LSE alumni and friends are invited to attend the LSE China Lecture Series on 2 November in Beijing, from 7:15pm. (Registration is closed for this event, which is at capacity)
Professor Paul Kelly, LSE Pro-Director (Vice President) for Education and Professor of Political Philosophy at LSE will speak on
After BREXIT, what Next? Britain, Europe and the World
On the 23 June 2016 the electorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland voted for the UK to leave the European Union. The result was unexpected and since then Britain, the EU and the world are adjusting to a new uncertainty in global economics and politics. Prof. Paul Kelly will examine the most recent developments in the UK since the referendum results and the scenarios for both the UK and the EU as BREXIT negotiations are set to commence from March 2017.
Event Details
Date and Time:- 2 November, from 7:15pm
Venue:- Signature Ballroom (3rd floor), Hilton Hotel (Dongsanhuan). Location details in Chinese and English.
Format:- Food and drink are available from 7:15pm for registered attendees, followed by lecture from approximately 7:45pm.
Attendance:- This event is now at capacity and registration is closed
About the Speaker
Paul Kelly is LSE Pro-Director (Vice President) for Education and Professor of Political Philosophy at LSE. As Pro-Director Paul overseas all aspects of teaching and learning at LSE. Before taking up his post as Pro-Director, in 2013, Paul was Head of the Department of Government at LSE.
Prof. Kelly joined the LSE in 1995 after teaching for five years at the University of Wales Swansea. Prior to that he held a visiting research fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School and at the Bentham Project, University College London. He graduated from York University with a First in Philosophy and an MA in Political Theory. His PhD is from the University of London, where he spent two years at LSE and a further year at UCL. His current research interests include political ideas in British politics and policy-making including multiculturalism; group rights and national identity; equality of outcomes and equality of opportunity and theories of social justice; theories and concepts in modern political theory including especially the development and distinctiveness of British Political Ideas from the seventeenth-century; and political ideologies and political ideas from the Ancient Greeks to the present.
Prof. Kelly is a regular visitor to the East Asia region, covering the School's academic engagement with programmes in China, Japan and Singapore. There are, currently, close to 3000 students from the East Asia region studying at LSE. There are over 17,000 LSE alumni in the region. There are approximately 50 academics at LSE engaged on research, across the disciplines, on East Asia.