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26 January 2011 |
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• LSE hosts first IdeasLab at World Economic Forum
Leaders from industry, government and civil society will join academics
from LSE at an interactive session of the World Economic Forum, Davos,
taking place today (Wednesday 26 January).
The LSE IdeasLab, which takes the theme 'Doing Better With Less', will
explore four topics of global importance. LSE Director Howard Davies and
Professors Nicholas Stern, Nicholas Barr and Oriana Bandiera will present
their ideas on public management, tackling climate change, financing
education and incentives and performance respectively.
Each speaker will present their ideas in a five minute talk with slides.
These will be followed by the 'Lab' part of the event, an in-depth group
discussion with the audience about the ideas presented.
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• World
Stage - a new series of lectures celebrating life at LSE
The School has launched a new series of lectures celebrating life at LSE
from different national, cultural and personal perspectives.
The ‘World Stage: student and alumni lecture series’ will explore life at
LSE through discussions between prestigious alumni and current students,
celebrating the School's uniquely diverse student population and the
influence this has on the students who come here.
The first lecture features the writer, broadcaster, and food connoisseur,
Loyd Grossman (pictured), who will discuss his time at the School alongside
three current students, The talk, which takes place in the Wolfson Theatre
on Thursday 3 February, will be followed by drinks and snacks where students
will have the opportunity to meet and chat informally.
Other events in the series feature the policy and advocacy officer for
Plan International, Rowan Harvey, with one more speaker to be confirmed.
More information on the series can be found at
lse.ac.uk/worldstage.
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• LSE awarded ESRC accreditation
The School has gained accreditation by the Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC) as a Doctoral Training Centre. The ESRC is one of three UK
Research Councils whose funding to the School includes studentship provision
for Home/EU research students.
This is particularly good news for the School’s research community.
Moreover, we are pleased to announce that the School has also been allocated
a greater number of studentships, a total of 36 a year, spread across
disciplines.
The Graduate Prospectus gives an indication of which programmes are
eligible for funding. LSE will nominate offer holders for studentships on
the basis of academic merit and research potential. Further information on
applying can be found
here.
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• Honorary Doctorates
Nominations for Honorary Doctorate are now invited.
The LSE Council may award an Honorary Doctorate to ‘persons who have made
an outstanding contribution to the increased understanding, or appreciation
of “the causes of things” and their practical application in the social
sciences or related fields.’
The deadline for nominations is Friday 18 February. For more information,
visit
Honorary Degree Nominations.
All completed nomination forms should be sent to Joan Poole, Planning and
Corporate Policy Division, at
j.a.poole@lse.ac.uk.
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• Lent term elections are fast approaching -
Message from the LSESU
These elections are the main method by which students can change the
direction of the Students’ Union and subsequently the School. Either by
running yourself, supporting a friend, organising a society endorsement, or
simply voting you will be making a difference.
The positions available are:
- Four full time sabbatical officers - General Secretary, Education
Officer, Community and Welfare Officer, and Activities and Development
Officer.
- Seven part time executive officers - Anti Racism, Athletics Union
President, Disabled Students, Environment and Ethics, International
Students, LGBT, and Womens.
- Three vacancies on the Board of Trustees.
- Five members of the democracy committee - UGM Chair and Returning
Officer appointed from the committee.
Nominations open on Monday 14 February and close on Monday 21 February.
If you are considering running for a position, then come along to one of
the three 'Thinking of Becoming a Candidate' sessions below:
Monday 31 January, 1pm, CLM.D311
Students interested in running for Democracy Committee, Board of Trustees
and part time executive positions.
Wednesday 2 February, 1pm, TW1.U103
Students interested in running for any position.
Friday 4 February, 1pm, CLM.D211
Students interested in running for full time sabbatical positions.
