lakes Region

18 Nov 13

The Progressive Agenda Now

14 Nov 13

The Paralympic Movement Takes Off

14 Nov 13

The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences: privacy and respect for persons

13 Nov 13

Behavioural Economics and Diet

12 Nov 13

Burke, Oakeshott, and the Intellectual Roots of Modern Conservatism

12 Nov 13

Europe: the struggle for supremacy, 1453 to the present

12 Nov 13

The Chicago Plan Revisited

12 Nov 13

Competition in the online world: European and global perspectives

11 Nov 13

Gandhi Before India

11 Nov 13

The "Human Sciences'' on Trial in Iran

7 Nov 13

Commemorating the First World War: a hundred years on

7 Nov 13

Can and Should the Eurozone Survive?

7 Nov 13

Human Suffering and Humanitarian Emergencies

6 Nov 13

Brazil

6 Nov 13

The Great Tamasha: cricket, corruption and the turbulent rise of modern India

5 Nov 13

The Origins of the Revolution: Marx and Eastern Europe

5 Nov 13

Only White Men: serial killing in European cinema

4 Nov 13

Exodus: Immigration and multiculturalism in the 21st century

4 Nov 13

Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe?

31 Oct 13

Private Sector Approaches to Sustainable, Long-Term Economic Development

31 Oct 13

Is Rape Different?

30 Oct 13

What's the point of contemporary art?

30 Oct 13

Work as a Value

29 Oct 13

The Metropolitan Revolution: perspectives from US cities

29 Oct 13

Capitalism Without Guilt: the moral case for freedom

28 Oct 13

The Social-Cultural Foundation of the 21st Century New Pan-Africanist Consciousness

24 Oct 13

Thinking and Feeling About Risk: can they be separated?

24 Oct 13

Richard Titmuss: forty years on

23 Oct 13

Keys to the City: how economics, institutions, social interaction and politics shape development

23 Oct 13

"Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here": the human rights struggle against Muslim fundamentalism

23 Oct 13

Shaping Higher Education Fifty Years After Robbins: what views to the future?

22 Oct 13

Values beyond value? Is anything beyond the logic of capital?

17 Oct 13

From Eco-Catastrophe to Zero Clearing: why is deforestation in the Neotropics declining?

17 Oct 13

Social Democracy and the Nation After the Crash

17 Oct 13

The New Middle East: the world after the Arab Spring

16 Oct 13

Imprisoning the mentally disordered: a manifest injustice?

16 Oct 13

Grassroots Innovation and the Spread of Flourishing

16 Oct 13

The Cunning of Uncertainty

15 Oct 13

The Great Escape: health, wealth, and the origins of inequality

15 Oct 13

The Origins of the Nations: the brotherlands hypothesis

15 Oct 13

The EU in the Eye of the Storm

14 Oct 13

Can the European Union reconnect with its citizens?

14 Oct 13

Global Migration and Urban Renewal

10 Oct 13

Reclaiming Democracy in the Square? Interpreting the Anti-Austerity and Pro-Democracy Movements

10 Oct 13

Red Fortress: the secret heart of Russia's history

9 Oct 13

Eyes Wide Open: how to make smart decisions in a confusing world

9 Oct 13

Crowdsourcing a New UK Constitution

8 Oct 13

Why Growth Theory Requires a Theory of the State Beyond Market Failures

8 Oct 13

The Financial Crisis – A Canadian Perspective on Lessons Learned and Avoiding the Next Crisis

3 Oct 13

Tracking the gender politics of the Millennium Development Goals: From the Millennium Declaration to

2 Oct 13

Predatory Thinking

2 Oct 13

Delivering Food Assistance in a Shrinking Humanitarian Space

17 Sep 13

Adjusting to the changing dynamics of the world economy

12 Sep 13

State of the World Economy: A View from an Emerging Market

11 Sep 13

The Last Vote: The Threats to Western Democracy

9 Sep 13

Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth

5 Sep 13

John F Kennedy's Quest For Peace

15 Jul 13

Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need it Most

11 Jul 13

China's War with Japan

10 Jul 13

Secrets of Silicon Valley

8 Jul 13

Autobiographical Philosophy

2 Jul 13

An Uncertain Glory: the economic and social condition of modern India

26 Jun 13

Philosophy Stand Up – No Joke

25 Jun 13

Against the Consensus: Reflections on the Great Recession

24 Jun 13

Superdiversity and the Unequal City

19 Jun 13

When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence

19 Jun 13

On Philippa Foot

18 Jun 13

A lecture by Zhu Min

18 Jun 13

Virtuous Citizenship and the Moral Values of One Nation

12 Jun 13

Isaiah Berlin on Two Concepts of Liberty

11 Jun 13

Can Europe lead in a post-western world?

11 Jun 13

Bosnia-Herzegovina: ways forward

11 Jun 13

Opening the Black Box of Russian Foreign Policy

10 Jun 13

Representing Europeans: a pragmatic approach

6 Jun 13

France's Place in Europe - One Year into the Socialist Presidency

5 Jun 13

Green Philosophy

5 Jun 13

EVENT CANCELLED Visualising Social Research

4 Jun 13

From Response to Resilience: the role of the engineer in disaster risk reduction

4 Jun 13

The Future of Capitalism

4 Jun 13

The Challenge of Executive Democracy in Europe

4 Jun 13

Cooking as a Political Act

30 May 13

The Amartya Sen Lecture at LSE

29 May 13

Iran's New Intellectualism: trends in contemporary conscious music

28 May 13

Sartre on the Transcendental I

28 May 13

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

23 May 13

The Future of London within the UK

22 May 13

Wealth in the UK

22 May 13

Banker to the Poor: Lifting Millions Out of Poverty through Social Business

20 May 13

Progressive Capitalism

20 May 13

Synchronic and Diachronic Responsibility

16 May 13

Anthropology and Emotion

16 May 13

One-Day Colloquium in Combinatorics

16 May 13

Who Owns the "One Nation" and what does it stand for?

15 May 13

Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring that wasn't

15 May 13

On Beauty

15 May 13

Does market-led development have a future?

15 May 13

The Theft of the Creative Content: Copyright in Crisis

9 May 13

Truth and Rationality

8 May 13

The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It

8 May 13

Global Power in a Shifting International Order: the West and the rest

8 May 13

Trafficking Networks and Threats to Security in West Africa: the case of Mali

8 May 13

The Lost Continent: Europe's darkest hour since the Second World War

8 May 13

The Philosophy of Mental Illness

7 May 13

The Challenges of Engaged Development in Brazil: Homage to Albert Hirschman and Oscar Niemeyer

2 May 13

Obama, the Tea Party, and the future of American Politics

2 May 13

Saving the Arab Spring: economic development in the Middle East

2 May 13

Britain and the EU: an ever-closer union of peoples?

2 May 13

Warrior Geeks: how 21st century technology is changing the way we fight and think about war

2 May 13

Error, Lies and Adventure: the pursuit of adventure

1 May 13

Engineers of Victory: the problem solvers who turned the tide in the Second World War

1 May 13

Taiwan is not China: aborigines, colonial rulers and democratisation in the history of the beautiful

30 Apr 13

Rough Justice

30 Apr 13

The Democracy Project

30 Apr 13

The Signal and the Noise: the art and science of prediction

29 Apr 13

Conflicted Societies, Memory and the Visual Arts

29 Apr 13

Margaret Thatcher- Not For Turning

25 Apr 13

In conversation with Nancy Pelosi

19 Apr 13

The Middle Kingdom Ride - 2 Brothers, 2 Motorcycles, 1 Epic Adventure in China

17 Apr 13

The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions

11 Apr 13

Leading Change: Perspectives from GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson

11 Apr 13

Khan Academy - Reimagining Education

10 Apr 13

What should economists and policymakers learn from the financial crisis?

25 Mar 13

Error, Lies and Adventure: The Power of Lies

21 Mar 13

The Folly of Technological Solutionism

21 Mar 13

China's Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower

21 Mar 13

Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing and what we can do about it?

20 Mar 13

Is Multiculturalism Dead?

19 Mar 13

The Politics of FGM: The Influence of External and Locally-Led Initiatives in The Gambia

18 Mar 13

The Great Convergence: Asia, The West and the Logic of One World

14 Mar 13

EVENT CANCELLED: Obama, the Tea Party, and the future of American Politics

14 Mar 13

The Economic and Politics of the Euro Crisis: A Varieties-of-Capitalism Perspective

14 Mar 13

Franco's Terror in a European Context: the volksgemeinschaft that got away

14 Mar 13

What is Sustainable Development and How Can We Achieve It?

13 Mar 13

India - Macroeconomic Challenges, Some Reserve Bank Perspectives

13 Mar 13

Nationalism and Transnational History

13 Mar 13

In Conversation with Baroness Hale

13 Mar 13

The Commonwealth: Reform, Relevance and Future Role

12 Mar 13

Does Eastern Europe Still Exist?

12 Mar 13

Ireland: Economic Recovery and the EU Presidency - Stability, Jobs & Growth

11 Mar 13

Unintended Consequences of the New Financial Regulations

11 Mar 13

Sexual Politics and Revolution: Emma Goldman's Passion

11 Mar 13

The End of Impunity for Violence against Women? The Istanbul Convention in Europe

7 Mar 13

Healthy African Cities

7 Mar 13

A Life in Politics

5 Mar 13

Why I am a Euro-optimist

4 Mar 13

Comedy as Commentary

2 Mar 13

New Media and the Future of Literacy

2 Mar 13

Between Curatorial and Urban Practice

2 Mar 13

The Future of Publishing in a Digital Age

2 Mar 13

Based on a True Story

2 Mar 13

Fashion in Food

2 Mar 13

Place Writing: landscape, nature and identity

2 Mar 13

Art in Conflict

2 Mar 13

Poetry and Politics: how well do they mix?

