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public discussion
20-Nov-2009, 18:30-20:00,
Location to be announced to ticket holders
Can We Eliminate Nuclear Weapons?
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Speakers: Ambassador Richard Burt, Kate Hudson, Professor Mary Kaldor, Her
Majesty Queen Noor
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Twenty years after the fall of the
Berlin Wall is the time finally right to achieve the
elimination of nuclear weapons? Leading proponents
of nuclear disarmament discuss why achieving Global
Zero – a world without nuclear weapons – is both
necessary and realistic.
Her Majesty Queen Noor is an international public
servant and an outspoken voice on issues of world
peace and justice. Mary Kaldor is Professor of
Global Governance and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global
Governance, LSE. Kate Hudson is the chair of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and her most recent
book is CND Now More than Ever: The Story of a
Peace Movement. Richard Burt served in the
Reagan administration as Assistant Secretary of
State for European and Canadian Affairs and then as
US Ambassador to Germany from 1985 to 1989. Under
President George H.W. Bush, he served as US Chief
Negotiator in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
with the former Soviet Union.
For tickets to this event please see
LSE Events.
CsGG and Department of Sociology public lecture
25-Nov-2009, 18:30-20:00,
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Sociology and the Financial Crisis: Which
crisis, and which sociology?
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Speaker: Professor Michel Wieviorka
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In 1929, sociologists did not really
study the Great Depression and
today, they publish very little on the present
economic crisis. There are two main approaches
to the crisis, one focused on recent events and
limited to the financial dimensions of the
crisis and the other focused on the past thirty
five years, viewing the financial crisis in the
more general framework of a global mutation.
Michel Wieviorka argues that sociology is not
lacking in ways and means to study the crisis in
this second perspective, providing sociologists
update categories and recognize the importance
of new objects.
CsGG public discussion
26-Nov-2009, 18:30-20:00,
New Theatre, East Building, LSE
Who Ended the Cold War?
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Speakers: Andrei Grachev, Professor Mary Kaldor,
Jack Matlock, Pavel Seifter
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Twenty years after the revolutionary
events of 1989 those who had a first-person view
of history unfolding meet to consider who, or
what, was most responsible for bringing about an
end to the Cold War.
Andrei Grachev is Chairman of the Scientific
Committee of the World Political Forum and was
an advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev and until
December 1991 the official Spokesman of the
President of the USSR. Professor Mary Kaldor is
co-director of CsGG and a founding member of
European Nuclear Disarmament (END). Jack Matlock
has held academic posts at Columbia and Princeton
Universities amongst others and was US Ambassador to
Czechoslovakia from 1981 to 1983 and US Ambassador
to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991. Pavel
Seifter is a CsGG senior visiting fellow and was
a foreign policy advisor to President Vaclav
Havel and Czech Ambassador to the Court of St
James.
CsGG public lecture
9-Dec-2009, 18:30-20:00,
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Local, national, regional, global - can they all
co-exist?
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Speaker: Professor Johan Galtung
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The nation system is fading,
Anglo-American hegemony for centuries is declining
and the US Empire is falling. Multilateral
regionalism is coming, the economy is seeking new
regional global and local roots. Can this hang
together?
Johan Galtung is Professor of Peace Studies. He is a
mathematician and sociologist who founded the
International Peace Research Institute in 1959, the
Journal of Peace Research in 1964 and
TRANSCEND: A Peace and Development Network.
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