LSE: The Ballpark

Purna Sen & the African Leadership Programme

13 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Purna Sen

Climate Treaties and Approaching Catastrophes

12 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Scott Barrett

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

12 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Joel Brenner

Indian Democracy's Ferocious Faultlines

12 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Mukulika Banerjee, Patrick French, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor Sunil Khilnani

Will Competition Improve the NHS?

12 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Zack Cooper, Paul Corrigan, Frank Dobson MP, Alastair McLellan, Zoe Williams

Impact of Social Sciences Conference - From Research to Policy: Academic Impacts on Government- 17:00 Session

12 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Dr Simon Bastow, Adam Cooper, Jonathan Portes, Prof Bernard Silverman, Neil Wholey, Dr Alan Cann, Prof Vic...

Impact of Social Sciences Conference - From Research to Policy: Academic Impacts on Government- 15:45 Session

12 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Dr Simon Bastow, Adam Cooper, Jonathan Portes, Prof Bernard Silverman, Neil Wholey, Dr Alan Cann, Prof Vic...

Impact of Social Sciences Conference - From Research to Policy: Academic Impacts on Government- 14:20 Session

12 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Dr Simon Bastow, Adam Cooper, Jonathan Portes, Prof Bernard Silverman, Neil Wholey, Dr Alan Cann, Prof Vic...

Impact of Social Sciences Conference - From Research to Policy: Academic Impacts on Government- 14:00 Session

12 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Dr Simon Bastow, Adam Cooper, Jonathan Portes, Prof Bernard Silverman, Neil Wholey, Dr Alan Cann, Prof Vic...

What is a Rational Response to Catastrophic Risk?

08 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Evelyn Fox Keller

The British Economy: Past and Future

07 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Alistair Darling MP

The Future of Egalitarian Capitalism, in Light of its Past

07 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Kathleen Thelen

Mental Health: The New Frontier for the Welfare State

06 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Lord Layard

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

06 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Ramachandra Guha

Literary Festival 2012: Latin America: Between social realism and magical realism

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Rolando Bompadre, Matías Néspolo

Literary Festival 2012: The Happiness of Blond People

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Elif Shafak

Literary Festival 2012: Capital: Relating the Financial Crisis

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): John Lanchester

Literary Festival 2012: Under the Cranes: literature, film and the city

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Michael Rosen, Emma-Louise Williams, Lasse Johansson, Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Literary Festival 2012: Faith, Doubt and Certainty in a Secular Age

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Richard Holloway, Alex Preston

Literary Festival 2012: Travelling the Known and the Unknown

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Horatio Clare, Professor Alex Gillespie, Abigail King

Literary Festival 2012: Rhetoric, Lies and Politicians

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Lord Hurd, Sam Leith, Ian Leslie, Jonathan Powell

Literary Festival 2012: Storytelling and Translation

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Marina Lewycka, Jeremy Sams, George Szirtes

Literary Festival 2012: Writing in the Social Media Age with Sarah Salway

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sarah Salway

Literary Festival 2012: Approaches to Bamiyan: Afghanistan’s Cultural Crossroads

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Llewelyn Morgan

Literary Festival 2012: The Art of ‘Relating Cultures’ with Reshma Ruia

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Reshma Ruia

Literary Festival 2012: Wired for Culture

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Mark Pagel

Literary Festival 2012: Writing fiction – on and off the page with Jonathan Gibbs

03 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jonathan Gibbs

Literary Festival 2012: Money into Art: Finance and the Novel

02 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Justin Cartwright, Professor John Sutherland, DJ Taylor

Literary Festival 2012: Noughties: Narrating the Student Experience

02 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Ben Masters

Literary Festival 2012: Charles Dickens: the best of men, the worst of men

02 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): John Carey, Claire Tomalin

Literary Festival 2012: The Fight for Free Speech: forty years on

01 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Pavel Litvinov, Michael Scammell

Literary Festival 2012: Poetry Unites

01 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Phillip Gross, Sarah Salway, Ewa Zadrzynska

Social democracy as the highest form of liberalism

01 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Colin Crouch

Literary Festival 2012: A Moment of Mishearing

01 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Amit Chaudhuri, Ian Jack

Literary Festival 2012: Dr Seligman and the Islanders: considering Charles Seligman and his work

01 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Adam Kuper

Literary Festival 2012: Class Wars/Culture Wars: Owen Jones and the chavs

01 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sue Christoforou, Professor Mary Evans, Owen Jones

Literary Festival 2012: Modernity's Contents and Discontents in India and Pakistan

01 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Patrick French, Reshma Ruia, Kamila Shamsie

The importance of strong data protection rules for growth and competitiveness

01 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Viviane Reding

Literary Festival 2012: Myths for a Modern World

29 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): AS Byatt, Robert Irwin

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

29 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Simon Cottle

Literary Festival 2012: Censorship in an Age of Freedom

29 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Charlie Beckett, Heather Brooke, Nick Cohen

Rethinking Respectability: returning to value and ideology?