2 Mar 13

Narratives: the oral tradition of storytelling and fiction

2 Mar 13

The Power of Literature and Human Rights

2 Mar 13

Trying New Positions: how to spice up your text life

2 Mar 13

Fast Fiction: creative writing and changing technology

2 Mar 13

The Art of Parodies

1 Mar 13

Austerity on Trial

1 Mar 13

Branching Out: the life and work of Denis Diderot

1 Mar 13

Sarah Losh of Wreay: architect, antiquarian and visionary

1 Mar 13

My Mediterranean

1 Mar 13

Karim Said (piano)

28 Feb 13

The Silence of Animals

28 Feb 13

A Tale of Two James(es)

28 Feb 13

Branching Out: mapping human imagination, exploration and innovation

28 Feb 13

Beyond the Book: new forms of academic communication

28 Feb 13

Rethinking Risk: when biology meets finance

28 Feb 13

A Life in Politics – leading London from the left

28 Feb 13

Growing the Productivity of Government Services

28 Feb 13

The Ironic Spectator

27 Feb 13

Altered States: what happens when we tell stories about science?

27 Feb 13

Narrative, Memory and the Mind

27 Feb 13

Day Jobs and the Twilight World

27 Feb 13

Women Writing History

27 Feb 13

Islamic Finance and Shari`a Compliance: reality and expectations

27 Feb 13

The Forum: The Challenge of Ageing

26 Feb 13

Philosophy by Podcast

26 Feb 13

The Survival of EU Legal Authority after the Crisis?

26 Feb 13

John Law Trio

21 Feb 13

The New Middle East: protest and revolution in the Arab world

21 Feb 13

Creativity and Recovery from Recession

21 Feb 13

On Shame

21 Feb 13

History Reconfigured: Habsburg's imperial symbolism and regional identities in the visual arts durin

20 Feb 13

EVENT CANCELLED: Humanitarian Legalism

20 Feb 13

Democratising a Macro-Economic Union in Europe

20 Feb 13

Off the edge of history: the world in the 21st century

19 Feb 13

Liberty and Security in the World Today: why we are all neo-democrats and what we should do about it

19 Feb 13

The Crisis, the New Eurozone Governance and the Legitimacy of the EU Institutions

19 Feb 13

On Humour

18 Feb 13

What would Hayek do to sort out this mess?

18 Feb 13

Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech: What International Human Rights Law Says

15 Feb 13

Philip Higham (cello), Sam Armstrong (piano)

14 Feb 13

Live from Downing Street: The inside story of power, politics and the media

14 Feb 13

In Conversation with Jean-Paul Costa

14 Feb 13

Transformation Is Possible: Moving Feminist Economics into Policies and Institutions

14 Feb 13

EU on a Cross-road and the Future of Our European Project - a View from Central Europe

13 Feb 13

International Relations as a Social Science

13 Feb 13

Putinism: the ideology

12 Feb 13

Sam Armstrong (piano)

7 Feb 13

EVENT CANCELLED: Going Green: how cities are leading the next economy

7 Feb 13

Design in Nature

7 Feb 13

A Law of Crisis or A Crisis of Law? The EU Legal Order Under Stress

6 Feb 13

The Global Theft of Land: human rights, dispossession and destruction

6 Feb 13

A Law of Crisis or A Crisis of Law? The EU Legal Order Under Stress

6 Feb 13

Can Democracy be Saved? Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements

5 Feb 13

Russia And The First World War: time to think again?

5 Feb 13

Bad Pharma

4 Feb 13

Caroline MacPhie (soprano), Anna Tilbrook (piano)

31 Jan 13

Investing in Prosperity – Launch of the LSE Growth Commission Report

31 Jan 13

EVENT CANCELLED: What is Happening in Syria Today?

31 Jan 13

Heroic Achievement or Folly, What Would Kapuscinski Make of Development Today?

30 Jan 13

Democracy and Emotion

29 Jan 13

African Security and External Interference: exploring the role of a newcomer, China

29 Jan 13

Democracy and Emotion

29 Jan 13

Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination

28 Jan 13

Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination

28 Jan 13

Zimbabwe Takes Back its Land

28 Jan 13

Cordelia Williams (piano)

24 Jan 13

An App That Can Save Lives

24 Jan 13

Cordelia Williams (piano)

24 Jan 13

Eurozone Deadlock – Finding a Path Out of the Crisis

23 Jan 13

The Outbreak of War in 1914 Revisited

22 Jan 13

Women, Protest and the Nature of Female Rebellion

22 Jan 13

In Conversation with Lucy Scott-Moncrieff

22 Jan 13

The Foreign Policy Dilemmas of the US Administration in the Next Four Years

22 Jan 13

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich

21 Jan 13

Digital Reality-Life in Two Worlds: The Physical World We Inhabit and the Digital Universe We Create

21 Jan 13

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich

21 Jan 13

Back to the Future? US Labour in the New Gilded Age

21 Jan 13

Facts, Fiction and Philosophy

21 Jan 13

The economic future of British cities: what should urban policy do?

17 Jan 13

Land of the Seven Rivers: a brief history of India's geography

17 Jan 13

Katie Stillman (violin), Simon Lane (piano)

17 Jan 13

Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics

16 Jan 13

Islam and the Politics of Resistance: the case of women in Iran

16 Jan 13

Perspectives on the European crises from a small open economy

16 Jan 13

The Power Of Zero In Driving "Breakthrough Capitalism"

15 Jan 13

The Labour Movement and Protest: a working-class politics for the 21st century

15 Jan 13

Life and Politics: Potentiation and Extinguishment

14 Jan 13

Demystifying the Chinese Economy

18 Dec 12

Demystifying the Chinese Economy

18 Dec 12

Visualizing Political Struggle in the Middle East

13 Dec 12

James Barralet (cello)

13 Dec 12

LSE Choir and Orchestra Christmas Concert

11 Dec 12

Rousseau and the State of War

11 Dec 12

Can we learn from History?

10 Dec 12

With Good Reason: a debate on the foundations of ethics

6 Dec 12

Putting Rights Back Together Again

6 Dec 12

Sara Trickey (violin)

6 Dec 12

Blaming Europe? Citizens, Governments and the Media

5 Dec 12

Antifragile: how to live in a world we don't understand

5 Dec 12

Iran's Nuclear Programme: a surge into modernity

5 Dec 12

Replacing the Nation: South Africa's passive revolution?

4 Dec 12

Wishful Thinking

3 Dec 12

The future of the European Union after the euro crisis: Political union and its discontents

3 Dec 12

Asaf Sirkis Trio

29 Nov 12

"Call Me Kuchu": homophobia in Uganda

28 Nov 12

The Eurozone's Design Failures: can they be corrected?

28 Nov 12

The Creative Mind

27 Nov 12

International Harmonisation and Domestic Law Reform

27 Nov 12

Social Movements and Social Change

27 Nov 12

An afternoon with Martti Ahtisaari

26 Nov 12

The Olympus Scandal: the first CEO in history to become a whistleblower and report on his own compan

26 Nov 12

Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826): utopian imperialist

26 Nov 12

When Gay People Get Married

26 Nov 12

More Relatively-Poor People in a Less Absolutely-Poor World

22 Nov 12

European Rights vs Bill of Rights

22 Nov 12

"No Enemies -No Hatred" - Liu Xiaobo and The Struggle for Democracy in China

22 Nov 12

The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire"

22 Nov 12

Barbirolli Quartet

22 Nov 12

Monetary policy and the financial crisis 2006-2009

21 Nov 12

Islamists in Power: governing the Arab world?

21 Nov 12

How Protest Movements Change America

21 Nov 12

Was Churchill more of a Progressive than a Reactionary?

21 Nov 12

The Gulag: what we know now and why it matters

20 Nov 12

Politics, Privatization and Performance in Greek Telecommunications

20 Nov 12

US leadership in the 21st Century

19 Nov 12

Dazed and Confused: making sense of an uncertain economy

19 Nov 12

On Cosmopolitanism

19 Nov 12

Giving National Security a Human Face

15 Nov 12

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

15 Nov 12

Arta Arnicane (piano)

15 Nov 12

Developmental Diasporas in China and India: a reconsideration of conventional capital

14 Nov 12

The Future of the Union: England

14 Nov 12

Decentralization and Popular Democracy: governance from below in Bolivia

14 Nov 12

Another kind of war

13 Nov 12

Economic Transition in the Arab world: Challenges and Opportunities

13 Nov 12

Knowledge Matters: the public mission of research universities

13 Nov 12

Conspiracies, distrust and suspicions of health programmes in Africa

13 Nov 12

Innovation and Beyond in Healthcare

13 Nov 12

America and the World - After the Election

12 Nov 12

Secularism, Religion and Sexuality: A Postcolonial Genealogy

12 Nov 12

The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth

12 Nov 12

In the Zone: Spontaneity and Mental Discipline in Sport and Beyond

8 Nov 12

The Future Of The Union: Wales

8 Nov 12

Salafi Islam, Online Ethics and the Future of the Egyptian Revolution

8 Nov 12

Jonathan Mcgovern (baritone)

8 Nov 12

A Banking Union for Europe: how (and how not) to do it

7 Nov 12

Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century

7 Nov 12

In Conversation with The Hon Mr Justice Singh

7 Nov 12

Contentious Politics: social and political forces in the Middle East today

6 Nov 12

The Stateless Citizen: irregular migration and cosmopolitan citizenship

6 Nov 12

Managing Uncertainty

6 Nov 12

Accounting Harmonisation and Global Economic Consequences

6 Nov 12

The Eurozone Crisis and Austerity Politics: A Trigger for Administrative Reform in Greece?

