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• PhD student launches book on partnerships for women's health
at UN Headquarters
Monika Kruesmann, a PhD student in the Department of International
Relations at LSE and co-editor of a new publication, Partnerships for
Women’s Health, will participate in a panel discussion to mark the
book’s launch on Monday 8 March. The event takes place at UN Headquarters in
New York City and will be webcast live. Registration for the webcast is now
open.
In India, one woman dies from pregnancy or child-birth related causes
every five to seven minutes. Partnerships for Women's Health: striving for
best practice within the United Nations Global Compact, co-edited with
Dr Martina Timmermann of the Transition and Integration Agency, examines the
Women’s Health Initiative project, which sought to improve reproductive and
maternal health for women and girls in India.
The event will be held at 6.15-7.30pm UK time (1.15-2.30pm New York time). To register or for more information on the book, click
here.
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• Thieves at work on campus warns Paul Thornbury, LSE's head of
security
Walk-in thieves have struck three times in 24 hours this week on campus
(Old Building, Connaught House and Columbia House). They are operating
during the working day and in the early evening.
Could all students report any suspicious activity to campus security and
look to the safety of their personal belongings.
If you see anything suspicious, or in any emergency, dial 666 for the
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 Notices
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• Earthquake in Chile
The School would like to express its condolences and sympathy to any
students who may have been affected by the recent earthquake in Chile.
If you have been directly affected by the events or if you know of a
fellow student who has been directly affected, please contact Gavin Eves in
the Student Services Centre at
g.eves@lse.ac.uk
This is also an appropriate context in which to remind all students of
the various support services the School provides. If the circumstances are
causing you any financial difficulties, you can contact the
Financial Support Office in the Student Services Centre on 020 7955 6609
or at
financial-support@lse.ac.uk
The
LSE Counselling Service can also provide additional personal support and
will prioritise students who have been affected by the disaster. If you
would like to talk to a counsellor, appointments can be made at G507, 20
Kingsway, on 020 7852 3627 and at
student.counselling@lse.ac.uk
The Chaplaincy
can also provide support and comfort to students who are feeling personal
pain or grief at this catastrophe.
Students are keen to offer support to the victims of the earthquake.
Chilean students and alumni from Universities across the UK, including
LSE, have created a website to build a relief fund for the many people
in Chile who have lost everything. All funds raised will be distributed
to help in the reconstruction of the most affected areas. To donate
money or get involved, visit
www.imperialchile.org/index.php
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• LSE travel survey
LSE's first Travel Survey launches on Monday 8 March. The short online
survey is open to all and aims to identify how staff and students commute to
LSE and travel on behalf of the School.
The results will allow LSE to see if there are ways that the School can
provide support for the different travel requirements of staff and students.
They will also help the School calculate staff and student carbon emissions
produced from travel and this information will contribute to the LSE Carbon
Management Plan which intends to reduce total carbon emissions.
An email will be sent to all students on Monday with a link to the
survey, so please keep an eye out for this and let us know what your travel
requirements are and of any suggestions about how LSE can support these.
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• Your chance to win a £25 Amazon voucher or £10 in printing
credit
IT Services are looking for ideas of how to change/improve the IT
training provision for students. The ideas need to be practical and possible
to implement, and can be big changes or just small improvements. For details
of the current programme, see
www.lse.ac.uk/itservices/ittraining
The best implementable idea will win a £25 Amazon gift voucher (judge’s
decision is absolute and final). All other practical ideas will be entered
into a prize draw for five £10 printing credits.
To enter, send your idea to
it.training@lse.ac.uk. Each idea submitted counts as one entry into the
prize draw, so feel free to send multiple ideas.
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• Help to improve the Training and Development section of the
LSE website
IT Services are looking to improve the way information about training
events is provided on the LSE website.
They are looking for 30 volunteers to give them 30 minutes of their time
between 15 and 24 March in exchange for free coffee/tea and cakes. If you
are interested, please provide a bit of information about yourself and your
availability online at
www.survey.bris.ac.uk/lsewebsite/tpfusability1
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• MSc drop-in group
The LSE Student Counselling Service is running a drop-in group for MSc
students on
Tuesday 9 and Tuesday 16 March
at 2.30-3.30pm. This is an open group and students may attend on either
date.
Meetings will be held in the group room in the Student Counselling
Service. Please arrive by 2.25pm, as the group will start promptly.
