Michaelmas Term 2012

Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Venue: New Theatre, East Building

Speakers: Beau Hopkins, Rahul Rao
Chair: Dr Hakan Seckineglin

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 considered 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.


LSE Arts and Department of International Development public film screening and discussion
When China Met Africa|

Date: Wednesday 31 October 2012
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Venue: 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.

Date: Monday 15 October 2012
Time:6.30-8pm
Venue: New Theatre, East Building

Speaker: Dr Noah Horowitz

Since the 1960s artists have created ephemeral and experiential works of art that were frequently informed by a desire to thwart the market's mechanisms, or simply by ambivalence to economic conventions. How then do these works of art enter the market? By what means can a performance artist make a living without public subsidy? And what challenges and opportunities do conceptual, installation and performance works present to both commercial galleries and collectors?