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BOOK LAUNCH DIALOGUE EVENING CONCERT EXHIBITION DIALOGUE Everyone is welcome to attend LSEs public events, where some of ROUNDTABLE the most influential figures in the social sciences can be heard. Events are generally free and open to all, with entry on a first come, EXHIBITION first served basis unless otherwise stated. It does get busy so we advise people to turn up 30 minutes before the advertised time. SEMINAR For ticketed events, please go to lse.ac.uk/events and fill in the ROUNDTABLE online booking form to obtain a ticket. LSE staff and students can LUNCHTIME obtain tickets from the Students Union Shop in the New Academic CONCERT Building.Transcripts, podcasts and videos of an increasing number SEMINAR of LSE events are available online after the event. Details of all of DIRECTORS these can be accessed at lse.ac.uk/events. Do remember that if DIALOGUE you fancy grabbing a bite to eat before an event, or you want to LUNCHTIME CONCERT sit and discuss the event with friends over a drink afterwards, there PUBLIC DEBATE are a range of LSE catering outlets on campus. To see the different venues and their opening times please view DIRECTORS DIALOGUE lse.ac.uk/collections/cateringServices/venues
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The Year of Egypts Second Revolution: PUBLIC LECTURE the balance sheet so far
SPEAKER: Professor Roger Owen PUBLIC Professor Owen will look at Egypts Tahrir Square revolution in the SYMPOSIUM light of the revolutions of 1919 and 1952, drawing on them to PERFORMANCE indicate some of the problems and possibilities ahead.
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Deleveraging and Growth: is the developed world SEMINAR following Japans long and winding road? CONFERENCE
SPEAKER: Masaaki Shirakawa DIALOGUE Masaaki Shirakawa will reflect on the experience of Japan leading CONCERT BOOK LAUNCH PERFORMANCE EXHIBITION to and following the bursting of the Japanese bubble, and discuss similarities and differences between Japan in the 1990s and the EXHIBITION current state of developed economies. DIRECTORS
CONCERT ROUNDTABLE Masaaki Shirakawa is governor of the Bank of Japan. EVENING DIALOGUE ROUNDTABLE LUNCHTIME
Info: Tickets available from Wednesday 4 January PUBLIC DEBATE at lse.ac.uk/events DIALOGUE
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The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the DIALOGUE DIRECTORS DIALOGUE struggle for Russia
SPEAKER: Angus Roxburgh PUBLIC DEBATE PUBLIC DEBATE Angus Roxburgh talks about his new book on the Putin years and Russias relationship with the West. Drawing on exclusive interviews, PERFORMANCE LUNCHTIME he describes Putins descent into authoritarianism, and argues that CONCERT PUBLIC LECTURE the West threw away chances to bring Russia in from the cold. PUBLIC LECTURE Angus Roxburgh was the Sunday Times Moscow correspondent DIRECTORS in thePUBLIC mid-1980s and the BBCs Moscow correspondent during the DIALOGUE SYMPOSIUM Yeltsin years. He is the author of The Second Russian Revolution and PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM the Soviet press machine. Pravda: inside
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SPEAKER: Daniel Sieberg The author of The Digital Diet: the four-step plan to break your tech addiction and regain balance in your life, offers timely advice for technology gluttons everywhere, explaining how best to ditch the digital dependency. Daniel Sieberg works with Google marketing in New York. An Emmynominated journalist, he is a former technology correspondent for CBS and CNN.
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Professor Juliet Schor, DIALOGUE Dr Edward Skidelsky, LUNCHTIME BOOK LAUNCH Professor Lord CONCERT Robert EXHIBITION Skidelsky PERFORMANCE EXHIBITION DISCUSSANT: Professor Tim Jackson
DIALOGUE CONCERT Speakers explore the case for ROUNDTABLE moving to shorter paid working hours, to address ROUNDTABLE a range of urgent social, economic and PUBLIC DEBATE environmental problems: unemployment, DIALOGUE over-consumption, high carbonSEMINAR emissions, low well-being and entrenched SEMINAR inequalities. DIRECTORS EVENING
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PUBLIC LECTURE Juliet Schor (pictured) is professor of sociology at Boston College EXHIBITION LUNCHTIME and author of Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. CONCERT LUNCHTIME Edward Skidelsky is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology CONCERT and Philosophy, University of Exeter. Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM ROUNDTABLE Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, and DIRECTORS biographer of J M Keynes. He is a co-author, with EdwardDIALOGUE Skidelsky, DIRECTORS of a forthcoming book, How Much is Enough? EconomicsDIALOGUE and the Good Life. Tim Jackson is professor of sustainable development at CONCERT SEMINAR Surrey University, and author of Prosperity without Growth. DEBATE PUBLIC
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Can Buddhism be re-discovered as a naturalistic and comprehensive PUBLIC philosophy that is compatible with the rest of knowledge, yetLECTURE capable PERFORMANCE of pointing us to a path of human flourishing? PERFORMANCE Owen Flanagan is James B Duke Professor of Philosophy at PUBLIC Duke University. SYMPOSIUM Info: j.cardinale@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 7539.