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A senior member of the School highlights an important issue for
students. • Adrian Hall, Secretary and Director of Administration
As student Andrew Rajanathan makes clear in this week’s 60 Second
Interview below - plans for the New Students’ Centre are progressing well. Andrew
was one of the student-presenters in a new film from LSE - I encourage you
to watch it.
Plans for the new centre were widely discussed with the student body and
an exciting and innovative design agreed. We hope to get planning consent
from Westminster City Council in the next three months.
In the meantime, work has been going on to find suitable alternative
premises for the St Philips Medical Centre once demolition starts in July.
This is not a straightforward matter. We need to find replacement premises
that are near the campus, within Camden's borough boundaries and which meet the
very stringent regulations that now apply to size, layout and accessibility
of NHS General Practices.
It is the responsibility of Camden Primary Care Trust (PCT) to ensure
these requirements are met. Finding premises that satisfy Camden PCT has
been very difficult and, to date, they have rejected several options put
forward by the School. The good news is that it may be possible to establish
the practice on the ground floor of Queen’s House - and a decision on this
is expected from Camden in early March. If approved, LSE will then have to
conclude complicated negotiations with a number of leaseholders. Success is
by no means certain and, unfortunately, we are struggling to find
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 What's
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• Don't miss....
The Brahimi Panels -
The Goldstone Report and the Peace Process and
Future Options in Afghanistan
On: Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 March at 6.30-8pm
These public discussions will be chaired by the distinguished UN
diplomat and envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. The first event will discuss the
findings of the UN fact finding mission on the Gaza conflict and the
Goldstone Report that it produced. The second lecture will look at the
current situation in Afganistan and possibilities for its future, during
a time of disintegrating support for western military involvement and a
resurgent Taliban.
Other upcoming events include....
Men of Letters: what should be done about the UK budget deficit?
On: Thursday 4 March at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Tim Besley and Professor Alan Manning
Mind-Body Problems: science, fiction, and God
On: Wednesday 10 March at 6pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Professor Steven Pinker
LSE Orchestra and Choir Spring Concert
On: Wednesday 10 March at 7.30pm in the St Clement Danes Church,
Strand
A lecture by Helen Clark, UNDP administrator
On: Friday 12 March at 1pm
Speaker: Helen Clark
Tickets released at 10am on Thursday 4 March
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• Podcasts of public lectures and events
Civil Society, Aid and Security
Wednesday 24 February, 6.30pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Sally Healy, Dr Jeremy Lind, and
David Peppiat
Click here to listen
The Importance of Alternative Financing: global perspectives on Islamic
finance
Wednesday 24 February, 6.30pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Stephen Green and Dr M Umer Chapra
Click here to listen
Prosperity without Growth
Thursday 25 February, 6.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Tim Jackson
Click here to listen
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• Human Rights Festival
The Human Rights Festival is organised by the LSESU Amnesty
International Society, LSESU Anti-Slavery International Society and LSESU International
Criminal Court Student Network.
Events still to come this week include:
Swept under the Carpet: the role of NGOs in combating domestic worker
exploitation
Wednesday 3 March, 7.30-9pm, room NAB2.04
A panel event with guests Dr Ishkanian, MSc in NGOs and development
course director, Audrey Guichon, head of Anti-Slavery International's
domestic worker campaign, and Marcus Harry of Kalayaan, as well as a
representative from Justice for Domestic Workers.
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Letter Writing Marathon
Thursday 4 March, 10am-7.30pm, Houghton Street
Show your support and join in with our outdoor letter writing marathon.
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Debating with Julie Bindel and 'Born into brothels' screening
Thursday 4 March, 7.30-9.30pm, room H316
Film screening and Q&A with Julie Bindel, journalist, activist, and
co-founder of Justice for Women. The topic will be centred around human
trafficking.
Social Gathering
Friday 5 March, 6-8pm, venue to be confirmed
Join us at the end of the week for snacks and conversation after a festival
of discussion and debate on challenging human rights issues. All are
welcome.
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• Mexican Revolution Party
Wednesday 3 March, 9pm, Sway
The LSESU Mexican Society is hosting the 'Mexican Revolution Party' to
celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Mexican revolution.
You can expect a memorable time with cheap drinks, tequila and great
music. DJ Mr M, the best Latin DJ in Europe, will make you dance all night
long.
Tickets are £5 in advance and £7 at the door. Tickets will be on sale on
Houghton Street on Wednesday 3 March from 12-2pm or you can get them
directly from one of the committee members.
