Date: Monday 25 January 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh
Chair: Dr Robin Archer

How have the rise of conservative and inward looking intellectual traditions undermined France’s progressive imagination? Can French progressive ideals be revived?

Sudhir Hazareesingh is CUF Lecturer in Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Robin Archer is Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE.

The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free social inquiry.

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