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Helen Sherman (mezzo-soprano) CONFERENCE DIRECTORS PUBLIC SEMINAR DIALOGUE SYMPOSIUM James Baillieu (piano) ROUNDTABLE
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Songs Songs from Das Knaben Wunderhorn Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Britten Cabaret Songs (WH Auden) Tell me the truth about love Funeral Blues; Johnny; Calypso Hahn Mahler Winner of several prizes and representing Australia in 2011 Cardiff Singer of the World Sherman is currently appearing with Opera North.
Redesigning the Worlds Largest CONCERT PERFORMANCE CONCERT Development Programme: EU cohesion policy
DIRECTORS CONCERT SPEAKER: Professor Philip McCann DIALOGUE PERFORMANCE The special adviser to the European Commissioner for Regional Policy will discuss one of the great policy-making challenges of recent times. DIRECTORS LUNCHTIME
Philip McCann is special adviser to Johannes Hahn and professor of economics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
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The current commissioner of the Met and former chief of Merseyside Police will speak about his hopes and aspirations in BOOK LAUNCH EVENING relation to the future of policing in the capital. DIRECTORS CONCERT Bernard Hogan-Howe is the commissioner of the Metropolitan CONCERT Police Service. EVENING Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043. Monday 16 January, 6.30-8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
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EXHIBITION Gendering the Social Sciences: a Gender Institute ROUNDTABLE PUBLIC PERFORMANCE public lecture SYMPOSIUM
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The insights generated by womens studies SEMINAR LUNCHTIME are both available to men and, indeed, CONCERT PERFORMANCE important for men to live the lives they say CONCERT they want to live. Michael Kimmel is among the CONCERT DIALOGUE worlds leading researchers on men PERFORMANCE and masculinities. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043. Tuesday 17 January, 6.30-8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
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Realeconomik: the hidden cause of the great recession (and how to avert the next one) PUBLIC
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SPEAKER: Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky makes a powerful case CONCERT that the often-cited causes of global PERFORMANCE economic instability are only secondary to a far more significant underlying cause: the failure to understand that universal PERFORMANCE social norms are essential to social and economic progress. Grigory Yavlinsky is professor of economics at the Higher School of Economics at the National Research University in Moscow. As deputy prime minister of Russia, he wrote the first Russian economic program for transition to a free-market economy, 500 Days. His latest book is Realeconomik. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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SPEAKER: Professor Avi Shlaim This talk will focus on Israels iron wall strategy of dealing with the Arabs from a position of unassailable military strength, and how this strategy was applied by successive prime ministers. Avi Shlaim is professor of international relations at the University of Oxford. His books include The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab world (2000); and Israel and Palestine: reappraisals, revisions, refutations (2009). or call 020 7955 6043.
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Margin Call
A preview screening of the highly anticipated film Margin Call based on the financial crash starring Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany and Stanley Tucci. This will be followed by a panel discussion. Info: Tickets available from Wednesday 11 January at lse.ac.uk/events
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Paper Promises: money, debt and the new CONCERT world order
SPEAKER: Philip Coggan PERFORMANCE The world is drowning in debt. But as Philip Coggan shows in his new book, CONFERENCE PERFORMANCE which he will discuss in this talk, the global crisis is part of an age-old battle CONFERENCE between creditors and borrowers. Philip Coggan is the Buttonwood columnist of The Economist. This event marks the publication of his BOOKbook new LAUNCH EVENING Paper Promises: money, debt and the new CONCERT world order. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043. Monday 23 January 6.30-8pm
Old Theatre, Old Academic Building
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SEMINAR Two economic experts discuss the state of the world economy after the eurozone financial crisis. SEMINAR Jean Michel Severino is the inspector general at the French Ministry LUNCHTIME of Finance. Martin Wolf is a journalist at the Financial Times. CONCERT
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SPEAKERS: Professor Helmut Anheier, Professor Christine Chinkin, PUBLIC DEBATE Professor Mary Kaldor, Professor Saskia Sassen EXHIBITION The SEMINAR discuss the political implications of giving power to panel will ordinary people in an era when the nation-state has lost its primacy PUBLIC LECTURE as ROUNDTABLE a political actor. The event launches the book Bottom-up Politics: an LUNCHTIME agency-centred approach to globalisation. Helmut Anheier is professor of sociology at the Hertie School of PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM Governance, Berlin. Christine Chinkin is professor of international SEMINAR law at LSE and a barrister. Mary Kaldor is director of the Civil Society DIRECTORS andDIALOGUESecurity Research Unit, LSE. Saskia Sassen is Robert Human S Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a visiting CONCERT LUNCHTIME professor at LSE. CONCERT
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Foad Dizadji-Bahmani is an LSE fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method.
