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    EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES, DEBATES, CONCERTS

    A diary o events open to the

    LSE community and the public

    9 January 2 April 2012

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    The event is ree and open to all with no ticket required,entry is on a rst come rst served basis. See individual listingor contact details or urther event inormation.

    This event is ree and open to all (unless otherwise stated)but a ticket is required. One ticket per person can be requestedat lse.ac.uk/events, see individual listing or ticket releasedate. Ticket lines will be open or a set period o time asadvertised on the listing, with tickets allocated randomly torequests received in this time period. For events where ewerrequests are received than tickets available, ticket lines willremain open until all tickets have been allocated.

    Ticketing information

    Everyone is welcome to attend LSEs public events, where some

    o the most infuential gures in the social sciences can be heard.

    Events are generally ree and open to all, with entry on a rst come,

    rst served basis unless otherwise stated. It does get busy so we

    advise people to turn up 30 minutes beore the advertised time.

    For ticketed events, please go to lse.ac.uk/events and ll in the

    online booking orm to obtain a ticket. LSE sta and students can

    obtain tickets rom the Students Union Shop in the New Academic

    Building.Transcripts, podcasts and videos o an increasing number

    o LSE events are available online ater the event. Details o all o

    these can be accessed at lse.ac.uk/events. Do remember that i

    you ancy grabbing a bite to eat beore an event, or you want to

    sit and discuss the event with riends over a drink aterwards, there

    are a range o LSE catering outlets on campus. To see the dierent

    venues and their opening times please view

    lse.ac.uk/collections/cateringServices/venues

    Just economics and politics? Think again. While LSE does not

    teach arts or music, there is a vibrant cultural side to the School

    rom weekly Thursday lunchtime ree music concerts in the ShawLibrary, and an LSE orchestra and choir with their own proessional

    conductors, to various lm, art and photographic student

    societies, the annual LSE photo prize competition, the LSE Literary

    Festival and artist-in-residence projects. For more inormation

    please visit lse.ac.uk/arts. I you would like to receive a copy o this

    leafet termly, you can join our mailing list: email [email protected].

    For the latest inormation, visit lse.ac.uk/events or phone thepublic events inormation line on 020 7955 6043.

    Alan Revel

    LSE events manager

    Welcome

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    Member o the press?Email [email protected]

    to reserve seats

    January

    From time to time there are changes toevent details ater this leafet goes to printso we strongly recommend that i you plan

    to attend an LSE event you check theevent listing on the LSE events website,

    lse.ac.uk/events on the day o the event

    Monday 9 January Friday 17 February

    Atrium Gallery, Old Building

    Changing the Paradigm o Development PolicyThrough Media

    An exhibition o international editorial cartoons and video journalismrelating to development policy, hosted by the Justice and SecurityResearch Programme.

    This exhibition is open to all, no ticket required. Visitors are welcome

    during weekdays (Monday Friday) between 10am and 8pm.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7107 5342.

    Monday 9 January, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Middle East Centre Arab Uprisings Lecture Series

    The Year o Egypts Second Revolution:the balance sheet so ar

    SPEAKER: Proessor Roger Owen

    Proessor Owen will look at Egypts Tahrir Square revolution in thelight o the revolutions o 1919 and 1952, drawing on them toindicate some o the problems and possibilities ahead.

    Roger Owen is A J Meyer Proessor o Middle East History atHarvard University.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    EXHIBITION

    PUBLIC LECTURE

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    Tuesday 10 January, 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    Asia Research Centre public lecture

    Deleveraging and Growth: is the developed worldollowing Japans long and winding road?

    SPEAKER: Masaaki Shirakawa

    Masaaki Shirakawa will reect on the experience o Japan leadingto and ollowing the bursting o the Japanese bubble, and discusssimilarities and dierences between Japan in the 1990s and the

    current state o developed economies.

    Masaaki Shirakawa is governor o the Bank o Japan.

    Ino: Tickets available rom Wednesday 4 Januaryatlse.ac.uk/events

    Tuesday 10 January, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    LSE public lecture

    The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and thestruggle or Russia

    SPEAKER: Angus Roxburgh

    Angus Roxburgh talks about his new book on the Putin years andRussias relationship with the West. Drawing on exclusive interviews,he describes Putins descent into authoritarianism, and argues thatthe West threw away chances to bring Russia in rom the cold.

    Angus Roxburgh was the Sunday Times Moscow correspondentin the mid-1980s and the BBCs Moscow correspondent during theYeltsin years. He is the author o The Second Russian Revolution andPravda: inside the Soviet press machine.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 10 January, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSE public lecture

    Is it Time or a Digital Detox?SPEAKER: Daniel Sieberg

    The author o The Digital Diet: the our-stepplan to break your tech addiction and regainbalance in your lie, oers timely advice ortechnology gluttons everywhere, explaininghow best to ditch the digital dependency.

    Daniel Sieberg works with Googlemarketing in New York. An Emmy-nominated journalist, he is a ormertechnology correspondent or CBSand CNN.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Thursday 12 January, 1.05-2pm

    Shaw Library, Old Building

    Helen Sherman (mezzo-soprano)

    James Baillieu (piano)Hahn Songs

    Mahler Songs rom DasKnaben Wunderhorn

    Wagner Wesendonck Lieder

    Britten Cabaret Songs (WH Auden)

    Tell me the truth about loveFuneral Blues; Johnny; Calypso

    Winner o several prizes and representingAustralia in 2011 Cardi Singer o the World

    competition. Helen Sherman is currently appearing with Opera North.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 12 January, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    Department o Geography and Environmentpublic lecture

    Redesigning the Worlds Largest

    Development Programme: EU cohesion policySPEAKER: Proessor Philip McCann

    The special adviser to the European Commissioner or Regional Policywill discuss one o the great policy-making challenges o recent times.