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• Emerging Markets Forum 2010
Thursday 4 March, Freemasons' Hall, 60 Great Queen Street, London
The Emerging Markets Forum 2010 is
an inaugural event aiming to expand students’ understanding of emerging
markets. Different from other conferences, it covers economic, political and
socio-political issues while focusing on specific and topical issues such as
sustainable development, law, resources, entrepreneurship, investment and
geo-political risks.
Confirmed speakers for the 2010 conference include:
- William So, president, China Netcom (Europe)
- Douglas Alexander MP and secretary of state for
international development
- Arif Naqvi, CEO Abraaj Capital
- Razeen Sally, co-director, European Centre for International
Political Economy
- Roland Nash, chief strategist, Renaissance Capital
- Stephen Jen, head of macroeconomics and currencies, Bluegold Capital
To register your place, visit
www.lseemf.com/?page=studentRegister
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• Social Enterprise: the business
model for the future
Thursday 4 March, 6.30-8pm, room G108
Speakers: Jonathan Jenkins, head of ventures at Unltd,
Alexander Balfour, Divine Chocolate, Verity Timmins, impact
manager at the Furniture Resource Centre, and Theresa Burton, CEO at
SellAVenture
In 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus claimed that social
business can bring about a world without poverty. But what exactly makes an
enterprise a social business?
As part of Development Week 2010, the
LSESU Development Society have invited a panel of representatives from
successful social enterprises and funding organisations, to answer this
question and present their business models, predictions for the sector, and
tips for budding social entrepreneurs.
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• Women's Week
The LSESU Feminist Society and the women's officer have organised Women's
Week which will run from Monday 8 - Friday 12 March.
The following events will be taking place:
- Panel discussion on objectification
of women
Monday 8 March
- Talk on abortion rights
Tuesday 9 March
- Ken Livingstone - why he calls
himself a feminist
Wednesday 10 March
- Play:
Vagina Monologues
Thursday 11 and Monday 15 March
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• Charity beer pong tournament
Monday 8 March, 6.30-9.30pm, the Underground Bar
The LSESU Microfinance Society and the Student Microfinance Development
Initiative invite you to a charity beer pong tournament to help raise money
for Young Ambassadors for Opportunity.
Tickets cost £5, which includes one free drink, and will be available to
buy on Houghton Street on Thursday and Friday of this week.
The tournament winner will get a special ‘mystery prize’.
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• The Territorial Trap of the
Territorial Trap: globalisation’s discursive dimensions as the global
jail break
Tuesday 9 March, 1-2pm, room M101
Speaker: Nisha Shah
In this presentation, Nisha Shah a visiting fellow at LSE Global
Governance, argues that attempts by prevailing theories of globalisation to
overcome what Agnew called the ‘territorial trap’, are besought by an
additional territorial trap: sovereignty is implicitly reduced to
impermeable territorial borders.
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• Positives or Negatives: ways of winning the argument for
liberty, historically and today
Tuesday 9 March, 6pm, room A283
Speaker: Steve Davies, programs officer at the Institute for
Humane Studies
Steve Davies will discuss how the fight for liberty is being lost and the
reasons for this. He will look at how much of the effort and argumentation
is negative rather than positive. That is, it is all about resisting a trend
or movement in a negative direction rather than making a positive argument
for change in a worthwhile direction.
For more information, visit
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=367788065518 or email
su.soc.hayek@lse.ac.uk
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• The Philanthropy Challenge: could you be the next Bill Gates?
Wednesday 10 March, 6.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre
Speakers: Nicholas Ferguson,
chairman of the Institute for Philanthropy,
Dame Stephanie Shirley, the government's
ambassador for philanthropy,
and Professor Arne Westad, professor
of international history at LSE and co-director of LSE IDEAS
The Philanthropy Challenge is an initiative devised by the Institute of
Philanthropy and LSE IDEAS. For the first time, LSE students will receive
the same type of tuition in strategic philanthropy as given to participants
in the philanthropy workshop, the Institute’s leading international donor
education programme for wealthy individuals.
The challenge commences on Wednesday 10 March with a public panel
discussion at LSE with two of the UK’s most successful executives and
philanthropists, to examine the key concepts of modern philanthropy and its
role in global society.
The panel discussion will be followed later in the year by three
workshops. Here teams of students will develop projects on how, with a
sum of money provided, they can make a permanent difference in today’s
global society. The winning team’s project entry will be published as an
academic paper by LSE, and the sum of money will be made as a grant to a
non-governmental organisation selected by the winners.