6 Nov 12

How Long Does "Post-War" Last? Feminist Warnings

5 Nov 12

Good Derivatives: a story of financial and environmental innovation

5 Nov 12

Will elected police Commissioners improve police accountability?

5 Nov 12

The Conservatives since 1945

1 Nov 12

Europe's Unfinished Currency: the political economics of the Euro

1 Nov 12

The Challenge of Agricultural Development in Africa: what lessons from China?

1 Nov 12

How to Exit? Debating the End Game of Post-Conflict State Building

1 Nov 12

Restless Empire: China and the world since 1750

1 Nov 12

Rhodes Piano Trio

1 Nov 12

When China Met Africa

31 Oct 12

Consumption and the Philosophy of Denim

31 Oct 12

The Ethics of Human Enhancement

30 Oct 12

America Votes

29 Oct 12

The Mediterranean – an opportunity?

26 Oct 12

Strengthening Competitiveness and Growth in Europe

25 Oct 12

The Arab Uprisings

25 Oct 12

The Gulf and the Global Economy: the state of the world

25 Oct 12

The Relevance of International History

25 Oct 12

Eleni Mavromoustaki (piano)

25 Oct 12

After the Arab Spring: the Gulf monarchies in an age of uncertainty

24 Oct 12

In Conversation with Keir Starmer QC

24 Oct 12

The Global Drug Wars

23 Oct 12

Secularism, Human Rights and the Middle East: challenges and reflections

23 Oct 12

Participatory Democracy in America's Long New Left

22 Oct 12

Asia's Challenges: ensuring equitable, inclusive growth

22 Oct 12

Occupy's Predicament: The Moment and the Prospects for Movement

18 Oct 12

When China Rules the World Revisited

18 Oct 12

The Cuban Missile Crisis: regional perspectives 50 years on

18 Oct 12

Bartosz Woroch (violin)

18 Oct 12

Voices from Syria's Opposition

17 Oct 12

True Believers: collaboration and opposition under totalitarian regimes

17 Oct 12

A Life in Politics: Nigel Lawson

17 Oct 12

Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the New Colombia

16 Oct 12

Going South: Why Britain will have a Third World Economy by 2014

16 Oct 12

Imagining the Internet: policy challenges

16 Oct 12

Selling the Unsellable: Bringing Experiential and Ephemeral Works of Contemporary Art to Market

15 Oct 12

Time to Start Thinking: America and the spectre of decline

15 Oct 12

Adapt: Problem solving in a complex world

15 Oct 12

What I learned by Doing Capitalism

11 Oct 12

Distilling the Frenzy

11 Oct 12

Alexandra Dariescu (piano)

11 Oct 12

A Conversation with Senator John McCain

10 Oct 12

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism and what they mean for our economic prospects

10 Oct 12

Reinventing Europe: one crisis, many futures

10 Oct 12

Stylized Characteristics of the Greek Inflation: Some Policy Recommendations

9 Oct 12

Black Consciousness, Black Theology, Student Activism and the Shaping of the New South Africa

9 Oct 12

Twenty Years of Inflation Targeting

9 Oct 12

Manifesto for a post-national and federal Europe

8 Oct 12

The crisis always rings twice

8 Oct 12

A lecture by Luis de Guindos, Spanish Minister of the Economy and Competitiveness

4 Oct 12

Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

4 Oct 12

Achieving your Dreams

2 Oct 12

South Sudan - the path back from war

2 Oct 12

The Decline of the US Middle Classes and the Transformation of the Republican Party

1 Oct 12

The Decline of the US Middle Classes and the Transformation of the Republican Party

1 Oct 12

Policy Challenges for Growth in Africa and South Asia

25 Sep 12

Cities: Places to Live, Places to Work

24 Sep 12

A Universe from Nothing

24 Sep 12

Emerging Economies Riding the Storm: Chile and the rest of the Region

12 Sep 12

Kandak: Fighting with Afghans

12 Sep 12

Policies for Inclusive and Balanced Growth

11 Sep 12

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia

30 Jul 12

Britain should stay in the European Union

24 Jul 12

Burma's Rohingya: A panel discussion

16 Jul 12

Family Planning: Why Do We Need a London Summit?

10 Jul 12

The Next War in the Middle East?

5 Jul 12

How Much is Enough? Work, Money and the Good Life

4 Jul 12

Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet

3 Jul 12

The Price of Inequality

29 Jun 12

A Lecture by Joseph E Stiglitz

28 Jun 12

Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth

26 Jun 12

Winner Take All: The Race for the World's Resources

25 Jun 12

A Capitalism for the People

21 Jun 12

Resisting intolerance: an ethical and global challenge

20 Jun 12

The Rule of Law

19 Jun 12

The Big Society Debate: a new agenda for social welfare?

19 Jun 12

"Enough": policies for a sustainable economy

14 Jun 12

Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

13 Jun 12

The new growth strategy: How responsible companies are profitable companies

13 Jun 12

The Past and Future of Social Democracy and the Consequences for Europe

12 Jun 12

Phishing for Phools

11 Jun 12

Land and the Political Economy of Development in India since Liberalisation

11 Jun 12

The Rule of Law and its Enemies - The Human Hive

7 Jun 12

CANCELLED: From Colony to BRIC: the challenges facing Brazil to preserve the competition of its mark

7 Jun 12

At the Origins of Modern Atheism

6 Jun 12

In Conversation with Daniel Kahneman

1 Jun 12

The Egyptian Revolution: where from and where to?

31 May 12

"My Britain's Fuck All": zombie multiculturalism and the race politics of citizenship

30 May 12

On Immortality

30 May 12

End This Depression Now!

29 May 12

Kiss of the Dragon? China's Geoeconomic Strategy in a Changing Global Order

29 May 12

Promoting Global Trade: the role of export credit agencies

29 May 12

Strengthening Competitiveness and Growth in Europe

29 May 12

Back to Earth (Retour sur Terre)

28 May 12

Seasons in the Sun

28 May 12

The Emerging Left in the "Emerging" World

28 May 12

Shadows of Liberty

24 May 12

A lecture by Corrado Passera, Italian Minister for Economic Development, Infrastructures and Transpo

23 May 12

How Can European Migration Policies Promote Development?

23 May 12

What Money Can't Buy - the moral limit of markets

23 May 12

Envisioning Real Utopias: alternatives within and beyond capitalism

22 May 12

Advancing Global Trade and Employment Together: Shared Opportunities and Responsibilities for the Un

22 May 12

"The Muck of the Past": revolution, social transformation and the Maoists in India

17 May 12

Mobile for Development – Global Justice

16 May 12

The Architecture of the Olympics

15 May 12

Mobile for Development Meets Human-Centred Design

15 May 12

The Future of the Left: the case of the United States

14 May 12

Adding Value In Africa: some reflections from the grandson of a Ghanaian cocoa farmer

10 May 12

Precautionary Politics: explaining the shift in global regulatory leadership from the United States

10 May 12

Rebel Cities: The Urbanization of Class Struggle

10 May 12

Dial M for Murdoch

9 May 12

The War is Dead, Long Live the War

9 May 12

Fuel on the Fire: oil and politics in Iraq

8 May 12

The Eurozone's awkward threesome: fiscal stance, macroeconomic stability and growth

8 May 12

Detention of Terrorists in 21st Century Armed Conflict

3 May 12

Finance and the Good Society

3 May 12

Indonesia in the New Geopolitics of Southeast Asia

2 May 12

The Politics of Squares

2 May 12

Toward Economic Feudalism? Inequality, Financialisation, and Democracy

2 May 12

Moving Beyond the Diktat: there is an alternative

1 May 12

After the Arab Spring: power shift in the Middle East?

1 May 12

Future of the Union: Northern Ireland

30 Apr 12

Breakout Nations: In Search of the Next Economic Miracle

30 Apr 12

Genesis: the origins of humanity

30 Apr 12

The Civil Service

26 Apr 12

Decent Capitalism: what protestors should protest for

25 Apr 12

France at the Crossroads

25 Apr 12

Tiger Head, Snake Tails, China Today: How it Got There and Where it is Heading

24 Apr 12

Luck: what it means and why it matters - in sport and life

23 Apr 12

Inside East-West Espionage

19 Apr 12

Banks versus the economy

3 Apr 12

What Would an Evidence-Based Copyright Law Look Like?

2 Apr 12

Poor Economics: Barefoot Hedge-fund Managers, Reluctant Entrepreneurs and the Surprising Truth about

26 Mar 12

COP 17 the awakening of the Climate Vulnerables

22 Mar 12

Language, Culture, and Being Human

22 Mar 12

Citizens Privileges or Human Rights? The Great Bill of Rights Swindle

20 Mar 12

Critical Rationalism and Religious and Political Reform in Iran

15 Mar 12

Climate Treaties and Approaching Catastrophes

14 Mar 12

Has the Future a Left?

