LSE: The Ballpark

LSE Literary Weekend - Political Satire

28 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Alistair Beaton, Martin Rowson

LSE Literary Weekend - Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

28 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Iain Sinclair, Jerry White, Patrick Wright

LSE Literary Weekend - Ben Okri 'showcase'

28 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Ben Okri

LSE Literary Weekend - Designing Spaces for Thought

28 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Antony Gormley, Richard Sennett, Neven Sidor

LSE Literary Weekend - In Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

28 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Hans Ulrich Obrist, Adrian Searle

LSE Literary Weekend - The Founders' Tradition: literature as social commentary

27 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Mohsin Hamid, David Hare, Boyd Tonkin

LSE Literary Weekend - ReaLITy: creative responses to social realities

27 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Morris Gleitzman, Elizabeth Laird, Anthony McGowan, Patrick Ness, Meg Rosoff

The Story of the Euro: past, present and future

26 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Karl Otto Pöhl

Many Voices: understanding the debate about preventing violent extremism

25 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Hazel Blears MP

Russia's internal politics

25 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Marie Mendras

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

24 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Joschka Fischer

Democracy in America: Jefferson, Tocqueville, and Lincoln

24 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Peter Onuf

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

24 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Pauline Tiffen, Rajah Banerjee, Kate Sebag, Katie Stafford, Dyborn Chinonga

The Islamic Republic of Iran After 30 Years

23 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Fred Halliday

Why Did Nobody Tell Us? Reporting the Global Crash of 2008

23 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Alex Brummer, Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable, Evan Davis, Gillian Tett, Professor Willem Buiter

The Albanian Nun Who was not Considered 'European' Enough: Why did Mother Teresa leave the Loreto Order?

20 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Gezim Alpion

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

19 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Marco Sassòli

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

19 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Jean Tirole

Lessons from the credit crisis

19 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sir John Gieve

Can International Law Change the World?

18 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Christopher Greenwood

Kosovo's Independence: One Year On

18 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Ambassador Muhamet Hamiti

Thinking Like a Social Scientist: public economics and pub economics

18 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Nicholas Barr

Costing the climate

18 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Sam Fankhauser

Fighting the Banana Wars

17 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Harriet Lamb, Adam Brett, Dr Teddy Brett

The Global Economic Crisis - Meeting the Challenge

17 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sir Tim Besley, Francesco Caselli, Professor Chris, Professor Danny Quah

"Russian Railways" as the locomotive of the Russian Economy"

17 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Vladimir Yakunin

Democracy in Kuwait and its effect on the Gulf

16 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Abdullah Bishara

European Democracy and the Language Question

12 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Philippe Van Parijs

A Good Childhood: searching for values in a competitive age

11 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Judy Dunn, Professor Lord Richard Layard

Afghanistan and Iraq: good war, bad war?

11 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Lakhdar Brahimi

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

11 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Nicholas Barr, Lord Turner of Ecchinswell

Keeping Score: new approaches to the standard of living

10 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Richard H Steckel

Celebrities and Aid: new humanitarians or just another fad?

05 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor John Street, Kris Torgeson, Ann McFerran

Obama and the Empire of Liberty

05 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor David Reynolds

Why 2009 is a crucial year for Europe

05 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Bruno Le Maire

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

04 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Lauren Berlant

Good intentions perverse incentives

04 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Luis Garicano

Here Comes Everybody: how change happens when people come together

03 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Clay Shirky

The aftermath of the Israel-Gaza conflict

29 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor John Chalcraft

Is Global Democracy Possible?

28 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Daniele Archibugi, Professor Michael Cox, George Monbiot

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

27 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jonah Goldberg

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

27 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Danny Quah

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

22 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Chen Jian

Designing Policies for Growth - 21 January 2009

21 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Philippe Aghion

Georgia: has Europe let Russia off the hook?