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• Fieldwork Panel - The Changing
Face of Development
Wednesday 17 March, 1.30-3pm, room S78
Speakers: Professor Stuart Corbridge, head of DESTIN, Dr Kate
Meagher, lecturer in development studies in DESTIN, Professor Sylvia
Chant, professor of development geography in the Department of Geography
and Environment
Huge changes have occurred in fieldwork and research methodology in the
field of development over the last few decades. In this LSESU Development
Society event, three LSE development academics will share diverse fieldwork
and research experiences from their careers, as well as ideas on how the
nature of how we 'do development' in academic research has changed. A Q&A
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 Society
profile
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• LSESU Hayek Society
Claim to fame?
The only LSESU society to be profit-making in its editorial ventures.
Approx number of members?
150
Society president?
Arthur Ma
arthurmauk@gmail.com
Famous alum?
Allister Heath, editor of City AM; Matthew Elliott, chief
executive of the Taxpayer’s Alliance; and Friedrich August von Hayek, of
course.
Biggest event or achievement?
Sending several members every year around the world to lucrative
internships and free-market seminars.
Why should people join your society?
Because we are the real freedom fighters, the ones who believe in
individual rights and personal liberty, free-market ideas and economic
prosperity. We host lectures by enthusiastic and awe-inspiring speakers,
discuss and solve issues far from mainstream, and have the exclusive
first-nods at internships and events around London.
Website?
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12671240143&ref=ts |
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Andrew Rajanathan
Andrew is a 22 year old Londoner
who is studying for an MSc in China
in a comparative perspective at LSE.
He loves meeting new people, eating Krispy Kreme donuts and having
interesting experiences. One of his
most recent 'interesting
experiences' was starring alongside
fellow LSE student Sophie Giscard
D'estaing as a presenter in a new
'Stories from LSE' film about why
the School is building a new
students' centre. The film can be
seen
here.
How did you get involved with
the New Students' Centre film?
I treat most emails sent by the
School with a cursory glance but I
actually decided to read the notice
in Student News on becoming a
TV presenter and probe it further. I
sent my application off, had a
screen test and the rest is history.
What did you enjoy about being
a presenter in the film?
I loved the whole process to be
honest; from the screen test, to
writing up scripts and helping to
get the shots positioned. There are
a whole bunch of outtakes that Simon
Wood, our director, still has to
send which will probably make for
some very funny viewing.
What was the filming process
like? How long did it take?
The whole process took us two
very long days and by long, I mean
very long. I can barely get up for
9am lectures and it was from about
that time in the morning right up
until 5-6pm. The whole process
involved a lot of walking,
interviewing, setting up, more
walking, exploring LSE, drinking
lots of coffee and getting to know
the film crew. All in all it was
pretty epic as an experience. At
least I now know what goes into
making a film albeit a very short
one.
What do you like about the
plans for the new building? Do you
have a favourite part?
The whole concept is absolutely
brilliant and both architects are
amazing people. The designs look
fantastic, it's just a shame I won’t
be here to use it.
How do you think the new
building will benefit students at
LSE?
The best thing is that it is
completely integrated so students
will have a central hub rather than
a fragmented campus. I personally
believe the building is going to
make it easier to meet people and
make friends, instead of having to
trek across campus if you need to
use a certain facility.
Would you recommend being a
presenter to other students? And if
so, why?
I think people should only do it
if they really want to. I’ve had
previous experience in radio working
at the BBC and that is pretty
similar and as difficult. It is not
just a case of talking in front of a
camera. There’s a lot of energy
going into creating good material
and that isn’t going to happen in
just one take. It’s a very long
process. Saying that, if you’re
serious in media or a career in film
then I recommend getting involved in
as many projects as possible.
What attracted you to come and
study at LSE?
Pretty much what was on offer and
I’m not speaking exclusively about
my programme. My tutors from my
undergraduate degree said this was
the place to be especially if I
wanted to stay in London and I
wouldn’t have chosen anywhere else.
Over the past two terms I’ve seen
some amazing speakers, walked past
George Soros in Houghton Street, and
met a whole bunch of very
interesting students from all walks
of life. I’ve learnt so much on my
programme about China and really
want to visit once school is over.
The television presenting experience
for 'Stories from LSE' was great and
adds another arrow to my skill set
for a career in media. I hope my
remaining months at LSE prove to be
just as exciting. |
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