America in Global Perspective Lectures

Race, Reform and the New Retrenchment: the perils of post-racialism after Obama

Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016
Speaker: Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw
Chair: Professor Peter Trubowitz

Heightening tensions in the US over police killings of black people have undermined confidence that the election of Barack Obama signaled a new era on race relations in the US. The more lasting legacy may be the one championed by late Justice Scalia whose legal philosophy currently underwrites the central tensions in equality law in the United States. Through a Critical Race Theory prism, Professor Crenshaw discussed Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name as challenges to contemporary jurisprudence on race, and assessed the new openings presented by current events.

Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) is Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California Los Angeles and the Columbia School of Law. She is also a Centennial Professor in the LSE Gender Institute visiting the department in the Summer Term.

The hashtag for this event was #LSEUSRACE

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The Politics of Spatial Inequality in Metropolitan America

Date: 15 March 2016
Speaker: Margaret Weir

In the United States, the study of inequality has long been closely linked to the social geography of the city. This lecture will examine how politics and policies played out across the American federal system create spatial inequalities but also present new opportunities for challenging them.

Margaret Weir is Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

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Who will be the next US President?

America in Global Perspective Lecture

Date: 24 February 2016
Speaker: Lawrence Jacobs

On 24 February the LSE US Centre hosted Professor Lawrence Jacobs, Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Evaluating the most polarizing and anti-establishment candidates in modern US politics, Jacobs speculated on who will win the nomination and why, and what this willmeanfor the presidential election which follows.

Lawrence R. Jacobs is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the Hubert H. Humphrey School and the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. 

The hashtag for this event will be #LSEUSElects.

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The Future of Work

Date: 25 January 2016
Speaker: Anne-Marie Slaughter

On January 27th, Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of New America, and former Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visited LSE and discussed the need to transform gender roles for men as much as women and to reinvent the workplace.

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Lessons for the Euro from America's Past

Date: 19 January 2016 
Speaker: Jeffry Frieden

Drawing on early America’s struggle to develop a single currency, Professor Frieden discussed the implications for the European Union’s efforts today to provide monetary and financial stability.

Jeffry Frieden is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations.

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