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EXHIBITION What were the origins of the collapse of the USSR? What PERFORMANCE did 1991 look and feel like from the inside? What is the legacy of 1991 for the former USSR itself? This expert panel will reflect on how history unfolded. BOOK LAUNCH ROUNDTABLE Rodric Braithwaite was British Ambassador to Moscow from 1988 to CONFERENCE 1992. Andrei Grachev served on the International Relations Department EVENING of the CPSU and was confidant and official spokesman for Mikhail CONCERT Gorbachev. Margot Light is Professor Emeritus in the Department of SEMINAR International Relations, LSE. DISCUSSION
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Histories of International Law: dealing SEMINAR LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE with Eurocentrism CONCERT
SPEAKER: Professor Martti Koskenniemi
CONCERT LUNCHTIME DIRECTORS CONCERT Martti Koskenniemi is director of the Erik Castrn Institute DIALOGUE PERFORMANCE of International Law and Human Rights and visiting professor
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Hellenic Observatory/APCO European Institute PUBLIC LECTURE PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM public lecture
ThePUBLIC Geostrategic Importance of Cyprus: long SYMPOSIUM CONCERT term trends and prospects
SPEAKER: Dr Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis
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Placed at the crossroads of three continents, Cyprus remains of key strategic importance in the Eastern Mediterranean. Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis is the minister of foreign affairs for Cyprus. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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EXHIBITION Sulki Yu (violin) PUBLIC DIRECTORS SYMPOSIUM DIALOGUE MinJung Baek (piano) CONFERENCE SEMINAR
Pome Op. 25 ROUNDTABLE CONCERT PUBLIC DEBATE Sonata Op. 27 No. 1 CONFERENCE LUNCHTIME BOOK LAUNCH Rondo Brillant in B minor CONCERT
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A welcome return of the Korean violinist PERFORMANCE PUBLIC LECTURE BOOK LAUNCH EVENING hailed by The Strad as having DIRECTORS ...acutely CONCERT tuned musicianship... brilliance and DIALOGUE LUNCHTIME assurance... a very significant career in CONCERT PUBLIC the making. SYMPOSIUM EVENING Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043. Thursday 26 January, 6.30-8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
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Ten Reasons Why India Will Not and Must Not Become a Superpower ROUNDTABLE SEMINAR
PUBLIC SPEAKER: Dr Ramachandra SYMPOSIUM Guha CONCERT
High annual growth rates, a rising middle SEMINAR LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE class, and successes in the software sector CONCERT have led to much talk of India CONCERT becoming a superpower. But rather than seek to LUNCHTIME DIRECTORS expand Indias influence abroad, the CONCERT DIALOGUE political class and intellectual elite would PERFORMANCE do well to focus on the fissures within. Ramachandra Guha is Philippe Roman DIALOGUE PUBLIC DEBATE Chair in History and International Affairs at LSE IDEAS for 2011-2012.
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Paul Mason will explore the causes and consequences of the current PERFORMANCE wave of struggle illuminating the links between the economic and social crisis. Paul Mason is economics editor of BBCs Newsnight and author of Why its Kicking Off Everywhere. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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Bernard Jenkin is MP for Harwich and North Essex and chair of the SYMPOSIUM Public Administration Select Committee.
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Gods Jury: the Inquisition and the making of the modern world SEMINAR
SPEAKER: Cullen Murphy ForLUNCHTIME states have used their power to censor information, centuries SEMINAR PERFORMANCE conduct surveillance, impose belief, manipulate and punish. Cullen CONCERT Murphys new book, Gods Jury, explores the idea that the Inquisition is not a medieval oddity, but is intrinsically bound up with the creation of the modern world. DIRECTORS LUNCHTIME Cullen Murphy is Vanity Fairs editor at large and the author of Are We Rome? and The Word According to Eve.
