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24 February 2010 |
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• Win work and cash prizes
LSE students are invited to put their names forward to win work placements and
cash prizes in the 2010 Real World Awards.
Now in their eighth year, the awards will be given to students
in two categories: Enterprising Student of the Year and
Student Personality of the Year.
The Enterprising Student of the Year Award will honour five
entrepreneurial dragons of tomorrow, who have already made their mark
launching, leading or inspiring new enterprises or business ideas.
Among the prizes are a share of £5,000 and an optional
internship at one of the UK’s leading supporters of new developments in
business, Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
A brand new award, the Student Personality of the Year Award, will be
given to a single individual, who will receive £1,000. The prize will go to
the student or graduate who has made the most significant contribution to
university life whether through media, societies or to the social lives and
well-being of fellow students.
The deadline for entries is Monday 12 April and the awards are open to students and
graduates. Students can nominate themselves or be nominated. For full details, visit
www.realworldawards.com
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 Notices
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• The Beaver wants you
The Beaver is recruiting students to help it
grow as an integral part of LSE life - on the editorial,
business/advertising or marketing side.
In particular the paper is looking for a team to work
alongside its business manager to seek out new and innovative advertising
opportunities. Marketing positions will bring the opportunity to build upon
the brand of The Beaver. And we are also creating a team of people to
work within our Alumni Division, contacting LSE alumni and drawing on their
loyalty to LSE to help us remain financially independent, to maintain
quality and provide students with a quality service.
No previous experience is required. This a perfect opportunity to
do something new whilst stretching yourself in a fun
way. For more information, email
info@thebeaveronline.co.uk and to show your interest please complete the
following form:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFZ3MHRzb1FaNFRpSFBQdloySnRtZHc6MA
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• Student parenting and carer network meeting
Thursday 25 February, 12-2pm, George IV pub (first floor)
Do you have child care or other care responsibilities? Would you like to
meet with other students in this situation?
Come and share experiences, challenges, joys and ideas with other
students at this network meeting. Plus meet the student advisers, who are
keen to hear your thoughts and see what support might help you manage your
studies most effectively.
Soft drinks and sandwiches will be provided.
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• Are you considering a postgraduate degree in management?
If so, then why not attend a Department of Management information
session?
The Department has a wide range of postgraduate management programmes
which are designed to help you enter employment at a higher level than
undergraduate students.
The final information session of the year takes place on Thursday 25
February in the Thai Lecture theatre (NAB) from 6-8pm. The session provides
an opportunity to find out more about programmes and to meet
department faculty, staff and current students.
For more information, visit
www.lse.ac.uk/collections/management/
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• Single Equality Scheme road shows - get involved and have your
say
LSE is preparing its first Single Equality Scheme (SES), which will
set out how the School intends to tackle discrimination and
harassment and promote equality for its staff, students and service
users. It will also explain how the School will meet its statutory
duties to promote equality across all areas.
Ahead of the scheme, Carolyn Solomon-Pryce, LSE's diversity advisor,
needs your help to fully understand the equality and diversity needs
within the School. Your input will help to shape the SES and set out
clear equality and diversity priorities for the next three years.
Carolyn will be holding three road shows next month where you will have
the opportunity to give your views and comments and also ask any
questions. The road shows will be held on:
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Tuesday 16 March at 11-12.30pm in U500, Tower One
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Thursday 18 March at 11-12.30pm in U500, Tower One
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Friday 19 March at 11-12.30pm in U500, Tower One
If you would like to attend any of the above road shows, please contact
Carolyn at c.solomon-pryce@lse.ac.uk
to reserve your place.
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• Careers Service jobs of the week
- Human Rights Watch, associate (Americas division) - a
fantastic entry-level opportunity based in Washington, DC for students
with an interest in international human rights. Apply by 2 March.
- ZenithOptimedia, media graduate scheme - apply for a role in
one of the UK’s foremost media agencies, with a client portfolio that
includes O2, L’Oreal and Puma.
- Runnymede Trust, project assistant - if you’re interested in
doing social policy research focused on race equality and race
relations, apply now.
For full details of these posts and over 500 more visit 'My Careers
Service' at www.lse.ac.uk/careers
and click ‘search for opportunities’.
Come and visit the Careers Service on Floor Three, Tower Three.
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• Spanish in motion
The Language Centre invites you to the final Spanish in Motion session
of this academic year.
On Tuesday 2 March, the centre will be screening East of Havana
by the Cuban-American film makers Jauretsi Saizarbitoria and Emilia
Menocal (82”, 2006, in Spanish with English subtitles).
This controversial documentary, produced by actress Charlize Theron, is
a close-up of the lives of three young rappers compelled to address
their generation’s future from the confines of a Cuban ghetto.