14 Mar 12

Start Your Business in 7 Days

13 Mar 12

Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare in the Global Glass House

12 Mar 12

Indian Democracy's Ferocious Faultlines

12 Mar 12

The Public Philosopher - Should we bribe people to be healthy?

9 Mar 12

The Public Philosopher - Should universities give preference to applicants from poor backgrounds?

8 Mar 12

The Public Philosopher - Should a banker be paid more than a nurse?

8 Mar 12

The Future of Egalitarian Capitalism, in Light of its Past

7 Mar 12

The British Economy: Past and Future

7 Mar 12

Can there be a Political Science of the Holocaust?

7 Mar 12

Mental Health: The New Frontier for the Welfare State

6 Mar 12

Sport and the Nation: interpreting Indian history through the lens of cricket

6 Mar 12

Why Germany is the Real Heir to the Old English Constitution

1 Mar 12

The importance of strong data protection rules for growth and competitiveness

1 Mar 12

Science and Society

1 Mar 12

A lecture by Colin Crouch

1 Mar 12

Growth for Europe: Resuscitating the Single Market

29 Feb 12

Demonstrations, Riots, and Uprisings: mediated dissent in a changing communication environment

29 Feb 12

Rethinking Respectability: returning to value and ideology?

29 Feb 12

Comparing Real Wages: the McWage Index

28 Feb 12

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and England

27 Feb 12

The Politics of Resistance and the Arab Uprisings

23 Feb 12

Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution

23 Feb 12

Global Calls for Economic Justice: the potential of Islamic finance

22 Feb 12

Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution

22 Feb 12

A lecture by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland

21 Feb 12

Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution

21 Feb 12

On Friendship

21 Feb 12

European Community of Democracies – Towards a New Foundation of Europe

20 Feb 12

Dispatches from the Dark Side: on torture and the death of justice

16 Feb 12

Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do

15 Feb 12

Independence and Responsibility: the future of Scotland

15 Feb 12

How the clash between John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek continues to define the difference be

13 Feb 12

Bob Dylan and Hard Rain - our headlong collision with nature

9 Feb 12

Ghosts of Afghanistan

9 Feb 12

OECD Labour Markets in the Great Recession

9 Feb 12

Pity The Billionaire: the hard times swindle and the comeback of the right

8 Feb 12

Crises and Revolutions: The Reshaping of International Development

7 Feb 12

Does Law Have a Place in the Modern University?

7 Feb 12

The Origin of Sex: A history of the first sexual revolution

7 Feb 12

Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation

6 Feb 12

Frederick the Great, Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln: what makes a national icon?

6 Feb 12

Social Reproduction and Depletion: mapping gendered harm

6 Feb 12

Religion for Atheists

2 Feb 12

Portugal: Restoring Credibility and Confidence

1 Feb 12

A Tale of Tottenham: race, riots and the future

1 Feb 12

Revolution 2.0

31 Jan 12

God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World

31 Jan 12

Outside In: a conversation with Peter Hain

30 Jan 12

Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions

30 Jan 12

Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions

30 Jan 12

From Regional to Global Players: The Emergence of Asian Firms in the Global Economy

26 Jan 12

Ten Reasons Why India Will Not and Should Not Become a Superpower

26 Jan 12

The Geostrategic Importance of Cyprus: long term trends and prospects

25 Jan 12

Histories of International Law: dealing with Eurocentrism

25 Jan 12

The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage

24 Jan 12

Willpower: Self-Control, Decision Fatigue, and Energy Depletion

24 Jan 12

The Soviet Union's Collapse: causes and consequences

24 Jan 12

How Labour's traditions can renew Beveridge for the 21st century

23 Jan 12

Bottom-up Politics: an agency-centred approach to globalisation

23 Jan 12

The Global Banking Crisis: an African banker's response

23 Jan 12

The State of the World Economy in 2012

23 Jan 12

Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the new World Order

19 Jan 12

The EU in the global economy: challenges for growth

18 Jan 12

Margin Call

18 Jan 12

Israel: the strategy of the iron wall revisited

17 Jan 12

Realeconomik: The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (and How to Avert the Next One)

17 Jan 12

Gender and Men's Studies: peril or promise?

16 Jan 12

Total Policing: the future of policing in London

16 Jan 12

Redesigning the World's Largest Development Programme: EU cohesion policy

12 Jan 12

The Lean Startup

12 Jan 12

About time – Examining the case for a shorter working week

11 Jan 12

Deleveraging and Growth: is the developed world following Japan's long and winding road?

10 Jan 12

The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the struggle for Russia

10 Jan 12

Is it Time for a Digital Detox?

10 Jan 12

The Year of Egypt's Second Revolution, the Balance Sheet So Far

9 Jan 12

Aristo Sham (piano)

8 Dec 11

China Model 2

8 Dec 11

Creating International Law: gender as a new paradigm

8 Dec 11

The US and the Arab Revolutions

8 Dec 11

A Lecture by Youssef Amrani, secretary general of the Union for the Mediterranean

7 Dec 11

The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the struggle for Russia

7 Dec 11

A lecture by Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian

6 Dec 11

Anglo-America: civilizational politics beyond East and West

6 Dec 11

A New Synthesis of Public Administration: serving in the 21st century

6 Dec 11

Repositioning Bangladesh in the Western imagination

5 Dec 11

The Price of Civilization: economics and ethics after the fall

5 Dec 11

Global Political Challenges: women advancing democracy

2 Dec 11

Families and young people in troubled neighbourhoods

1 Dec 11

Philip Higham (cello), Simon Lane, piano

1 Dec 11

Aung San Suu Kyi and the revolution of the spirit

1 Dec 11

A Lecture by Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs

30 Nov 11

Thawing Planet: Climate Change, Resources, and Management of the Arctic

30 Nov 11

WikiLeaks: news in the networked era

30 Nov 11

For Love and Money: the distinctive features of care work

29 Nov 11

Jawaharlal Nehru and China: a study in failure?

29 Nov 11

1989 and EU-enlargement: Austria`s role in European politics

29 Nov 11

Arab Nationalism, Islamism and the Arab Uprising

28 Nov 11

Herd Behaviour and Keeping up with the Joneses

28 Nov 11

Fugata Quintet

24 Nov 11

Social Movements in the Age of the Internet

24 Nov 11

Role of the Chinese Diaspora

23 Nov 11

Leading Colombia towards Prosperity for All

22 Nov 11

The Future of Feminism

21 Nov 11

The Global Value of the Commonwealth

21 Nov 11

Dreaming Transnational Law

17 Nov 11

James Bailliieu (piano)

17 Nov 11

What is a Rational Response to Catastrophic Risk?

17 Nov 11

Revolution and Counter-revolution in the Arab World

16 Nov 11

The Deaths of Others

16 Nov 11

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman in conversation with Richard Layard

15 Nov 11

State Violence and the Responsibility to Protect: the role of the international community

15 Nov 11

The Wit and Wisdom of Brian Moore

15 Nov 11

Conservative Leadership - What Works and What Doesn't

14 Nov 11

Savage Messiah: Transmissions from a discarded future

14 Nov 11

Crisis in the EU and Eurozone - Austria's response

10 Nov 11

Central Europe – the Engine for Growth

10 Nov 11

The Darwin Economy: liberty, competition, and the common good

10 Nov 11

Alison Turriff (clarinet)

10 Nov 11

The Transformation of the Gulf

10 Nov 11

The Darwin Economy: liberty, competition, and the common good

10 Nov 11

Bombing Savages in Law, in Fact, in Fiction

10 Nov 11

The City of London

9 Nov 11

Europe's Vanished Kingdoms

9 Nov 11

More Cooperation is More Security: Towards European Coherence in International Affairs

8 Nov 11

Emerging art markets

8 Nov 11

Do Business with China: problems, challenges

8 Nov 11

Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters

7 Nov 11

The Limits of Investigative Journalism

7 Nov 11

Cordelia Williams (piano)

3 Nov 11

Christ to Coke?

3 Nov 11

The Rare Find

2 Nov 11

ERC Security in Transition Launch

2 Nov 11

Decarbonising Britain

1 Nov 11

Stolen – Uncovering Child Trafficking in the UK

1 Nov 11

Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

1 Nov 11

Role of a Foreign Bank in China

31 Oct 11

The Federalization of Iraq and the Break-up of Sudan

31 Oct 11

The Better Angels of our Nature: The Decline of Violence in World History and Its Causes

31 Oct 11

The Future of Economic Convergence

29 Oct 11

Building an International Rule of Law

27 Oct 11

Eleftheria Kotzia (guitar)

27 Oct 11

Terrorism: a (self) love story

27 Oct 11

The World Economy: How did we get here and where are we going?

26 Oct 11

Pakistan and the challenges of a new decade

26 Oct 11

Why the Role of the Developer Matters

26 Oct 11

Life After Death: Al-Qaeda and the US war on terror

25 Oct 11

Arguments with Gandhi

25 Oct 11

Necropolitics, Narcopolitics and Femicide: Reflections from the Mexico-US Border

24 Oct 11

Is South African Society More Equal Today Than When Apartheid Ended in 1994?

24 Oct 11

Canada: a reliable, responsible contributor to global energy security and economic stability

20 Oct 11

London Mozart Trio

20 Oct 11

Combating Carbon in an Economic Crisis

20 Oct 11

Is There A Future For Multiculturalism?

20 Oct 11

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: the difference and why it matters

20 Oct 11

Are adverbial rules enough?

18 Oct 11

Citizenship and Immigration: rights and obligations of individuality

18 Oct 11

Is Happiness the Right Measure of Social Progress?

