LSE: Public lectures and events

The Importance of Alternative Financing: global perspectives on Islamic finance

24 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Stephen Green, Dr. M. Umer Chapra

Barack Obama and the Muslim World

23 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Gilles Kepel

Twenty years of Transformation in CEE: Results, lessons and prospects

22 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Leszek Balcerowicz

This Sporting Planet: global sport and global capitalism

18 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor David Goldblatt

Counter-Composition: conversations on ethics

17 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Steve Pyke, Professor Alex Voorhoeve

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

17 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Saw Swee Hock Student Centre

17 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sophie Giscard D'estaing, Andrew Rajanathan

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

16 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Anthony Giddens, Professor David Held, Professor Mary Kaldor, Professor Danny Quah

How rich are the baby boomers and how poor are their children?

16 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): David Willetts

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

15 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): James Purnell MP

LSE Literary Festival - Speaking of Love

13 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): AS Byatt, Ben Okri, Helen Simpson, Colin Thubron

LSE Literary Festival - Animating a Myth for our times: The Lawsuit of the Animals against Humanity

13 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Zeina Frangie-Eyres, Professor Simon Glendinning, Professor Marina Warner, Dr Mark Wright

LSE Literary Festival - Theatre of Action?

13 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Matt Charman, John Caird

LSE Literary Festival - So Much for That: on illness, death and money

13 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Lionel Shriver

LSE Literary Festival - Sociology as Literature

13 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Richard Sennett

LSE Literary Festival - The Arts of Illness

13 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Jane Darcy, Brian Dillon, Sally O'Reilly

LSE Literary Festival - Reading London

13 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Will Alsop, Professor Rosemary Ashton, Leo Hollis, Hans Ulrich Obrist

LSE Literary Festival - Literature and the Sciences: Where do they meet?

13 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Michael Blackburn, Mario Petrucci, Richard Tyrone-Jones

LSE Literary Festival - Jekyll & Hyde: Law, Science, Psychology

13 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Mary Evans, Professor Nicola Lacey, Robert Mighall, Professor Juliet Mitchell

LSE Literary Festival - War Stories: How to bring the battle to the book?

13 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Stephen Grey, Andrew Mueller, Ros Wynne-Jones

LSE Literary Festival - How to write a novel- an introduction for beginners with Justine Mann

13 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Justine Mann

Authority, Enjoyment and the Spirits of Capitalism

12 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Yannis Stavrakakis

LSE Literary Festival - Literature and the Academic: Literature as a resource for other disciplines

12 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Richard Bronk, Professor Margot Finn, Dr Neil Vickers

LSE Literary Festival - At the margins - are hard times good times for literature?

12 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Andrew Franklin, John Lanchester, Adrian Wooldridge

LSE Literary Festival - The Fiction of Development?

12 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Giles Foden, Professor David Lewis, Jack Mpanje, Sunny Singh

LSE Literary Festival - Dance, Text, and Translation: Creating a Dialogue

12 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Helen Thomas, Jasmin Vardimon

The state of development in Haiti following the earthquake

12 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Nilima Gulrajani

2010: Marking a New Beginning - Bosnia & Herzegovina and South East Europe

11 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Zlatko Lagumdzija

LSE Literary Festival - How Would a Robot Read a Novel?

11 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Kavita Abraham, Dr Jon Adams, Dr Robert Hudson

LSE Literary Festival -The Future of Teen Fiction

11 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Rebecca Clee, Patrick Ness, Alex Scarrow, Mark Walden

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

10 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Fawaz A Gerges

Uncertainty and Ambiguity in American Fiscal and Monetary Policies

10 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Thomas J Sargent

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

10 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Douglas Alexander

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

09 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Anne Power

Freefall

08 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Joseph Stiglitz

Climate Crunch: making the economics fit

04 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jonathon Porritt

Economics 0-Reality 1

04 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): John Lanchester

Europe - the traitor's kiss

04 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Chris Bryant MP

Online and offline risk - getting young people's experience of the internet into perspective

04 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Sonia Livingstone

Doldrums to Downing Street? The Conservative Party's long journey from opposition to the brink of office

03 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Tim Bale

Eastern Europe and the Balkans: what now?