    Philip McCann is special adviser to Johannes Hahn and proessor oeconomics at the University o Waikato, New Zealand.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 12 January, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Department o Management public lecture

    The Lean StartupSPEAKER: Eric Ries

    Most new businesses ail. But most o those ailures are preventable.The Lean Startup is a new approach to business thats being adoptedaround the world.

    Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author o the New York Timesbestseller The Lean Startup and the popular entrepreneurship blogStartup Lessons Learned.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Monday 16 January, 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    British Government@LSE public lecture

    Total Policing: the uture o policing in London

    SPEAKER: Bernard Hogan-Howe

    The current commissioner o the Met and ormer chie constableo Merseyside Police will speak about his hopes and aspirations inrelation to the uture o policing in the capital.

    Bernard Hogan-Howe is the commissioner o the MetropolitanPolice Service.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Monday 16 January, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Gendering the Social Sciences: a Gender Institutepublic lecture

    Gender and Mens Studies: peril or promise?

    SPEAKER: Proessor Michael Kimmel

    The insights generated by womens studiesare both available to men and, indeed,

    important or men to live the lives they saythey want to live.

    Michael Kimmel is among theworlds leading researchers on menand masculinities.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 17 January, 6.30-8pmSheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSE public lecture

    Realeconomik: the hidden cause o the greatrecession (and how to avert the next one)

    SPEAKER: Grigory YavlinskyGrigory Yavlinsky makes a powerul casethat the oten-cited causes o globaleconomic instability are only secondary toa ar more signifcant underlying cause:the ailure to understand that universalsocial norms are essential to social andeconomic progress.

    Grigory Yavlinsky is proessor oeconomics at the Higher School oEconomics at the National Research

    University in Moscow. As deputy prime minister o Russia, he wrotethe frst Russian economic program or transition to a ree-marketeconomy, 500 Days. His latest book is Realeconomik.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Tuesday 17 January, 6.30-8pm

    Wolson Theatre, New Academic Building

    Forum or European Philosophy public lecture

    Beyond the Eye o the Beholder

    SPEAKER: Dr Guy Dammann

    Everyone admits that there is no act o the matter about aestheticjudgements. Nonetheless, constantly reerring to artistic taste asrelative limits the power o art to change us.

    Guy Dammann is the music critic o the Times Literary Supplement,and a critic and commentator or the Guardian.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7539.

    Tuesday 17 January, 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    Department o International History annual lecture

    Israel: the strategy o the iron wall revisited

    SPEAKER: Proessor Avi Shlaim

    This talk will ocus on Israels iron wallstrategy o dealing with the Arabs rom aposition o unassailable military strength,and how this strategy was applied bysuccessive prime ministers.

    Avi Shlaim is proessor o internationalrelations at the University o Oxord. Hisbooks include The Iron Wall: Israel and the

    Arab world(2000); and Israel and Palestine:reappraisals, revisions, reutations (2009).

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Wednesday 18 January, 6.30-8.30pm

    Wolson Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSE Arts lm screening and discussion

    Margin Call

    A preview screening o the highlyanticipated flm Margin Callbased on thefnancial crash starring Kevin Spacey,Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore, ZacharyQuinto, Paul Bettany and Stanley Tucci.This will be ollowed by a panel discussion.

    Ino: Tickets available rom Wednesday11 January atlse.ac.uk/events

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    Thursday 19 January, 1.05-2pm

    Shaw Library, Old Building

    Victoria Simonsen (cello), Ben Powell (piano)

    Beethoven Sonata no. 2 in G Minor,op. 5 no. 2

    Britten Sonata in C major, Op. 65

    Gold medallist o the Royal NorthernCollege, New Zealand Young Musiciano the Year, winner o several prizes andscholarships, Victoria Simonsen has

    been praised by The Stradas a musiciano rare quality.

    Ino: [email protected] orcall 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 19 January, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSE public lecture

    Paper Promises: money, debt and the newworld order

    SPEAKER: Philip Coggan

    The world is drowning in debt. But as

    Philip Coggan shows in his new book,which he will discuss in this talk, theglobal crisis is part o an age-old battlebetween creditors and borrowers.

    Philip Coggan is the Buttonwoodcolumnist o The Economist. This eventmarks the publication o his new bookPaper Promises: money, debt and the new

    world order. Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Monday 23 January 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Academic Building

    Global Policydialogue

    The State o the World Economy in 2012

    SPEAKERS: Jean-Michel Severino, Martin Wol

    Two economic experts discuss the state o the world economy aterthe eurozone fnancial crisis.

    Jean Michel Severino is the inspector general at the French Ministry

    o Finance. Martin Wol is a journalist at the Financial Times. Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Monday 23 January, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Sir Patrick Gillam Lecture

    The Global Banking Crisis: an Aricanbankers response

    SPEAKER: Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

    Against the backdrop o the ongoing global banking crisis, SanusiLamido Sanusi discusses the economic problems and prospects osub-Saharan Arica over the decade ahead.

    Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is the governor o the Central Banko Nigeria.

    Ino: Tickets available rom Monday 16 January atlse.ac.uk/events

    Monday 23 January, 6.30-8pm

    New Theatre, East Building

    Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit publicdiscussion

    Bottom-up Politics: an agency-centredapproach to globalisation

    SPEAKERS: Proessor Helmut Anheier, Proessor Christine Chinkin,Proessor Mary Kaldor, Proessor Saskia Sassen

    The panel will discuss the political implications o giving power toordinary people in an era when the nation-state has lost its primacyas a political actor. The event launches the book Bottom-up Politics:an agency-centred approach to globalisation.

    Helmut Anheier is proessor o sociology at the Hertie School oGovernance, Berlin. Christine Chinkin is proessor o internationallaw at LSE and a barrister. Mary Kaldor is director o the Civil Society

    and Human Security Research Unit, LSE. Saskia Sassen is RobertS Lynd Proessor o Sociology at Columbia University and a visitingproessor at LSE.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 24 January, 6.30-8pm

    Wolson Theatre, New Academic Building

    Philosophy@LSE public lecture

    The Many-Worlds Interpretation oQuantum Mechanics

    SPEAKER: Dr Foad Dizadji-Bahmani

    Despite being one o our most empirically successul

    theories, there is still no consensus about how QuantumMechanics is to be understood. This talk will explorethe controversial Many-Worlds interpretation.

