Events archive 2015

Polis Media Agenda Talk

In Conversation with Mark Neville, Freelance Photographer

Tuesday 8 December 2015, 5-6pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Speaker: Mark Neville, Freelance Photographer

Departments of Media and Communications & Sociology Seminar

Imagining Deprivation 

Tuesday 8 December, 12.30-2pm, 32L.G.03

Speaker: Liz Hingley, Lisa McKenzie, Shani Orgad, Mike Savage

Polis Media Agenda Talk

In Conversation with Alex Perry, Journalist

Tuesday 1 December 2015, 5-6pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Speaker: Alex Perry, Journalist, Author and Correspondent

LSE Media and Communications Public Lecture

The Creative Economy: invention of a global orthodoxy

Wednesday 25 November   2015, 6.30-8pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Speaker: Professor Philip Schlesinger
Respondents: Professor Angela McRobbie, Professor Jonothan Neelands

Polis Media Agenda Talk

In Conversation with Maria Teresa Ronderos

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 5-6pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Speaker:   Maria Teresa Ronderos, Director of the Open Society Program on Independent Journalism

Media Policy Project Panel Discussion

The Business of Human Rights: Measuring Transparency in the ICT Sector

Thursday 19 November 2015, 6.30-8pm, Thai Theatre

Speakers: Rebecca MacKinnon with Damiano de Felice, Gabrielle Guillemin, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Owen Larter and Lucy Purdon

Polis Public Lecture

In Conversastion with Antonella Notari Vischer

Tuesday17 November 2015, 5-6pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Speaker: Antonella Notari Vischer, Womanity

Polis Public Lecture

Making News For The New World

Thursday 12 November 2015, 6.30-8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre

Speaker: Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times

Polis Media Agenda Talk

In Conversation with Dean Atta and Cecile Emeke

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 5-6pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Speakers:  Dean Atta (Writer); Cecile Emeke (Filmmaker)

Polis Media Agenda Talk

The Disintegration of Marketing

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 5-6pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Speakers:  Leo Burnett, Giles Hedger

Media Policy Project Public Debate

Tomorrow’s BBC: Future Funding

Friday 16 October 2015, from 2pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Keynote Speaker: Rona Fairhead, Chair of BBC Trust
Panel Speakers: David Fernández Quijada, James Heath, Dr Damian Tambini, Dr Helen Weeds and others.

Polis Media Agenda Talk

Can PR be a force for good in the world?

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 5-6pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Speaker: Ed Amory, Freuds

Media Policy Project Public Lecture

Consolidation and Consumers

Wednesday 7 October 2015, 6.30-8pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Speaker: Sharon White, CEO of Ofcom

Covered in: The Guardian, The FT, The Daily Telegraph

Polis Media Agenda Talk

In Conversation with Laura Bates

Tuesday 6 October 2015, 5-6pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Speaker: Laura Bates, Founder of the award-winning Everyday Sexism Project

Media Policy Project Public Lecture

Working Effectively. Lessons from 10 years of the Freedom of Information Act

Thursday 1 October 2015, 6.30-8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre

Speaker: Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner

Polis Media Agenda Talk

In Conversation with Anab Jain

Tuesday 29 September 2015, 5-6pm, Hong Kong Theatre

Speaker: Anab Jain, co-founder of Superflux

LSE Media and Communications co-hosted conference

The Political Screen Conference 2015

19-20 June 2015, University College London

Keynote Speakers: Anna McCarthy (NYU), S V Srinivas (Azim Premji University), Liesbet van Zoonen (Loughborough University)

Media Policy Project Public Debate

David Wolfe QC: What Makes a Good Self Regulator of the Press? Interpreting the Royal Charter on Press Regulation

Tuesday 9 June 2015, 5.30-8pm, Thai Theatre
Speaker: David Wolfe QC

LSE Media and Communications Annual Symposium

PhD Symposium 2015

Friday 19 June 2015, 9am-6pm, Wolfson Theatre
Keynote Speaker: Dr Bart Cammaerts

LSE Africa Talks Public Lecture

Shifting African Digital Landscapes

Tuesday 17 March 2015, 6.30-8pm, New Theatre
Speaker: Sean Jacobs

Media Policy Project Public Lecture

IPSO and the Future of UK Press Regulation

Thursday 12 March 2015, 6.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre
Speaker: Sir Alan Moses

Read the coverage by The Guardian here.

LSE Media and Communications Public Lecture

Code and Law between Truth and Power

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 6.30-8pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Julie Cohen.
Respondent: Anne Barron

Read the coverage by The Guardian here.

Media Policy Project Public Lecture

The Future of Audiovisual Media Services in Europe 

Thursday 5 February 2015, 10:00am, CEPS, Brussels
Speaker: Robert Madelin, Madeleine De Cock Buning, Tino Kunert, Lorena Boix Alonso

LSE Media and Communications Public Lecture

Children's Rights in the Digital Age

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 6.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre Speaker: Professor Sonia Livingstone
Respondents: John Carr, Professor Robin Mansell