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

1. 1. A World of Two Mindsets
      Date: Wednesday 01 February 2012  4.30pm
      Location: CLM.7.02, Clement House
      Speaker: Dr Hans-Paul Brkner
   2. The rights of women and crisis of multiculturalism
      Date: Wednesday 01 February 2012  6.15pm
      Location: KSW.1.04
      Speaker: Professor Anne Philips
   3. 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
   4. Portugal: Restoring Credibility and Confidence
      Date: Wednesday 01 February 2012  6.30pm
      Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
      Speaker: Vitor Gaspar
   5. 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
   6. Lunchtime Concert
      Date: Thursday 02 February 2012  1.05pm
      Location: Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building
      Speaker: Heath String Quartet
   7. The European Crisis
      Date: Thursday 02 February 2012  5.00pm
      Location: Tower 1, U8
      Speaker: Professor Hans-Werner Sinn
   8. 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
   9. Religion for Atheists
      Date: Thursday 02 February 2012  6.30pm
      Location: Old Theatre, Old Building
      Speaker: Alain de Botton
   10. 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
   11. 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
   12. Lessons from the Doha Development Agenda
       Date: Thursday 02 February 2012  6.30pm
       Location: Thai Theatre, New Academic Building
       Speaker: Alejandro Jara
   13. Capital Markets Environment – Status Quo and Outlook
       Date: Thursday 02 February 2012  7.00pm
       Location: CLM 4.02, Clement House
       Speaker: Dorothee Blessing
   14. 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
   15. 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
   16. 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
   17. Social Reproduction and Depletion: mapping gendered harm
       Date: Monday 06 February 2012  6.30pm
       Location: New Theatre, East Building
       Speaker: Professor Shirin M Rai
   18. 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
   19. Islam in Europe: Past, Present and Future
       Date: Monday 06 February 2012  7.00pm
       Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
       Speaker: Riyaz Timol
   20. 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
   21. 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
   22. 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
   23. Shari’a: A moral code
       Date: Tuesday 07 February 2012  6.30pm
       Location: CLM.5.02, Clement House
       Speaker: Shaikh Haitham Al-Haddad
   24. 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
   25. 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
   26. 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
   27. Freedom of Speech on Campus
       Date: Wednesday 08 February 2012  6.30pm
       Location: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
       Speaker: Nicola Dandridge, Professor Sue Mendus
   28. 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
   29. Lunchtime Concert
       Date: Thursday 09 February 2012  1.05pm
       Location: Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building
       Speaker: Adam Walker (flute) and James Baillieu (piano)
   30. 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
   31. Ghosts of Afghanistan
       Date: Thursday 09 February 2012  6.30pm
       Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
       Speaker: Jonathan Steele, Francesc Vendrell
   32. OECD Labour Markets in the Great Recession
       Date: Thursday 09 February 2012  6.30pm
       Location: Old Theatre, Old Building
       Speaker: Professor Christopher Pissarides
   33. 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
   34. 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
   35. 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
   36. 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
   37. 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
   38. 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,
   39. 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
   40. 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
   41. 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
   42. Lunchtime Concert
       Date: Thursday 16 February 2012  1.05pm
       Location: Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building
       Speaker: Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
   43. African Development: the miracle of Mauritius?
       Date: Thursday 16 February 2012  6.30pm
       Location: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
       Speaker: Pierre Dinan
   44. 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
   45. 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
   46. 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
   47. 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
   48. 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
   49. On Friendship
       Date: Tuesday 21 February 2012  6.30pm
       Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
       Speaker: Dr Mark Vernon
   50. A lecture by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland
       Date: Tuesday 21 February 2012  6.30pm
       Location: LSE campus
       Speaker: Michael D. Higgins