EVENTS CALENDAR
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January 2009 |
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8 January OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE How hard has the food price shock hit vulnerable households? To date most assessments of the impacts of the food price shocks on vulnerable households in developing countries have been simulated in models. Field evidence of impacts is only just emerging. This meeting reports the findings and experiences of Action Against Hunger from Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Nepal and Sierra Leone. Speaker: Samuel Hauenstein-Swan, from Action Against Hunger. This event will take place from 13:00 to 14:15pm at ODI, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD. |
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9 January Personal Che, directed by filmmakers Adriana Marino and Douglas Duarte, is a film that has Che at the centre but examines not the history, but rather how this man continues to be re-interpreted by many around the world in ways that would probably surprise Che himself. The film is followed by a discussion with Michael Chanan (University of Roehampton), Sylvia Stevens (filmmaker) and others tbc. Tickets cost £8.00. This event will take place from 7pm at The Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ. |
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15 January OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE Cleaning up our act: Scalable actions and effective aid This event will comprise two sessions. The first will focus on the progress made during the International Year of Sanitation and the second will debate the challenges and opportunities resulting from Accra for measuring progress towards aid effectiveness. Speakers: Jon Lane, from the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and Robert Chambers, from the Institute of Development Studies. This event will take place from 9:30am to 13:00pm at ODI, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD. |
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16 January LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Declining Hegemon? The United States and the World of Crisis How will the world economic crisis impact on the United States? Are we now witnessing the end of the American era? Speakers: Professor Michael Cox, Professor of international
relations and co-director of IDEAS at LSE and
Professor Danny Quah, head of department
and professor of economics at LSE. This event is held from 4.30pm - 6pm at the Old Theatre, Old Building. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7849 4918 |
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19 January OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE Challenging development: Will climate change hold back poverty reduction? In the last five years, climate change initiatives have increasingly focused on development impacts in terms of policy and practice. Key challenges include: adapting to climate change in all sectors in developing countries, attaining ‘low carbon’ growth whilst achieving the Millennium Development Goals and mitigating climate change in the fastest growing developing country economies. This opening event for the Climate Change and International Development Speaker Series, led by Douglas Alexander, will begin to address and unpack these issues. Speaker: Rt Hon. Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development. This event will take place from 13pm to 14:15pm at ODI, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD. |
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19 January THE COMMITTEE ON CLIMATE CHANGEClimate change and energy efficiency: How should Government and all public bodies best meet the challenges posed by the Committee on Climate Change?Contributors: This event takes place from 9am - 3.45pm at the Royal Commonwealth Society, London. |
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22 January LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS The Great Transformation: how China changed in the long 1970s Professor Chen offers a historian’s overview of China’s 1970s transformation and the beginning of global systemic change that this transformation helped create. Speaker: Professor Chen Jian, Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs for 2008-09 at LSE. He is the Michael J Zak Chair of the History of US-China Relations at Cornell University. This event takes place from 6.30pm - 8pm at the Old Theatre, Old Building. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043 |
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26 January OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE Afghanistan and the new 'stabilisation' agenda This meeting takes the recent review by Jon Bennett of DfID’s programme in Afghanistan as the starting point for a wider discussion about the stabilisation agenda, particularly as it is conceived by the UK government. We invite those for whom the concept is unfamiliar as well as those who have some experience of it to take part in a discussion of this highly topical agenda. Speakers: Jon Bennett, Director of Oxford Development Consultants and Richard Teuten, Head of Stabilisation Unit, DfID. This event will take place from 17:30 to 19:00 at ODI, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD. | |
27 January LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS The Shifting Distribution of World Economic Activity: China and global imbalance China has, single-handedly, brought more people out of poverty than the rest of the world combined, and faster than anywhere else has been able to achieve. How can this continue? Speaker: Professor Danny Quah, professor of economics and head of the Department of Economics at LSE. This event takes place from 6.30-8pm at the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043 | |
28 January LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Is Global Democracy Possible? This panel will explore whether or not the concepts and practices of Speakers: Professor Daniele Archibugi, professor of innovation, governance and public policy at Birkbeck College; Professor Michael Cox, professor of international relations at LSE; and George Monbiot, bestselling author and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper. This event takes place at 6.30-8pm at the Old Theatre, Old Building. |
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31 January LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS China 2009: The critical point of China’s economy A view from LSE, China, US and Switzerland about China, looking atChina’s macroeconomy, recent history and business environment. Speakers: Paul L Herrling, head of corporate research at Novartis International; Professor Zhang Jun, professor of economics at Fudan University; Professor Danny Quah, head of the Economics Department at LSE; and Professor Wang Yiming, vice president at the Academy of Macroeconomic Research and the National Development and Reform Commission. This event is held from 9am-5pm at the LSE Campus. |