Voting is online between Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 March. For more
information or if you have any questions or queries, visit the
LSESU website, email the democracy
committee at su.democracy@lse.ac.uk,
or watch the
Lent term Election 2011 official video. |
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 Notices
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• Become a student mentor
Are you interested in helping the new intake of students settle in at
LSE? The LSE Student Mentoring Scheme is now recruiting new mentors for
2011-12.
The Scheme, which aims to support all new first year undergraduate
students by assigning them a student mentor when they first arrive at the
School, is a great way to gain valuable voluntary work experience while
enhancing the experience of LSE students from around the world.
All new mentors receive skills-based training to build on their
communication and interpersonal skills and receive a Certificate of
Participation at the end of the year.
You will not be expected to be counsellors or advisers and you probably
will not be able to answer every question new undergraduate students may
have. As a mentor, you will direct new undergraduate and General Course
students to someone who can help with any problems or queries that you
cannot help with on your own.
Students who are interested in the Scheme should visit the
Student Mentoring Scheme to learn more and to download an application
form. For any further questions, please email
studentmentoring@lse.ac.uk.
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• Student Training at LSE
Student courses scheduled for next week include:
- Managing perfectionism workshop
- Preparing for employees' numerical tests
- PowerPoint 2010: polished presentations in 50 minutes
- IT training office hours
- Word 2010: format an academic paper
- Outlook 2010: outlook for business
- Excel 2010: data analysis
For a full schedule and further details, including booking information,
please see www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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• Smart Mug offer
LSE Catering welcomes the use of the LSE branded, environmentally
friendly Smart Mugs.
Buy one now for only £4.70 from any of the following LSE Catering outlets
and receive a free tea, coffee, or hot chocolate.
- LSE Garrick
- 4th Floor Café Bar
- Café 54
- Mezzanine Café
- SDR Café Bar (members only)
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• Reduce, reuse, recycle
Why spend a lot for storage containers when you can buy them from the
Fourth Floor Restaurant at a fraction of the price?
LSE Catering have a selection of reusable containers at the bargain price
of 20p each or five for £1.
Use them to store almost anything - food in the kitchen, stationery in
the office, or even nuts and bolts in the garage or garden shed.
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• Global Classrooms London is recruiting
Global Classrooms London is currently recruiting LSE students to support the
introduction of its model United Nations support programme to schools across
London.
As a programme of the United Nations Association (UNA-USA), Global
Classrooms connects younger students with current world issues through
interactive simulations and curricular materials, in 24 cities around the
world.
The programme is looking for undergraduate and postgraduate students, with a
good understanding of international affairs, who can contribute two hours a
week for training, curriculum development, skills workshops, and/or
research.
To apply or for more information, email to Isik Oguzertem at
i.oguzertem@lse.ac.uk. You can
also attend
the next Global Classrooms London meeting in room OLD328 at
5.30pm on Wednesday 26 January.
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• Newsgrape - we want your articles
A new social article-based community called
Newsgrape is launching at the
beginning of February and is calling on LSE students to get involved and
submit their articles.
Newsgrape is a free text-community for the sharing of articles, which it
links to each other. Writers can create magazines to publish articles
collaboratively.
To get involved, send your articles to
articles@newsgrape.com before
Wednesday 9 February. Articles can be on anything, from recipes to
scientific articles, to poems to short stories and blogs. |
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 What's
on
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• LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2011: crossing borders
Wednesday 16 - Saturday 19 February 2011
Tickets are released this Monday (31 January) for LSE's third Literary
Festival. This year’s programme is designed to cross disciplinary,
international and metaphorical borders, exploring once again the rich
interaction between the arts and social sciences.
Speakers will include Andrew Motion, Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Lionel
Shriver, Professor John Gray, and Elif Shafak.
For more information, visit
Literary Festival 2011.
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• Upcoming events include....