18 Oct 11

New Mobile Technologies: privacy and policy, threats and opportunities

17 Oct 11

Is the European Union Becoming a Market State?

17 Oct 11

Chiaroscuro String Quartet

13 Oct 11

The Mountain Within: Leadership lessons from Kilimanjaro

13 Oct 11

Truth, Errors, and Lies: politics and economics in a volatile world

13 Oct 11

Portugal delivers

12 Oct 11

What Should We Do About Google?

12 Oct 11

Beatrice Webb: her quest for a fairer society

12 Oct 11

A More Secure World - From Neighbourhood to Globe

11 Oct 11

627 Million Chinese Brought Out of Poverty: where did it all go wrong?

11 Oct 11

Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future

11 Oct 11

Why is macroeconomics such a mess?

10 Oct 11

How to Make your First Million?

10 Oct 11

Agon Piano Trio

6 Oct 11

Framing the Arab Uprisings: a historical perspective

6 Oct 11

Towards the Closure of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

6 Oct 11

Architecture and Happiness

6 Oct 11

Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

6 Oct 11

"Same bed different dreams": Asia's rise - threat or opportunity? The view from Australia

5 Oct 11

Deceit and Self Deception: fooling yourself the better to fool others

5 Oct 11

Hellenism, Universal Rights and Apartheid

5 Oct 11

Exit Strategies and Lessons Learned: from the Balkans to Afghanistan

4 Oct 11

Cybercrime, Cybercops and You

4 Oct 11

'Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer' and 22 other Things They Don't Tell Y

4 Oct 11

EVENT CANCELLED: Infrastructure Investment and Regional Economic Growth: the Mexican way

3 Oct 11

Changing Fortunes: income mobility and poverty dynamics in Britain

3 Oct 11

Entrepreneurs, innovation and growth

3 Oct 11

Neoliberalism in Retreat: a new deal for Latin American women?

28 Sep 11

The Grassroots fight against corruption in Russia

21 Sep 11

Coexist

14 Sep 11

The 9/11 Wars

13 Sep 11

The Leaderless Revolution

8 Sep 11

Beyond the crisis: lessons for the future of the eurozone

7 Sep 11

Transparency and financial stability

6 Sep 11

Security challenges ten years after 9/11

5 Sep 11

Post-crisis policy challenges in the world economy

5 Sep 11

What next for Rupert Murdoch? The Man Who Owns The News

28 Jul 11

Monetary policy and banking fragility

27 Jul 11

Keynes v Hayek

26 Jul 11

I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

20 Jul 11

Phone-hacking: is it time to get tough on the press?

13 Jul 11

A lecture by Lisa Anderson, Provost of the American University in Cairo

13 Jul 11

ED: The Milibands and the making of a Labour leader

12 Jul 11

Powerful Portraits: What's in a Face? A slideshow lecture by Platon

6 Jul 11

The Caribbean in a Changing Global Environment

5 Jul 11

A lecture by Felipe Larraín Bascuñán, Minister of Finance of the Government of Chile

29 Jun 11

Adaptation and regeneration in the EU's regions: The case of Wallonia

28 Jun 11

Global Imbalances and Social Challenges

22 Jun 11

Too Many People in Britain? Immigration and the Housing Problem

21 Jun 11

The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You

20 Jun 11

Turkey in the World

15 Jun 11

Delivering Meaningful Results in Global Development: A lecture by Dr Raj Shah, Administrator of USAI

14 Jun 11

Reconsidering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

14 Jun 11

The Big Society and the Good Society: rethinking the place of the state in British society

14 Jun 11

The euro, its central bank and economic governance

13 Jun 11

Indian herbal heritage and its rising global influence in economic growth

9 Jun 11

A Fair Trial for the Human Rights Act

9 Jun 11

With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918

9 Jun 11

Why Nations Fail

8 Jun 11

Preventing Financial Meltdowns

7 Jun 11

A lecture by Traian Băsescu, President of Romania

6 Jun 11

Living in the Endless City

6 Jun 11

The Flaw

5 Jun 11

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other

2 Jun 11

Poor Economics; A Radical Rethinking of the way to Fight Global Poverty

2 Jun 11

Health Care Reform in the US

31 May 11

Homo Sapiens Report, the Future of Humanity

31 May 11

Following the trail of Islamism and the Veil across time and borders

26 May 11

Can single individuals still shape history? The Case of Osama bin Laden

26 May 11

A Lecture by Sheryl Sandberg

25 May 11

Eradicating Ecocide: laws and governance to prevent the destruction of our planet

25 May 11

Beyond a Global Deal? A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance

25 May 11

An Economist Tries to Grapple with Catastrophic Climate Change

24 May 11

A Conversation with Sandra Day O'Connor, former Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court

24 May 11

Africa's Diasporas: a continental longing for form?

24 May 11

Is the West Down and Out? And is the East Up and Coming?

24 May 11

The three pillars of Colombia's recent progress

23 May 11

The Lessons of Northern Ireland for Contemporary Counterterrorism Policy

23 May 11

Public Policy, Equity and Growth: a panel discussion

19 May 11

Distance and Cities: where do we stand?

19 May 11

Gay Liberation Now: global movements and transformations

19 May 11

At First Blush: some consequences of how biomedical knowledge of AIDS arrives

18 May 11

Development of Good Living: The Social Transformation Agenda in Ecuador

18 May 11

Empowering Women to Meet New Challenges, from National Development to Conflict Prevention and Post-C

17 May 11

The Architecture of Governance

17 May 11

Supporting Sustainable Transition in Afghanistan: an interagency approach

17 May 11

Can China's Political System Sustain its Peaceful Rise?

16 May 11

Equality, growth and sustainability – an impossible combination?

16 May 11

Parasites – enemy of the poor

13 May 11

The Right to Die

12 May 11

The DNA of Human Rights

12 May 11

Cities at the Speed of Light: Asian experiments of the urban century

12 May 11

Torture, Compassion, Doubt

12 May 11

Budgeting for Gender Equality: is government economic policy fair to women?

11 May 11

A lecture by Iveta Radičová, Prime Minister of Slovakia

10 May 11

A World Without Superpowers: de-centered globalism

10 May 11

Cosmopolitanism: ideals and realities

10 May 11

Next-generation Leadership and Management

9 May 11

Pakistan: A Hard Country

9 May 11

'Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently' – Rosa Luxemburg for our times

6 May 11

Idea Man

5 May 11

Democracy and Dissent

5 May 11

Europe: Where is the Passion

5 May 11

How Not to Keep Bees

5 May 11

Turkey and Europe

4 May 11

The Future of Power

4 May 11

Zero Degrees of Empathy: a new theory of human cruelty

3 May 11

The relations of the EU with the Arab world

13 Apr 11

The End of Remembering

5 Apr 11

The Economic Outlook and Financial Industry Challenges

30 Mar 11

US Energy Policy and International Security

24 Mar 11

A Vision of the Next Economy: from macro to metro

24 Mar 11

The Virtues of Violence and the Arts of Terror

23 Mar 11

Security: Present and Future Challenges

23 Mar 11

The International Insertion of Uruguay in the world

22 Mar 11

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar

22 Mar 11

LSE Director's Dialogue

21 Mar 11

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

21 Mar 11

Media and African Democracy

21 Mar 11

The Globalisation Paradox – Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist

17 Mar 11

The Unfinished Global Revolution

17 Mar 11

The Low-Carbon Industrial Revolution

17 Mar 11

Italy 150 Years On: Was Unification a Mistake?

16 Mar 11

The Globalisation of the Business of English law

16 Mar 11

Grasshoppers, Ants and Locusts: the future of the world economy

16 Mar 11

Ecological Urbanism

15 Mar 11

The Emerging Powers, the EU and Global Governance

15 Mar 11

Changes in Labour Market Inequality

15 Mar 11

New Zealand and the Global Economy

14 Mar 11

Triumph of the City: how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier and hap

14 Mar 11

Gender and Poverty in the 21st Century

11 Mar 11

21st Century Statecraft

10 Mar 11

Climate Change needs Climate Justice

10 Mar 11

The Prospect of Harm to Civilians in the Ethics of War Part 2

9 Mar 11

Public Service Broadcasting and Public Value: the remaining challenges for the BBC

9 Mar 11

Why is the European Left Losing Elections?

8 Mar 11

The Prospect of Harm to Civilians in the Ethics of War Part 1

8 Mar 11

The Human Sciences in the 'Age of Biology' – revitalising sociology

8 Mar 11

Why Human Rights and Democracy are Critical to overcome Poverty

7 Mar 11

The Future of the European Union

7 Mar 11

The Doha Round is Alive; and more important than ever

3 Mar 11

Human Security and EU Foreign Policy: Concepts, Impact, Implications

3 Mar 11

Britain: a country divided?

3 Mar 11

Good Life in Hard Times

2 Mar 11

Out of Europe? The United States in an Asian age

2 Mar 11

Turkey's Republican People's Party (CHP) and the European Union

1 Mar 11

Income Distribution and Social Change after 50 years

1 Mar 11

Nuclear Arms and Human Rights

1 Mar 11

Has Fairtrade Asked for Enough?

1 Mar 11

A Perfect Storm in the Arab World?

24 Feb 11

Documenting China: Being a Professional Photographer in the Middle Kingdom

24 Feb 11

The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power

24 Feb 11

Best Ideas: can fund managers beat the market?