    Foad Dizadji-Bahmani is an LSE ellow in the Departmento Philosophy, Logic and Scientifc Method.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7539.

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    Hold your event at LSEFrom small meeting rooms or eight, through to the 1,000seat Peacock Theatre, LSE oers a wide choice o centrally

    located conerence acilities, available to hire or events,meetings, lectures and larger conerences.

    For urther details or enquiries please contact LSE Event Services,Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7087, email: [email protected] web: lse.ac.uk/lseeventservices

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    Tuesday 24 January, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    LSE IDEAS public discussion

    The Soviet Unions Collapse: causesand consequences

    SPEAKERS: Rodric Braithwaite, Andrei Grachev,Proessor Margot Light

    What were the origins o the collapse o the USSR? What did 1991 lookand eel like rom the inside? What is the legacy o 1991 or the ormer

    USSR itsel? This expert panel will reect on how history unolded.

    Rodric Braithwaite was British Ambassador to Moscow rom 1988 to1992. Andrei Grachev served on the International Relations Departmento the CPSU and was confdant and ofcial spokesman or MikhailGorbachev. Margot Light is Proessor Emeritus in the Department oInternational Relations, LSE.

    Ino [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    DISCUSSION

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    Tuesday 24 January, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSE public lecture

    Willpower: sel-control, decision atigue,and energy depletion

    SPEAKER: Dr Roy F Baumeister

    A new understanding o how peoplecontrol themselves has emerged rom thepast decade o research studies.

    Roy Baumeister is Eppes EminentScholar and head o the social psychologygraduate program at Florida StateUniversity. He is co-author o Willpower:rediscovering our greatest strength.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Wednesday 25 January, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    Department o Law public lecture

    Histories o International Law: dealing

    with Eurocentrism

    SPEAKER: Proessor Martti Koskenniemi

    Martti Koskenniemi is director o the Erik Castrn Instituteo International Law and Human Rights and visiting proessorat LSE Law.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Wednesday, 25 January, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Hellenic Observatory/APCO European Institutepublic lecture

    The Geostrategic Importance o Cyprus: longterm trends and prospects

    SPEAKER: Dr Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis

    Placed at the crossroads o threecontinents, Cyprus remains o keystrategic importance in the EasternMediterranean.

    Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis is theminister o oreign aairs or Cyprus.

    Ino: [email protected] orcall 020 7955 6043.

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    Thursday 26 January 1.05-2pm

    Shaw Library, Old Building

    Sulki Yu (violin)

    MinJung Baek (piano)Chausson Pome Op. 25

    Ysae Sonata Op. 27 No. 1

    Schubert Rondo Brillant in B minor

    A welcome return o the Korean violinisthailed by The Stradas having ...acutely

    tuned musicianship... brilliance andassurance... a very signifcant career inthe making.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 26 January, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSE IDEAS public lecture

    Ten Reasons Why India Will Not and MustNot Become a Superpower

    SPEAKER: Dr Ramachandra Guha

    High annual growth rates, a rising middleclass, and successes in the sotware sectorhave led to much talk o India becominga superpower. But rather than seek toexpand Indias inuence abroad, thepolitical class and intellectual elite woulddo well to ocus on the fssures within.

    Ramachandra Guha is Philippe RomanChair in History and International Aairs

    at LSE IDEAS or 2011-2012.

    Ino: Tickets available rom Wednesday 18 January atlse.ac.uk/events

    Monday 30 January, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Department o Sociology public lectureWhy its Kicking O Everywhere: the newglobal revolutions

    SPEAKER: Paul Mason

    Paul Mason will explore the causes and consequences o the currentwave o struggle illuminating the links between the economic and

    social crisis.

    Paul Mason is economics editor o BBCs Newsnightand authoro Why its Kicking O Everywhere.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Tuesday 31 January, 6.30-8pm

    Wolson Theatre, New Academic Building

    British Government@LSE public lecture

    The Work o the Public AdministrationSelect Committee

    SPEAKER: Bernard Jenkin MP

    A look at the work o the Public Administration Select Committee,which examines the quality and standards o administration withinthe Civil Service and scrutinises the reports o the Parliamentary and

    Health Service Ombudsman.

    Bernard Jenkin is MP or Harwich and North Essex and chair o thePublic Administration Select Committee.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7204.

    Tuesday 31 January, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    LSE public lecture

    Gods Jury: the Inquisition and the makingo the modern world

    SPEAKER: Cullen Murphy

    For centuries states have used their power to censor inormation,conduct surveillance, impose belie, manipulate and punish. CullenMurphys new book, Gods Jury, explores the idea that the Inquisitionis not a medieval oddity, but is intrinsically bound up with the creationo the modern world.

    Cullen Murphy is Vanity Fairs editor at large and the author oAreWe Rome? and The Word According to Eve.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 31 January, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Middle East Centre public lecture

    Revolution 2.0

    SPEAKER: Wael Ghonim

    Social media allow ideas to be shared. They are places where peoplecan unite and new types o revolutions can begin. Wael Ghonim givesunparalleled insight into why the Egyptian people fnally rejected 30years o oppression and ound a voice.

    Wael Ghonim is a prominent internet entrepreneur who set up

    the Facebook page that helped acilitate the protests that led to thedeparture o Hosni Mubarak. His new book is Revolution 2.0.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    February

    Wednesday 1 February, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    Department o Sociology/Runnymede Trust Jim RoseMemorial Lecture

    A Tale o Tottenham: race, riots and the uture

    SPEAKER: David Lammy MP

    The riots across England in the summer

    o 2011 were sparked by events inTottenham, North London. Tottenhamwas also the site o the BroadwaterFarm riots in 1985. David Lammy, MPor the area, reects on the causeso these events and what role racialinequality played.