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Revolution 2.0
SPEAKER: Wael Ghonim PUBLIC Social media allow ideas to be shared. They are places where people can unite and new types of revolutions can begin. Wael Ghonim gives unparalleled insight into why the Egyptian people finally rejected 30 PERFORMANCE CONCERT years of oppression and found a voice. Wael Ghonim is a prominent internet entrepreneur who set up the Facebook page that helped facilitate the protests that led to the PERFORMANCE departure of Hosni Mubarak. His new book is Revolution 2.0. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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Wednesday 1 February, 6.30-8pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
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BOOK LAUNCH Department of Sociology/Runnymede Trust JimPUBLIC Rose CONCERT DIALOGUE Memorial Lecture SYMPOSIUM EVENING DIALOGUE A Tale of Tottenham: race, riots and theCONCERT future PUBLIC DEBATE
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The riots across England in EXHIBITION the LECTURE DIALOGUE PUBLIC summer of 2011 were sparked by events in PERFORMANCE Tottenham, North London. Tottenham was also the site of the Broadwater PUBLIC ROUNDTABLE EXHIBITION Farm riots in 1985. David Lammy, MP SYMPOSIUM for the area, reflects on the causes of these events and what role racial inequality played. SEMINAR ROUNDTABLE
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David Lammy has been the Labour MP for Tottenham since 2000. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043. Thursday 2 February, 1.05-2pm
Shaw Library, Old Building
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Oliver Heath (violin), Cerys Jones (violin) Gary Pomeroy (viola) Christopher Murray (cello) LECTURE PUBLIC DEBATE PUBLIC
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Mendelssohn Jancek
String Quartet No.1 in E flat, Op.12 String Quartet No.2 Intimate Letters
Winners of the Trump International Music Competition and Haydn Vienna Competition, this rising young quartet has performed to critical acclaim in major halls and festivals. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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SPEAKER: Professor Alexander Kamenskii In the course of the eighteenth century, Russia became an active participant in European diplomatic relations. But to what extent was Russia part of Europe? And is it possible to study Europe without including Russia? Alexander Kamenskii is deacon of the Faculty of History and chief research fellow of the Poletaev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. or call 020 7849 4612.
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PUBLIC LECTURE PUBLIC LECTURE PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM Gender Institute PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM public lecture CONCERT CONCERT PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE
Shirin Rai is professor of politics and international studies at the University of Warwick. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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Frederick the Great, Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln: what makes a national icon? ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCE
SPEAKER: Professor Alan Sked
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Why do some people retain iconic status in the historical consciousness SEMINAR BOOK LAUNCH PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE of various nations? What does this tell us about them? More importantly, DIRECTORS DIALOGUE what does it reveal about later and present generations? BOOK LAUNCH Alan Sked is professor of international history at LSE. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043. Monday 6 February, 6.30-8pm
Old Theatre, Old Building
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Together: the rituals, pleasures and politics PUBLIC LECTURE of co-operation ROUNDTABLE
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Modern politics emphasises unity and SYMPOSIUM SEMINAR PERFORMANCE similarity, encouraging the politics of the SEMINAR tribe rather than of complexity. Richard Sennett, in his new book Together, CONCERT LUNCHTIME argues that living with people unlike CONCERT LUNCHTIME ourselves requires more than goodwill: CONCERT it requires skill. Richard Sennett retired in 2011 as DIALOGUE DIRECTORS University Professor at NYU and Academic DIALOGUE Governor and Professor of Sociology at LSE. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043. Tuesday 7 February, 6.30-8pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
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PUBLIC The Origin of Sex: a history of the first SYMPOSIUM sexual revolution
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For most of western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal, and the church, the state, and ordinary people devoted huge effortsPERFORMANCE to suppressing and punishing it. Between 1600 and 1800, this entire world view was PERFORMANCE shattered by a revolutionary new idea that sex is a private matter. Faramerz Dabhoiwala is the Senior Fellow in History at Exeter College, Oxford. This event marks the publication of his new book The Origins of Sex: a history of the first sexual revolution. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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Pity The Billionaire: the hard times swindle SEMINAR and the comeback of the right
SPEAKER: Thomas Frank Economic meltdown usually brings calls for change. But when CONCERT PERFORMANCE Thomas Frank set out to find these, all he heard were loud demands that the losers be hit harder and that the winners get more. TheDIALOGUE editor of the Baffler, Thomas Frank is the author of founding One Market Under God, Whats the Matter with America? and The Wrecking Crew. His latest book is Pity the Billionaire.
