Public Events 2012

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 6.30-8.30pm

Replacing the Nation: South Africa's Passive Revolution?

Department of Geography and Environment/Africa Talks public lecture

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

Speaker: Professor Gillian Hart

In the light of the conflicting forces that have unfolded in South Africa over the last decade, Gillian Hart takes a fresh look at the nation’s transition from apartheid. Based on Professor Hart’s forthcoming book, this lecture will explore the simultaneous processes of South African de-nationalization, re-nationalization and ‘elite pacting’, before examining how this fits within contemporary debates over passive revolution.

About the speaker

Gillian Hart is Professor of Geography and Co-chair of Development Studies and the University of California, Berkeley, and an Honorary Research Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 6.30-8pm

***CANCELLED***

The Mindanao Peace Process: prospects for the 2012 Framework Agreement

New Academic Building, Room 2.04 , LSE

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Wednesday 28 November 2012, 6.30-8pm

LSE Arts and Africa Talks film screening

"Call Me Kuchu": homophobia in Uganda

New Theatre, East Building

The film tells the story of the life and death of David Kato, a Ugandan gay rights campaigner who was killed in 2011 at a time when a bill to make homosexuality punishable by death was pending in the Ugandan parliament.

Following the film, a panel discussion will consider the issue of homophobia in Africa in the context of the moral scramble for Africa currently being waged by the Christian fundamentalists and human rights lobbies.

Beau Hopkins is a British playwright and author of the controversial play The River and the Mountain, which led to the arrest of the producer when performed in Kampala in August 2012.

Rahul Rao is lecturer in Politics at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, and specialist in International Security, Comparative Political Thought, and Queer Politics.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 6.30-8pm

Nepal: a politics of perpetual crises?

Clement House, Room 4.02, LSE

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Wednesday 21 November 2012, 8-7.15pm

Aid at What Price? Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed

DESTIN Society Public Event

Speaker: Sandrine Tiller, Programme Adviser with Medecins Sans Frontiers

Chair: Dr Stuart Gordon, International Development, LSE

What is an acceptable compromise when it comes to negotiating with corrupt governments and violent oppositions groups to try to enable the provision of aid to some of the world's neediest people?

Wednesday 14 November, 6.30-8pm

Decentralization and Popular Democracy: governance from below in Bolivia

Book launch

Old Theatre, Old Building

Speaker: Dr Jean-Paul Faguet

Dr Faguet will speak about his new book Decentralization and Popular Democracy: governance from below in Bolivia.

About the speaker

Jean-Paul Faguet is reader in the political economy of development at LSE.

Suggested Twitter hashtag: #LSEBolivia

Thursday 1 November 2012, 6.30-8pm

The Challenge of Agricultural Development in Africa: what lessons from China?

Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

Speaker: Professor Li Xiaoyn

Discussants: Professor Henry Bernstein, Professor Thandika Mkandawire, Professor James Putzel

Professor Li will introduce his new book followed by a panel discussion.

Li Xiaoyn is dean of the College of Humanities and Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing. Henry Bernstein is professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Thandika Mkandawire is professor of African development at LSE and the Olof Palme Professor For Peace at the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm. James Putzel is professor of development studies and director of the Crisis States Research Programme at LSE.

Suggested Twitter hashtag: #LSEAfrica

Wednesday 31 October, 6.30-8pm

When China Met Africa

LSE Arts and International Development public film screening

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

Speakers: Dr Chris Alden, Nick Francis, Professor Jude Howell

Described by The Times as “a rare grass roots view into one of the most important economic challenges of our age”, When China Met Africa takes us to the grass-roots of globalisation to reveal the expanding footprint of a rising global power.

About the speaker

Chris Alden is a reader in international relations at LSE. Nick Francis is director of When China Met Africa and co-director of Speakit Films. Jude Howell is professor of international development at LSE.

Suggested Twitter hashtag: #LSEA

Tuesday 11 September 2012

Launch of UNCTAD’s Trade & Development Report 2012, a hard-hitting analysis of current state of world economy and non-neoliberal prescriptions for improvements in economic performance. Its criticisms of key policies of western governments (eg “fiscal consolidation”, tax cuts) are not to the liking of western governments, many of which have been trying to make it shut up on such issues and leave them to “responsible, competent” organizations like G20 and IMF. UNCTAD should just focus on mitigating impacts on developing countries, especially on “youth” and “gender”.

Presented by Head of Globalization Division Heiner Flassbeck.