29 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Beverley Skeggs

Literary Festival 2012: Science in the Media

29 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Pedro Dias Ferreira, Professor Elaine Fox, Mark Henderson

Growth for Europe: Resuscitating the Single Market

29 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): RNDr Petr Nečas

Literary Festival 2012: The Medicine Chest of the Soul: arts and health

29 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jane Davies, David McDaid, Margaret Perkins, Jeanette Winterson

Creating a Common Future Together: Towards a Visionary Europe

29 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Mr Egemen Bağış

Literary Festival 2012: The Culture of Europe

29 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Roger Scruton, Professor Maurice Fraser

LSE100: the story of a course

29 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jonathan Leape, Professor Luc Bovens, Lord Stern, Professor Michael Cox, Professor N. Piers Ludlow

Comparing Real Wages: the McWage Index

28 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Orley Ashenfelter

European Questions – Turkish Angles: Europe's unemployment

28 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Luc Bovens, Marco Simoni, Professor Insan Tunali

What Are Universities For?

28 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Stefan Collini

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and England

27 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Roy Bridge

The Burning Issue: The DNA of Human Rights

24 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s):

Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution - How we can get there: building national and international action

23 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Lord Stern

The Politics of Resistance and the Arab Uprisings

23 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Charles Tripp

Literary Festival 2012: Fantasy versus Reality

23 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Caroline Bird, William Fiennes, Meg Rosoff, Philip Womack

Building A Democratic State in Syria

22 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Louay Hussein

Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution - How we can respond and prosper

22 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Lord Stern

Global Calls for Economic Justice: the potential of Islamic finance

22 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Mukhtar Hussain, Professor Volker Nienhaus

Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution - What we risk and how we should cast the economics and ethics

21 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Lord Stern

Of Public Intellectuals, Universities, and a Democratic Crisis

21 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Michael D. Higgins

On Friendship

21 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Mark Vernon

Philanthropy in India: A quality model of giving?

21 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dweep Chanana, Anwar Hasan, Shiv Nadar

European Community of Democracies – Towards a New Foundation of Europe

20 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Ulrich Beck

African Development: the miracle of Mauritius?

16 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Pierre Dinan

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

16 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Gareth Peirce

The Burning Issue: Right to Die

16 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Emily Jackson

Does Culture Matter?

15 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Kurt Barling, Sehrish Ejaz-Khan, Rajiv Gopie

Independence and Responsibility: the future of Scotland

15 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Alex Salmond MSP

Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do

15 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Loretta Napoleoni

Neuroscience, Responsibility and the Law

14 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Roger Brownsword, Professor Neil Levy, Professor Sir Michael Rutter

How the clash between John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek continues to define the difference between left and right today

13 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Nicholas Wapshott

The Islamist Moment in the Middle East: Domestic and Geostrategic Implications

13 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Fawaz A Gerges

The deepening crisis in the euro zone

12 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Michael Bruter

Ghosts of Afghanistan

09 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jonathan Steele, Francesc Vendrell

OECD Labour Markets in the Great Recession

09 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sir Christopher Pissarides

Freedom of Speech on Campus

08 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Nicola Dandridge, Professor Sue Mendus

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

08 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Thomas Frank

Does Law Have a Place in the Modern University?

07 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Roderick MacDonald

The Origins of Sex: a history of the first sexual revolution

07 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala

Crises and Revolutions: The Reshaping of International Development

07 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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

06 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Alan Sked

Muslim Cosmopolitanism or Heresy? Lessons for the Aftermath of the 2011 Arab spring

06 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Carool Kersten

Social Reproduction and Depletion: mapping gendered harm

06 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Shirin Rai

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

06 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Richard Sennett

Social insurance alone is not enough: Should China build its social security system from the perspective of social policy?

06 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Naijun Hu

Civilian Assistance to Pakistan - Cure or Curse?

02 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Ehtisham Ahmad, Rachid Benmassoud, Dr Robert Hathaway, Shahid Kardar, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Kashif Zafar

EU Foreign Policy after Lisbon: The EU's Influence in its Eastern Neighbourhood

02 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Hiski Haukkala, Dr Petr Kratochwil, Dr Nicu Popescu, Professor Stefan Wolff

Reflections on Russia's place in Europe in the 18th Century

02 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Alexander Kamenskii

Religion for Atheists

02 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Alain de Botton

The Pattern of the Past in North Africa

02 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr James McDougall

Portugal: restoring credibility and confidence

01 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Vítor Gaspar

A Tale of Tottenham: race, riots and the future

01 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): David Lammy MP

Revolution 2.0

31 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Wael Ghonim

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

31 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Cullen Murphy

Outside In: a conversation with Peter Hain

30 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Peter Hain MP

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

30 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Paul Mason

The Burning Issue: Parasites - enemy of the poor

30 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Tim Allen

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

26 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Henry Wai-chung Yeung

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

26 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Ramachandra Guha