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When does freedom of speech threaten the cohesion of a university as a learning community? Should there be any limits on what can be said SEMINAR in a university? Nicola Dandridge is chief executive of Universities UK. Sue Mendus is professor of political philosophy at the University of York. Info: j.cardinale@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 7539. This CONCERT event is jointly organised with the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and the LSE Chaplaincy.
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LSE residences offer good quality, centrally located PUBLIC LECTURE bed and breakfast accommodation to all during the winter vacation! PUBLIC
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By choosing to book with LSE Vacations you are helpingCONFERENCE to provide safe, secure and affordable housing for our students. The additional PERFORMANCE revenue from vacation trading contributes to keeping student rents as BOOK LAUNCH low as possible. This environment supports and enhances the learning goals of our EVENING diverse community, in particular our efforts to widen participation. LSE CONCERT is committed to recruiting the best possible students with the highest academic and intellectual potential, regardless of their economic or DIALOGUE social background.
A range of high quality rooms, studios ROUNDTABLE and apartments available year round. call: 020 7955 7575 or visit our website
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SPEAKER: Professor Christopher Pissarides Labour markets across the OECD reacted differently to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent debt crisis. Professor Pissarides will review these responses and discuss measures to contain rising unemployment. Christopher Pissarides is the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics, LSE, and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences.
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SPEAKERS: Jonathan Steele, Francesc Vendrell Jonathan Steeles new book, Ghosts of Afghanistan, is the definitive study of the Soviet and US wars in Afghanistan, by one of the few reporters who has covered both occupations.
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Jonathan Steele (pictured) is a columnist, author and former chief foreign correspondent of the Guardian. Francesc Vendrell was the EU special representative for Afghanistan, 2002-2008 and is a visiting fellow at theLUNCHTIME and Human Security Research Unit, LSE. Civil Society
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How the Clash Between Keynes and Hayek Continues to Define the Difference Between PUBLIC DEBATE LUNCHTIME CONCERT Left and Right Today CONCERT
SPEAKER: Nicholas Wapshott PERFORMANCE PUBLIC assault DIRECTORS Eighty years after Friedrich HayeksLECTURE CONFERENCE DIALOGUE upon the economic thinking of John Maynard Keynes, the differences between the two men have still not beenPUBLIC resolved.
BOOK LAUNCH Nicholas Wapshott is a columnist for Reuters and regular contributor to Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is the CONCERT EVENING PUBLIC that author of Keynes Hayek: the clashLECTURE defined modern economics. CONCERT CONFERENCE Info: Tickets available from Tuesday 7 February at lse.ac.uk/events. PERFORMANCE PUBLIC DIALOGUE SYMPOSIUM SYMPOSIUM PUBLIC DEBATE
SPEAKERS: Professor Roger Brownsword, Professor Neil Levy, SEMINAR Professor Sir Michael Rutter
Will developments in the neurosciences change our moral and legal EXHIBITION notions of criminality and responsibility and if so, how? LUNCHTIME
CONFERENCE Roger Brownsword is professor of law at Kings College London. Neil Levy is deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and ROUNDTABLE the Florey Neuroscience Institute, University of Melbourne. Michael DIRECTORS Rutter is professor of developmental psychopathology in DIALOGUE the MRC DISCUSSION Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute SEMINAR of Psychiatry, Kings College London. CONCERT
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Alex Salmond will set out his vision for Scotlands future, including PERFORMANCE the opportunities provided by independence, setting the context for SEMINAR the Scottish governments plans for a referendum. Alex Salmond is the first minister of Scotland.
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Variations on a Theme of Mozart Op.9 Three Catalan Folk Songs Francisco Capricho rabe Sevilla Mayorca Granada Asturias
A top prize-winner at international competitions, Szymanski has performed all over the world. A player destined for future glories. (Classical Guitar Magazine)
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Dispatches from the Dark Side: on torture and SEMINAR CONFERENCE the PUBLIC of justice death PERFORMANCE SYMPOSIUM
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BOOK LAUNCH Evidence suggests that the British government has colluded in a range CONCERT PERFORMANCE of extrajudicial activities rendition, internment without trial, torture and has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal its actions. DIRECTORS PERFORMANCE Gareth Peirce is a solicitor whose battles against miscarriages of CONCERT justice have changed legal history. PUBLIC DEBATE DIALOGUE DIALOGUE EVENING CONCERT CONCERT
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SPEAKER: Pierre Dinan Unlike other African economies since independence, Mauritius has experienced long term sustained economic growth and development. What explains this success? Pierre Dinan is an economic consultant and external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Mauritius.