03 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Tim Judah, Nick Thorpe

Burquas aren't always blue: Kandahar 1968 - 2010

03 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Felix Kuehn, Alex Strick van Linschoten

Secularisms in crisis

02 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor John Bowen

You are not a gadget

02 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jaron Lanier

Delivering a Low Carbon London

02 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Isabel Dedring

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

01 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Lee Bollinger

On the evolution of morality

29 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jason Mckenzie Alexander

Electoral Reform in the Wake of the Economic Crisis

28 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Vincent Cable MP

New Economics

28 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Andrew Simms

Risk, ethics and public sensitivities

28 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor George Gaskell

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Where could Justice go wrong?

27 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Omar Nashabe

Not By Reason Alone

26 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Mukesh Ambani, Shobhana Bhartia, Professor Lord Desai, Shekhar Gupta, Ed Luce, Lord Patten, Nand Kishore Singh...

Speaking with the Speaker

25 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): John Bercow, Professor Tony Travers, CBE

The Future of Internet Rights: A Conversation with Industry's Leaders

25 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Richard Allan, Kasey Chappelle, Alma Whitten, Usama M. Fayyad

Why should social scientists be interested in the Cold War?

21 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cox

Europe after the European Age: historical reflections

20 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Mark Mazower

What kind of economics should we teach?

20 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Geoffrey Hodgson, Professor Albert Marcet, Paul Ormerod

Beyond the "Berlusconi Common Sense". A New Model of Politics for the 21st Century

19 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Paolo Mancini

Child Under-nourishment as a Social Predicament

19 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Amartya Sen

Modernity and the Meaning of Life

18 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Simon Glendinning, Dr Edward Skidelsky

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

18 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Misha Glenny, Michael Hartmann

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

14 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Richard Doner

Positive Deviance: the only strategy left for sustainability leadership?

14 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sara Parkin

Getting fiscal consolidation right: Lessons from Sweden

14 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Anders Borg

When China Rules the World

13 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Martin Jacques

Muslims in Modern Europe

12 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Gilles Kepel

The speakers' story

18 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Paul Krugman

Broke: voices from the edge

10 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Various Speakers

The Financial Crisis: How Europe can save the world

09 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): George Soros, Guy Verhofstadt

The End of Lawyers?

08 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Richard Susskind

Choice and the Future of Healthcare

08 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Zack Cooper

Cyprus: The Settlement Process

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Mehmet Ali Talat

Living in the Second Nuclear Age

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Arne Westad

Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for Christmas

03 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Joel Waldfogel

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

03 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Carol Graham

Social Theories of Risk and Economic Life

03 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Nigel Dodd

UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

03 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Stephanie Rickard

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

02 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): David Willetts

How China Tackles Climate Change in its Wider Development Agenda

02 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Madam Fu Ying

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

02 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cox, Martin Jacques, Professor Robert Wade

Belonging, Diaspora and Community

01 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Amitav Ghosh

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

01 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Lord Stern

The Value of Nothing

01 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Raj Patel

After the Economic Crisis in South East Europe: Back to Business as Usual?

01 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Vladimir Gligorov, Laza Kekic, Dr Peter Sanfey

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

26 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Alain de Botton

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

26 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Phillip Campbell, Professor Paul Freemont, Professor Richard Kitney, Professor Nikolas Rose, Hugh Whittall, Dr James Wilsdon

Social Science Perspectives on Risk Regulation

26 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Bridget Hutter

Managing Risk and Behaviour in Financial Markets

25 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Julia Black, Professor Charles Goodhart, Professor Michael Power, Dr Paul Woolley

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

25 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Michel Wieviorka

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

25 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Slavoj Zizek

Arbitration's Fluid Universe

24 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Jan Paulsson

Jihad: the trail of Political Islam

24 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Gilles Kepel

The Silverstone Panel on Digital Natives: A Lost Tribe?

24 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor David Buckingham, Ranjana Das, Dr Chris Davies, Professor Sonia Livingstone, Dr Rebecca Willet

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

23 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Ed Gillespie, Jo Confino

How Markets Fail: The Problem of Rational Irrationality

23 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): John Cassidy

Can we eliminate nuclear weapons?

20 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Ambassador Richard Burt, Kate Hudson, Professor Mary Kaldor, HM Queen Noor

In Conversation with Amartya Sen

20 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Amartya Sen, Richard Sennett

A Lecture by Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway

20 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jens Stoltenberg

The Road to Copenhagen: a global deal on climate change

19 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Ed Miliband MP

Risk Sharing and the Employment Relationship

19 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor David Marsden