24 Feb 11

Private Equity Insider: A candid chat with Tony James

23 Feb 11

Catch-Up History and the Cold War

23 Feb 11

The Global Chaos of Love

23 Feb 11

Writing Across Borders- a Botswana Perspective

19 Feb 11

A reading and Q&A session with the novelist, Anjali Joseph

19 Feb 11

Crossing Borders- Andrew Motion in conversation with Rebecca Jones

19 Feb 11

Literature and Islamophobia: Three Dutch Muslima Authors Speak Out

19 Feb 11

The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death

19 Feb 11

Mirrors of Violence: Representations of Conflict in Contemporary Subcontinental Literature

19 Feb 11

Through the Soviet Looking-Glass

19 Feb 11

Placing Mobilities

19 Feb 11

The Four Walls of My Freedom

19 Feb 11

Reality Hunger

19 Feb 11

Crossing Borders: Migration in Women's Writing in Poland

19 Feb 11

Writing Across Borders: Empathy in the Age of Conflict

18 Feb 11

New Ways to Witness Wars

18 Feb 11

Talking with Nazis

18 Feb 11

Sketching Society: the communicative power of the comic strip in a global age

18 Feb 11

Facts are Subversive: crossing the borders between history and journalism

18 Feb 11

The Making of Bestsellers

17 Feb 11

Where is Future Growth Going to Come From?

17 Feb 11

Adaptation in an age of Digitisation: its fans, practitioners and foes

17 Feb 11

Science Fiction and International Orders Roundtable

17 Feb 11

Science Fiction and International Orders

17 Feb 11

This House Believes that the Future of Rights is Left not Right

17 Feb 11

An Evening with Bjørn Lomborg: Putting Global Warming into Perspective

16 Feb 11

Storylines and Songscapes: Celebrating Tagore's short stories

16 Feb 11

Postcards from Leningrad (Postales de Leningrado)

16 Feb 11

Representing Atrocity: distant suffering and the politics of pity

16 Feb 11

Soul Dust: the magic of consciousness

15 Feb 11

Impact, Concerns and Future of Political Transitions in Latin America

15 Feb 11

The Nobel Lecture: Equilibrium in the Labour Market with Search Frictions

15 Feb 11

READ LSE Book Swap Event

10 Feb 11

LSE Director's Dialogue

10 Feb 11

Uprising: will emerging markets shape or shake the world economy

9 Feb 11

Diversity Work: a phenomenology of institutions

9 Feb 11

Absolute beginners: behavioural economics and human happiness

8 Feb 11

The Haves and Have Nots

8 Feb 11

Rethinking Capitalism: emotions as commodities

7 Feb 11

Growing the aid budget at a time of deficit reduction: moral imperative and political challenge

3 Feb 11

Why Indians Win In Business

3 Feb 11

The Role of Education in Greece's Recovery

2 Feb 11

The City of London and its Tax Haven Empire

1 Feb 11

Phase Three of the Global Crisis

31 Jan 11

The Human Economy: an ongoing international project

27 Jan 11

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

27 Jan 11

Big Society and Social Policy in Britain: a panel discussion

27 Jan 11

America's Wars in the Muslim World

26 Jan 11

The Naked Scientist

25 Jan 11

Trapped by the Past? Institutional Legacies and African Development

25 Jan 11

The Future of Global Economic Governance

25 Jan 11

China's Stimulus: path to sustainable growth or bubble machine?

24 Jan 11

How did London Get Away With it? The Recession and the North-South Divide

20 Jan 11

How the West Was Lost: fifty years of economic folly and the stark choices ahead

20 Jan 11

Eating Animals

19 Jan 11

The Net Delusion: Does free information mean free people?

19 Jan 11

Latvia Turns the Corner

19 Jan 11

The Grand Strategy of Detente

18 Jan 11

Environmental Diplomacy

17 Jan 11

The Naked City

17 Jan 11

The Tensions of International Power: Restructuring in a Shifting Global Economy

17 Jan 11

Gender, Words and Power: meanings of inequality at a time of neo-liberalism

17 Jan 11

Lunchtime Concert

13 Jan 11

2011 Global Civil Society Yearbook launch

13 Jan 11

A European Contract Law: a cuckoo in the nest?

13 Jan 11

The Future For Media Policy

12 Jan 11

The Meaning of Life

12 Jan 11

The Long History of Dietetics: thinking sociologically about food, knowledge and the self

12 Jan 11

The Naked Swimmer: Can Spain (and the Euro) overcome this crisis?

10 Jan 11

Facing Disaster In the Middle East: Do We Have Only Bad Options?

10 Jan 11

Ken Clarke – An interview with Mr Justice Cranston

9 Dec 10

European democracies and human rights: from present failures to future protection

9 Dec 10

Unbelonging

8 Dec 10

Europe in 2011 and beyond

7 Dec 10

Economic Sciences as Mostly a Procrustean Bed

7 Dec 10

What Europe Means to Me

6 Dec 10

Asylum

6 Dec 10

When God Made Hell: how the British Empire went to Baghdad

2 Dec 10

SIPRI Yearbook 2010 Seminar on Nuclear Weapons in Europe

2 Dec 10

Psychoanalysis Outside of the Clinic

1 Dec 10

The Physico-Material Bases of Cosmopolitanism

1 Dec 10

War in the Borderlands

1 Dec 10

The Importance of Being Independent: a regulator and female lawyer's view

30 Nov 10

Africa and the World: the view from Washington

30 Nov 10

The Sixth Crisis: Iran, Israel, America, and the Rumors of War

29 Nov 10

Are the New Conservatives conservative?

26 Nov 10

A talk and concert by Carlos Prieto

25 Nov 10

Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us

25 Nov 10

The Third World's War

24 Nov 10

EU as a global player: reality or illusion?

23 Nov 10

Revisiting the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain: the Parekh Report 10 years on

23 Nov 10

Varieties of Neoliberalism

23 Nov 10

What has the financial crisis taught Europe?

22 Nov 10

How to Avoid Financial Crises in the Future

22 Nov 10

Television Beyond Frontiers: reflections on public service broadcasting in a digital Europe

22 Nov 10

Balkans 2020: The Ministerial Debate

18 Nov 10

Zero-Sum World: power and prosperity in the age of anxiety

18 Nov 10

Impunity in Cambodia

18 Nov 10

Trying to Quatify Uncertainty

17 Nov 10

How serious a threat does Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula represent to Yemen and the West?

16 Nov 10

The Verdict: did Labour change Britain?

16 Nov 10

Restoring Growth

16 Nov 10

Superpower? The Amazing Race Between China's Hare and India's Tortoise

15 Nov 10

Dignified Foreign Policy

11 Nov 10

A Lecture by Álvaro García Linera, Vice President of Bolivia

11 Nov 10

Galileo and the Infinite Universe: science, heresy, and the Inquisition

11 Nov 10

Hegemony and International Society

10 Nov 10

The Wisdom of Bees

10 Nov 10

Towards a New Financial System

9 Nov 10

Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to Be Human

9 Nov 10

Welfare State Reform Over the (Very) Long-run

9 Nov 10

Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down

9 Nov 10

Greece is Changing

8 Nov 10

The Regime Complex of Climate Change

8 Nov 10

The State of the World Economy

4 Nov 10

Seeking Justice For Crimes Against Humanity: the case of Argentina

4 Nov 10

Fred Halliday – an intellectual appreciation

3 Nov 10

The Future of UK Banking

3 Nov 10

Green growth: the transition to a sustainable economy

2 Nov 10

The China Model: current economic development on mainland China

2 Nov 10

Them and Us: why we need a fair society

2 Nov 10

Where Good Ideas Come From

2 Nov 10

Lady Chatterley's Lover: Fifty years on

1 Nov 10

Phase Three of the Global Crisis

1 Nov 10

Celebrating the Work and Legacy of Professor Lord Meghnad Desai

28 Oct 10

Financial Crisis and Economic Recession

28 Oct 10

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic

27 Oct 10

State of Emergency: The Way We Were, Britain 1970-1974

27 Oct 10

African Whistle-blowers: fighting corruption from the inside

26 Oct 10

Israel Confronts its Past: the "new historians" and their critics

25 Oct 10

Staying Safe Online

21 Oct 10

A conversation with James Caan

21 Oct 10

The Great Brain Race: Rise of the Global Education Marketplace

21 Oct 10

Staying Safe Online

20 Oct 10

The Displaced and Dispossessed of Darfur

20 Oct 10

Jilted Generation: How Britain Bankrupted Its Youth

20 Oct 10

I was not an untouchable then

20 Oct 10

Staying Safe Online

19 Oct 10

Europe in the new energy world order

19 Oct 10

The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World

19 Oct 10

The Rule of Law

19 Oct 10

A lecture by Sebastián Piñera Echenique, President of the Republic of Chile

18 Oct 10

The Political Economy of the Cold War

18 Oct 10

The Quest for Meaning

18 Oct 10

A Dialogue with Hernando de Soto

15 Oct 10

Third World Approaches to International Law

14 Oct 10

Financial Reform in China

14 Oct 10

Economics after the Crisis: Economic Freedom and Public Policy: Economics as a Moral Discipline

13 Oct 10

Power Shift: West to East

13 Oct 10

Expiring or Expanding? international economic organisations and the restructuring of world power

13 Oct 10

Wealth Creation in Developing Countries

12 Oct 10

Economics after the Crisis: Market Efficiency and Rationality: Why Financial Markets are Different

12 Oct 10

A Call for Judgment: sensible finance for a dynamic economy

12 Oct 10

Economic Growth, Human Welfare and Inequality

11 Oct 10

Sustainability Enterprise: the future for business

11 Oct 10

A master class in entrepreneurship

11 Oct 10

Brown at 10

7 Oct 10

Greatness and Limits of the West: reflections on an uncompleted project

7 Oct 10

The Rights' Future

6 Oct 10

The Economist as Philosopher: Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes on human nature, social progress an

6 Oct 10

Seizing the Opportunity of the Cloud: the Next Wave of Business Growth

5 Oct 10

Getting More

5 Oct 10

The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB

5 Oct 10

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

5 Oct 10

Capitalism: can it ever be moral?