    David Lammy has been the Labour MP

    or Tottenham since 2000.Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 2 February, 1.05-2pm

    Shaw Library, Old Building

    Heath String Quartet

    Oliver Heath (violin), Cerys Jones (violin)

    Gary Pomeroy (viola) Christopher Murray (cello)

    Mendelssohn String Quartet No.1 in E at, Op.12

    Jancek String Quartet No.2 Intimate Letters

    Winners o the Trump International Music Competition and HaydnVienna Competition, this rising young quartet has perormed tocritical acclaim in major halls and estivals.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Thursday 2 February, 6.30-8pm

    Wolson Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSE IDEAS public lecture

    Reections on Russias Place in Europe in the18th Century

    SPEAKER: Proessor Alexander Kamenskii

    In the course o the eighteenth century, Russiabecame an active participant in Europeandiplomatic relations. But to what extent was

    Russia part o Europe? And is it possible tostudy Europe without including Russia?

    Alexander Kamenskii is deacon o theFaculty o History and chie research ellowo the Poletaev Institute or Theoretical andHistorical Studies in the Humanities at theHigher School o Economics in Moscow.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7849 4612.

    Thursday 2 February, 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    Forum or European Philosophy public lecture

    Religion or Atheists

    SPEAKER: Alain de Botton

    Is it possible to remain a committed atheist but nevertheless beneftrom the wisdom o religion? Marking the publication o his new bookReligion or Atheists, Alain de Botton proposes that we look to religionsor insights into how we might live in and arrange our societies.

    Alain de Botton is the author o non-fction essays on themes

    ranging rom love and travel to architecture and philosophy. Hisbestselling books include The Architecture o Happiness.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Monday 6 February, 6.30-8pm

    New Theatre, East Building

    Gender Institute and the Department o Governmentpublic lecture

    Social Reproduction andDepletion: mappinggendered harm

    SPEAKER: Proessor Shirin M Rai

    At times o crisis social expenditure iscut, but with what consequences? Usingthe concept o depletion, Proessor Raimeasures the extent o loss or individuals,households and communities.

    Shirin Rai is proessor o politics and international studies at theUniversity o Warwick.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Monday 6 February, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Department o International History Inaugural Lecture

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

    SPEAKER: Proessor Alan Sked

    Why do some people retain iconic status in the historical consciousnesso various nations? What does this tell us about them? More importantly,what does it reveal about later and present generations?

    Alan Sked is proessor o international history at LSE.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Monday 6 February, 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    Department o Sociology public lecture

    Together: the rituals, pleasures and politicso co-operation

    SPEAKER: Proessor Richard Sennett

    Modern politics emphasises unity andsimilarity, encouraging the politics o thetribe rather than o complexity. RichardSennett, in his new book Together,argues that living with people unlikeourselves requires more than goodwill:it requires skill.

    Richard Sennett retired in 2011 asUniversity Proessor at NYU and AcademicGovernor and Proessor o Sociology at LSE.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 7 February, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    LSE public lecture

    The Origin o Sex: a history o the frstsexual revolution

    SPEAKER: Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala

    For most o western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal, and thechurch, the state, and ordinary people devoted huge eorts to suppressingand punishing it. Between 1600 and 1800, this entire world view was

    shattered by a revolutionary new idea that sex is a private matter.Faramerz Dabhoiwala is the Senior Fellow in History at ExeterCollege, Oxord. This event marks the publication o his new bookThe Origins o Sex: a history o the frst sexual revolution.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Tuesday 7 February, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSE public lecture

    Pity The Billionaire: the hard times swindleand the comeback o the right

    SPEAKER: Thomas Frank

    Economic meltdown usually brings calls or change. But whenThomas Frank set out to fnd these, all he heard were loud demandsthat the losers be hit harder and that the winners get more.

    The ounding editor o the Baer, Thomas Frank is the author oOne Market Under God, Whats the Matter with America? and TheWrecking Crew. His latest book is Pity the Billionaire.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 7 February, 6.30-8pm

    New Theatre, East Building

    Department o Law public lecture

    Does Law Have a Place in the Modern University?

    SPEAKER: Proessor Roderick MacDonald

    Universities are acing increasing pressure to be relevant or studentsentering the job market. Yet law aculties are under increasing pressureto become less proessional and to broaden their curriculum withinterdisciplinary courses in the liberal arts. Might the study o law reclaimthe central role that it played in the University a millennium ago?

    Roderick MacDonald is F R Scott Proessor o Constitutional andPublic Law at McGill and visiting proessor at LSE Law.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Wednesday 8 February, 6.30-8pm

    Wolson Theatre, New Academic Building

    Forum or European Philosophy dialogue

    Freedom o Speech on Campus

    SPEAKERS: Nicola Dandridge, Proessor Sue MendusWhen does reedom o speech threaten the cohesion o a universityas a learning community? Should there be any limits on what can besaid in a university?

    Nicola Dandridge is chie executive o Universities UK. Sue Mendusis proessor o political philosophy at the University o York.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7539. This

    event is jointly organised with the Department o Philosophy,Logic and Scientifc Method and the LSE Chaplaincy.

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    Thursday 9 February, 1.05-2pm

    Shaw Library, Old Building

    Adam Walker (ute), James Baillieu (piano)

    Schubert Variations on Trockene Blumen in E minor, D802

    Martinu Scherzo

    Barber Canzone

    Bartok Suite Paysanne Hongroise

    Described by Classic FM as one o the top fve international autists,in 2009 Adam Walker was appointed principal ute o the London

    Symphony Orchestra aged 21 and received the Outstanding YoungArtist Award at the MIDE Classique Awards in Cannes.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 9 February, 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    Economica Phillips Lecture

    OECD Labour Markets in the Great Recession

    SPEAKER: Proessor Christopher Pissarides

    Labour markets across the OECD reacteddierently to the 2008 fnancial crisis andsubsequent debt crisis. Proessor Pissarideswill review these responses and discussmeasures to contain rising unemployment.

