The Region works in liaison with other professional institutions and educational establishments within our area to provide information on a wide range of events.
Middlesex University
Details when available
London School of Economics [LSE]
Most events are free and open to all on a first come, first served basis, unless otherwise stated, where entry is by ticket only. For more information contact – email www.events@lse.ac.uk
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- A World of Two Mindsets
Date: Wednesday 01 February 2012 4.30pm
Location: CLM.7.02, Clement House
Speaker: Dr Hans-Paul Brkner - The rights of women and crisis of multiculturalism
Date: Wednesday 01 February 2012 6.15pm
Location: KSW.1.04
Speaker: Professor Anne Philips - A Tale of Tottenham: race, riots and the future
Date: Wednesday 01 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: David Lammy MP - Portugal: Restoring Credibility and Confidence
Date: Wednesday 01 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Vitor Gaspar - Is Germany’s Economy a Role Model for European Economies?
Date: Wednesday 01 February 2012 7.30pm
Location: CLM 2.02, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Peter Bofinger - Lunchtime Concert
Date: Thursday 02 February 2012 1.05pm
Location: Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building
Speaker: Heath String Quartet - The European Crisis
Date: Thursday 02 February 2012 5.00pm
Location: Tower 1, U8
Speaker: Professor Hans-Werner Sinn - Reflections on Russia’s place in Europe in the 18th Century
Date: Thursday 02 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Alexander Kamenskii - Religion for Atheists
Date: Thursday 02 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Alain de Botton - EU Foreign Policy after Lisbon: The EU’s Influence in its Eastern Neighbourhood
Date: Thursday 02 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: CLM.2.02
Speaker: Professor Hiski Haukkala, Dr Petr Kratochwil, Dr Nicu Popescu, Professor Stefan Wolff - Civilian Assistance to Pakistan – Cure or Curse?
Date: Thursday 02 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Dr Ehtisham Ahmad, Rachid Benmassoud, Dr Robert Hathaway, Shahid Kardar, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Kashif Zafar - Lessons from the Doha Development Agenda
Date: Thursday 02 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Thai Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Alejandro Jara - Capital Markets Environment – Status Quo and Outlook
Date: Thursday 02 February 2012 7.00pm
Location: CLM 4.02, Clement House
Speaker: Dorothee Blessing - Participation and Frustration In Politics
Date: Friday 03 February 2012 4.00pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Boris Palmer, Dr Jurgen Ruttgers, Dr Friedrich Thelen - Social insurance alone is not enough: Should China build its social security system from the perspective of social policy?
Date: Monday 06 February 2012 11.00am
Location: NAB.1.18, New Academic Building
Speaker: Dr Naijun Hu - Frederick the Great, Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln: what makes a national icon?
Date: Monday 06 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Alan Sked - Social Reproduction and Depletion: mapping gendered harm
Date: Monday 06 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor Shirin M Rai - Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation
Date: Monday 06 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett - Islam in Europe: Past, Present and Future
Date: Monday 06 February 2012 7.00pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Riyaz Timol - Crises and Revolutions: The Reshaping of International Development
Date: Tuesday 07 February 2012 6.00pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Sri Mulyani Indrawati - EVENT RESCHEDULED: Pity The Billionaire: the hard times swindle and the comeback of the right
Date: Tuesday 07 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Thomas Frank - Does Law Have a Place in the Modern University?
Date: Tuesday 07 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor Roderick MacDonald - Shari’a: A moral code
Date: Tuesday 07 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: CLM.5.02, Clement House
Speaker: Shaikh Haitham Al-Haddad - The Origins of Sex: A history of the first sexual revolution
Date: Tuesday 07 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala - Economic Transformation and Poverty Reduction: How it happened in China, helping it happen in Africa
Date: Wednesday 08 February 2012 6.00pm
Location: VAR, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Thandika Mkandawire, Anthony Smith, Dr Wang Xiaolin, Professor Li Xiaoyun - Nationalization and politicizations of the male and female bodies in France
Date: Wednesday 08 February 2012 6.15pm
Location: KSW.1.04
Speaker: Dr. Athena Leoussi - Freedom of Speech on Campus
Date: Wednesday 08 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Nicola Dandridge, Professor Sue Mendus - Pity The Billionaire: the hard times swindle and the comeback of the right
Date: Wednesday 08 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Thomas Frank - Lunchtime Concert
Date: Thursday 09 February 2012 1.05pm
Location: Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building
Speaker: Adam Walker (flute) and James Baillieu (piano) - EVENT CANCELLED: Bob Dylan and Hard Rain – our headlong collision with nature
Date: Thursday 09 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Mark Edwards - Ghosts of Afghanistan
Date: Thursday 09 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Jonathan Steele, Francesc Vendrell - OECD Labour Markets in the Great Recession
Date: Thursday 09 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Christopher Pissarides - The Cyprus Economy at a Time of European Uncertainty: Managing Reform & Sustainability
Date: Friday 10 February 2012 9.00am
Location: Shaw Library, Old Building
Speaker: Various - Fixing incentives in global pharmaceutical markets: the role of the Health Impact Fund
Date: Friday 10 February 2012 6.00pm
Location: U8, Tower 1
Speaker: Professor Aidan Hollis - How the clash between John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek continues to define the difference between left and right today
Date: Monday 13 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Nicholas Wapshott - The Islamist Moment in the Middle East: Domestic and Geostratgeic Implications
Date: Monday 13 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor Fawaz Gerges - Social change in modern Greece: the contribution of young generation to a new social reality
Date: Tuesday 14 February 2012 6.15pm
Location: Canada Blanch Room, COW 1.11, Cowdray House
Speaker: Dr Athanasia Chalari - Neuroscience, Responsibility and the Law
Date: Tuesday 14 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Roger Brownsword, Professor Neil Levy, - Basra, Southern Iraq and the Gulf: Challenges and connections
Date: Wednesday 15 February 2012 4.30pm
Location: KSW.1.04, 20 Kingsway
Speaker: Dr Kristian Ulrichsen - Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Date: Wednesday 15 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Loretta Napoleoni - Independence and Responsibility: the future of Scotland
Date: Wednesday 15 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Alex Salmond MSP - Lunchtime Concert
Date: Thursday 16 February 2012 1.05pm
Location: Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building
Speaker: Morgan Szymanski (guitar) - African Development: the miracle of Mauritius?
Date: Thursday 16 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Pierre Dinan - Dispatches from the Dark Side: on torture and the death of justice
Date: Thursday 16 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Gareth Peirce - China’s Reform Phase II
Date: Saturday 18 February 2012 9.00am
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Ricky Burdett, Professor Danny Quah, Professor Xiaonian Xu, Dr Jonathan Woetzel - Veterans, Skills and Ethnic Conflict: Evidence from the partition of India
Date: Monday 20 February 2012 6.00pm
Location: CLM.6.02, Clement House
Speaker: Steven Wilkinson - European Community of Democracies – Towards a New Foundation of Europe
Date: Monday 20 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Ulrich Beck - The ‘Callicrates’ reform: Transforming Greek local government in the years of austerity
Date: Tuesday 21 February 2012 6.15pm
Location: Canada Blanch Room, COW 1.11, Cowdray House
Speaker: Dr Vasilis Leontisis - On Friendship
Date: Tuesday 21 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Dr Mark Vernon - A lecture by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland
Date: Tuesday 21 February 2012 6.30pm
Location: LSE campus
Speaker: Michael D. Higgins
- A World of Two Mindsets