4 Oct 10

Hong Kong's changing financial landscape

4 Oct 10

Can We Still Afford Europe?

30 Sep 10

Lloyd George - the great outsider

30 Sep 10

'It's my body and I'll do what I Like with it' Bodies as possessions and objects

29 Sep 10

Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy & Innovation in an Uncertain World

29 Sep 10

The Financial Crisis: Who is to Blame?

28 Sep 10

Private Equity: leveraged expertise or leveraged bets?

27 Sep 10

Re-engineering the Economy for Real People

26 Sep 10

Believing Cassandra: how to be an optimist in a pessimist's world

23 Sep 10

Domestic Resource Mobilisation and Growth

22 Sep 10

Reforming Educational Systems

22 Sep 10

On Writing: High, Low and everything in Between

22 Sep 10

Industrial Revolution or Agricultural Revolution?

21 Sep 10

Industrial Productivity

21 Sep 10

Mobile Phones for Development

20 Sep 10

Managing Natural Resource Rents: China and Africa

20 Sep 10

New Zealand and the Global Economy

14 Sep 10

The Future of IT in India

14 Sep 10

Employment, labour markets, and development

13 Sep 10

Sustainability Living in Practice

9 Sep 10

The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse

8 Sep 10

The Quest for Meaning

2 Aug 10

Why Greece should default

14 Jul 10

Global Challenges for Europe and America

13 Jul 10

Global Justice

8 Jul 10

The Secret State: preparing for the worst 1945-2009

7 Jul 10

Living in the End Times

1 Jul 10

Too Big to Fail: The Aftermath and What Next?

30 Jun 10

Cognitive Surplus

28 Jun 10

LSE Director's Dialogue

23 Jun 10

A public lecture by Andrius Kubilius, Prime Minister of Lithuania

22 Jun 10

Paths To Extremism

22 Jun 10

Is Democracy Possible in Fragile States?

15 Jun 10

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

8 Jun 10

Inhumane, illegal and insane: A Medieval Siege on Gaza in 2010

1 Jun 10

Climate Change: the city solution

1 Jun 10

The Career-Family Conundrum

27 May 10

HIV/AIDS in Uganda: how anti-retrovirals change people's lives

27 May 10

The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: human security and the new rules of war and peace

26 May 10

Creating Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs

25 May 10

Beirut Normal

25 May 10

A Manifesto for Giant Funds: resolving the dysfunctionality of finance

25 May 10

The Plundered Planet

24 May 10

The Realities and Relevance of Japan's Great Recession

24 May 10

How Much Does Good Management Matter? Evidence from India

20 May 10

The Cultural Practices of Cognition

20 May 10

HIV/AIDS and Disability: new research findings from Kenya

20 May 10

We Don't Know How to Solve Global Poverty and That's a Good Thing

19 May 10

Kinetic City: Designing for Informality in Mumbai

18 May 10

Full Globalisation as a Positive-Sum Game

18 May 10

On Narrative and Ritual

14 May 10

Frazer Strikes Back from the Armchair

13 May 10

LSE Director's Dialogue

13 May 10

China's 21st Century Market-Authoritarian Challenge

13 May 10

Obliquity: why our goals are best pursued indirectly

13 May 10

Banking on the Future: the fall and rise of central banking

12 May 10

Atheists on Religion

12 May 10

Islam Quintet: Night of the Golden Butterfly

11 May 10

Individuals and Groups in Evolutionary Biology

11 May 10

Aftershock: Europe and the post-crisis world

10 May 10

Transitional Justice in the 21st Century

10 May 10

Do No Harm: international support for statebuilding in fragile situations

6 May 10

Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: assessing the economic rise of China and India

5 May 10

Victims or Survivors? The Emerging Economies and the Economic Crisis

5 May 10

Islam, Secularisms and Law across Europe

4 May 10

Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: assessing the economic rise of China and India

4 May 10

Enemies Into Friends: how peace breaks out

4 May 10

The Future of Cities in Britain: a pre-election debate

29 Apr 10

South Africa Now: theory, critique and (re)constitution

29 Apr 10

The Coming Global Monetary (Dis)Order

29 Apr 10

The Greek Fiscal Crisis and the Future of the Euro-Zone

28 Apr 10

The lottery of birth and the role of young people in development

28 Apr 10

Red Tory: How Left and Right have Broken Britain and How we can Fix It

28 Apr 10

What About Women?

27 Apr 10

'Running While Others Walk': the challenge of African development

27 Apr 10

The Enigma of Capital

26 Apr 10

The City Solution: Climate change and transport design

26 Apr 10

India and the Global Financial Crisis - Managing Money and Finance

14 Apr 10

Mandela's Way – Lessons on Life

12 Apr 10

Max Weber, Charisma and Nationalism

12 Apr 10

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

22 Mar 10

The Empathic Civilization

19 Mar 10

Crisis Economics

18 Mar 10

Religion and Pluralism in a Divided World

18 Mar 10

Europe as a Global Actor? A Conversation with Javier Solana

18 Mar 10

Friendship and Poetry

18 Mar 10

Radicalisation and Counterradicalisation

16 Mar 10

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

16 Mar 10

Beyond Copenhagen

16 Mar 10

A Lecture by Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator

12 Mar 10

Sustainable Business Innovation

11 Mar 10

Mind-Body Problems: Science, Fiction, and God

10 Mar 10

The Risks of Genetically Modifying Human Embryos or Gametes

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

Education for Sustainable Development

4 Mar 10

Independent Prosecutors and Democratic Accountability

4 Mar 10

Risk Versus Responsibility in the Regulation of the Company

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

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

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

Civil Society, Aid and Security

24 Feb 10

Gender, Race, and Religion in the Spectacle of Citizenship

24 Feb 10

Remapping Social Inequalities in the Age

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

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

8 Feb 10

Freefall

8 Feb 10

Climate Crunch: making the economics fit the science

4 Feb 10

Economics 0-Reality 1

4 Feb 10

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

4 Feb 10

Philip Higham (cello), Simon Lane (piano)

4 Feb 10

Eastern Europe and the Balkans: what now?

3 Feb 10

Women and War in the Middle East: transnational perspectives

3 Feb 10

You are not a gadget

2 Feb 10

Delivering a Low Carbon London

2 Feb 10

The Portrait Anatomised

2 Feb 10

Think – Before it’s too late

1 Feb 10

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

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

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

21 Jan 10

Why Should Social Scientists Be Interested in the Cold War?

21 Jan 10

Alexandra Dariescu (piano)

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

Getting fiscal consolidation right: Lessons from Sweden

14 Jan 10

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

14 Jan 10

Julian Byzantine (guitar)

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

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

3 Dec 09

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

3 Dec 09

Climb the Green Ladder: How to achieve astonishing results

3 Dec 09

Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for Christmas

3 Dec 09

Jazz Trio

3 Dec 09

Social Theories of Risk and Economic Life

3 Dec 09

How China Tackles Climate Change in its Wider Development Agenda

2 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

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

1 Dec 09

The Value of Nothing

1 Dec 09

Media and Identity: reporting the Rwandan genocide

1 Dec 09

Confronting Corporate Complicity in International Human Rights Abuses

1 Dec 09

The 2010 Spanish EU Presidency: Challenges and Opportunities

30 Nov 09

MTV, Music Media and Morality

30 Nov 09

The Global Economics Crisis: one year in

30 Nov 09

Who Ended the Cold War?

26 Nov 09

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

26 Nov 09

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

26 Nov 09

Social Science Perspectives on Risk Regulation

26 Nov 09

Chiarascuro Quartet featuring Alina Ibragimova (violin)

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

Jihad: the trail of Political Islam

24 Nov 09

The Silverstone Panel on Digital Natives: A Lost Tribe?

24 Nov 09

The Role of Arbitration in the Emergence of Transnational Regulation

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

Jadran Duncumb (guitar) Jun Sasaki (cello)

19 Nov 09

Risk Sharing and the Employment Relationship

19 Nov 09

The Future of Christianity

18 Nov 09

What Next? Surviving the 21st Century

18 Nov 09

Are Europeans Heading Toward the Same Economy?

18 Nov 09

Cities, Design and Climate Change

17 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

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

Research for a World in Transition

12 Nov 09

Sulki Yu (violin) Chiao Ying Chang (piano)

12 Nov 09

Should management be a social science or a design science?

12 Nov 09

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

12 Nov 09

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

11 Nov 09

Technologies Place In our Economic Future

11 Nov 09

The social and psychological framework of argumentation

11 Nov 09

Broke: voices from the edge

10 Nov 09

Rules of Evidence

10 Nov 09

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

10 Nov 09

Superfreakonomics

9 Nov 09

Learning How to Cite Judith Butler

9 Nov 09

The Politics of Media and Cultural Policy

28 Oct 09

The New Economic Settlement: building sustainable growth

28 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

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

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

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

22 Oct 09

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

22 Oct 09

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

22 Oct 09

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

22 Oct 09

Revolution 1989: what exactly happened?