    Christopher Pissarides is the NormanSosnow Chair in Economics, LSE, andrecipient o the 2010 Nobel Prize orEconomic Sciences.

    Ino: Tickets available rom Thursday2 February atlse.ac.uk/events

    Thursday 9 February, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    Civil Society and Human Security Research Unitpublic discussion

    Ghosts o AghanistanSPEAKERS: Jonathan Steele,

    Francesc Vendrell

    Jonathan Steeles new book, Ghosts oAghanistan, is the defnitive study o theSoviet and US wars in Aghanistan, byone o the ew reporters who has covered

    both occupations.Jonathan Steele (pictured) is acolumnist, author and ormer chieoreign correspondent o the Guardian.Francesc Vendrellwas the EU special

    representative or Aghanistan, 2002-2008 and is a visiting ellow atthe Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, LSE.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Monday 13 February, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Department o Economics public lecture

    How the Clash Between Keynes and HayekContinues to Defne the Dierence BetweenLet and Right Today

    SPEAKER: Nicholas Wapshott

    Eighty years ater Friedrich Hayeks assaultupon the economic thinking o John

    Maynard Keynes, the dierences betweenthe two men have still not been resolved.

    Nicholas Wapshott is a columnistor Reuters and regular contributor toNewsweekand The Daily Beast. He is theauthor o Keynes Hayek: the clash thatdefned modern economics.

    Ino: Tickets available rom Tuesday 7 February atlse.ac.uk/events.

    Tuesday 14 February, 6.30-8pm

    Wolson Theatre, New Academic Building

    Forum or European Philosophy Consiliencepanel discussion

    Neuroscience, Responsibility and the Law

    SPEAKERS: Proessor Roger Brownsword, Proessor Neil Levy,Proessor Sir Michael Rutter

    Will developments in the neurosciences change our moral and legalnotions o criminality and responsibility and i so, how?

    Roger Brownsword is proessor o law at Kings College London.

    Neil Levy is deputy director o the Oxord Centre or Neuroethics andthe Florey Neuroscience Institute, University o Melbourne. MichaelRutter is proessor o developmental psychopathology in the MRCSocial, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Instituteo Psychiatry, Kings College London.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7539.

    Wednesday 15 February, 6.30-8pmSheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    British Government@LSE public lecture

    Independence and Responsibility: the utureo Scotland

    SPEAKER: Alex Salmond MSP

    Alex Salmond will set out his vision or Scotlands uture, includingthe opportunities provided by independence, setting the context orthe Scottish governments plans or a reerendum.

    Alex Salmond is the frst minister o Scotland.

    Ino: Tickets available rom Monday 6 February atlse.ac.uk/events.

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    Thursday 16 February, 1.05-2pm

    Shaw Library, Old Building

    Morgan Szymanski (guitar)An aternoon in Spain

    F.Sor Variations on a Themeo Mozart Op.9

    Miguel Llobet Three Catalan FolkSongs Francisco

    Trrega Capricho rabe

    Isaac Albniz Sevilla Mayorca Granada Asturias

    A top prize-winner at internationalcompetitions, Szymanski has perormedall over the world. A player destined oruture glories. (Classical Guitar Magazine)

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 16 February, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    Centre or the Study o Human Rights public lecture

    Dispatches rom the Dark Side: on torture andthe death o justice

    SPEAKER: Gareth Peirce

    Evidence suggests that the British government has colluded in a rangeo extrajudicial activities rendition, internment without trial, torture and has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal its actions.

    Gareth Peirce is a solicitor whose battles against miscarriages ojustice have changed legal history.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 16 February, 6.30-8pm

    Wolson Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSE IDEAS public lecture

    Arican Development: the miracle o Mauritius?SPEAKER: Pierre Dinan

    Unlike other Arican economies sinceindependence, Mauritius has experiencedlong term sustained economic growth anddevelopment. What explains this success?

    Pierre Dinan is an economic consultant and

    external member o the Monetary PolicyCommittee o the Bank o Mauritius.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7849 4612.

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    Events get busy. We adviseyou to arrive 30 minutes early

    to avoid disappointment

    Saturday 18 February, 9am-6pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSESU China Development Forum 2012

    Chinas Reorm Phase II

    SPEAKERS: Proessor Ricky Burdett, Proessor Danny Quah,Proessor Xiaonian Xu, Dr Jonathan Woetzel

    Against a background o domestic and international uncertainty, the2012 orum provides an exciting platorm on which to consider anddiscuss Chinas uture prospects.

    This event is organised by the LSESU China Development Society.Ino: Tickets are 30-35 or students and 60-70 or non-

    students. For inormation and tickets visit: lsecds.org

    Monday 20 February, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Department o Sociology public lecture

    European Community o Democracies Towards a New Foundation o Europe

    SPEAKER: Proessor Ulrich Beck

    German euro-nationalism is notinevitable. Europes crisis is an

    opportunity to enlarge democracy.

    Ulrich Beck is proessor o sociology,University o Munich and British Journal oSociologyLSE Centennial Proessor in theDepartment o Sociology.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 21 February, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    Forum or European Philosophy dialogue in associationwith Hire Intelligence

    On Friendship

    SPEAKER: Dr Mark VernonWhat, in act, is the love called riendship? What is the nature oits rules and perils, as well as its promise?

    Mark Vernon is a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He is anhonorary research ellow at Birkbeck, University o London.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Tues 21, Weds 22, Thurs 23 February, 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures

    Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution

    SPEAKER: Proessor Lord Nicholas Stern

    In this series o three lectures Proessor Stern will discuss the economicsand ethics o climate change, and the need or a new industrial revolution.

    Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Proessor o Economics and Government,and Chair o the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and

    the Environment, LSE.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Wednesday 22 February, 5-6pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    LSE public lecture

    A lecture by Mahmoud Mohieldin

    SPEAKER: Mahmoud Mohieldin

    Mahmoud Mohieldin is managing director o the World Bank.