The Big Short: inside the doomsday machine
On: Thursday 27 January at 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speakers: Author Michael Lewis
The City of London and its Tax Haven Empire
On: Tuesday 1 February at 6.30-8pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speakers: Dr Maurice Glasman, Labour peer and reader in political
theory at London Metropolitan University, and Nicholas Shaxson,
author, journalist, and associate fellow of the Royal Institute of
International Affairs.
Growing the Aid Budget at a Time of Deficit Reduction: moral imperative and
political challenge
On: Thursday 3 February at 6.30-8pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Harriet Harman QC MP (pictured), shadow secretary of State
for International Development.
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• LSE
Chill - first session this Friday
LSE Arts first open mic night for students and staff will be held this
Friday 28 January, from 5.30pm in the 4th Floor Café bar.
The line up for the evening is as follows:
- 5.45-6.15pm Funktionalists
The Funktionalists are comprised of staff and students from the LSE
Anthropology Department. They play a mixture of Cumbia, Son, and Rock.
- 6.30-7pm David Lewis
Described by Sing Out as 'a writer and singer worth getting to know',
and his work as 'smart song-craft' (CD Now), David Lewis has recorded
and released three CDs of acoustic folk-rock since the early 1990s. His
most recent release is Ghost Rhymes (2007). He is joined by David
Satterthwaite (mandolin, guitar) and Emma Wilson (violin).
- 7.15-7.45pm Chris O'Brien
Performing a selection of covers and self compos, Chris is a third year LLB student.
If you enjoy listening to music and want somewhere to go after work to
relax or catch up with friends, then come to the LSE Chill session.
We’re still looking for acts to perform for further sessions. If you are
interested in performing, email
arts@lse.ac.uk with your name and details of your act. LSE Chill
sessions will be held on the last Friday of every month. Our next sessions
are on Friday 25 February and Friday 25 March, so make sure you save the
date.
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• The Cripple of Inishmaan
Sunday 30, Monday 31 January, and Tuesday 1 February,
7.30pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
The LSESU Drama Society present 'The Cripple of Inishmaan'.
An exciting black comedy, from the playwright who brought you 'In
Bruges', set on an island off the West Coast of Ireland in 1934. The
inhabitants are excited to learn of a Hollywood film crew's arrival in
neighbouring Inishmore. 'Cripple' Billy Claven, eager to escape the gossip,
poverty and boredom of Inishmaan, vies for a part in the film, and to
everyone's surprise, the orphan and outcast gets his chance.
Tickets will be sold on Houghton Street, in the ARC, online, and will
also be available on the door - £3 for non-members and £2 for members.
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• When Limited Liability Was (Still) an Issue: conflicting
mobilisations in nineteenth century England
Tuesday 1
February, 1-2.30pm, room KSW G108
Speaker: Professor Marie-Laure Djelic (pictured)
Marie-Laure Djelic is professor in the Management Department at ESSEC,
where she teaches organisation theory, business history and comparative
capitalism.
For more information, visit the
CARR event page.
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• The Creative Economy
Wednesday 9 February, 6-8pm, NAB
Speaker: Janet Hull, marketing director at the Institute of
Practitioners in Advertising (IPA).
In partnership with the IPA, the LSESU Advertising Marketing and PR
Society and the LSESU Business Society, present this lecture.
In the lecture, Janet Hull will help us make holistic sense of the contemporary
UK economy and the future possibilities which lie within it.
For more information and to register your place, click
here.
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• Emerging Markets Forum 2011
The LSE Emerging Markets Forum 2011 is the second in a series of annual
conferences aiming to expand students’ understanding of emerging markets, by
offering an in-depth coverage of the most challenging, current and
important issues in rising economies within and beyond the BRICs.
Different from other similar conferences it covers economic, financial
and socio-political issues while focusing on specific and topical issues
such as sustainable development, law, resources, and investment.