21 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Sabine Freizer, Professor Salome Zourabichvili

The Incompatibility of Science and Religion

21 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor John Worrall

Recruit LSE Talent

21 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Howard Davies

Designing Policies for Growth - 20 January 2009

20 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Philippe Aghion

World War Two: behind closed doors

20 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Laurence Rees

Designing Policies for Growth - 19 January 2009

19 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Philippe Aghion

Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis

13 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Ben S. Bernanke

Death in the modern age

09 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Emily Jackson

Competition and choice good for public sector

03 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Sir Julian Le Grand

A lecture by Mirek Topolánek, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

18 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Mirek Topolánek

New Academic Building

18 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Howard Davies, Julian Robinson, Jim Gardiner, Nevin Sidor, Ingrid Bille, Professor Hugh Collins

Managing Risk: A Global Imperative

12 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Michael Chertoff

The Impact of the Global Economic Downturn on the World's Poorest Countries and The Launch of the International Growth Centre

10 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Douglas Alexander, Robin Burgess, Professor Sir Paul Collier, Gobind Nankani

Fiscal responsibility and the recession

09 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): David Cameron

The impact of the Mumbai terror attacks

08 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Sumantra Bose

Ancient Adversaries, Modern Friends: Hellenic-Irnaian Relations Down The Ages

04 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Baroness Haleh Afshar, Dominic Lieven, Sam Moorhead, Nigel Spivey, Professor Norman Stone

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

04 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Shami Chakrabarti, Jonathan Cooper, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Professor Francesca Klug, Professor Peter Townsend

In Conversation with Cherie Blair

03 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Cherie Blair, Howard Davies

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

03 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Alessandro Profumo

China After the Olympics

02 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jonathan Fenby, Professor Athar Hussain, Martin Jacques, Professor Chen Jian

Global Shocks, Global Solutions: Meeting 21st Century Challenges

01 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Ian Goldin

What's Wrong with the EU Budget?

27 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Iain Begg, Zaki Cooper, Dalia Grybauskaite

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

26 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Peter Sutherland

Forensic Anthropology: the reconstruction of the truth in the fight against impunity

26 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Silvana Turner

The Subprime Crisis

26 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Robert Shiller

Ross Cranston, QC in Conversation with Lord Mackay of Clashfern

25 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Lord Mackay, Professor Sir Ross Cranston

The Independent Kosovo: Partner for Peace and Stability in the Region

21 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): President of Kosovo, Dr Fatmir Sejdiu

Who says World Politics is boring? International Relations after Georgia and the Financial Crisis

20 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Alexander Stubb

Ireland and Britain - old narratives and new

19 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Mary McAleese

Revisiting Marx: is Marxism still relevant?

18 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor David Harvey, Professor Leo Panitch

The Politics of Mobility

18 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sir Peter Hendy

Political representation

16 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Anne Phillips

Europe in the Global Economy

13 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor George Alogoskoufis

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

13 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Edward Glaeser

Desiring Walls

12 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Wendy Brown

The Prospect of Democratisation in Afghanistan

12 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Rangin Dadfar Spanta

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

12 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Navanethem Pillay

Did religion make a difference? The American elections and beyond

11 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Peter Berger, John Micklethwait

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

11 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jelena Bjelica, Anna Di Lellio, Enver Hoxhaj, Tim Judah

Navigating Global Economic and Financial Change

11 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Mohamed A. El-Erian

Torturing Democracy Through the American Wars on Crime and Terrorism?

10 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Randall Coyne

Where Now For the United States After the Election?

07 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cox, Jessica Mathews, Bob Singh

Black Panther, the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas

06 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Emory Douglas

The Economics of the Recession

31 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): George Osborne

Central Banking and the Credit Crunch

30 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Howard Davies

An Appeal to Reason: a cool look at global warming

29 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Lord Lawson, Professor Simon Dietz

Dysfunctional markets

28 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Paul Woolley

In Sickness and In Power

27 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Lord Owen

The global financial crisis

23 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr David Woodfuff

Women's Status, Men's States

22 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Catharine A MacKinnon

Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City: social order revisited

21 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Robert J. Sampson, Professor Paul Gilroy

Running Cities: London in contextd

21 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sir Simon Milton, Deyan Sudjic

Gut Feelings: short cuts to better decision making

20 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Gerd Gigerenzer

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

20 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Will Hutton, Martin Wolf

Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: the words themselves

16 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Jeremy Waldron

European Security Architecture - A Paradigm Shift?

16 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): President Toomas Hendrik Ilves