    Ino: Tickets available rom Tuesday 14 February atlse.ac.uk/events

    Wednesday 22 February, 6.30-8pmHong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    2012 LSE-Harvard public lecture on Islamic Finance

    Global Calls or Economic Justice: the potentialo Islamic fnance

    SPEAKERS: Mukhtar Hussain, Proessor Volker NienhausIt is elt that conventional fnancial systems have ailed and shouldbe replaced, or supplemented, by more ethical banking and sociallyresponsible fnance. Can Islamic Finance, as a system with a strongreligious background and moral ramework, satisy this hope?

    Mukhtar Hussain is chie executive ofcer at HSBC Malaysia.Volker Nienhaus is visiting proessor, University o Reading.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 23 February, 1.05-2pm

    Shaw Library, Old Building

    Nigel Rogers (piano)

    Beethoven Sonata in D op.10 no 3

    Debussy Three Preludes: La terrasse des audiences au clair de lune;Les collines dAnacapri; Feux Dartifces

    Chopin Ballade No.4 in F minor

    A winner o the Kemble Chopin piano competition, 2009 and fnalistin the Classic FM/Piano Magazine Amateur competition 2005, NigelRogers has recorded late Sonatas o Beethoven and Schubert, andBachs Goldberg Variations.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Thursday 23 February, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    Middle East Centre Arab Uprisings Lecture Series

    The Politics o Resistance and theArab Uprisings

    SPEAKER: Proessor Charles Tripp

    This talk will look at how resistance to regimes appropriation opublic space has been a central theme o the Arab uprisings.

    Charles Tripp is a proessor o politics with reerence to the MiddleEast at the School o Oriental and Arican Studies.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Saturday 25 February, 10am-6pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    LSESU Economics ConerenceSPEAKERS: The conerence will play host to a number o eminent

    fgures rom the world o economics and fnance.

    One o the largest student-run economics conerences in Britain.Each year it brings together students, academics and proessionals todiscuss contemporary issues or the world economy.

    Ino: Tickets are 25-45. To book a ticket please visitlsesu-ec.org.

    For inormation contact [email protected] or call 0784 887 9255.

    Monday 27 February, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSE Annual Austrian History Lecture

    The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and EnglandSPEAKER: Proessor Roy Bridge

    The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was heir to the thrones o Austria-Hungary beore his assassination in 1914. Had he lived, his views oninternational aairs would have helped shape Europes destiny andmay have prevented world war.

    Roy Bridge is Proessor Emeritus o Diplomatic History at the

    University o Leeds.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7331.

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    Monday 27 February Friday 13 April

    Atrium Gallery, Old Building

    LSE Photo Prize Exhibition 2012

    The annual LSE Photo Prize Exhibition, run by LSE Arts, showcasesa wide range o photographs by LSE sta and students. This yearstheme is Overcoming Hurdles. Winning photos will be selected by a

    judging panel o art proessionals and LSE sta.

    This exhibition is open to all, no ticket required. Visitors are welcomeduring weekdays (Monday Friday) between 10am and 8pm.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7107 5342. This exhibition issupported by the LSE Annual Fund.

    Tuesday 28 February, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Centre or Economic Perormance 21st BirthdayLecture Series

    Cross Country Wage Comparisons: theMcWage index

    SPEAKER: Proessor Orley Ashenelter

    Proessor Ashenelter is conducting a study o McDonalds employeeswages in many countries to illustrate the relative strength o theireconomies. Early results indicate that developing nations still have along climb.

    Orley Ashenelter is Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Proessor o Economicsand director o the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 28 February, 6.30-8pm

    Wolson Theatre, New Academic Building

    Forum or European Philosophy panel discussion

    European Questions Turkish Angles:Europes unemployment

    SPEAKERS: Proessor Sean Sayers, Dr Marco Simoni,

    Proessor I

    .

    nsan TunaliThese events take up a theme at the heart o contemporary Europeanlie, and draw on the expertise o Turkish scholars who might providea resh perspective.

    Sean Sayers is proessor o philosophy at the University o Kent.Marco Simoni is a lecturer in European political economy at theEuropean Institute, LSE. I

    .nsan Tunali is associate proessor o

    economics at Ko University, Turkey. Ino [email protected] or call 020 7955 7539. This event is

    jointly organised with the LSE Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies.

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    Wednesday 29 February, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    Gendering the Social Sciences: a Gender Institute

    public lecture

    Rethinking Respectability: returning to valueand ideology?

    SPEAKER: Proessor Beverley Skeggs

    Proessor Skeggs will revisit her 1997 studyon respectability and its political parallels inthe present day. In doing so, she will discussthe current vogue or reality television as socialwork, and our response to it as an audience.

    Beverley Skeggs is proessor o sociologyat Goldsmiths, University o London.

    Ino: [email protected] or call020 7955 6043.

    Wednesday 29 February, 6.30-8pm

    New Theatre, East Building

    Department o Media and Communications public lecture

    Demonstrations, Riots, and Uprisings: mediated

    dissent in a changing communication environmentSPEAKER: Proessor Simon Cottle

    This lecture examines some o the complex ways in which mediaand communications represent and enter into demonstrations, riotsand uprisings.

    Simon Cottle is general editor o the Global Crisis and the Media

    series or the publisher Peter Lang. Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Wednesday 29 February Saturday 3 March

    New Academic Building

    LSE Space or Thought Literary Festival 2012

    Relating Cultures

    SPEAKERS: including AS Byatt, Amith Chaudhuri, John

    Lanchester, Marina Lewycka, Jonathan Powell, Michael

    Rosen, Eli Shaak, Claire Tomalin, Jeanett Winterson,and many more.

