Britain and Europe: how did we get here, and where do we go next? (Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture Series)
Speaker: Rt Hon David Miliband, Former Foreign Secretary; President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee
Date: Friday 21 June, 12.00 - 13.30
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
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Afropean: notes from black Europe
Speaker: Johny Pitts, Author and Founder of Afropean.com
Date: Wednesday 5 June, 18.30-20.00
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
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Anti-System Politics in Europe: the crisis of market liberalism in rich democracies (LEQS Annual Lecture 2019)
Speaker: Jonathan Hopkin, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Government, LSE.
Date: Thursday 30 May, 18.30-20.00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
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Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the quest to reinvent a nation
Speaker: Sophie Pedder, Paris Bureau Chief of The Economist.
Date: Tuesday 21 May, 18.30-20.00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
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What Might the European Elections Mean for the Future of the EU?
Speakers: Matthew Goodwin, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent; Sara Hagemann, Associate Professor in European Politics, European Institute, LSE; Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions, Department of Government, LSE.
Date: Thursday 16 May, 18.30-20.00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
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Brexit: re-thinking the future of higher education in the UK
Speakers: Julia Black, Strategic Director for Innovation, LSE; Edward Byrne, President & Principal, King’s College London; Nick Hillman, Director of Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI)
Date: Wednesday 1 May, 18.30-20.00
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
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Taking Back Control? Brexit and the Future of Europe
Speaker: Wolfgang Streeck, Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne
Date: Friday 15 March, 18.30-20.00
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
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Speaking Up for Brussels: reflections on the role of the European Commission
Speaker: Margaritis Schinas, European Commission Chief Spokesperson and Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communication
Date: Wednesday 13 March, 18.30-20.00
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
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Brexit: the future of Europe and the Franco-British relationships
Speaker: Nathalie Loiseau, French Minister for European Affairs
Date: Thursday 7 March, 12.30-13.30
Venue: The Long Room, 1st Floor, 29 Lincoln's Inn Fields
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Reflections on the Future of Europe with Paolo Gentiloni
Speaker: Paolo Gentiloni, Italian politician, member of the Democratic Party and former Prime Minister of Italy
Date: Wednesday 6 March, 12.30-14.00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
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The Haunting of Neo-liberalism
Speakers: Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought Royal Holloway, University of London; Simon Glendinning, Head of the European Institute and Professor of European Philosophy, LSE and Maja Zehfuss, Professor of International Politics, University of Manchester
Date: Thursday 28 February, 18.00-19.00
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
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Brexit: the Constitution and the future of the UK
Speakers: Catherine Haddon, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government and Vernon Bogdanor, Research Professor, Centre for British Politics and Government, King's College London
Date: Tuesday 19 February, 18.30-20.00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
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A Short History of Europe
Speaker: Sir Simon Jenkins, columnist for The Guardian, author and BBC broadcaster.
Date: Tuesday 12 February, 18.30-20.00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
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Brexit: with a little help from our friends
Speakers: HE Janice Charette, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; HE George Brandis QC, Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; HE Foo Chi Hsia, High Commissioner of the Republic of Singapore to the United Kingdom; HE Sir Jerry Mateparae GNZM QSO KStJ, New Zealand High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
Date: Thursday 7 February, 18.30 - 20.00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
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What Now? The Political and Judicial Future of the Catalan Independentist Movement
Speakers: Aamer Anwar, Rector of the University of Glasgow and a criminal defence lawyer; Alfred Bosch, Catalan Minister of Foreign Action and Institutional Relations, Clara Ponsati Obiols, Former Minister of Education of Catalonia and Professor of Economics, University of St Andrews and José Ignacio Torreblanca, Head of the Madrid office of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Date: Thursday 31 January 2019, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
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Looking Ahead: the 89ers and the future of the EU
Speaker: Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford.
Date: Wednesday 30 January, 19.00-20.00
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE.
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Europe's Response to the Challenge of Migration and Security
Speaker: Dimitris Avramopoulos, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship
Date: Wednesday 23 January, 19.00-20.00
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE. .