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SPEAKERS: Professor Ricky Burdett, Professor Danny Quah, LUNCHTIME ROUNDTABLE PUBLIC Professor Xiaonian Xu, Dr Jonathan Woetzel DEBATE CONCERT SEMINAR Against a background of domestic and international uncertainty, the BOOK LAUNCH 2012 forum provides an exciting platform on which to consider and DIRECTORS SEMINAR PUBLIC LECTURE discuss Chinas future prospects.
CONCERT This event is organised by the LSESU China Development Society. EVENING CONCERT LUNCHTIME DIALOGUE LUNCHTIME PUBLIC Info: Tickets are 30-35 for students and 60-70 for nonCONCERT SYMPOSIUM DIRECTORS students. For information and tickets visit: lsecds.org PUBLIC DEBATE
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European Community of Democracies ROUNDTABLE Towards a New Foundation of Europe LECTURE PUBLIC
SPEAKER: Professor UlrichSYMPOSIUM Beck German euro-nationalism is not PUBLIC CONFERENCE inevitable. Europes crisis is PERFORMANCE an SYMPOSIUM CONCERT opportunity to enlarge democracy.
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Forum for European Philosophy dialogue inPUBLIC LECTURE association EXHIBITION with Hire Intelligence
On Friendship
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What, in fact, is the love called friendship? What is the nature of CONCERT its rules and perils, as well as its promise? Mark Vernon is a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House EVENING EXHIBITION CONCERT PUBLIC LECTURE 2012PUBLIC LSE-Harvard public lecture on Islamic Finance SYMPOSIUM
Global Calls for Economic Justice: the potential DIALOGUE ROUNDTABLE PUBLIC of SYMPOSIUM finance Islamic
SPEAKERS: Mukhtar Hussain, Professor Volker Nienhaus EXHIBITION SEMINAR It is felt that conventional financial systems have failed and should CONCERT be replaced, or supplemented, by more ethical banking and socially PERFORMANCE responsible finance. Can Islamic Finance, as a system with a strong religious background and moral framework, satisfy this hope? LUNCHTIME ROUNDTABLE
PERFORMANCE Mukhtar Hussain is chief executive officer at HSBC Malaysia. Volker Nienhaus is visiting professor, University of Reading. DIRECTORS SEMINAR Info: events@lse.ac.uk DIALOGUE LUNCHTIME PUBLIC DEBATE CONCERT CONCERT CONCERT
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SPEAKER: Professor Charles Tripp This talk will look at how resistance to regimes appropriation of DIRECTORS public space has been a central theme of the Arab uprisings. PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE DIALOGUE Charles Tripp is a professor of politics with reference toROUNDTABLE the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043. Saturday 25 February, 10am-6pm
Old Theatre, Old Building
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EVENING CONCERT CONFERENCE One of the largest student-run economics conferences in DIRECTORS Britain. CONCERT Each year it brings together students, academics and professionals to DIALOGUE discuss contemporary issues for the world economy. PUBLIC DEBATE DIALOGUE Info: Tickets are 25-45. To book a ticket please visit lsesu-ec.org. For information contact enquiry@lse-ec.org or call 0784PUBLIC DEBATE 887 9255. PUBLIC LECTURE PERFORMANCE BOOK LAUNCH
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The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was heir to the thrones Hungary before his assassination in 1914. Had he lived, his views on LUNCHTIME ROUNDTABLE international affairs would have helped shape Europes destiny and CONCERT PERFORMANCE may have prevented world war. Roy Bridge is Professor Emeritus of Diplomatic History at SEMINAR the DIRECTORS University of Leeds. DIALOGUE Info: m.fomina@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 7331.
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Info: arts@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7107 5342. This exhibition is LSE Annual Fund. Tuesday 28 February, 6.30-8pm
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Centre for Economic Performance 21st Birthday PUBLIC PUBLIC DEBATE SYMPOSIUM Lecture Series
Cross Country Wage Comparisons: the CONCERT McWage index PUBLIC LECTURE
SYMPOSIUM SPEAKER: Professor Orley Ashenfelter PERFORMANCE PUBLIC Professor Ashenfelter is conducting a study of McDonalds employees SYMPOSIUM wages in many countries to illustrate the relative strength of their CONCERT economies. Early results indicate that developing nations still have a long climb. PUBLIC
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Orley Ashenfelter is Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics PERFORMANCE and director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University.