This year’s two-day conference will take place at the Lancaster London
Hotel on Monday 28 February and Tuesday 1 March. Confirmed speakers include:
- Jim O’Neill, chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Persio Arida, former president of the Central Bank of Brazil,
co-founder of BTG Pactual Investment Bank
- Fawzi Kyriakos-Saad, CEO (EMEA), Credit Suisse
- Stephen King, chief global economist, HSBC
- George Magnus, former chief economist, UBS
- Lord Davidson of Glen Clova QC, former advocate general for
Scotland
- William So, former president, China Unicom (Europe)
To register for the event, visit
www.lseemf.com/register.html.
Registration is open until Sunday 13 February.
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• LSE Economics Conference 2011 - The New Global Economy: policy
and financial markets
Saturday 12 March, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
The LSE EC, organised by the LSESU Economics and Finance Societies, will
aim to explain the current global dilemmas of both the public and
private sectors and provide an insight into solutions. Speakers from
around the world will give their opinions and challenge both the
audience and each other to think differently about these issues.
Speakers will include:
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Sir Samuel Brittan, Financial Times columnist
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Melanie Baker, Morgan Stanley, UK economist
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Dr Richard Wellings, Institute of Economic Affairs
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Professor Francesco Caselli, LSE
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Professor Colin Mayer, University of Oxford
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Professor Peter Sinclair, University of Birmingham
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit
www.lse-ec.org.
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• Podcasts of public lectures and events
Latvia Turns the Corner
Speaker: Valdis Dombrovskis
Recorded: Wednesday 19 January, approx 59 minutes
Click here to listen
How the West Was Lost: 50 years of economic folly and the stark choices
ahead
Speaker: Dambisa Moyo
Recorded: Thursday 20 January, approx 74 minutes
Click here to listen
How did London Get Away With it? The Recession and the North-South Divide
Speaker: Professor Henry G Overman
Recorded: Thursday 20 January, approx 91 minutes
Click here to listen |
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Jason Mitchell
I’m in the first year of the
part-time MSc programme in
international political economy. My
full-time work is as a portfolio
manager at GLG Partners, a hedge
fund in London, where I’m in the
process of launching a new global
fund that invests in environmental
and demographic themes.
Before I rejoined GLG, I took two
years off, from 2008-10, acting as
advisor to the Commonwealth Business
Council and the African Development
Corporation on potable water and
renewable energy projects across
Sub-Saharan Africa.
I was most recently in Port
Harcourt in the Niger Delta, working
with multilaterals and Rivers State
to structure and fund peri-urban and
rural water projects - an experience
that directly led to my interest in IPE
and LSE. I also write pieces on
energy and environmental policy
which have
been used or printed in
Institutional Investor,
responsible-investor.com,
Aftenposten (Norway), Global
Times (China) and the Wall
Street Journal.
What would you do if you were
LSE director for a day?
I’d spend half the day meeting
and listening to the concerns of as
many students as possible; I’d spend
the other half working to solve an
LSE-specific issue that could be
fixed.
If you could bring one famous
person back to life, who would it be
and why?
Mark Twain. His social commentary
was incredibly funny and sarcastic,
and still holds up today.
What would you do with the
money if you won a substantial
amount on the lottery?
Establish academic scholarships
and essay prizes at universities.
Having just joined the board of
Fence Magazine in New York, I’d
also start a small press and
literary magazine. The format of
high quality literary journals is
sadly disappearing.
Do you have a party trick? If
so, what is it?
Believe it or not, my freestyle
body popping used to be pretty good.
What book are you currently
reading and which have you enjoyed
most?
I’m just finishing Don Delillo’s
Underworld, which is
incredible as it follows a single
baseball through 50 years, and the
events and people that surround it.
One of my favourite books is
Coetzee’s Foe, where he
upturns and politicises Daniel
Defoe’s telling of Robinson Crusoe.
If you had to choose a
personal theme tune, what would it
be?
The theme tune from the Hardy
Boys' old 70s show, which is
actually what wakes me up as an
alarm in the morning. |
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