International Human Rights Day Lecture
Speaker: Irene Khan, Secretary General, Amnesty International
Chair: Professor Peter Townsend
Date: Wednesday 10 December 2003

Peace Stabilisation: the lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Speaker: Lord Ashdown, The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
Date: Monday 8 December 2003
Equality - the Neglected Virtue
Speaker: Rabinder Singh QC
Chair: Professor Martin Loughlin
Date: Wednesday 26 November 2003
Creativity and Knowledge: managing and respecting intellectual assets in the 21st century
Speaker: Professor Danny Quah
Chair: Howard Davies
Date: Thursday 13 November 2003
Europe and America in the 21st Century
Speaker: Lawrence H Summers, President of Harvard University
Chair: Howard Davies, Director, LSE
Date: Thursday 13 November 2003
The Economics of Growth and Sustainable Development
Date: Tuesday 11 November 2003
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta
Chair: Jonathon Porritt
Demographics, Economics and Social Choice
Speaker: Adair Turner
Date: Thursday 6 November 2003
Shaping a New Europe
Speaker: Denis MacShane MP, Minister for Europe
Chair: Professor Paul Taylor, European Institute
Date: Tuesday 4 November 2003
The United States and Western Europe After Iraq: just another crisis or transatlantic drift?
Speaker: Professor Geir Lundestad
Chair: Professor Michael Cox
Date: Thursday 30 October 2003
Children's Rights and Child Poverty
Keynote speaker: Mary Robinson, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Director, Ethical Globalisation Initiative
Chair: Professor Conor Gearty, Director Centre for the Study of Human Rights, LSE
Date: Tuesday 21 October 2003
The role of international criminal prosecutions in reconstructing divided communities
Speaker: Carla Del Ponte
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
Date: Monday 20 October 2003
The European Convention Fifty Years On
Speaker: Professor Brian Simpson
Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
Date: Thursday 16 October 2003
Monetary Policy and Financial Markets
Speaker: Governor Ben S Bernanke
Chair: Professor Tim Besley
Date Thursday 9 October 2003
A Lecture by the President of Brazil
Speaker: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens, Director of LSE
Date: Monday 14th July 2003

The Roots of Racial Tensions: urban ethnic neighbourhoods
Speaker: William Julius Wilson
Chair: Professor Anne Power
Date: Tuesday 24th June 2003

Hayek's Contributions to Economics
Speaker: Professor Roger Garrison
Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens
Date: Thursday 5th June 2003

Deflation: causes, prevention and cure
Speaker: Professor Willem Buiter
Date: Monday 19th May 2003
Innovation, social risk and political responsibility
Speaker: Dr Piero Bassetti
Chair: Professor Claudio Cibbora
Date: Wednesday 14 May 2003
Egyptian Women: major steps on the road to development
Speaker: Her Excellency Mrs Susanne Mubarak
Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens
Date: Wednesday 7th May 2003
Can the Internet economy be governed and if so, how?
Speaker: Professor William H Melody
Chair: Professor Roger Silverstone, LSE
Date: Thursday 1st May 2003
Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures: Happiness: has social science a clue?
Speaker: Professor Richard Layard
Monday 3rd March - What is Happiness and are we Getting Happier?
Tuesday 4th March - Income and happiness: rethinking economic polic
Wednesday 5th March - What would make a happier society?
Director's Dialogue
Speakers: Professor Anthony Giddens and Dr Javier Solana
Date: Thursday 20th February 2003
The New American Empire
Speaker: Professor Michael Cox
Date: Wednesday 19th February 2003
Economists and the Real World
Speaker: Professor Charles Bean
Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens
Date: Wednesday 29 January 2003
The Future of Kosovo
Speaker: Michael Steiner, Special Representative of the Secretary General, and head of United Nations Interim Administration for Kosovo
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
Date: Monday 27 January 2003

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