After the film, there will be a Q&A session with Dr Elvira
Anton-Carrillo, senior lecturer at Roehampton University.
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 What's
on
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• Don't miss out....
Tickets are now available for
Driving Change While Maintaining Momentum, a lecture by chief operating
officer of Microsoft Kevin Turner on Wednesday 3 March.
The past year has been turbulent for every business world-wide. Microsoft
has faced its own particular challenges head on, to adapt to changing market
conditions while maintaining momentum for growth and innovation, as well as
helping its customers to do the same.
In this lecture, Kevin Turner will share his experience at the
operational helm of this global organisation, and his unique insight on how
one of the world's largest companies stays nimble and encourages excellence.
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• Other upcoming events include....
Hamlet Without the Prince of Denmark: how development has disappeared
from today's 'development' discourse
On: Thursday 25 February at 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old
Building
Speaker: Professor Ha-Joon Chang
Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
On: Monday 1 March at 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Sir Tony Atkinson
Studying Islam Across Times and Place: how to compare?
On: Tuesday 2 March at 6.30-8pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Professor John Bowen
The Future Development of International Criminal Justice: an
interdisciplinary approach
On: Friday 5 March at 11-12noon
Speaker: Sang-Hyun Song
Tickets released at 10am on Thursday 25 February
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• Podcasts of public lectures and events
Renewing the Left's ideology: what should be the principles and goals of
the centre-Left today?
Monday 15 February, 6.30pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: James Purnell
Click here to listen
How rich are the baby boomers and how poor are their children?
Tuesday 16 February, 6.30pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: David Willetts MP
Click here to listen
Jimmy Stewart is Dead: ending the World's ongoing financial plague with
limited purpose banking
Wednesday 17 February, 6pm, New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor Laurence J Kotlikoff
Click here to listen
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• Pakistan Week 2010
Bewildered by the beating drums and the energetic bhangra moves outside
the Quad? Don't be, Pakistan Week is back and has lots still to offer
over the next couple of days:
Thursday 25 February
- Cultural exhibition, 11am-4pm in the Quad
- Pakistani food in the 4th Floor
Restaurant (HALAL), 11.30am-2.30pm
- Public lecture by Asif Ali Durani, 7-9pm
in U8, Tower One
Friday 26 February
- Free Lassi,
12-3pm on Houghton Street
- Pakistan Week 2010 finale, 7pm-1am at
the Hilton Olympia, Kensington
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• Does the electric car have the juice?
Thursday 25 February, 4-5.30pm, New Theatre, East Building
Speakers: Len Curran,
Renault Group commercial director,
and Andrew Heiron,
electric vehicles chief
Fierce price competition, painstaking cost-cutting, and widespread
volatility is making life in the auto industry incredibly challenging. How
has Renault adapted, and where does it see the auto industry heading? As a
fledgling technology (and one of the great hopes for reducing global carbon
emissions) can any electric car concept overcome such an inhospitable
environment?
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• The ten commandments of social media
Thursday 25 February, 5.30-6.30pm, NAB104
Speaker: Andrew Davis, former director of MYSPACE UK
The LSESU AMP Society, in collaboration with POLIS, present Andrew Davis
to tell you all about opportunities in social media and how to grab
them. In this talk, Andrew will provide ten tips to help make yourself
known in social media and other sectors such as PR and advertising.
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• The Copenhagen Negotiations: challenges and controversies for
developing countries
Friday 26 February, 5.30-7pm, U8, Tower One
Speakers: Jose Antonio Garibaldi,
climate change advisor to DEFRA,
Jeremy Leggett,
executive chairman of Solar Century, and
Camilla Toulmin,
director of the International Institute for Environment and Development
The Copenhagen climate negotiations failed to agree upon a legally
binding protocol to reduce emissions. How will this affect the countries
most vulnerable to climate change? What roles do mitigation, adaptation,
technology transfer and the promised increase of funding for developing
countries play in the post-COP15 climate deal?
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• Delivering full and equal citizenship to the Palestinian
minority inside Israel
Friday 26 February, 6.30-8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speakers: Sharif Hamadeh,
former advisor to the PLO’s Negotiations Affairs Department,
Professor Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian ambassador to the UK,
and
Ilan Pappé, history professor at Exeter University
This lecture will explore some of the main challenges facing Israel’s
Arab minorities and will address what needs to be done to deliver equality.
These challenges include community relations, housing, education, economic
development, employment, women’s rights, political representation and
policing. The speakers will also examine Israel’s relations with the
international community and its neighbouring Arab countries. This event is
free and open to LSE staff and student card holders only with no ticket
required.