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What Now? The Political and Judicial Future of the Catalan Independentist Movement
Speakers: Aamer Anwar, Rector of the University of Glasgow and a criminal defence lawyer; Alfred Bosch, Catalan Minister of Foreign Action and Institutional Relations, Clara Ponsati Obiols, Former Minister of Education of Catalonia and Professor of Economics, University of St Andrews and José Ignacio Torreblanca, Head of the Madrid office of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Date: Thursday 31 January 2019, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
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Looking Ahead: the 89ers and the future of the EU
Speakers:Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford.
Date: Wednesday 30 January 2019, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
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Europe's Response to the Challenge of Migration and Security
Speaker: Dimitris Avramopoulos, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship.
Date: Wednesday 23 January, 19.00-20.00
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE. .
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How Far Has Brexit Reached? Taking Stock of Progress and Risks
Speakers: Catherine Barnard, Professor in European Union Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge; Rain Newton-Smith, Chief Economist at the Confederation of British Industry; Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions, LSE; Stephen Wall, Former British Ambassador to Portugal and Permanent Representative to the European Union.
Date: Wednesday 28 November 2018, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
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Brexit Forum: The UK and the EU; past, present and future
Speakers: Jennifer Jackson-Preece, Associate Professor of Nationalism, European Institute and Department of International Relations, LSE; Piers Ludlow, Professor of International History, Deputy Head of Department; Robert Saunders, Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, Queen Mary University; Karen Smith, Professor of International Relations, Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit
Venue: Workspace 4, LSE Life, LSE Library
Date: Monday 26 November 2018, 19:15-20:30
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Managing heterogeneity in Europe: does one size fit all?
Speakers: Thomas Wieser, former President of the Economic and Financial Committee and of the Eurogroup Working Group.
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Date: Tuesday 20 November 2018, 19.00 - 20.30
Hosted by the European Institute and the Institute of Global Affairs.
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The New Left and the New Right; Continuity, Rupture and the Politics of Emotion in Europe
Speakers: Bermhard Forchtner, Lecturer in Media and Communication, University of Leicester; Jan Kubik, Professor of Slavonic and East European Studies; Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor of Education and Sociology, American University
Date: Monday 12 November, 18.00 - 20.00
Venue: CLM.5.02, Clement House, LSE
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Uncertain Futures: imaginaries, narratives, and calculation in the economy
Speakers: Jens Beckert, Director Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies; Richard Bronk, Visiting Fellow, European Institute, LSE; Waltraud Schelkle, Associate Professor of Political Economy, LSE; Ekaterina Svetlova, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, University of Leicester and Lord Adair Turner, Chair, Institute of New Economic Thinking and the Energy Transitions Commission.
Date: Thursday 1 November, 18.30 - 20.00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
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Brexit: Impact on Government and Parliament
Speakers: Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government, Kings College, London; Joe Owen, Associate Director, Institute for Government Working on Brexit; Tony Travers, Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy, LSE.
Date: Tuesday 23 October, 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: Wolfson Theatre. NAB
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Judging: a common or civil law legal system?
Speaker: Vassilios Skouris, Former President of the European Court of Justice
Date: Wednesday 10 October, 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: Sheik Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
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Banking on Markets; the transformation of bank-state ties in Europe and beyond
Speaker: Rachel Epstein, Professor of International Relations and European Politics, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver; Abby Innes, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, European Institute, LSE; Waltraud Schelkle, Associate Professor of Political Economy, European Institute, LSE.
Date: Tuesday 9 October, 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
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Is a Rules Based, Open, Globalisation Still Worth Fighting For?
Speaker: Pascal Lamy, former General Director of the World Trade Organization
Date: Monday 8 October, 14:30 - 16:00
Venue: Shaw Library, Old Building, LSE
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Reforms to Strengthen the European Monetary Union
Speaker: Vítor Constâncio, Former Vice President of the European Central Bank and Former Governor of the Bank of Portugal
Date Tuesday 2 October, 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
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How Does The Euro Shield Europe From Future Crises?
Speaker: Mário Centeno, President of the Eurogroup and Finance Minister of Portugal
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Date: Thursday 13 September, 18.30 - 20.00
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