21 Oct 09

The Crisis of Global Capitalism: ten years on

21 Oct 09

Predictioneer: How to predict the future with game-theory

21 Oct 09

Revolution 1989: what exactly happened?

21 Oct 09

The Crisis of Global Capitalism: ten years on

21 Oct 09

How the arts made the Velvet Revolution

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

What is Europe? Where is Europe?

19 Oct 09

Beijing Inside Out: Caochangdi

19 Oct 09

The Future of Banking and Financial Regulation

19 Oct 09

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

15 Oct 09

The Defence of the Realm

15 Oct 09

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

15 Oct 09

The Power of Comparison in History

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

Terrorism: How to Respond

8 Oct 09

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

8 Oct 09

Matthew Schellhorn (piano)

8 Oct 09

Keynes and the Crisis of Capitalism

7 Oct 09

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

7 Oct 09

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

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

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

30 Sep 09

LSE India Observatory public debate

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

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

14 Sep 09

LSE public lecture

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

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

7 May 09

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

7 May 09

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

7 May 09

Voodoo Histories: from the protocols to 9/11

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

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

5 May 09

Rising Asia in the World Crisis

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

Friedrich Engels: the man who made Marxism

29 Apr 09

Wars, GUns and Votes: democracy in dangerous places

29 Apr 09

On the New Supreme Court

28 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

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 Brain That Changes Itself: The Neuroplasticity Revolution and its implications

17 Mar 09

The Significance of 1949 in Chinese History

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

What should the next G20 meeting do?

3 Mar 09

Parliament and the Evolution of Property Rights in Britain

3 Mar 09

Biography Writing: Lives in Context

1 Mar 09

Religious Defamation

1 Mar 09

New Audiences

1 Mar 09

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

1 Mar 09

Dreams of Rivers and Seas

1 Mar 09

Poetry and Choices

28 Feb 09

Roundtable on Migrant Literature

28 Feb 09

The Financial Crisis, Climate Change and Energy

28 Feb 09

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

28 Feb 09

Ben Okri Showcase

28 Feb 09

Designing Spaces for Thought

28 Feb 09

In Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

28 Feb 09

The Founders' Tradition: literature as social commentary

27 Feb 09

ReaLITy: creative responses to social realities

27 Feb 09

The Story of the Euro: past, present and future

26 Feb 09

Islamic Finance in the United Kingdom: current initiatives and challenges

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

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

24 Feb 09

Demoncacy in America: Jefferson, Tocquerville and Lincoln

24 Feb 09

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

24 Feb 09

The Islamic Republic of Iran After 30 years

23 Feb 09

Lessons from the credit crisis

19 Feb 09

Individual and Corporate Responsibility

19 Feb 09

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

19 Feb 09

Thinking Like a Social Scientist: public economics and pub economics

18 Feb 09

“Russian Railways” as the locomotive of the Russian Economy

17 Feb 09

Fighting the Banana Wars

17 Feb 09

The Global Economic Crisis – Meeting the Challenge

17 Feb 09

Political Reform in the Gulf States

16 Feb 09

European Democracy and the Language Question

12 Feb 09

A Good Childhood: searching for values in a competitive age

11 Feb 09

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

11 Feb 09

Keeping Score: new approaches to the standard of living

10 Feb 09

Internet and Its Myriad Ways: an Asian perspective

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

On the New Supreme Court

3 Feb 09

Russia After Georgia

3 Feb 09

Here Comes Everybody: how change happens when people come together

3 Feb 09

The Element: how finding your passion changes everything

2 Feb 09

Political Satire

28 Jan 09

Is Global Democracy Possible?

28 Jan 09

Bad Science

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

A Tea-Time Tutorial

15 Jan 09

State Terrorism - A Thing of the Past?

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

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

4 Dec 08

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

4 Dec 08

Ethics, Politics, and the State of Israel

4 Dec 08

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

3 Dec 08

In Conversation with Cherie Blair

3 Dec 08

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

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

Can France Seduce the New European Union?

26 Nov 08

The Subprime Crisis

26 Nov 08

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

26 Nov 08

Ross Cranston, QC in Conversation with Lord Mackay of Clashfern

25 Nov 08

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

25 Nov 08

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

24 Nov 08

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

20 Nov 08

Marcus Garvey: demagogue or messiah?

20 Nov 08

Reforming the voting systems of the IMF and World Bank?

20 Nov 08

Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies

20 Nov 08

Opening Up Illiberal Regimes: do media and communications matter?

19 Nov 08

What Next? Surviving the Twenty-first Century

19 Nov 08

A lecture by Mary McAleese, President of Ireland

19 Nov 08

The Politics of Mobility

18 Nov 08

Howard Davies in Conversation with Lord Goldsmith QC

18 Nov 08

Revisiting Marx: is Marxism still relevant?

18 Nov 08

Fantasies Of Revolution

13 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

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

13 Nov 08

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

12 Nov 08

Desiring Walls

12 Nov 08

The Future of Public Broadcasting and Telecommunications

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

Nations, States and Violence

12 Nov 08

Navigating Global Economic and Financial Change

11 Nov 08

Did religion make a difference? The American elections and beyond

11 Nov 08

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

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

BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions at LSE

6 Nov 08

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

6 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

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

4 Nov 08

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

4 Nov 08

The Third Reich at War

4 Nov 08

Media's Last Diehard?

4 Nov 08

Big Ideas

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

Central Banking and the Credit Crunch

30 Oct 08

Urban Spaces On Screen: the challenges of Capturing Social Complexity

30 Oct 08

Inequalities in health in a global context

30 Oct 08

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), Man of Dissent

29 Oct 08

Britain since 1918: the strange career of British democracy

29 Oct 08

An Appeal to Reason: a cool look at global warming

29 Oct 08

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

28 Oct 08

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

28 Oct 08

Joy Gerrard: works for public spaces

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

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

23 Oct 08

Trial by Media, or by Courts? Contempt and Publicity

23 Oct 08

The Last Mughal

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

20 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

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

17 Oct 08

European Security Architecture - A Paradigm Shift?

16 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

Towards a new response to climate change - perspectives from Australia

15 Oct 08

China and Financial Reform

15 Oct 08

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

14 Oct 08

Hot, Flat and Crowded

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

Ontario's Place in the 21st Century

19 May 08

Multicultural Citizenships: practices, policies, and theories

19 May 08

EU Competitiveness: Are we on the right track?

19 May 08

The Pursuit of Justice

19 May 08

AIDS: exceptionalism revisited

15 May 08

Is the Middle East Europe’s Business?

13 May 08

McMafia: Crime without frontiers

12 May 08

Civil War: coping, conflict and criminal economies

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

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

7 May 08

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

7 May 08

A lecture by David Miliband

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

The New Politics of Identity

29 Apr 08

Informalisation and Global Political Economy: the elephant in the room

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

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

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

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

American Economic and Military Imperialism: are they connected?

6 Mar 08

The Black Swan

6 Mar 08

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

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

Bringing Trans-Atlantic Security into the 21st Century

25 Feb 08

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

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

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

18 Feb 08

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

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

Where to Find European Values

12 Feb 08

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

12 Feb 08

The Russian Elections

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 Politics of Aids Exceptionalism

6 Feb 08

The Logic of Life

6 Feb 08

Measuring American Power in Today's Fractured World

5 Feb 08

Talking Pictures

5 Feb 08

An Open Economy – the Progressive Response to Global Change

4 Feb 08

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

4 Feb 08

Iraq: The Way Out

31 Jan 08

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

31 Jan 08

Iraq: The Way Out

31 Jan 08

International Relations in a Post-Hegemonic Age

30 Jan 08

Sleeping Beauty: Awakening the American Dream

30 Jan 08

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

28 Jan 08

The Global Company 2020- what does the future hold?

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

Russia and Europe: new neighbours defining a new neighbourhood

22 Jan 08

The Last Resistance

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

Iraq and the Law: what went wrong?

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

Knowledge Economies in China

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

Hungary in the 21st Century

12 Nov 07

The Modern Commonwealth: challenges 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

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

6 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

Greece and Europe: a lecture by Dora Bakoyannis

5 Nov 07

International Humanitarian Law Project public lecture

1 Nov 07

The British Constitution

31 Oct 07

Department of Management Business in the Global Age lecture series

31 Oct 07

POLIS public lecture

31 Oct 07

Gurukul public lecture

30 Oct 07

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

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

BIOS public debate

24 Oct 07

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

24 Oct 07

Destruction by Design: military strategy as urban planning

23 Oct 07

Europe, Migration and Globalisation – What About the Workers?

23 Oct 07

Is Democracy in Crisis? Lessons from the Greek Experience

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

LSE public lecture

18 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 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

Litigating Human Rights in the Context of International Terrorism

11 Oct 07

Reforming the United Nations – Mission Impossible?

11 Oct 07

Nigeria - Lifting the Resource Curse

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

The Decline and Fall of the Napoleonic Empire

9 Oct 07

Centre for the Study of Global Governance public debate

9 Oct 07

Centre for the Study of Global Governance public lecture

8 Oct 07

Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism public lecture

8 Oct 07

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

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

Gender Matters in Political Economy

23 May 07

Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror

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

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

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

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

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

2 May 07

Smoot’s Ear: the measure of humanity

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

What’s Wrong with the UN?

15 Mar 07

Civilisational Dialogue: Islam and the West

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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