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• LSE Photo Prize Exhibition 2010: risk
Monday 1 March - Friday 2 April, Atrium Gallery, Old Building
Mon-Fri, 10am- 8pm
Opening next week, the LSE Photo Prize Exhibition celebrates the
creativity of LSE’s students and staff. This year’s exhibition is the first
to have a theme which focused on ‘risk’. Over 80 entrants submitted more
than 180 photographs, with selectors choosing 22 images to be included in
the exhibition.
A reception will be held in the Atrium Gallery on Tuesday 2 March at 7pm,
at which awards for the best submissions will be presented by Howard Davies,
Director of LSE.
For more information on the exhibition, visit
www.lse.ac.uk/arts or email
arts@lse.ac.uk
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• Contesting International Statebuilding: the case of
post-conflict Bosnia
Tuesday 2 March, 1-2pm, room M101
Speaker: Outi Keranen
Outi Keranen is doing doctoral research in the International Relations
Department at LSE. Her thesis examines local contestation to the
international community's state building in post-conflict Bosnia.
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• God is Back: how the global rise of faith is changing the
world
Tuesday 2 March, 7pm, NAB206
Speaker: John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief
of The Economist
In this lecture,
part of the LSESU Hayek Society's Lent term lecture
series, John Micklethwait will discuss his new book, God is
Back: how the global rise of faith is changing the world.
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• Music@LSE - Arte Arnicane (piano)
Thursday 4 March, 1.05-2pm, Shaw Library, Old Building
A highly gifted pianist and winner of five first prizes, Arte’s
sensitive and insightful playing commands serious attention.
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 Society
profile
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• LSE Republicans
We promote the Republican Party and conservative politics here at LSE.
Fiscal responsibility, traditional American values, and Senator Scott Brown
all in one society open to everyone, whether you’re are a conservative
American or just plain sensible.
Claim to fame?
We’re the affiliated LSE arm of Republicans Abroad UK
Approx number of members?
50 and growing.
Society president?
Pantellis Diplas
p.palividas@lse.ac.uk
Big event coming up that you would like to highlight?
Get in touch and we’ll let you know when and where we’ll be holding our
first society meeting for like-minded students.
Why should people join the society?
To get active with conservative politics within LSE. If you’re an
aspiring banker disillusioned by Obama’s policies regarding Wall Street, if
you’re an American looking to get into domestic affairs, if you’re
interested in meeting Republican and Conservative Party politicians, you’ll
be welcomed with open arms.
Website?
www.republicansabroad-uk.org |
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Dr Michael Bruter
Michael Bruter, senior lecturer in
the Government Department, is a
prime example of European melting
pot with his eight
great-grandparents coming from eight
different countries. This may be why
he is so interested in European
identity, as well as the study of
elections, public opinion, research
methods and extreme right politics.
What did you want to be when you
grew up?
I guess I had three loves: food and
wine, planes, and music. I had
moments when I wanted to be a
fishmonger or a wine maker, others
when I would dream of becoming a
pilot or more ambitiously, the CEO
of some major airline (not least to
improve catering on planes).
Finally, there were times when I
considered becoming a professional
classical pianist. This was the only
option that ever was realistic, and
whilst I decided not to follow that
route when I was 18, I financed most
of my undergraduate studies by
giving piano lessons.
What book are you currently
reading?
I always read too many books at the
same time. Right now, these include
Albert Cohen’s Belle du Seigneur, a big Calvin
and Hobbes anthology, and Niels
Bohr’s stunning Atomic Physic and
Human Knowledge and a Hercule Poirot.
I’m also browsing through the latest
book I have written with Sarah
Harrison in search of typos that we
have missed, a very useless exercise
of course.
What would you do if you were LSE
director for a day?
I have an adjunct position at the
Australian National University and
one of the things that they have
there is a ‘seaside campus’ which
departments are encouraged to rent
for teaching purposes, students
weekends and away days. I would
spend the School’s cash on getting
one such campus, maybe in Eastbourne
or in my native Cote d’Azur. I would
propose days away when
administrative staff, academic
staff, and students from several
departments randomly meet up and mix
as I think that it would be fun.
What are your hobbies?
They haven’t changed much from the time
I was a kid - playing the piano,
cooking, and travelling are still
favourites. I also walk an average 12
kilometres a day, ideally by the
water (sea, Thames, etc).
What has been your most embarrassing
incident so far?
I occasionally experience moments of
uncontrollable and unstoppable
laughter for absolutely no reason.
Of course, it once happened during
one of my lectures and my students
wondered if I was completely crazy.
Are you left or right handed?
Right handed. My brother should have
been right handed too, but my
parents were so keen on having a
second boy who would be left handed
because they were supposed to be
better tennis players that they
indulged in wishful thinking
believing he was left handed. |
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