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February 2009 |
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3 February LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Russia after Georgia Russia it seems is drifting away from the West. The West is becoming disenchanted with Russia. Some even talk of a new Cold War between the two. How did we arrive at the current situation, can further problems be avoided and where are the two sides headed? Speakers: Professor Margot Light, professor emeritus of international, Dr Bobo Lo, director of the Russia and China programme at the Centre for European Reform and Professor Marie Mendras, LSE-Sciences Po Alliance professor. This event is held at 6.30-8pm at the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043 |
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5 February LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS A new president. A new era? David Reynolds will introduce the Obama presidency against the backdrop of America’s epic, tangled history. Speaker: Professor David Reynolds, professor of international history at Cambridge University and a fellow of the British Academy. This event will take place from 6.30-8pm at the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043 |
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11 February LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Lakhdar Brahimi, with an extensive career in peace-building, reflects Speaker: Lakhdar Brahimi, former UN ambassador and special adviser to the This event will take place from 6.30-8pm at the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043 |
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17 February LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS The Global Economic Crisis – Meeting the Challenge A panel discussion on the current global economic crisis: its origins, Speakers: Professor Tim Besley, Professor Francesco Caselli, Professor Chris Pissarides and Professor Danny Quah, all economics professors at LSE. This event will take place from 6.30-8pm at the Old Theatre, Old Building. Info: events or call 020 7955 6043. |
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18 February LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Can International Law Change the World? While each system of national law seeks to regulate affairs within only one society, international law concerns the entire world. Yet it has almost none of the methods of enforcement available to national legal systems. So, can it change the world? Speaker: Professor Christopher Greenwood, a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) (elected in November 2008). He is an authority in international law who has taught at LSE for 12 years, is also a practising barrister and has been a QC since 1999. He has appeared as an advocate in several cases at the ICJ. This event takes place from 6.30-8pm at LSE Campus. Book tickets by visiting the LSE website or calling 020 7955 6100. |
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19 February LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS IHL and International Human Rights Law in Non-International Armed Conflicts Professor Sassòli will explore the relationship between InternationalHumanitarian and Human Rights Law during non-international armed conflict, by applying the lex specialis principle. Speaker: Professor Marco Sassòli, professor of international law at the University of Geneva and associate professor at the Universities of Quebec and Laval. This event takes place from 6.30-8pm at the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043. |
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25 February LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Many Voices: understanding the debate about preventing violent extremism The tragic events of 7/7 illustrated the threat to our society posed by violent extremism. Preventing it is one of the defining challenges of our age. Hazel Blears will explore the tough choices government has to make – how to empower new voices to join the debate, how to support people standing up for shared values and how to equip communities with the skills, confidence, and resilience they need to be part of the solution. Speaker: Hazel Blears MP, UK Secretary of State. This event takes place from 6.30-8pm at the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043. |
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25 February LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Climate for Change: global warming as political opportunity How did the global construction of the ‘undisputable fact’ of man-made climate change become possible? Does climate change radicalise inequalities? Is climate change a ‘global opportunity’ for a cosmopolitical revival of politics? Speaker: Professor Ulrich Beck, British Journal of Sociology LSE Centennial Professor in the Department of Sociology and professor of sociology at the University of Munich. This event takes place from 6.30-8pm at the Old Theatre, Old Building. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043 |
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March 2009 |
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10 March China in International Society: can ‘peaceful rise’ succeed? LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS China has moved closer to international society on regional and global levels. The tide of history will probably favour China’s peaceful rise, but the country will need to act to ensure this happens. Speaker: Professor Barry Buzan, professor of international relations This event will take place from 6.30-8pm at the Old Theatre, Old Building. Info: events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043 |
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April 2009 |
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1 April LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Changing Values for a Just and Sustainable World We live in a world of great affluence as well as extreme poverty, and in which the rich nations play a disproportionate role in changing the planet’s climate, from which the poor will suffer most. What values would best guide us to a more just and sustainable world? Can we realistically expect them to be put into practice? Speakers: Professor Peter Singer, Ira W DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the This event takes place from 6.30-8pm at the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. Book tickets by visiting the LSE website or by calling 020 7955 6100 |
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