Chair: Jean-Paul Faguet, LSE

Discussant: Professor Robert Wade, LSE

Thursday 28 June 2012

Creating a Learning Society

The Inaugural Amartya Sen Lecture Series at LSE

Speakers: Prefessor Joseph E. Stiglitz and Professor Amartya Sen

About the speakers

Joseph E Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001.

Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, until 2004. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. Professor Sen is an honorary fellow of LSE.

Thursday 7 June 2012

Pakistan After Bin Laden: Free-fall or Resurgence?

Old Theatre, Old Building

Speaker: Ali Dayan Hasan

Chair:Professor Athar Hussain

About the speaker

Before taking over as Pakistan Director, Ali Dayan Hasan served as Human Rights Watch's South Asia researcher since 2003 and has specialized expertise in Pakistan. Hasan is responsible for researching, authenticating and writing reports, briefing papers and news releases produced by Human Rights Watch on Pakistan. He advocates South Asian human rights concerns globally with regional bodies, national governments, international financial institutions and is a regular contributor on Pakistan in the international media. In addition to appearing frequently as a commentator on television, his opinion pieces have appeared in major international media. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Hasan was a senior editor at Pakistan's premier independent, political news monthly magazine, Herald. During 2006 and 2007, Hasan was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford.

Friday 13 May 2012

The Burning Issue: Parasites - enemy of the poor

Speaker: Professor Tim Allen, LSE

Thursday 10 May 2012

Adding Value In Africa: some reflections from the grandson of a Ghanaian cocoa farmer

Speaker: Lord Boateng

Chair: Professor Thandika Mkandawire, LSE

About the speaker

Paul Boateng served as the British high commissioner to South Africa from March 2005 to May 2009 and was the UK's first black Cabinet Minister.

Tuesday 1 May 2012

The New Population Bomb? The Politics of Population Change

Speaker: Professor Jack Goldstone, Professor Eric Kaufmann, John Parker

Chair: Dr Elliott Green, LSE

This panel will discuss the current global demographic revolution – the contrast between an aging developed world and a youthful developing world. This marks the publication of Political Demography: how population changes are reshaping international security and national politics.

About the speakers

Jack Goldstone is the Virginia E and John T Hazel Jr Professor at the George Mason School of Public Policy.

Eric Kaufmann is professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London.

John Parker writes about globalisation without economic policy. He was previously bureau chief in Washington, Moscow and Brussels for The Economist.

Tuesday 7 February 2012

Crises and Revolutions: The Reshaping of International Development

Speaker: Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Chair: Professor Robert Wade, LSE

About the speaker

Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director, joined the World Bank in June 2010. She is responsible for the Bank's operations in Africa, East Asia & the Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East & North Africa and South Asia. In addition, Sri Mulyani oversees other administrative vice-presidencies and functions, including the Integrity Vice Presidency, Sanctions Board Secretariat and the Office of Evaluation and Suspension.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 1.30-2.30pm

Bill Gates and Hans Rosling addressing the 2012 Global Poverty Ambassadors and students at the LSE

Speakers: Bill Gates, Professor Hans Roslin

The Global Poverty Project has partnered with The Co–operative during the UN Year of Co-operatives to launch a new initiative that will raise awareness and inspire communities to take action for the 1.4 billion people still living in extreme poverty.

Bill Gates will speak to the inaugural Global Poverty Ambassadors as part of the London launch of his Annual Letter. In the letter, he will outline the key innovations and commitment needed to continue making progress against global challenges like disease and poverty in 2012.

Bill is inviting students from around the world to write their own letters on the most urgent issues we face today. (If you have a big idea you would like to share, please write 300-500 words and email it to annualletter@gatesfoundation.org).

Professor Hans Rosling will also address the Ambassadors and students using his extraordinary, interactive graphics, which reveal global trends and the great benefits of development aid.

About the speakers

Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Hans Rosling is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation.

Monday 23 January 2012

Bottom-up Politics: an agency-centred approach to globalisation

Speakers: Professor Helmut Anheier, Professor Mient Jan Faber, Professor Marlies Glasius, Professor Mary Kaldor

Chair: Dr Denisa Kostovicova

About the speakers

Helmut Anheier is professor of sociology at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin.

Mient Jan Faber is Professor Emeritus at the Free Universit, Amsterdam and visiting professor at the University of Houston.

Marlies Glasius is Professor of Citizens Involvement in War Zones and Post-Conflict Zones at the Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, and a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Human Security and Civil Society Research Unit.

Mary Kaldor is professor of Global Governance and director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, LSE.