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    Podcasts and transcripts omany o LSEs public events areavailable at lse.ac.uk/events

    Thursday 1 March, 1.05-2pm

    Shaw Library, Old Building

    Rosamunde Piano Trio Martino Tirimo (piano),Daniel Veis (cello), Ben Sayevich (violin)

    Brahms Piano Trio No 3 in C minor, Op. 101

    Roussel Piano Trio in E at major, Op.2

    A trio o world-class soloists whose perormances and recordings

    have earned outstanding praise rom the music critics. Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 1 March, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    Ralph Miliband Series on The Future o the Let

    Social Democracy as a Highest Formo Liberalism

    SPEAKER: Proessor Colin Crouch

    Colin Crouch is proessor o governance and public management atWarwick Business School.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Thursday 1 March, 6.30-8pm

    New Theatre, East Building

    Department o Law public lecture

    Why Germany is the Real Heir to the OldEnglish Constitution

    SPEAKER: Proessor Pasquale Pasquino

    Pasquale Pasquino is a Global Distinguished Proessor o Politics atNYU and visiting proessor at LSE Law.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 1 March, 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, East Building

    Association o Friends o the Centre or Philosophy oNatural and Social Science public lecture

    Science and SocietySPEAKER: Proessor Sir Paul Nurse

    How does society impact on science andscience on society.

    Paul Nurse is a British geneticist andcell biologist. He is the current president

    o the Royal Society and was awardedthe 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiologyand Medicine.

    Ino: [email protected] orcall 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 6 March, 6.30-8pm

    Wolson Theatre, New Academic Building

    Philosophy@LSE public lecture

    Secession, Legitimacy, andTerritorial Justifcation

    SPEAKER: Dr Amandine CatalaDo secessionists have a valid claim to the territory they are taking? DrCatala argues that in order to answer this we need to go beyond thequestion o what makes a state legitimate.

    Amandine Catala is an LSE ellow in the Department o Philosophy,Logic and Scientifc Method.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7539.

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    Tuesday 6 March, 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    LSE IDEAS public lecture

    Sport and the Nation: interpreting Indian historythrough the lens o cricket

    SPEAKER: Dr Ramachandra Guha

    In India, cricketers are even more amous than its flm stars; they arevenerated and worshipped as gods. This lecture will explain how thissport became an Indian obsession.

    Ramachandra Guha is Philippe Roman Chair in History andInternational Aairs at LSE IDEAS or 2011-2012.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 6 March, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Centre or Economic Perormance 21st BirthdayLecture Series

    Mental Health: the new rontier inlabour economics

    SPEAKER: Proessor Lord Richard Layard

    CEP ounder Richard Layard will close this series o lectures with adiscussion on the economic and social costs o mental illness.

    Richard Layard is Emeritus Proessor o Economics at LSE. He isthe head o the Centre or Economic Perormances Programme onWell-Being.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Wednesday 7 March, 6.15-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    Confict Research Group/ Government Departmentpublic lecture

    Can there be a Political Science o

    the Holocaust?

    SPEAKER: Proessor Charles King

    Proessor King will address a question that has challenged many socialscience disciplines, how do we study the Holocaust?

    Charles King is a proessor o international aairs and governmentat Georgetown University.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7553.

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    Wednesday 7 March, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    British Government@LSE public lecture

    A lecture by Alistair Darling

    SPEAKER: Alistair Darling MP

    Alistair Darling is MP or EdinburghSouth West and ormer Chancellor othe Exchequer.

    Ino: [email protected] or call

    020 7955 6043.

    Wednesday 7 March, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    LSE Comparative Politics lecture series

    The Future o Egalitarian Capitalism, inLight o its Past

    SPEAKER: Proessor Kathleen Thelen

    Do economic crisis and the emergence o service economies makeestablished ideas about liberal and coordinated capitalism obsolete?

    Kathleen Thelen is the Ford Proessor o Political Science,Massachusetts Institute o Technology.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 8 March, 1.05-2pm

    Shaw Library, Old Building

    Theodore Tzovanakis (piano)

    D.Mitropoulos Soere Beatrice

    Prokofev Old Grandmothers Talesop.31, No.1

    Prokofev Sonata No 1, op.1

    Chopin Sonata No 2 in B atminor, op.35

    Winner o the frst prize in the YamahaMusic Foundation o Europe Competitionand the Greek National Competition orYoung Soloists, Theodore Tzovanakis

    has given world premiere perormances o works by Mitropoulos andhas been broadcast around the world.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Monday 12 March 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    LSE IDEAS discussion

    Indian Democracys Ferocious Faultlines

    SPEAKERS: Dr Mukulika Banerjee, Patrick French,Proessor Sunil Khilnani

    This panel will ocus on the underside o Indian democracy, asvisible in, among other things, the insurgencies in Kashmir; a Maoistrebellion in the heart o India; growing inequalities between rich and

    poor; and the massively high rates o corruption within government.Mukulika Banerjee is a reader in anthropology at the Department oAnthropology, LSE. Patrick French is the author o Liberty or Deathand India: a portrait. Sunil Khilnani is director o Kings CollegeLondons India Institute.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Monday 12 March, 6.30-8pmSheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    LSE public lecture

    Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warare in theGlobal Glass House

    SPEAKER: Joel Brenner

    A ormer intelligence insider illuminates the strategic vulnerabilitiescreated by the technologies that run our public and private lives.

    Joel Brenner is the author oAmerica the Vulnerable: inside thenew threat matrix o digital espionage, crime, and warare. He is theormer head o US counterintelligence and inspector general o theUS National Security Agency and practices law in Washington, DC.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 13 March, 6.30-8pm

    Wolson Theatre, New Academic Building

    Forum or European Philosophy public lecture

    Re-thinking AlientationSPEAKER: Proessor Rahel Jaeggi

    Does modern society cause us to be alienated rom ourselves? Thislecture will argue that a re-thinking o the philosophical concept oalienation can provide us with an important resource or social critique.

    Rahel Jaeggi is proessor or practical philosophy in the Department

    o Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 7539.

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    Tuesday 13 March, 6.30-8pm

    Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

    LSE public lecture

    Enemies: a history o the FBI

    SPEAKER: Tim Weiner

    Throughout the last century the United States has used secret andlawless methods to destroy its enemies. The Federal Bureau oInvestigation is the most powerul o these orces.

    Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York

    Times. He is the author o the bestselling Legacy o Ashes: The Historyo the CIA and most recently Enemies.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Tuesday 13 March, 7.45-9.30pm

    St Clement Danes Church, Strand

    LSE Choir and Orchestra Spring ConcertChoir Master: Andrew Campling Conductor: Matthew Taylor

    The Choir will perorm Gabriel Gaures Requiem. The Orchestra willperorm Mahlers Symphony No.4.

    Tickets cost 6. To obtain a ticket visit the event listing atlse.ac.uk/events

    Wednesday 14 March, 6.30-8pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Ralph Miliband Series on The Future o the Let

    Has the Future a Let?

    SPEAKER: Proessor Zygmunt BaumanZygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Proessor o Sociology, Universityo Leeds.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    Thursday 15 March, 1.05-2pm

    Shaw Library, Old Building

    Althea Talbot-Howard (oboe)Dominic Saunders (piano)

    Mozart Sonata in F K.370 (ater the OboeQuartet arr. L.Goossens)

    E.Goossens Concerto in One MovementOp. 45 (1927)

    Brahms Rhapsody Op 79 no.2 orsolo piano

    A. Reicha Scne (1811) or cor anglaisand piano

    Prizewinner o the Paris-Ville dAvrayInternational Interpretation Competition, Althea Talbot-Howardwas praised by Gramophone Magazine as a superb oboist.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    to reserve seats

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    Thursday 15 March, 6-7.30pm

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

    Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture

    Critical Rationalism and Religious and PoliticalReorm in Iran

    SPEAKER: Proessor Abdulkarim Soroush

    Proessor Soroush will discuss the role o philosophy and Poppersthought in particular in Iranian religious and political reorm.

    Abdulkarim Soroush is a leading intellectual in Iran and hasheld visiting positions at, amongst other institutions, Harvardand Princeton.

    Ino: [email protected]. This event will be ollowed bya reception.

    Tuesday 20 March, 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    Centre or the Study o Human Rights withPolitical Quarterly

    Citizens Privileges or Human Rights?The Great Bill o Rights Swindle

    SPEAKER: Shami ChakrabartiRESPONDENT: Proessor Francesca Klug

    Is the debate about a more BritishBill o Rights, political genius, pragmaticudge or a dangerous swindle capable odepriving us o protection against abuseo power?

    Shami Chakrabarti is director o Liberty.Francesca Klug is proessorial researchellow and director o the Human RightsFutures Project at LSE.

    Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

    PUBLIC LECTURE

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    Monday 2 April, 6.30-8pm

    Old Theatre, Old Building

    LSE public lecture

    What Would an Evidence-Based CopyrightLaw Look Like?

    SPEAKER: William Patry

    Copyright laws are declared to be the

    underpinnings o creativity, innovation, theknowledge economy, and everything shorto curing the sick and eeding the poor. Cancopyright laws do all these wonderul things,or are they, in Ian Hargreaves words, theresult o lobbynomics?

    William Patry is senior copyrightcounsel at Google Inc, and author o

    How to Fix Copyright.Ino: [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043.

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    Member o the press?Email [email protected]

    to reserve seats

    From time to time there are changes toevent details ater this leafet goes to printso we strongly recommend that i you plan

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    1 Herman Van Rompuy, president o the European Council

    2 Sandra Day OConnor, ormer Associate Justice o the USSupreme Court

    3 Proessor Muhammad Yunus, ounder o Grameen Bank and2006 winner o the Nobel Peace Prize.

    4 Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish minister or internationaldevelopment cooperation

    5 Nick Clegg MP, deputy prime minister o the United Kingdom

    6 Imran Khan, leader o Tehreek-e-Insa

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    How to get thereUndergroundHolborn (Central/Piccadilly)Temple (District/Circle)

    BusesBuses that stop on or nearthe Aldwych are numbers: 1, 4, 6,9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 26, 59, 68, x68,76, 87, 91, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176,188, 243, 341 and 521

    ParkingNCP, Parker St(o Drury Lane) WC2

    Other than parking meters onPortugal Street, Sardinia Street,Shefeld Street and Lincolns Inn

    Fields there is no parking availablenear the School.

    Link to mapslse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections

    Mailing listI you would like to be put on themailing list or this leaet, pleasecall 020 7955 6043 or ax020 7955 6272 with your nameand mailing address.

    Email: [email protected]

    Mail: The London School oEconomics and Political Science,Houghton Street, LondonWC2A 2AE

    Although all possible care has beentaken to ensure that the inormationin this leaet is accurate, noresponsibility can be taken or anyerrors or omissions however caused.Event details can be checkedat lse.ac.uk/events

    Freedom o thought and expression

    is essential to the pursuit,advancement and dissemination oknowledge. LSE seeks to ensure thatintellectual reedom and reedom oexpression within the law is securedor all our members and those weinvite to the School.

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    LSE theatresHONG KONG THEATREClement House, Aldwych

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    OLD THEATRE and SHAW LIBRARYOld Building, Houghton Street

    PEACOCK THEATREPortugal Street

    SHEIKH ZAYED THEATRE, THAITHEATRE and WOLFSON THEATRENew Academic Building,54 Lincolns Inn Fields

    U8Tower One, Clements Inn

    Disabled access

    LSE aims to ensure that peoplehave equal access to these publicevents. The vast majority o venuesare wheelchair accessible butoccasionally some rooms are not,and these will be indicated.

    Clement House is ully wheelchairaccessible. There is a wheelchair

    accessible entrance at the mainentrance o the Old Building and atthe corner o Portugal Street andClare Market; to St Clements Buildingo Portugal Street; and to St PhilipsBuilding (North) rom Shefeld Street.Ater 6.30pm, please call SecurityControl (020 7955 6200) to ensurethat these doors are open.

    Inra red hearing systemsI you require the hearing loop system,

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    This inormation is also availableon request in alternative ormats.

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