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Gendering the Social Sciences: a Gender Institute PUBLIC ROUNDTABLE public lecture SYMPOSIUM
CONCERT Rethinking Respectability: returning to ROUNDTABLE value SEMINAR CONCERT and ideology? SEMINAR SPEAKER: Professor BeverleyDIALOGUE Skeggs DIRECTORS LUNCHTIME LUNCHTIME
CONCERT Professor Skeggs will revisit her PERFORMANCE 1997 study on respectability and its political parallels in LUNCHTIME PUBLIC DEBATE the present day. In doing so, she will discuss CONCERT DIRECTORS the current vogue for reality television as social DIALOGUE work, and our response to it as an audience.
Beverley Skeggs is professor of sociology DIALOGUE at Goldsmiths, University of London. PUBLIC DEBATE Info: events@lse.ac.uk or callPUBLIC PUBLIC DEBATE SYMPOSIUM 020 7955 6043.
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Demonstrations, Riots, and Uprisings: mediated CONCERT dissent in a changing communication environment
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This lecture examines some of the complex ways in which media CONFERENCE PERFORMANCE and communications represent and enter into demonstrations, riots and uprisings. Simon Cottle is general editor of the Global Crisis and the Media DISCUSSION series for the publisher Peter Lang. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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Rosamunde Piano Trio Martino Tirimo (piano), DIRECTORS DIALOGUE LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE Daniel Veis (cello), Ben Sayevich (violin) CONCERT
Brahms Piano Trio No 3 in C minor, Op. 101 PUBLIC DEBATE Roussel Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.2 DIRECTORS A trio of world-class soloists whose performances and recordings have earned outstanding praise from the music critics. PUBLIC LECTURE
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Why Germany is the Real Heir to the Old BOOK LAUNCH English Constitution SEMINAR
DIRECTORS SPEAKER: Professor Pasquale Pasquino DIALOGUE Pasquale Pasquino is a Global Distinguished Professor of EVENINGat Politics LUNCHTIME CONCERT NYU and visiting professor at LSE Law. BOOK LAUNCH PERFORMANCE CONCERT CONFERENCE CONCERT
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PUBLIC DEBATE DIALOGUE Association of Friends of the Centre for Philosophy of PUBLIC Natural and Social Science public lecture SYMPOSIUM
PUBLIC How does society impact on science and ROUNDTABLE SYMPOSIUM science on society. PERFORMANCE LUNCHTIME Paul Nurse is a British geneticist and CONCERT CONCERT cell biologist. He is the current SEMINAR president of the Royal Society and was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology DIRECTORS and Medicine. DIALOGUE LUNCHTIME
PUBLIC SPEAKER: Dr Amandine Catala SYMPOSIUM Do secessionists have a valid claim to the territory they are taking? Dr Catala argues that in order to answer this we need to go beyond the PERFORMANCE question of what makes a state legitimate. CONCERT
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SPEAKER: Dr Ramachandra Guha CONCERT LUNCHTIME In India, cricketers are even more famous than its film stars; they are PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE venerated and worshipped as gods. This lecture will explain how this EVENING DIRECTORS CONCERT CONFERENCE DIALOGUE sport became an Indian obsession. DIRECTORS Ramachandra Guha is Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at LSE IDEAS for 2011-2012. DIALOGUE
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PUBLIC ROUNDTABLE Centre for Economic Performance 21st Birthday DIALOGUE SYMPOSIUM PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM Lecture Series
Mental Health: the new frontier in SEMINAR CONCERT EXHIBITION CONCERT labour economics
SPEAKER: Professor Lord Richard Layard LUNCHTIME
PERFORMANCE CEP founder Richard Layard will close this series of lectures with a discussion on the economic and social costs of mental illness. PERFORMANCE CONCERT ROUNDTABLE
Richard Layard is Emeritus Professor of Economics at LSE. He is DIALOGUE SEMINAR the head of the Centre for Economic Performances Programme on Well-Being.
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CONCERT LUNCHTIME Alistair Darling is MP for Edinburgh CONCERT South West and former Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Do economic crisis and the emergence of service economies make LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE established ideas about liberal and coordinated capitalism obsolete? CONCERT ROUNDTABLE Kathleen Thelen is the Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. DIRECTORS Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043. Thursday 8 March, 1.05-2pm
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Soere Beatrice Old Grandmothers Tales PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM PUBLIC DEBATE op.31, No.1 Sonata No 1, op.1 Sonata No 2 CONCERT in B flat PUBLIC LECTURE minor, op.35
Winner of the first prize in the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Competition PERFORMANCE PUBLIC and the Greek National Competition for SYMPOSIUM Young Soloists, Theodore Tzovanakis has given world premiere performances of works by Mitropoulos and has been broadcast around the world.
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This panel will focus on the underside of Indian democracy, as BOOK LAUNCH EXHIBITION visible in, among other things, the insurgencies in Kashmir; a Maoist LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE EXHIBITION ROUNDTABLE rebellion in the heart of India; growing inequalities between rich and CONCERT poor; and the massively high rates of corruption within government.
CONCERT Mukulika Banerjee is a reader in anthropology at the Department of DIRECTORS ROUNDTABLE SEMINAR Anthropology, LSE. Patrick French is the author of Liberty or Death DIALOGUE and India: a portrait. Sunil Khilnani is director of Kings College Londons India Institute. DIALOGUE SEMINAR SEMINAR LUNCHTIME PUBLIC DEBATE Info: events@lse.ac.uk CONCERT CONFERENCE LUNCHTIME EXHIBITION CONCERT LUNCHTIME DIRECTORS PUBLIC LECTURE CONCERT DIALOGUE BOOK LAUNCH DIRECTORS EVENING ROUNDTABLE
Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare in the EVENING CONCERT SEMINAR PUBLIC DEBATE Global Glass House PUBLIC DEBATE
SPEAKER: Joel Brenner APUBLIC LECTURE former intelligence insider illuminates the strategic vulnerabilities CONCERT PUBLIC by the PUBLIC PERFORMANCE technologies that run our public and private lives. created LECTURE
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Joel Brenner is the author of America the Vulnerable: inside the EXHIBITION DIRECTORS PUBLIC new threat matrix of digital espionage, crime, and warfare. He is the DIALOGUE SYMPOSIUM PUBLIC former head of US counterintelligence and inspector general of the SYMPOSIUM CONCERT US National Security Agency and practices law in Washington, DC.
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Re-thinking Alientation
DIRECTORS SPEAKER: Professor Rahel Jaeggi DIALOGUE CONCERT
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Does modern society cause us to be alienated from ourselves? This lecture will argue that a re-thinking of the philosophical concept of alienation can provide us with an important resource for social critique. PUBLIC DEBATE PERFORMANCE Rahel Jaeggi is professor for practical philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin.
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Throughout the last century the United States has used secret and lawless methods to destroy its enemies. The Federal Bureau of BOOK LAUNCH EXHIBITION Investigation is the most powerful of these forces.
CONCERT Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times. He is the author of the bestselling Legacy of Ashes: The History EVENING ROUNDTABLE of the CIA and most recently Enemies. CONCERT
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CONCERT LUNCHTIME LSE Choir and Orchestra Spring Concert LECTURE DIRECTORS PUBLIC CONCERT
Choir Master: Andrew Campling Conductor: Matthew Taylor The Choir will perform Gabriel Gaures Requiem. The perform Mahlers Symphony No.4.
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EVENING Tickets cost 6. To obtain a ticket visit the event listing at CONCERT SEMINAR PUBLIC DEBATE lse.ac.uk/events
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Sonata in F K.370 (after the Oboe PUBLIC Quartet arr. L.Goossens) DEBATE PERFORMANCE E.Goossens Concerto in One Movement Op. 45 (1927) Brahms Rhapsody Op 79 PUBLIC LECTURE no.2 for solo piano A. Reicha Scne (1811) for cor anglais PUBLIC and piano
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Prizewinner of the Paris-Ville dAvray International Interpretation Competition, Althea Talbot-Howard was praised by Gramophone Magazine as a superb oboist. CONCERT Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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DIALOGUE PUBLIC DEBATE EXHIBITION PUBLIC LECTURE ROUNDTABLE Sir Karl Popper PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Memorial Lecture
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Centre for the Study of Human Rights with PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM Political Quarterly
Citizens Privileges or Human Rights? CONCERT The Great Bill of Rights Swindle
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SPEAKER: Shami Chakrabarti RESPONDENT: Professor Francesca Klug Is the debate about a more British Bill of Rights, political genius, pragmatic fudge or a dangerous swindle capable of depriving us of protection against abuse of power? Shami Chakrabarti is director of Liberty. Francesca Klug is professorial research fellow and director of the Human Rights Futures Project at LSE.
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SPEAKER: William Patry Copyright laws are declared to be the underpinnings of creativity, innovation, the knowledge economy, and everything short of curing the sick and feeding the poor. Can copyright laws do all these wonderful things, or are they, in Ian Hargreaves words, the result of lobbynomics? William Patry is senior copyright counsel at Google Inc, and author of How to Fix Copyright.
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